On the night of Thursday, May 4, the weighted average bitcoin rate according to Coinmarketcap was close to the mark in $1500, amounting to $ 1493. Thus, only since the beginning of May the Bitcoin price has grown by more than 10%.
Simultaneously, new price records fixed at the leading cryptocurrency exchanges. So, on Bitstamp the rate reached $ 1516, on Kraken - up to $ 1523, on Coinbase - $ 1524.
At the same time, the first cryptocurrency could be bought at $ 1409 at BTC-e. Poloniex and Bitfinex rate is still considerably higher than on other platforms: $1628 $1627 respectively.
The market capitalization at the time of publication is $24,5 billion, according to coincap.io.
Also note that the Bitcoin dominance index, which had fallen to 59% before, rose again and now is 62%...
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https://bit.news/eng/bitcoin-price-set-new-record/The price of bitcoin has surprised me a lot in the last weeks, this rise is very good for my business and I hope bitcoins keeps going up
There would be some correction for sure and Bitcoin value can decrease a little but analyst are already looking at the possibility of Bitcoin reaching or breaching the $2000 level before the end of the year or at least in early 2018.