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Bitcoin joins the trillion-dollar club with Apple, Saudi Aramco and Google

Olumide Adesina by Olumide Adesina
February 20, 2021
in Cryptos
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The world’s most demanded crypto-asset, some hours ago, broke a very important milestone. With the price of Bitcoin breaching $55,000, Bitcoin’s market value has now breached $1 trillion.

Many crypto experts argue that this could be Bitcoin’s most important milestone to date, as it  is now the sixth most-valuable asset worldwide. At press time, the world’s most valuable crypto asset traded at $56,434.8, up 10.01% on the day. It was the biggest one-day percentage gain since February 8.

The buying pressure sighted on Bitcoin pushed its market value up to $1,047.9 billion or 61.52% of the total cryptocurrency market value. At its highest, Bitcoin’s market cap was $1,038.9 villion.

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With a trillion dollars to its name, Bitcoin has now joined the highly prestigious club of trillionaires, that includes the likes of Apple, Saudi Aramco, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet A.

Bitcoin had been trading between $55,415.1 and $56,552.6 for the day.

Over the past week, The flagship crypto asset has seen a rise in value, as it gained 18.5%. The volume of Bitcoin traded for the day to the time of writing was $64.7 billion or 38.41% of the total volume of all crypto assets.

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There is no doubt, 2021 continues to shape up as a very exciting year for Bitcoin. The flagship crypto has gotten more credibility in recent days due to blue-chip companies like Mastercard and America’s oldest bank, BNY Mellon, showing support for it.

Mastercard had earlier disclosed that it would open up its network to some cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin.


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Olumide Adesina is a financial market writer, analyst and investment trader. Message Olumide on Twitter @Olumidecapital

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Comments 4

  1. Juny says:
    February 20, 2021 at 11:12 am

    Bitcoin to the moon ?✨

    Reply
  2. Abam Abraham says:
    February 20, 2021 at 1:55 pm

    God bless you brother for the update

    Reply
  3. Ponder says:
    February 20, 2021 at 2:35 pm

    Instead of finding a way to cohabit the naira and bitcoin… CBN opted for outright ban. I don’t see how this ban will stop or slowdown the ragging effect of cryptocurrency in Nigeria

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  4. Atakuotor Olusola says:
    February 21, 2021 at 7:30 am

    Could you pls shed more light on how the bitcoin transactions work,2, with the cbn threat of sanction to banks involved in this how sure are we going to get the return back without any problem. What trades are involved with bitcoin to generate interest,tx

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