The price of Bitcoin exceeded this afternoon, the space of a short moment, the bar of 12 000 dollars, setting a new historical record.
At the same time, its capitalization managed to cross for the first time the threshold of 200 billion dollars.
The Bitcoin price has risen steadily since last Thursday, when it dropped to nearly $ 9,200.
10,000 euros on Coinbase
When writing this article, Coinbase posted a price of 10,005 euros for digital currency.
But it was only an average, calculated from the price at which the Californian company offers to buy Bitcoins (about 9,950 euros) and the one to which it sells them to its customers (about 10,050 euros)
At the same time, the price on Kraken, the main platform for the BTC / EUR pair, was slightly below 10,000 euros:
But Bitcoin was already trading, on several more confidential platforms, more than 10 000 euros.
The imminent arrival of institutional investors
This rise comes as the arrival of a new wave of institutional investors on the market is imminent. American exchange exchanges CBOE and CME are preparing to launch financial derivative products on Bitcoin within a few days.
Even if these investors will not be able to buy Bitcoins directly, the arrival of cryptocurrency futures will help bring more liquidity to the market, while providing legitimacy for a currency that was Some time ago still very much criticized.
Chris Burniske, co-founder of Placeholder Ventures, said on Twitter that ICOs have lost their appeal to a Bitcoin that claims more than ever its domination of the entire ecosystem.
At the same time, the price of "forks" Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Gold remained relatively stable over the day.
Note that there should be at least 3 new forks on the Bticoin network in the month of December alone - some observers have also denounced the proliferation of "Initial Fork Offerings."
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