Yesterday, January 3rd, Bitcoin celebrated its 12th birthday by breaking a new record high of $34778 on Binance.

After the rise of Bitcoin to its new historical peak, the alternative digital currencies moved after it, led by Ethereum, which reached a level above $ 1000.

The rise of both Bitcoin and altcoins contributed to increasing the overall market capitalization of the crypto market in general. the value At $897 billion, it is still only $103 billion, with the crypto market making its first trillion dollars.

A new peak for Bitcoin and Ethereum towards achieving this as well:

The end of 2020 seemed impressive with several consecutive rises in the price of bitcoin, and it seems that the beginning of 2021 will follow the same pattern as the end of 2020, as bitcoin continued to reach new peaks, the last of which was achieved yesterday, where the price of bitcoin reached the level of $ 34770.

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After that, the price of Bitcoin declined to correct about 33 thousand dollars, the level that it is still at as of writing this article.

The new peak in the price of bitcoin coincided with the birthday of bitcoin, as “Satoshi Nakamoto” launched bitcoin on January 3, 2009.

That is, Bitcoin achieved a new record high, approaching 35 thousand dollars, even before reaching adolescence 🙂

Ethereum, for its part, is following in the footsteps of Bitcoin and seeks to break its record previously achieved at $1,432 on January 13, 2018.

Ethereum has so far reached a price of more than 1080 dollars, which is about 350 dollars separated, to reach its previous historical peak.

The rise of Ethereum contributed to the movement of most of the alternative digital currencies, which became green.

Among the prominent digital currencies that achieved significant increases, we find Polkadot, which rose by 13%, and Litecoin by 20.3%.
And if the “Polkadot” currency continues to rise, it will take the fifth place from Ripple, which has fallen from the fourth place, leaving it to the Litecoin.

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It can be said that most of the alternative digital currencies are in green, in varying proportions, led by Ethereum, with an achievement of nearly 40% in the last 24 hours.

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