This is evidenced by the data of the Coinmarketcap service.

According to the department, capitalization exceeded $ 247 billion. For comparison, the current capitalization of the first crypto currency is comparable to the market value of the American transnational company Visa ($ 248.9 billion).

Note that over the past day, bitcoin has risen in price by 17%, and over the past seven days its price has increased by more than 40%. Since the beginning of the year, the first crypto currency has grown about 14 times.

Napmonim, as previously reported by URA-Inform, the cost of Bitcoin's crypto currency set a new absolute record - for the first time in history its rate is over 10 thousand. dollars.