Bitcoin Rebounds To $50,881 Per Coin on Wednesday
Following Elon Musk, Janet Yellen and Bill Gates’ comments that plunged the world’s new gold, Bitcoin, on Monday, the digital asset has rebounded from $48.321 per coin to $50,881.63 as of 10 am Nigerian time on Wednesday.
Bitcoin gained 5 percent in the last 24 hours due to the surge in transactions by investors after Square, a payments giant, announced it has added 3,318 Bitcoin valued at $170 million to its holding of the coin on Tuesday.
Investors carried out 288,011 transactions valued at $16.91 billion in the last 24 hours.
Bitcoin briefly rose to as high as $51,413.61 to pare losses and extend year-to-date returns to 72.29 percent.
The digital currency was trading at an all-time high of $58,332.36 per coin before Elon Musk, the then world’s richest man said the dominant cryptocurrency is “too high too fast”.
Also, Bill Gates, in a recent interview with Bloomberg, said he is not bullish on Bitcoin. The third richest man in the world and the founder of Microsoft said, bitcoin uses too much energy and can cause a lot of trouble for investors who may not have much money to spare like Elon Musk.
He said “Elon has tons of money and he’s very sophisticated, so I don’t worry that his Bitcoin will sort of randomly go up or down,” Gates said during the interview. “I do think people get bought into these manias, who may not have as much money to spare, so I’m not bullish on Bitcoin, and my general thought would be that, if you have less money than Elon, you should probably watch out.”
Janet Yellen, the former Chair of Federal Reserve and the present Treasury Secretary of the United States has been vocal about the environmental impact of Bitcoin given the amount of power needed to mine digit tokens.
“I don’t think that bitcoin is widely used as a transaction mechanism,” Yellen told the New York Times on Monday. “It’s an extremely inefficient way of conducting transactions and the amount of energy that’s consumed in processing those transactions is staggering.”
