Massive Bitcoin SV ‘rally’ triggers crypto gold rush as Bitcoin approaches $ 9,000 [Updated]

Bitcoin rivals Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV, both offshoots of the original Bitcoin, have suddenly shot up – with Bitcoin SV now three times as high as they were at the beginning of the year.

[Updated: 12:25am EST 01/15/2020] Bitcoin SV is up over $ 300 per token, from below $ 100 at the start of the year. Bitcoin SV is now the fourth most important crypto currency in the world after Bitcoin and Ethereum and is displacing Bitcoin cash. However, many are skeptical of the sudden rally of Bitcoin SV. Some claim it is a so-called pump-and-dump exit scam that points to dubious trade data.

“Ignore Bitcoin SV price movements,” said Nicholas Merten, founder of the YouTube channel DataDash for analyzing cryptocurrencies, on Twitter. “The only $ 35.6 million volume comes from exchanges open to US traders. The other 99.4% of the daily volume consists mostly of nameless exchanges and well-known laundromat exchanges that still fool this space. You can basically dictate a wrong price. “

Bitcoin forks, Bitcoin SV and Bitcoin cash prices didn’t fare as well as Bitcoin recently … [+] Year, but both started strong in 2020.

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Bitcoin price has now soared to a high of $ 8,901 on the Luxembourg-based Bitstamp exchange before falling slightly, down from around $ 8,100 earlier in the week. Bitcoin cash is up 15% in the past 24 hours, while other major cryptocurrencies like Ethereum, Ripple’s XRP, Litecoin and EOS rose between 6% and 12%.

Bitcoin SV, which broke away from Bitcoin cash in 2018 and is controlled by controversial Australian computer scientist Craig Wright, is according to reports Wright acquired of documents that could prove he was involved in developing the Bitcoin was involved, skyrocketed.

Bitcoin SV is up for the last month after struggling for most of 2019, and has risen sharply in the past few weeks – adding a staggering 200% in the past week.

Wright, who has repeatedly claimed to be the mysterious creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, is embroiled in a longstanding U.S. legal battle with Ira Kleiman, who stole half of a 1.1 million Bitcoin hoard valued at nearly 9 billion US dollar sues.

Wright scored a small win in court last week when a judge ruled that facts previously established in the Florida trial were now controversial and gave Wright three weeks to unlock the so-called Tulip Trust, which was many of the first Contains bitcoin ever created.

Wright claims that the trust is currently inaccessible because several keys are held by an undisclosed intermediary, but they have until February 3rd to find them.

However, US judge Beth Bloom has expressed doubts that the documents will appear at some point.

“Given the many inconsistencies and misrepresentations of the defendant, the court asks whether it is remotely plausible that the mysterious ‘bound courier’ will arrive, and only that it will arrive in January 2020, as the defendant now claims “wrote Judge Bloom in a January 10 court order.

Bitcoin SV supporters hope that this latest development in complex history will result in Wright being accepted as the creator of Bitcoin and being able to steer the market towards his Bitcoin SV with control of more than 1 million Bitcoin.

The Bitcoin SV price has gained a whopping 110% in the last month, which is above the psychological value … [+] $ 200 per token token.

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The bitcoin and cryptocurrency market remains bullish through 2020 – despite some serious warnings.

Long-awaited publicly traded Bitcoin options were launched on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange yesterday, allowing traders to place more sophisticated bets on the future price of Bitcoin.

Elsewhere, Bitcoin’s hash rate hit a new all-time high in the past week, while some speculated that digital assets act as so-called safe havens.