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unexpected rise in bitcoin


Mlc

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The price of bitcoin has experienced dramatic gains on a major cryptocurrency exchange, rising by more than $1,500 on Bitfinex in the space of just a few hours.The sudden surge from $6,294 to $7,788 represented a 24 per cent rise in value, though it was not reflected across other popular bitcoin exchanges.

Such a large price rise is instead being attributed to the exchange's use of tether – a cryptocurrency whose creators claim is pegged to the price of the US dollar on a 1:1 ratio.On Bitfinex, traders are required to buy and sell cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum using tether, but over the weekend the so-called 'stablecoin' dropped in value to $0.97.

This drop in the price of tether therefore resulted in the premium price of other cryptocurrencies on the Hong Kong-based platform. Bitcoin's price has since fallen back down to around $6,880 – still $200 above the price listed on the CoinMarketCap price index.

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That is a very big price jump in a short time frame. From the looks of it, the price might steadily go up towards the end of the year 2018. 

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I would've thought bitcoin, being the first and the biggest name in the crypto currency market, would actually be quite stable in rise/drops after so many years on the market. This news is indeed quite a shock to me. I wish (like everyone else) that I sold my meager amount of satoshis here when it was over 7k earliar 😛

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