Bitcoin prices spiked to $ 6,900 when BitMEX turned offline. by
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22/08/2018, 05:44:50 UTC Bitcoin prices jumped on Wednesday morning, rising nearly $ 300 in less than a minute to break out of the barriers of recent days.It happened exactly at 1:00 UTC, when the BTC rose from $ 6,466 to $ 6,745 in a one-minute candle on Bitfinex and bitcoin prices continued to rise thereafter, rising above $ 6,800 and peaking at $ 6,899. USD before returning to its present value of $ 6,716 (2:15 p.m).The special thing here is that this happened near the time of BitMEX - an electronic money trading platform that processed billions of dollars worth of daily deals - offline for periodic maintenance. Therefore, this phenomenon may not be permanent.At the time of writing, BitMEX had begun to restore the service, although it had not reactivated the transaction service. Therefore, it is possible that this sudden price increase will last until noon. 
