Bitcoin has been making some very major gains lately. According to the latest reports, the price of Bitcoin for 2015 has continued to rise, and over the last week, bitcoin has gained $15 in price. According to CoinDesk's Bitcoin Price Index, that's an even bigger increase than last week, and a 6% increase overall.
Currently, the highest price bitcoin has hit recently is $286.28, which was an increase in $19.28 in price from the day before, and the biggest change in price to happen over the course of a single day. These kinds of numbers have been seen all week, and bitcoin has reportedly been increasing for nearly four days in a row over the past week.
Can bitcoin keep these increases going? Naturally, it'll be an excellent thing for the online cryptocurrency markets if they can, and bitcoin traders might become even more lucrative than they already are. As well,we might see more people getting into the bitcoin game if the numbers continue to tick up like this. It was recently reported that African countries have started to get into bitcoin, which is certain to add a sizable number to the current population of bitcoin traders.
However, the other reports surrounding bitcoin aren't nearly as exciting. Everything else appears to be at a happy medium. For example, the recent US Marshals service bitcoin auction increased in size, but it didn't increase enough. The auction is still much smaller than it was when it first began, in June of 2014.
As well, recent remarks that bitcoin could be "revolutionary" for the world economy could potentially add some extra boost to bitcoin prices, but no concrete proof of that has been seen. For now, we'll have to keep trading bitcoin and watching these small increases (hopefully they keep increasing) as bitcoin grows in size and popularity.
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