The Number of New Bitcoin Accounts Is Skyrocketing
Inside Bitcoin's Surge Past $9,000
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Bitcoin’s increasingly getting Main Street’s attention.
Long the bastion of the digitally savvy, individual investors have been opening accounts at a breakneck pace in the past week as the currency surges toward $10,000. Coinbase, one of the most popular platforms for trading cryptocurrencies, has added at least 300,000 users since just before the Thanksgiving holiday on Nov. 22, according to data collected by Alistair Milne, co-founder of the Altana Digital Currency Fund.