On Wednesday, the price of one Bitcoin broke through $12,000, a first for the cryptocurrency. At time of writing, Bitcoin is trading at $12,740, according to CoinMarketCap.*
UPDATE: Dec. 6, 2017, 1:53 p.m. CET Less than 12 hours after it first passed the price of $12,000, Bitcoin is now trading at over $13,000.
Bitcoin's market cap broke $200 billion for the first time as well, and is currently at $213 billion. The total market cap of all cryptocurrencies is now at around $375 billion.*
Just one week ago, Bitcoin passed the $10,000 barrier for the first time. Soon after that the price fell to about $9,300, but the correction was short-lived.* Read more...