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Cryptocurrency Market Cap Surpasses $300 Billion On Strong Bitcoin Rally Cryptocurrency Market Cap Surpasses $300 Billion On Strong Bitcoin Rally
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Cryptocurrency Market Cap Surpasses $300 Billion On Strong Bitcoin Rally

Cryptocurrency Market Cap Surpasses $300 Billion On Strong Bitcoin Rally

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Cryptocurrency investors received an incredible shock today after seeing a double-digit spike in less than an hour.

After being on a downward trend since the start of the year, many are hoping for the end of the four-month-long bear market for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

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Those keeping a close eye on BTC will have noticed the highly unusual, almost vertical swings in the market during the previous week. On April 7th, a 4.5% rise occurred over a period of three hours, followed two days later with the price plummeting 7% in just two hours.

In the past week, Bitcoin traded for a low of $6542, but a strong rally over the past 12 hours helped the price break $8,000 on a handful of exchanges.

While cryptocurrency markets are known for their high volatility and erratic behavior, this type of rapid price fluctuations are usually isolated to coins with smaller trading volumes.

Keeping in mind the current market cap of BTC is estimated at $130 billion, these kinds of shifts in Bitcoin’s value equate to millions of dollars worth of trades being bought and sold.

In fact, according to a tweet by @CryptoRae, Bitcoin had the highest one-hour trading volume in its history – $1.2 billion in a single hour.

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Such a massive influx of capital is usually indicative of institutions entering the cryptocurrency market. Of course, this coincides with recent news of a wave institutional investment from George Soros and Venrock Venture Capital, a Rockefeller-based investment group.

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It remains to be seen whether this truly is the end of the bear market for cryptocurrencies. However, with the recent OTC (over-the-counter) exchanges seeing “multi-billion dollar” volumes and P2P exchange portals across the globe seeing similarly large volumes, interest in the crypto markets remains strong.

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