This edition of TGIF 2 Minutes will make a brief attempt at summarizing Bitcoin’s recent meteoric rise to around $95,000. There is still a huge segment of the population who might ask, “$95,000 for what?”. At the same time, Bitcoin has increasingly become an accepted form of currency, although in limited and illiquid ways.
One of the more obvious and possibly over-done in the short-term reasons for Bitcoin’s price rise has been the run-up to and aftermath of the recent US presidential election. Investors seem to expect in the near future a more friendly regulatory environment for cryptocurrencies overall.
