Bitcoin traders have found fresh confidence in bitcoin's prospects this year, with several high-profile investors and some of the biggest Wall Street giants giving bitcoin their backing - all the result of a maturing market.
The bitcoin price, up around 30% on the last six months, has been identified as a potential hedge against inflation by experts, similar to gold—and the Winklevoss twins, who founded of the New York-based Gemini cryptocurrency exchange, use bitcoin's similarities to gold to give it a value of $500,000 per bitcoin, up 45-fold from today.
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