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Bitcoin's Price Rise Explained By Industry Insiders

Sun Nov 01, 2015 2:46 am

Bitcoin enthusiasts from across the world revelled in the news that the digital currency's price reached a new annual high earlier this week.

The cryptocurrency peaked at $333.75 at 08:16 UTC on 30th October, reaching its highest level since January 2015 – when it famously dropped below the $200 mark.

Speaking to CoinDesk, Bobby Lee, CEO of China-based bitcoin exchange BTCC, attributed bitcoin's recent surge to a series of factors, saying:

"I think this price rise is a combination of the recent increased usage ... and also the recent good news in the industry, such as the no-VAT ruling in Europe, the end of the auctioning of Silk Road bitcoins, etc."

"Once again, people are re-discovering the many positive aspects of using bitcoin for payments as well as for holding bitcoin as a decentralised, safe and appreciating digital asset, immune to national central bank policies," he continued, adding that BTCC has seen a surge in trading activity .

"It's been slowly rising since mid-September," he noted.
Macro economic events

Speculation about bitcoin's price movements has always been rife with commentators often examining global macro economic events in an attempt to decipher the fluctuations.

According to the Bitcoin Price Index, the digital currency's price has been steadily rising since 21st September, when it opened on $230.86 and went on to close the day's trading at $226.61.

Since then, bitcoin's price has continued trending upwards, rising by over 44% to reach its peak price on 30th October.

coindesk-bpi-chart (1)

A closer inspection of CoinDesk's BPI shows that bitcoin's price increased following the European Court of Justice's ruling which exempted bitcoin from VAT across all EU member countries on 22nd October.

coindesk-bpi-chart 21-30th oct

Further afield, the exertion of capital controls in China also coincided with a price spike at the end of September.

coindesk-bpi-chart
A China driven surge?

Robert Viglione, a PHD student, who recently published an academic paper about the differences in bitcoin's price across the world, shared his take on the recent price

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Re: Bitcoin's Price Rise Explained By Industry Insiders

Mon Nov 25, 2019 7:46 pm

bla bla, everyone will always have some sort of explanation, but nobody yet can predict the future. I'm not buying these "experts" opinions
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