Investing.com - Bitcoin rose above the $9,247.3 threshold on Thursday. Bitcoin was trading at 9,247.3 by 19:42 (00:42 GMT) on the Investing.com Index, up 1.41% on the day. It was the largest one-day percentage gain since January 23.
The move upwards pushed Bitcoin's market cap up to $167.9B, or 65.16% of the total cryptocurrency market cap. At its highest, Bitcoin's market cap was $241.2B.
Bitcoin had traded in a range of $9,209.2 to $9,325.2 in the previous twenty-four hours.
Over the past seven days, Bitcoin has seen a rise in value, as it gained 6.88%. The volume of Bitcoin traded in the twenty-four hours to time of writing was $30.1B or 26.11% of the total volume of all cryptocurrencies. It has traded in a range of $8,242.6260 to $9,428.6904 in the past 7 days.
At its current price, Bitcoin is still down 53.46% from its all-time high of $19,870.62 set on December 17, 2017.
Elsewhere in cryptocurrency trading
Ethereum was last at $172.24 on the Investing.com Index, down 2.03% on the day.
XRP was trading at $0.23233 on the Investing.com Index, a loss of 2.96%.
Ethereum's market cap was last at $18.9B or 7.32% of the total cryptocurrency market cap, while XRP's market cap totaled $10.1B or 3.94% of the total cryptocurrency market value.