Investing.com - Bitcoin was trading at $12,254.9 by 15:30 (19:30 GMT) on the Investing.com Index on Friday, up 10.27% on the day. It was the largest one-day percentage gain since June 26.
The move upwards pushed Bitcoin's market cap up to $218.0B, or 63.23% of the total cryptocurrency market cap. At its highest, Bitcoin's market cap was $241.2B.
Bitcoin had traded in a range of $10,970.5 to $12,331.5 in the previous twenty-four hours.
Over the past seven days, Bitcoin has seen a rise in value, as it gained 23.42%. The volume of Bitcoin traded in the twenty-four hours to time of writing was $37.0B or 33.95% of the total volume of all cryptocurrencies. It has traded in a range of $10,031.3389 to $13,929.8066 in the past 7 days.
At its current price, Bitcoin is still down 38.33% from its all-time high of $19,870.62 set on December 17, 2017.
Elsewhere in cryptocurrency trading
Ethereum was last at $310.84 on the Investing.com Index, up 5.82% on the day.
XRP was trading at $0.41857 on the Investing.com Index, a gain of 1.56%.
Ethereum's market cap was last at $33.2B or 9.63% of the total cryptocurrency market cap, while XRP's market cap totaled $17.9B or 5.19% of the total cryptocurrency market value.