On Monday, 30 November, Bitcoin traded at an all-time high above $19,686, according to data from CoinGecko.
Four-hour BTC/USD chart on Bitstamp. Source: TradingView.
The previous all-time high recorded by the data aggregator was December 16, 2017 — $19,665.39.
Different services show different all-time highs: CoinMarketCap shows the price at $20,089, which Bitcoin has not yet reached today.
The record price also differs across the major exchanges.
All-time high of Bitcoin on different exchanges:
• Gemini — $19,999
• Coinbase — $19,892
• Bitfinex — $19,891
• Huobi — $19,867
• Binance — $19,799
• BitMEX — $19,777
• Bitstamp — $19,666
• Kraken — $19,660Which one are we going by?
— Larry Cermak (@lawmaster) November 24, 2020
For example, on Bitstamp it surpassed the previous high of $19,666, topping $19,870.
On Binance, prices rose to $19,883.33 from the previous record of $19,799. Bitcoin’s all-time high was also broken on Kraken and Huobi.
Analysts at Glassnode noted that this marks the moment when all circulating bitcoins are in profit, regardless of the price at which they were acquired.
100% of the circulating #Bitcoin supply is in profit.
Chart: https://t.co/wDpd4s3BKJ pic.twitter.com/8vkssXJkYw
— glassnode (@glassnode) November 30, 2020
Matthew Graham, head of Sino Global Capital, noted that Bitcoin’s new all-time high trended on Weibo — the Chinese analogue of Twitter.
Bitcoin ATH trending on Weibo (similar to China Twitter) pic.twitter.com/OEFsWy82E3
— Matthew Graham (@mattysino) November 30, 2020
Bitcoin broke above the $19,000 mark for the first time in 2020 on November 24. During the ensuing correction, prices fell below $17,000.
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