Bitcoin recuperează cheia de 20,000 USD pe fondul revenirii pieței criptografice

Bitcoin (BTC) surged 8.26% early Friday to breach the psychological $20,000 level and lead the broader crypto market’s recovery.

The industry’s largest cryptocurrency by market cap scăzut as low as $18,644 on Wednesday and was mostly trading between $19,200 and $19,300 yesterday.

Today’s breakout, however, pushed the prețul Bitcoin to $20,808 by press time, a level not seen since August 26, according to data from CoinMarketCap.

The bullish price action also helped to propel the cumulative market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies back peste pragul de 1 trilioane de dolari, with Bitcoin currently dominating 38.5% of the market.

Ethereum (ETH) has meanwhile surged 5.2% over the past 24 hours and is currently changing hands at $1,706, per CoinMarketCap.

Similar to Bitcoin, this is a two-week high for the market’s second-largest cryptocurrency, which is now in the final stages of preparing for the historical îmbina event that will see the network transition from its current dovada-de-muncă (PoW) algoritm de consens la un consum mai puțin energetic dovada-de-miză model (PoS).

Solana, Polkadot post solid gains

În altă parte a pieței, suntrap (SOL) has been the best-performing asset among the top ten cryptocurrencies as the price of the token rallied 9.3% over the past 24 hours to hit a daily high of $35.66.

Buline (DOT) is on a similarly impressive run—the 10th largest asset is up 9.6% on the day, changing hands at $7.80.

Outside the top ten, Cosmos (ATOM) și Za (LINK) have both posted double-digit gains—up 22.9% and 12.5% over the day.

Today’s market recovery is coming hot on the heels of the European Central Bank’s decizie to raise eurozone interest rates by a record 75 basis points, the second straight rate increase din iulie.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, meanwhile, said on Thursday he is “strongly committed” to fighting inflation, meaning there would likely be more interest hikes on the horizon.

Coupled with Powell’s comments, the ECB’s moves saw the euro rise sharply to $1.0070 from $0.9960 at yesterday’s closing. The Asian stock exchanges also did well on Friday morning thanks to the weakening of the U.S. dollar, with Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index up 2.69% as of this writing.