{"id":33552,"date":"2020-12-17T12:12:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T10:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=33552"},"modified":"2025-08-28T14:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T11:23:12","slug":"bitcoin-price-breaks-through-the-23000-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bitcoin-price-breaks-through-the-23000-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin price breaks through the $23,000 level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, December 17, the price of Bitcoin hit a new record, rising above the $23,700 level (Bitstamp).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>During the session, the cryptocurrency hit the notable levels <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-clears-20000-for-the-first-time\">$20,000<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-tops-21000-as-market-capitalisation-near-625bn\">$21,000<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-price-hits-new-high-above-22000\">$22,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Skew, amid the rally the daily trading volume of Bitcoin options for the first time surpassed $1 billion.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bitcoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#bitcoin<\/a> options first $1bln day <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UFJkatPVXk\">pic.twitter.com\/UFJkatPVXk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 skew (@skewdotcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/skewdotcom\/status\/1339493705380720640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the ensuing correction, amid the sharp rise in volumes, Bitcoin&#8217;s price fell below $22,300.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_119830\" style=\"width: 1328px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119830\" class=\"wp-image-119830 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bez-nazvaniya-4-8.png\" alt=\"Bitcoin price breaks through the $23,000 level\" width=\"1318\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bez-nazvaniya-4-8.png 1318w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bez-nazvaniya-4-8-300x94.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bez-nazvaniya-4-8-1024x322.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bez-nazvaniya-4-8-768x241.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1318px) 100vw, 1318px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-119830\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data: TradingView.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Popular analyst Hasu says that &#8220;in many respects we are in uncharted waters after the previous maximum.&#8221; Global investment firms, such as Guggenheim, do not go on TV with <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/guggenheim-partners-forecast-bitcoin-to-reach-400000\">a target price of $400 000<\/a>, to sell Bitcoin at $22,000, he noted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In many ways, we\u2018re in uncharted waters past the previous ATH. The Guggenheims of the world don\u2018t go on TV with a 400k price target to sell at 22k. From now on, you\u2018re getting paid to sit on your hands. Go pick up a new videogame or TV epic. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5tpDGOj2Ka\">https:\/\/t.co\/5tpDGOj2Ka<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hasu (@hasufl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hasufl\/status\/1339504564744167425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;From now on, you\u2019re paid to sit on your hands. Go pick up a new video game or TV show,&#8221; Hasu advised investors.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Follow Forklog\u2019s news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, December 17, the price of Bitcoin hit a new record, rising above the $23,700 level (Bitstamp).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[480],"class_list":["post-33552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin-price"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33554,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33552\/revisions\/33554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}