Bitcoin Price: Prolonged Increase
As of 7:30 PM today (January 5), Bitcoin - the world's largest electronic currency - according to market value continued to increase sharply by 1.59%, reaching 91,151.20 USD.
This new price contributed to keeping market capitalization unchanged, trading at 1,820 billion USD, an increase of 29 billion USD. Similarly, trading volume in 24 hours decreased to 26.53 billion USD, down 14.59 billion USD.
Perspectives and forecasts
Bitcoin prices continued to gradually recover, surpassing the 90,000 USD mark at the end of the week, seemingly completely untouched by the events on January 3, when US special forces arrested Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife.
After that, Mr. Maduro was taken to Manhattan and detained at the same detention center that once detained Sam Bankman-Fried - co-founder of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange.
Some experts believe that the cryptocurrency market will not be negatively affected by Washington's attacks.
On social network X, Mr. Michael van de Poppe - founder of cryptocurrency investment company MN Fund - said that he did not predict a widespread correction of Bitcoin due to the attack in Venezuela.
Although the cryptocurrency market is currently quite calm, some opinions worry that the picture may change when the global stock and commodity markets reopen on Monday.
Concerns about strong upcoming fluctuations are considered the "shock" of the beginning of the year for Bitcoin investors, especially as they have just experienced 2025 with the lowest fluctuation ever.
According to K33 Research, the fierce price fluctuations of Bitcoin are gradually becoming a thing of the past, and the 4-year price cycle, which is familiar to Bitcoin, is no longer suitable in the current context.
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