Investing.com - Bitcoin rose above the $8,083.1 threshold on Wednesday. Bitcoin was trading at 8,083.1 by 13:30 (18:30 GMT) on the Investing.com Index, up 1.73% on the day. It was the largest one-day percentage gain since January 7.
The move upwards pushed Bitcoin's market cap up to $147.8B, or 67.47% of the total cryptocurrency market cap. At its highest, Bitcoin's market cap was $241.2B.
Bitcoin had traded in a range of $8,044.9 to $8,436.4 in the previous twenty-four hours.
Over the past seven days, Bitcoin has seen a rise in value, as it gained 12.66%. The volume of Bitcoin traded in the twenty-four hours to time of writing was $32.3B or 32.11% of the total volume of all cryptocurrencies. It has traded in a range of $6,884.0640 to $8,436.4355 in the past 7 days.
At its current price, Bitcoin is still down 59.32% from its all-time high of $19,870.62 set on December 17, 2017.
Elsewhere in cryptocurrency trading
Ethereum was last at $139.03 on the Investing.com Index, down 2.69% on the day.
XRP was trading at $0.20662 on the Investing.com Index, a loss of 2.46%.
Ethereum's market cap was last at $15.4B or 7.01% of the total cryptocurrency market cap, while XRP's market cap totaled $9.1B or 4.14% of the total cryptocurrency market value.