Bitcoin price hits $60K, first time in 6 months
Bitcoin breached the $60,000 mark for the first time since April on growing hopes that US regulators will approve the first futures exchange-traded fund for the cryptocurrency.
- Economy
- Anadolu Agency
- Published Date: 05:34 | 15 October 2021
- Modified Date: 05:34 | 15 October 2021
Price of Bitcoin hit $60,000 on Friday for the first time in six months.
Bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency by market cap, climbed to $60,361 at 9.55 a.m. EDT (1355 GMT), according to official data.
The last time Bitcoin saw its price at $60,000 level was April 18.
The total value of the crypto market stood just above $2.43 trillion with Bitcoin dominating with a 46.4% share, according to latest data by digital asset price-tracking website CoinMarketCap.
Cryptocurrencies lost more than half of their values between April and July in a major market selloff.
Price of Bitcoin dove to as low as $29,340 on July 20, but it has started to recover in the following three months.
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