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MI. Bitcoin soared past $5,000 for the first time early Thursday morning and it continued to hit to new heights throughout the trading day.
The $5,000 mark has long been a threshold of high-anticipation in the bitcoin community.
Traders got a taste of it in early September when bitcoin hit a high of $4,921, according to data from Bloomberg.
That has come as no surprise to folks in the bitcoin community, who say government regulations and crackdowns on the coin have little impact on its underpinning technology or its price.
Josh Olszwicz, a bitcoin trader, told Business Insider during an interview in mid-September that the markets ignored news out of China because it didn’t impact on the coin’s actual blockchain technology.
“The bitcoin cash shakeup was much more worrisome from my perspective, but even then the core bitcoin protocol remained unaffected.”
Bitcoin has seen its value increase by more than $1,000 per coin in the past week alone, with a rally that coincides with renewed interest in the currency from investment banks.
The Wall Street Journal last week reported that Goldman Sachs was looking at setting up a bitcoin trading operation, and Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman said recently that the cryptocurrency was “Certainly more than just a fad.”.