Investing.com - Bitcoin rose above the $12,009.3 threshold on Wednesday. Bitcoin was trading at 12,009.3 by 08:53 (22:53 GMT) on the Investing.com Index, up 5.71% on the day. It was the largest one-day percentage gain since Monday, August 5, 2019.
The move upwards pushed Bitcoin's market cap up to $213.5B, or 68.62% of the total cryptocurrency market cap. At its highest, Bitcoin's market cap was $241.2B.
Bitcoin had traded in a range of $11,406.4 to $12,114.5 in the previous twenty-four hours.
Over the past seven days, Bitcoin has seen a rise in value, as it gained 19.12%. The volume of Bitcoin traded in the twenty-four hours to time of writing was $22.2B or 34.91% of the total volume of all cryptocurrencies. It has traded in a range of $9,890.5840 to $12,291.9395 in the past 7 days.
At its current price, Bitcoin is still down 39.56% from its all-time high of $19,870.62 set on Sunday, December 17, 2017.
Elsewhere in cryptocurrency trading
Ethereum was last at $224.64 on the Investing.com Index, up 0.19% on the day.
XRP was trading at $0.31239 on the Investing.com Index, a gain of 0.73%.
Ethereum's market cap was last at $24.3B or 7.81% of the total cryptocurrency market cap, while XRP's market cap totaled $13.4B or 4.31% of the total cryptocurrency market value.