PRICE OF BITCOIN EXCEEDED 4200 $
On Sunday night, August 13, bitcoin beat its own record and now costs more than $4000.Thus, the cryptocurrency needed less than 48 hours to rise to this height with an indicator of $3500, which was first recorded on Friday, August 11.Already on Saturday, the price of bitcoin first exceeded $3750, and then $3900. Now it took a bar of $4000. The weighted average exchange rate for Coinmarketcap is $4100. The market capitalization is over $68 billion.Among the factors determining such impressive growth, we should note the increased confidence in bitcoins on the part of investors, the upcoming activation of the Segregated Witness protocol and significant demand for cryptocurrency at the Japanese markets.In addition, several other important events that also favorably influenced the price of bitcoin, have taken place this week. Thus, the representatives of Goldman Sachs said that institutional investors can no longer ignore bitcoin, while the largest US asset management company Fidelity Investments has announced a partnership with Coinbase, offering these new tools to clients.Having received new investments, the Coinbase Company became the first “unicorn” in bitcoin space.