Bitcoin crosses symbolic $ 20,000 mark for the first time
Bitcoin, virtual currency, attracts more and more criminals in India REUTERS / Dado Ruvic
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Bitcoin never stops reaching new heights.
It has just passed the symbolic mark of 20,000 dollars.
A record in its history.
Proof, if one was needed, that the popularity of the first cryptocurrency is not waning.
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Taking advantage of the markets' appetite for risk, bitcoin hit $ 20,145 2 cents, climbing 3.8% on the session.
Unheard of since the birth of this cryptocurrency in 2009.
Created by anonymous people as a decentralized means of payment, bitcoin has repeatedly flirted with the $ 20,000 mark without ever exceeding it.
This year, the take-off started at the end of October, when the online payments giant, Paypal, announced that it was going to launch a cryptocurrency buying, selling and payment service.
The upward trend was confirmed at the end of November.
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But the world's most famous crypto-asset is also
a very volatile security
.
Hence the spectacular surges and equally vertiginous tumbles that bitcoin has experienced in the past.
It is especially for this reason that it attracts envy.
And in times of crisis, from institutional investors to the criminal world,
all are interested in the
long-term
use of cryptocurrencies
.
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