Bitcoin Smashes All-Time High to $68,000

• Bitcoin has broken through its previous all-time high of $67,000 early this morning

• The flagship cryptocurrency rose by more than 4% and touched $68,500 before dropping down to $68,100

• At the time of this report, the cryptocurrency market capitalization currently stands at $2.94 trillion, up 3.12%

Bitcoin has continued its rally from yesterday as the flagship cryptocurrency broke through its previous all-time high earlier this morning.

The original cryptocurrency climbed 4.2% to $68,500 before dropping slightly lower to $68,127.

Before its recent rally, BTC’s previous peak was around $67,000, which was attained on October 21st.

Since then, the cryptocurrency dropped below the $60,000 landmark before continuing its bull run.

Bitcoin is not up by more than 120% from around $29,000 that the original cryptocurrency was trading at the start of the year.

Also, the second-largest cryptocurrency based on market cap, Ethereum reached a new peak of $4,833 in the late hours of Monday.

At the time of this report, the total cryptocurrency market cap is now at $2.94 trillion, according to CoinMarketCap, up by 3.12%.

Loopring is the biggest gainer among the top 100 cryptocurrencies, adding 39.5% in the past 24 hours.

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