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Bitcoin Price Closes Above $13K for First Time Since January 2018, Driven by a Flurry of Good News

Zack Voell
Updated ·1-min read

Bitcoin closed above $13,000 Saturday for the first time in over two and a half years following a week of positive news for the leading cryptocurrency.

  • Bitcoin had last closed above $13,000 on Jan. 15, 2018, six weeks after bitcoin closed above $13,000 for the first time on its way to an all-time high of $19,892, according to Coinbase market data.

  • Through late June and early July in 2019, bitcoin briefly traded above $13,000, revisiting that price level on Wednesday through Friday, but still failing to close above it.

  • This week, news that PayPal is allowing its customers to buy and sell certain cryptocurrencies, along with recent investments in bitcoin by Square and MicroStrategy, has given the leading cryptocurrency a strong tailwind. Just yesterday, JPMorgan analysts wrote that bitcoin has “considerable upside potential.”

  • Bloomberg Intelligence set $13,000 as a breakout price target for bitcoin in a July report that called the leading cryptocurrency a “caged bull”.

  • Year to date, bitcoin has gained 82%.

  • Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Commodity Strategist Mike McGlone, who authored the report, told CoinDesk in an email he was impressed by how bitcoin broke above $10,000 in late July and turned that level into support when it was revisited from the upside in early September.

  • As for the future, bitcoin’s “fundamental and technical indicators remain positive,” McGlone said.

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