The most popular cryptocurrency, bitcoin, has broken its previous historical record by setting a new one – $ 49,157 is the value of the coin, according to data from the CoinDesk site.
Thus, during the trading session, bitcoin rose in price by 2.86 percent, as of 9:17 am Moscow time.
Earlier, on February 11, it was reported that the price reached $ 48,399.
Bitcoin’s sharp rise began after Tesla announced that it was buying a $ 1.5 billion cryptocurrency and indicated that it would “in the near future” accept Bitcoin as a means of payment for its products.
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