However, bitcoin is very far from the highs of 2017
The exchange rate of bitcoin for the first time since July 2018 rose above 8 thousand dollars, despite a fall in major financial markets against the backdrop of trade confrontation between the US and China.
According to CoinDesk, bitcoin exchange rate in the course of trading increased by 3.4% and reached 8.1 thousand dollars. On the eve of the cryptocurrency has risen just 25%, the fastest rate since 2014.
As you know, last week bitcoin was trading below $ 6 thousand dollars, and earlier this year the rate was close to 3.5 thousand dollars.
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Earlier the European Commission urged the three financial regulators of the EU to urgently update the financial rules to cope with the instability of bitcoin, after a year it went from $1 thousand to $20 thousand.