Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency launched back in 2009, Saturday briefly crossed $60,000 for the first time to hit a fresh high on the back of rising interest of corporate magnets in the virtual currency.
The world’s most popular currency was recorded at an all-time high of $60,012 at 1149 GMT, according to the website CoinMarketCap.
It started witnessing massive surge since March 2020 when it was hovering around $5,000 after PayPal allowed account holders to use cryptocurrency.
Last month, Bitcoin jumped more than 10% to a record high after Tesla said it had invested $1.5 billion in the most popular cryptocurrency last month.
The news sent Bitcoin soaring as high as $43,625 as of 1300 GMT. Smaller cryptocurrencies including ethereum and XRP that tend to move in tandem with bitcoin also jumped, rising as much as 5% and 4% respectively.
The electric carmaker unveiled the investment ten days after its chief executive Elon Musk drove up the cryptocurrency’s price by adding a “#bitcoin” tag on his Twitter profile page.
Musk removed the tag from his Twitter bio a few days later but has continued talking up bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, in particular, dogecoin, to his 46 million Twitter followers.
