Bitcoin's rise last year meanwhile led to increasing amounts of interest in other digital currencies, such as ethereum, litecoin and ripple XRP - all of which have performed well recently - and more and more people are now looking to invest in digital currencies. Its value has fallen by 0.6 per cent since this time yesterday and is up by about 10 per cent week-on-week. Bitcoin's value is down by around 14 per cent from one month ago.