Bitcoin prices today climbed to record highs, thanks to a convergence of positive catalysts.
As the Bitcoin price soared to an all-time high of $4,348 on Monday, investors couldn't be sure if the rally would keep going or if a correction was lurking on the horizon.
But the price of Bitcoin is up 349% in 2017 and 667% over the past 12 months.
Here's why Bitcoin prices are going crazy...
Bitcoin prices today are climbing because investors are relieved that the digital currency has moved past two major headwinds.
Bitcoin hit a fresh all-time high of $3,586.23 on Friday. The booming cryptocurrency is up 24% over the past week and 268% year to date. The swiftly climbing Bitcoin prices have raised hopes it could reach $4,000 or even $5,000 by the end of the year.
Here's what caused Bitcoin prices to surge this week...
The Bitcoin currency price has climbed more than 50% over the last month.
The hard fork was supposed to create volatile price swings, but Bitcoin prices keep surging.
Finding the best Bitcoin exchange for your needs can be challenging, as there are more than 150 to choose from.
But there are criteria you can use to narrow down your options and find the best Bitcoin exchange for you.
From beginners to sophisticated traders, there's something for everyone.
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The Bitcoin Cash price has been under attack since shortly after it was created by the Bitcoin hard fork earlier this week.
And yet, even as its opponents flood the market with sell orders for Bitcoin Cash, the price has not cratered as its critics predicted.
While the Bitcoin Cash proponents are a minority within the Bitcoin community, they do have one key advantage.
Here's the reason the Bitcoin Cash price will keep bouncing back...
What is Bitcoin Cash?
That's a question we've been getting a lot lately.
The Aug. 1 Bitcoin hard fork is sowing much confusion among users of the digital currency. The hard fork means that two distinct versions of Bitcoin will exist side by side.
One of the side effects of this Bitcoin hard fork is that people who own any Bitcoin before the split will receive that exact amount in the newly created "Bitcoin Cash" tokens after the split.
Here's how all of this will work - and what to do now if you own any bitcoins...
Ahead of the hard fork, we wanted to provide our readers with a Bitcoin value update.
As long as there aren't any hiccups, Bitcoin Cash will be created at midnight on Aug. 1, 2017.
The Bitcoin price rebounded Friday as traders tried to navigate shifting news in the ongoing Bitcoin civil war.
Relief last week from an apparent solution to the two-year-old scaling debate, a proposal caused SegWit2x, turned to anxiety as a disgruntled faction announced a plan to do a "hard fork."
Called Bitcoin Cash, this hard fork will create a separate and incompatible version of Bitcoin on Aug. 1. And while counterintuitive, that's why the price of Bitcoin is rising now.
The best cryptocurrency to invest in today is clearly Bitcoin. It has first-mover advantage and has the most secure network.
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Since July 17, Bitcoin prices have climbed nearly 40%.
That's because the Bitcoin community seems ready to adopt a new system that can support additional transaction capacity.
The Bitcoin price made big gains - as much as 60% - as a solution to the cryptocurrency's long-running scaling debate suddenly attracted a consensus.
Bitcoin miners gave a proposal that would squeeze more transactions into each block 93.8% support. The break in the two-year impasse sent the price of Bitcoin soaring.
The scaling debate isn't quite over yet though, as there's a phase two to this proposal coming in November.
But the approval of this proposal could push the Bitcoin price to $5,000...
Bitcoin prices took a dive this week, swept up in the general decline in cryptocurrencies as well as uncertainty over a deadline in its own "civil war."
The price of Bitcoin fell 15% on the week, with other cryptocurrencies suffering even bigger declines.
But it's the Bitcoin civil war that will drive prices over the next several weeks. The debate over how best to scale the network so that it can handle more transactions per day has now come to a head.
Here's what investors can expect...
When Bitcoin exchanges get hacked, the mainstream financial media tends to spread the myth that the Bitcoin code was compromised.
But that's not true. The Bitcoin protocol has never been hacked and is based on such strong encryption that it can't be hacked by current technology.
The Bitcoin exchanges get hacked (and hacked often) because of their own security flaws. That means Bitcoin users need to find safer places to store their bitcoin.
Fortunately, there are plenty of options...
More Bitcoin millionaires are created every time the price of the digital currency jumps up significantly.
But a special few have been Bitcoin millionaires for some time, having purchased large amounts of it years ago at much lower prices. A few of these were early adopters; others were already wealthy individuals who could afford to buy millions of dollars' worth of Bitcoin.
These are the top seven Bitcoin millionaires - and how much we think each is worth today...
