The momentum of bitcoin’s continuing rally in the lead up to the SEC’s bitcoin ETF ruling in March sees the cryptocurrency make marked gains. Bitcoin’s market capitalization is now at a notable all-time high, scaling $18 billion.
According to data from CoinMarketCap, a total of 128,002 BTC was traded in a 24-hour period at the time of publishing, valued at a little over $150 million. With over 16.1 million bitcoins currently mined from the available pool of 21 million, the total value of bitcoins in circulation is over $18 billion.
If bitcoin was dropped into the M1 (liquid or narrow money stock metric, it would rank at #70 on the CIA global list, between Burman and Slovenia.
On the day, bitcoin struck a high of $1,130.8 on the Bitstamp Price Index (BPI). At the time of publishing, bitcoin is trading to the dollar at $1,129.
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All time references are in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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