The bitcoin price has soared by around 450% since its latest bull run began in October, sparked by PayPal announcing its support for a handful of cryptocurrencies and further boosted by the emergence of long-awaited institutional adoption.
I have covered the rise of bitcoin and cryptocurrency since 2012 and have charted its emergence as a niche technology into the greatest threat to the established financial system the world has ever seen and the most important new technology since the internet itself.