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Bitcoin All-Time Price High Surpasses $28K, BTC’s Half Trillion Market Cap Now Bigger Than Visa

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Bitcoin All-Time Price High Surpasses $28K, BTC"s Half Trillion Market Cap Now Bigger Than Visa


Bitcoin markets have been seeing a lot of action this weekend, as the price of the crypto asset touched another all-time high (ATH) at $28,378 per coin. Toward the end of 2020, the cryptocurrency’s market capitalization has crossed a whopping half of a trillion U.S. dollars in value.


The leading cryptocurrency by market valuation, bitcoin (BTC), has climbed immensely in value during the last few days. At the time of publication, the asset is trading between $27,250 to $27,750 per BTC on Sunday morning (8-9:30 a.m. EST).


A few days ago, on December 24, BTC was swapping for $23,796 per unit, which means it has gained over 14% during the last three days. Data from markets.Bitcoin.com show that the BTC dominance index has surpassed the 70% handle with an overall market cap of $510 billion today.



There’s approximately 18,582,450 BTC in circulation today and during the last 24 hours, bitcoin (BTC) has seen $21 billion in global trade volume. The stablecoin tether (USDT) is still the dominating pair against BTC on Sunday capturing 56% of all trades. This is followed by trading pairs like the USD (15.22%), JPY (8.08%), EUR (5.13%), KRW (3.52%).


During the last seven days, BTC is up 16.4% and 59.12% over the course of the last month. 90-day stats show BTC has gained 155%, and 12-months data against the USD shows BTC is up 272% today.


Using today’s exchange rate, BTC’s current difficulty, and an electrical cost of around $0.06 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) shows that miners are profiting considerably at this price range. Stats show that the top mining rig today is the Bitmain Antminer S19 Pro (110TH/s) which is pulling in $15.37 per day.


The S19 Pro is followed by the Microbt Whatsminer M30S++ ($15.18/day), MicroBT Whatsminer M30S+ ($12.69/day), Bitmain Antminer S19 95TH/s model ($12.00/day), and the Canaan Avalonminer 1246 ($10.38/day).



Currently, the Bitcoin network hashrate is 136 exahash per second, and there’s a total of 18 pools mining the BTC chain. The top five BTC mining pools include F2pool, Binance Pool, Antpool, Btc.com, and Viabtc. F2pool commands 20% of the hashrate or 26.32 EH/s on December 27, 2020.


Bitcoin is also seeing a lot of interest during the last few weeks as Google trends data shows the term “bitcoin” has a rating of 96 out of 100. The term and subject “bitcoin” is also trending quite a bit on Twitter on Sunday morning with over 225,000 tweets about the crypto asset.


Lots of individuals have been discussing how BTC surpassed Visa’s market capitalization and is steadily gaining on Berkshire Hathaway. In fact, bitcoin’s (BTC) overall valuation makes it the 11th most valuable global asset, in contrast to the top ten corporations worldwide.


“Bitcoin market capitalisation is now over $510 billion. Which puts it just under Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, the 10th largest company in the world,” one individual tweeted on Sunday.


What do you think about bitcoin’s (BTC) recent price performance? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below. Bitcoin Hits $25,890, Peter Schiff Thinks BTC Price Rise Will Attract Regulators MARKET UPDATES | 1 day ago Crypto Markets Rebound, BTC Taps Another All-Time High, Bitstamp Drops XRP for US Customers MARKET UPDATES | 2 days ago Tags in this story $28378, All time high, ATH, Berkshire Hathaway, Bitcoin (BTC), BTC, capitalisation, Google trends, Hashrate, Market Cap, Market Update, markets and prices, Mining Profits, mining rigs, Performance, Spot Markets, trade volume, Twitter Trends, VISA


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