Bitcoin climbs above 9,151.8 level, up 1%

Bitcoin rose above the $9,151.8 threshold on Monday. Bitcoin was trading at 9,151.8 by 00:53 (04:53 GMT) on the Index, up 1.35% on the day. It was the largest one-day percentage gain since June 17.

The move upwards pushed Bitcoin’s market cap up to $163.2B, or 57.20% of the total cryptocurrency market cap. At its highest, Bitcoin’s market cap was $241.2B.

Bitcoin had traded in a range of $8,960.1 to $9,212.3 in the previous twenty-four hours.

Over the past seven days, Bitcoin has seen a rise in value, as it gained 19.44%. The volume of Bitcoin traded in the twenty-four hours to time of writing was $23.3B or 30.62% of the total volume of all cryptocurrencies. It has traded in a range of $7,714.5225 to $9,331.9590 in the past 7 days.

At its current price, Bitcoin is still down 53.94% from its all-time high of $19,870.62 set on December 17, 2017.

Elsewhere in cryptocurrency trading

Ethereum was last at $268.36 on the Index, down 1.12% on the day.

XRP was trading at $0.43045 on the Index, a gain of 2.85%.

Ethereum’s market cap was last at $28.8B or 10.08% of the total cryptocurrency market cap, while XRP’s market cap totaled $18.3B or 6.43% of the total cryptocurrency market value.