Investing.com - Bitcoin rose above the $9,797.9 threshold on Saturday. Bitcoin was trading at 9,797.9 by 00:51 (00:51 GMT) on the Investing.com Index, up 0.12% on the day. It was the largest one-day percentage gain since February 7.
The move upwards pushed Bitcoin's market cap up to $178.1B, or 62.79% of the total cryptocurrency market cap. At its highest, Bitcoin's market cap was $241.2B.
Bitcoin had traded in a range of $9,795.6 to $9,826.0 in the previous twenty-four hours.
Over the past seven days, Bitcoin has seen a rise in value, as it gained 4.36%. The volume of Bitcoin traded in the twenty-four hours to time of writing was $34.2B or 26.75% of the total volume of all cryptocurrencies. It has traded in a range of $9,179.9121 to $9,872.5283 in the past 7 days.
At its current price, Bitcoin is still down 50.69% from its all-time high of $19,870.62 set on December 17, 2017.
Elsewhere in cryptocurrency trading
Ethereum was last at $221.81 on the Investing.com Index, up 1.93% on the day.
XRP was trading at $0.27847 on the Investing.com Index, a loss of 2.33%.
Ethereum's market cap was last at $24.3B or 8.55% of the total cryptocurrency market cap, while XRP's market cap totaled $12.2B or 4.29% of the total cryptocurrency market value.