The value of Bitcoin has risen to new record levels after the news that the electric car manufacturer Tesla has invested $ 1.5 billion in the cryptocurrency.
On Monday, the price rose at most 16 percent before landing on an increase of 10 percent.
This means that a bitcoin cost 43,625 dollars, which is equivalent to about 367,000 kronor.
And on Tuesday, the rush continued.
- The general trend is that bitcoin is taken more seriously and becomes an investment object like everyone else, says SVT's tech correspondent Alexander Norén.
"Tesla does as more and more people"
According to Alexander Norén, Tesla's bitcoin purchases are not just made from an investment point of view.
Elon Musk has also said that in the future it will be possible to buy Tesla's cars with cryptocurrency, something that also contributes to increasing the PR value for the company.
- In the longer term, it is interesting that he and Tesla do as more and more large financial players.
Dragons on Wall Street, which in the beginning several years ago snorted at bitcoin, have now themselves gone in and even started their own cryptocurrencies because they see that it is a very efficient way of managing financial flows.
But also sees bitcoin as an investment object that one should perhaps include in this basket of different baskets along with gold or other asset classes that can complement stocks, he says.
Bitcoin's value has risen by almost 50 percent so far this year after last year's rise of 300 percent.
See more about Tesla's bitcoin purchases in the clip above