<a href="https://www.cryptoknowmics.com/news/bitcoin-rallies-but-more-overbought-than-previous-upsurge-over-10000/">Bitcoin price</a> rallied above $12,000 on October 20, 2020, for the first time since August. The recent price hike only suggests that the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization is up for further gains.
<h2><strong>Bitcoin On A Steady Rise</strong></h2>
The price range for Bitcoin traded somewhere between $11,672.69 to $12,047.10. The recent price spike was followed by Bitcoin streaking on a six-day gain this past week. Before breaking above the $12,000 price mark, BTC had to overcome a large number of sell orders slightly below that level.

Simon Peters, the analyst at investment platform eToro, says:

“Bitcoin has been on a steady rise over recent weeks, driven partly by the news of Square's $50 million bitcoin buy, and perhaps more substantially because of recent comments from U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman <a href="https://www.cryptoknowmics.com/news/powell-seems-unsure-about-releasing-cbdc-as-bitcoin-nears-12000/">Jerome Powell regarding CBDC adoption in the U.S.</a>"

According to CryptoCompare, the last time, BTC traded above the $12,000 level was on August 17.
<h2 class="post__title"><strong>Average BTC Transaction Value Climbs 500% Since July 2020</strong></h2>
The average value of Bitcoin transactions has also increased <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-average-transaction-value-increases-500-since-july">since July</a> this year. Four months back, the average Bitcoin transaction value was approximately $25,000 per transaction. Yesterday, it represented a yearly high of $151,000 per transfer and an increase of more than 500%. The average value of a transaction increased to almost $50,000, up from $105,000 within the last 48 hours.

The $151,000 average value represents 190 times more than Ethereum’s average transaction value at $793. Meanwhile, the daily number of Ethereum transactions increased by 30% on Aug 10. The number of Bitcoin active addresses have fluctuated somewhere between 650k and 970K within the past 4 months.

Over the past months, large institutional investors such as <a href="https://www.cryptoknowmics.com/news/grayscale-bitcoin-trust-gbtc-acquire-more-than-17000-btc/">Grayscale</a>, Microstrategy, and Jack Dorsey’s Square have been significantly taking interest in increasing their BTC holdings. By the end of September, Grayscale controlled at least 449,900 BTC or 2.4% of the current supply of Bitcoin followed by MicroStrategy with 38,250 BTC holdings. Two weeks later, Dorsey’s Square purchased approx. 4,709 BTC.

Bitcoin Rallies Above $12,000 Mark, Since August

Bitcoin rallies above $12,000 for the first time since August 2020, suggesting that the cryptocurrency is up for further gains.

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Bitcoin Rallies Above $12,000 Mark, Since August

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