During trading on the Binance exchange, the cost of bitcoin increased by more than 13%, to $22,077. As of 9:40
Bitcoin Rises Sharply After Reaching Levelhistorical high and is now trading above $ 22 thousand. I expected some correction, but, apparently, that consolidation in the range of 17.5-19.5 thousand dollars was the period when the profit was recorded.
Mansur Huseynov, independent expert
He expressed confidence that the growth will continue if "within one or two days there is no sharp rollback below $ 20,000."
The reasons for such rapid growth, the senior notesBestchange.ru analyst Nikita Zuborev, maybe several, for example, the sharp rise in bitcoin could be influenced by the decision of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), which announced on December 16 that it would add Ethereum futures in February 2021: the decision was related to the growth in the futures markets and options on bitcoin.
Also, two large investors previously came to the market: the Ruffer investment fund with assets worth $ 27 billion invested $ 15 million in the first cryptocurrency, and the American company MassMutual bought 5,470 bitcoins for $ 100 million.
Bitcoin now accounts for approximately 64.7% of the entire global cryptocurrency market.
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