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Bloomberg
Bitcoin breached $10,000 for the first time in about 15 months, recouping more than half of the parabolic
increase that introduced mainstream investors to the digital asset before the bursting of the cryptocurrency bubble.
“The bounce back of Bitcoin has been fairly extraordinary,†said Geo-rge McDonaugh, chief executive and co-founder of London-based block-chain and cryptocurrency investment firm KR1 Plc. “Money didn’t leave the asset behind, it just sat on the sidelines waiting to get back in.â€
The largest cryptocurrency rose by about 5 percent to around $10,500, according to prices compiled by Bitstamp available on the Bloomberg terminal.
Bitcoin reached an all-time high of $19,511 in December 2017, capping a 1,400 percent surge that year, only to be followed by a 74 percent collapse in 2018.