VAt 03:06 GMT, the world’s largest cryptocurrency was trading at $103,800.44, an all-time high.
Since Trump’s victory on November 5, bitcoin, which hovered around $69,000, has recorded a spectacular increase of more than 46%.
In the night from Wednesday to Thursday alone, its price jumped more than 8%, after the president-elect announced that he planned to appoint Republican lawyer Paul Atkins, a defender of cryptocurrencies, to head the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the American financial markets regulator.
The surge was also fueled by the prospect of the creation of a strategic reserve of bitcoins in the United States, mainly made up of tokens seized by the courts, and which could push other countries to grant more legitimacy to this currency. virtual.
The president-elect also promised to drastically ease regulations on the digital currency sector, certifying that he would make the United States “the world capital of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies”.
(with MAP)
