Bitcoin had a roller coaster ride. The price of bitcoin is hitting a new all-time high records in 2017. By the first of January bitcoin was traded for just over one thousand dollars and for now the price on the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (BPI) has topped two thousand dollars. Compared to 2015 the price of bitcoin has increased tenfold. Currently market capitalization of bitcoin is almost forty two billion dollars. This happens against a growth of the cryptocurrency market and strong surges from Ripple's XRP. Today the cryptocurrency market has overcome the barrier of eighty six billion dollars.
