{"id":36492,"date":"2021-02-16T09:29:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T07:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=36492"},"modified":"2025-08-29T06:36:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T03:36:31","slug":"bitcoin-breaks-through-50000-as-it-hits-a-new-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bitcoin-breaks-through-50000-as-it-hits-a-new-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin breaks through $50,000 as it hits a new high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency, has again hit a new all-time high, passing the $50,000 mark.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, Bitcoin trades around $50,200.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_125009\" style=\"width: 1259px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125009\" class=\"size-full wp-image-125009\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BTC-17.png\" alt=\"Bitcoin price surpassed the $50 000 level\" width=\"1249\" height=\"841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BTC-17.png 1249w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BTC-17-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BTC-17-1024x689.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BTC-17-768x517.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1249px) 100vw, 1249px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-125009\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">30-minute BTC\/USD chart from Bitstamp on TradingView.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The market capitalization of digital gold reached $930 billion (according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CoinGecko<\/a>).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_125011\" style=\"width: 1288px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125011\" class=\"size-full wp-image-125011\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_1-128.png\" alt=\"Bitcoin price surpassed the $50 000 level\" width=\"1278\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_1-128.png 1278w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_1-128-300x78.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_1-128-1024x266.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_1-128-768x200.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1278px) 100vw, 1278px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-125011\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Top 10 most capitalized crypto assets. Data: CoinGecko.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As of writing, the total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies stands at $1.54 trillion. Bitcoin&#8217;s dominance index is 59.9%.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Galaxy Digital founder Mike Novogratz <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/mike-novogratz-hails-elon-musk-as-a-genius-and-predicts-bitcoin-to-reach-100000\">predicted Bitcoin would rise to $100,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to the ForkLog channel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> YouTube<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency, has again hit a new all-time high, passing the $50,000 mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36493,"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-36492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin-price"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36492","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=36492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36494,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36492\/revisions\/36494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}