The Bitcoin exchange rate rose to $16.5 thousand.

The cost of the first cryptocurrency has again updated the maximum since January 2018. Over the past 2 weeks, the asset has risen in price by 20%
On the night of Friday, November 13, at the Binance crypto exchange rate, the Bitcoin exchange rate reached $16.5 thousand. The price of the asset updated the two-year maximum, the last time it was at this mark in early January 2018. In November, the cost of the first cryptocurrency rose by 20%, since the beginning of this year – by 130%.

The last wave of growth in the price of Bitcoin started in early September with a local low of $9.8 thousand. Over the past 2 months, the asset has risen in price by more than 68%. Now the capitalization of the first cryptocurrency is $301 billion, the share of the asset in the digital money market is 65.2%, according to Coinmarketcap.

One of the factors that could positively affect the cost of cryptocurrency in the fall is the addition of the function of buying, selling and storing digital money by PayPal. Since November 11, users of the payment system from the United States have gained access to Bitcoin exchange, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin.