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Bitcoin rallied above $30,000 on Wednesday (Fernando Gutierrez-Juarez/picture alliance via Getty Images)

By Tyler Hummel Leaders Staff

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Jun 22, 2023

What Propelled Bitcoin To $30,000

This week’s crypto rally has pushed Bitcoin to one of its highest valuations in the past year, thanks to some added confidence from bit-time investors.  

Key Details

  • On Tuesday, Bitcoin’s value began rallying from its previous average of around $26,500. 
  • By Wednesday afternoon, the coin was averaging $30,000 each and surging the market cap of the crypto market above $60 billion.  
  • Wednesday marked the first day since mid-April that Bitcoin surged above $30,000. 
  • Ether (5.3%), Sol (4%), Matic (8%), and Ada (7.6%) are also seeing rallies, Forbes reports. 
  • Large investment firms like BlackRock, InvescoIVZ, and Wisdom Tree announced that they are seeking to offer exchange-traded Bitcoin funds.

Why It’s Important 

The crypto market as a whole is slowly recovering from a mid-June low point, with the ongoing lawsuits against Binance and CoinBase cooling the market. This was already coming in the aftermath of two years of cooling markets for crypto, with the “Crypto Winter” and the collapse of FTX dropping valuations significantly. 

Bitcoin previously peaked at $67,000 in November 2021, but market cooling and market instability dropped valuations as low as $15,000 in December 2022. The token has seen multiple rallies this spring that have boosted its value, with ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood predicting that the token will eventually exceed $1 million in value. 

Wednesday’s rally comes in the aftermath of several positive announcements. Large investment firms like BlackRock, InvescoIVZ, and Wisdom Tree announced that they are seeking to offer exchange-traded Bitcoin funds. The launch of the EDX crypto exchange also gave the market a boost, with these announcements giving the crypto market a boost of institutional confidence, Forbes reports. 
“This vote of confidence has given some traders and investors the conviction that has been lacking in the market in recent weeks … Sentiment has definitely shifted, but there are still some headwinds for the market to contend with, and despite what today may have shown, BTC is not yet totally divorced from traditional market sentiment,” says CoinDesk analyst Noelle Acheson.

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