SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Bitcoin rose 4.18 % to $50,702.65 on Sunday, adding $2,043.31 to its previous close.
Bitcoin, the world’s biggest and best-known cryptocurrency, is up 83.7% from the year’s low of $27,734 on Jan. 4. The currency’s peak this year was $58,354.14 on Feb. 21, according to Reuters.
Bitcoin’s price soared this year as major firms, such as BNY Mellon, asset manager BlackRock Inc, credit card giant Mastercard Inc, backed cryptocurrencies, while those such as Tesla Inc Square Inc and MicroStrategy Inc invested in bitcoin.
Bitcoin has risen eightfold since last March and has added more than $700 billion in market value since September. JPMorgan questioned the “magnitude” of the jump on the back of a total flow of just $11 billion from institutional investors.
