Bitcoin exceeded 18 thousand dollars

The course of the most popular cryptocurrency - Bitcoin - first exceeded a mark of 18 thousand dollars on Friday night. For Thursday, Bitcoin rose by more than a quarter, and the course sequentially struck the mark of 14, 15, 16 and 17 thousand dollars. Experts believe that the explosive growth of the course is caused by expectations of launching cryptocurrency futures by traditional exchanges, which will significantly expand the circle of investors.

According to the data at 03:30 in Moscow, the average bitcoin exchange rate on popular exchanges, according to CoinmarketCap , amounted to 18.2 thousand dollars. In rubles, this is one million 77 thousand. At some sites that exchange bitcoins for national currencies, the price of cryptocurrencies exceeded the equivalent of 22.5 thousand dollars. In the last day, bitcoin is more actively more actively than ever in history.

Analysts call the main reason for the breathtaking growth in the course of the most popular cryptocurrency the expectation of the launch of Bitcoin futures. As expected, the influx of large means will lead to an even more rapid increase in the cost of digital currency. Some experts, however, are warned that correction is soon not excluded: large players can start playing through futures for lowering bitcoin.

Recall, American exchanges Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) and CBOE Futures Exchange on Friday received permission from the URCOME FURTHROURS TRUGE OF RAMS (CFTC) for launching futures (purchase contracts at prices at the moment) for bitcoin. CME previously announced the date of launch of futures - December 18. This week she promised to launch trade in Bitcoin futures on December 10.

Cryptocurrencies are called electronic money or digital assets, which are created by private computer systems without the control of central banks. Information about transactions is usually not encrypted and available in open form. To ensure the invariability of the database of the transaction blocks, cryptography elements are used (digital signature based on an open key system, sequential hashing). This technology received the name "blockchain".

Bitcoin is the most famous cryptocurrency for today. This is a blockchain -based decentralized system, bitcoins can “extract” (issued) any user - a participant in the system, creating new blocks of the system using a specialized computing device.

The concept of the system was published in November 2008 by its author (possibly a team of authors) under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. The explosion of the popularity of Bitcoin has occurred only in recent years. The issue of Bitcoin is naturally limited, and at the moment most of the bitcoins are already "extracted".