The price of bitcoin topped the $ 50,000 level Sunday night, as the world’s largest cryptocurrency continues to rebound from its collapse three months ago.
After flirting slightly above and below the $ 50,000 mark late Sunday, bitcoin BTCUSD, +3.65% broke through and peaked at $ 50,250 just before midnight Eastern, according to Coindesk data; it hadn’t been above $ 50,000 since early May. It peaked at nearly $ 65,000 in April, then lost more than half its value between mid-May and late June.
While $ 50,000 is a nice round number, it’s the $ 51,000 mark that analysts have pegged as its next big hurdle, Katie Stockton, technical strategist at Fairlead Strategies, told MarketWatch earlier this month.
Bitcoin has surged 13% over the past five days, and is up 48% in the past month, with a market cap around $ 939 billion as of Sunday night. It was below the $ 30,000 level as recently as July 20, but is still up 73% year to date.
The wider crypto space has seen sharp recent gains as well: Ether ETHUSD, +6.22%, which runs on the ethereum blockchain, surged more than 4% on Sunday, according to Kraken data, and has gained 52% over the past month since a similar late-May plunge. Dogecoin DOGEUSD, +4.95% has jumped 63% over the past month, according to Kraken, still less than half its all-time high of $ 70 cents in early May.