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Cryptocurrency Bitcoin has surpassed the $1,000 mark for the first time in three years. The landmark value was hit during Monday trading at $1,019.
This marker is the latest sign of the cryptocurrency’s increase in value in recent months, buoyed by China’s devaluation of the yuan, the removal of high valuation bank notes in Inidia in November, and increasing investment in Bitcoin. A significant spike in the currency’s value coincided with Donald Trump’s victory in November’s US Presidential election.
Most Bitcoin trading occurs in China, with huge farms dedicated to mining for new and increasingly more difficult to exract bitcoins.
Happy New Year! Bitcoin hits 1000 USD price on the first day of new year. #bitcoin1000 pic.twitter.com/ZvyDNnfLh0
— Martin Ⓜ (@econexpert) January 1, 2017
Bitcoin has not passed the $1,000 since 2013 when it hit $1,100 prior to the hacking of bitcoin exchange Mt Gox that saw 744,408, out of 12,500,000 BTC in existence at the time, stolen. That is roughly 6 per cent of the entire currency that was stolen from the site which was worth a staggering $818,848,800.
2016 saw another major bitcoin exchange Bitfinex hacked, with nearly 120,000 BTC (around $60m) stolen.
Thos hacks however proved to be only temporary setbacks for the cryptocurrency that is now almost back to the point it was at in 2013.
