Investing.com - Bitcoin rose above the $4,013.8 threshold on Thursday. Bitcoin was trading at 4,013.8 by 09:06 (09:06 GMT) on the Investing.com Index, up 6.93% on the day. It was the largest one-day percentage gain since December 20.
The move upwards pushed Bitcoin's market cap up to $70.2B, or 53.89% of the total cryptocurrency market cap. At its highest, Bitcoin's market cap was $241.2B.
Bitcoin had traded in a range of $3,665.8 to $4,014.2 in the previous twenty-four hours.
Over the past seven days, Bitcoin has seen a rise in value, as it gained 17.57%. The volume of Bitcoin traded in the twenty-four hours to time of writing was $7.5B or 33.92% of the total volume of all cryptocurrencies. It has traded in a range of $3,176.9944 to $4,014.1914 in the past 7 days.
At its current price, Bitcoin is still down 79.80% from its all-time high of $19,870.62 set on December 17, 2017.
Elsewhere in cryptocurrency trading
XRP was last at $0.38287 on the Investing.com Index, up 4.47% on the day.
Ethereum was trading at $108.68 on the Investing.com Index, a gain of 6.41%.
XRP's market cap was last at $15.6B or 11.96% of the total cryptocurrency market cap, while Ethereum's market cap totaled $11.3B or 8.68% of the total cryptocurrency market value.