Bitcoin’s Price Hits New All Time High $2,322 as Scaling Consensus Reached

Bitcoin has reached another new all-time high at $2,322 this morning May 24 based on global average. Experts said that the recent bitcoin price surge is due to the strong performance and momentum of the Japanese bitcoin industry, however it is also affected by the progress in bitcoin scaling talks which has been a driving factor of bitcoin price’s upward momentum.

Cointelegraph has reported that a number of leading players of the Blockchain industry have reached a consensus in regards to the Bitcoin scaling solution. This break in the scaling debate stalemate is a new, highly significant boost for the Bitcoin ecosystem.

In a statement, Digital Currency Group revealed that 56 companies representing 83.3% of hashing power and 5.1 billion monthly on-chain transaction volume have come to a consensus to activate the Bitcoin Core development team’s Segregated Witness (Segwit) at a 80% activation threshold and execute a 2MB hard fork six months thereafter to proportionally scale the Bitcoin network.

Upon the announcement of the newly agreed upon Bitcoin Scaling Agreement, bitcoin price surged by around $185, from $2,100 to $2,285, demonstrating a 9% daily increase in value.

This means that the problem of Bitcoin scaling, that has been unresolved for years, could soon become a thing of the past. This news comes quite on time, as the number of transactions being stuck in the backlog has reached record heights in recent days.

Until now, the community has been unable to come to a consensus on whether to enable Bitcoin scaling by activating SegWit, Bitcoin Unlimited, or some other technology.


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Bitcoin Breaches $1,800 for the first time, still rising

Bitcoin breaches $1,800 for the first time on Thursday adding more than $100 in just two days. The rally in bitcoin has been driven by a number of factors such as positive noises from policymakers as well as the legalization of the cryptocurrency in Japan.

The price of the digital currency was trading at around $1,824 by early morning in London, according to Coindesk's bitcoin price index. It breached $1,700 for the first time on Tuesday.

Since Monday, the market capitalization of bitcoin has risen over $3 billion to $29.53 billion. The price of bitcoin has soared 81% since the start of the year.

Bitcoin surpassed $1,800 on Thursday to a fresh record high, rising more than $100 in just two days, driven by comments from policy makers and positive noises around the future of the cryptocurrency.

The price of the digital currency was trading at around $1,824 by early morning in London, according to Coindesk's bitcoin price index. It breached $1,700 for the first time on Tuesday.

Since Monday, the market capitalization of bitcoin has risen over $3 billion to $29.53 billion. The price of bitcoin has soared 81 percent since the start of the year.

The latest price driver was comments from Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari. The policymaker talked up the potential of blockchain – the technology that underpins bitcoin.

"I would say I think conventional wisdom now is that blockchain and the underlying technology is probably more interesting and has more potential than maybe bitcoin does by itself," Kashkari said at a technology conference, according to Reuters.

His comments are the latest in a growing number of officials that have supported bitcoin and blockchain technology, helping to bring it more into the mainstream.

Japan legalized the cryptocurrency as a payment method recently and this has led to a greater amount of bitcoin being bought with yen, which is helping to support the price.

At the same time, Russia, one of the strongest opponents of bitcoin is seeking to regulate the digital currency.

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