Bitcoin surpasses milestone price of USD$3000 across global exchanges
Bitcoin has finally surpassed the US$3000 per BTC average across global exchanges. In fact, it didn’t stop there and touched an all-time high of $3230 during the start of August 5. The decentralized cryptocurrency now commands a hefty $51.9 billion market cap while trading platforms are currently seeing intense exchange volumes at $1.6 billion USD/BTC trades over the past 24-hours.
On August 5 bitcoin surpassed the $3000 USD per BTC threshold on the trading platform Bitstamp. Smashing the $3000 vantage point was not enough for bitcoin as BTC prices touched an all-time high of $3230. At press time one BTC is roughly $3150 as traders take some profits from the overnight high. Some speculate that the price spike may be due to BIP141 voting period ending and the possibility of activating the protocol Segregated Witness (Segwit). Currently, a vast quantity of the network’s hashrate is directing its efforts towards this plan as the first half of the “New York Agreement” otherwise known as Segwit2x. At the moment, there are 621 blocks left until Segwit goes live on the Bitcoin network. The second half of the agreement entails activating a 2MB hard fork on the network roughly ~3 months after the activation.
It’s also worth noting that the price has rallied during the latest announcement from global law enforcement detailing the takedown of the two biggest darknet markets Hansa, and Alphabay. Alongside this, the BTC-e exchange was also seized and the price didn’t nudge at all. It seems bitcoin markets have been resilient enough to bounce back after the Bitfinex hack last year, the recent ETF decision, and now the latest two darknet market takedowns also did nothing to the price.
In addition to this, the price spiked in the midst of a hard fork. The developers of the client Bitcoin ABC and others have veered off to form its own network. This, in turn, produced a new token called ‘Bitcoin Cash’ (BCH) which has an 8MB block size limit, and also removes Segregated Witness. Even though the blockchain split occurred on August 1 and the two bitcoin communities went separate ways, the price of BTC has remained extremely bullish. As bitcoin touched a high of $3230 across global exchanges BCH tokens have hit a low of $200-250 depending on the exchange.
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