It is about 30% far away from its record high of near $69,000 it had hit in November last year.
“The daily trend for BTC continues to retest the previous breakout level.
On the other hand, Ether, the coin linked to the ethereum blockchain and the second-largest cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalization, also surged more than a per cent to $3,520.
“Ethereum continues to grow stronger against BTC as the trend for Bitcoin dominance index keeps falling at a slow rate.
The performance of other digital tokens were mixed with Litecoin, Stellar, Cardano, Terra also trading with gains whereas Solana, Polkadot, Polygon, Uniswap prices slipped over the last 24 hours.