Bitcoin tops $67,000 as it nears 2021 all-time high

Jaap Arriens | NurPhoto | Getty Images Bitcoin jumped to start the week, edging even closer to its all-time high after the rally took a breather over the weekend. The flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by 6% at $66,660.91, according to Coin Metrics. Earlier, it rose to as much as $67,567.98, its highest level since … Read more

Bitcoin tops $61,000 as it closes out the best month since 2020

Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Crypto prices rose Thursday as bitcoin and ether headed for their strongest month in more than three years. Bitcoin was last higher by more than 1% at $61,150.88 on the final day of February, according to Coin Metrics. On Wednesday, it surged to $64,000 at one point, before a … Read more

Bitcoin (BTC) regains $1 trillion market cap after price rise

Bitcoin surged to another more than two-year high on Wednesday, pushing its market cap back over $1 trillion as growing success of U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs turned investor sentiment more positive. The flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by 5% at $51,929.89, according to Coin Metrics. Earlier in the morning it rose to $52,079.00, its highest … Read more

Bitcoin tops $48,000 in a big comeback to end the week

Bitcoin marched higher to end the week, with its price breaching the $48,000 level at one point for the first time since spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds began trading. The flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by 4.6% at $47,587.37, according to Coin Metrics. Ether advanced 2.69% to $2,492.97. Earlier, bitcoin rose to as high as $48,207.78 … Read more

Bitcoin turns positive for the week as investor worries about GBTC sell pressure subside

Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Bitcoin pushed higher to end the week as investors took some comfort in the idea that outflows from the Grayscale Bitcoin ETF (GBTC) could be starting to taper off. The price of the cryptocurrency climbed more than 5% to $41,828.37 according to Coin Metrics, bringing its weekly gains … Read more

Bitcoin breaks below $39,000, bringing decline from ETF highs to more than 20%

Bitcoin extended its recent declines on Tuesday, falling further below $40,000 to its lowest level since the beginning of December. The price of the cryptocurrency was last lower by more than 3% at $38,840.93, adding to its 4% loss from the previous day, when the coin briefly dipped below $40,000 for the first time this … Read more

Bitcoin wavers, ether soars after SEC greenlights launch of U.S. bitcoin ETFs

Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images Bitcoin hovered around the flat line higher late Wednesday after the Securities and Exchange Commission gave the green light for the first-ever spot bitcoin ETFs to trade in the U.S., as expected. The cryptocurrency trimmed earlier losses and was last trading flat at $46,671.22, according to Coin Metrics. … Read more

Bitcoin 2023 rally pumped up Marathon, Coinbase, MicroStrategy, GBTC

Monitors display Coinbase signage during the company’s initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York on April 14, 2021. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images For crypto bulls, the most lucrative bets in 2023 were in the stock market. While bitcoin rallied over 150% for the year, shares of Coinbase, MicroStrategy and … Read more

MicroStrategy’s bitcoin bet produces 300% gain for investors in 2023

MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor speaks at the Bitcoin 2021 Convention, a crypto-currency conference held at the Mana Convention Center in Wynwood on June 04, 2021 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images MicroStrategy was founded almost 35 years ago and existed for most of its history as a little-known software company focused on business … Read more