Bitcoin quotes exceeded $41 thousand for the first time

Bitcoin continues to break records. According to Coindesk, the rate of the most famous cryptocurrency for the first time exceeded $41,000. Since the beginning of the year, bitcoin has risen in price by more than 40%.

Over the past 24 hours, the bitcoin rate has risen by more than 10%, and in the first week of 2021 - by more than 40%. On December 31, 2020, one bitcoin cost about $29 thousand, and at the beginning of last year it was less than $8 thousand.

Analysts are optimistic about the future of the cryptocurrency and are already comparing it with gold. JPMorgan experts, for example, believe that bitcoin has every chance of reaching $146,000 in the long term, and according to the managing director of Citibank, bitcoin may rise in price to $318,000 by December 2021. We talked about this in more detail here .