MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 22nd June, 2019) The most popular cryptocurrency Bitcoin reached the $10,000 psychological price tag early on Saturday for the first time since 2018, according to trade data.
Cryptocurrency tracking website CoinMarketCap showed that as of 04:00 GMT on Saturday, Bitcoin's price saw a 8.94-percent growth to $10, 591.12.
"The Bitcoin price has surpassed the $10,000 level on the information about the launched of the Facebook Libra virtual Currency," Arseniy Poyarkov, a member of the Russian lower house council on digital economy, who heads the BiznesDrom analytic agency, told Sputnik.
Facebook launched its cryptocurrency on Tuesday.
