Bitcoin jumps above $1,000 for first time in three years
By Prempal Singh
Digital currency bitcoin kicked from the new year by getting above $1,000 for the first time in three years late on Sunday, having outperformed all central-bank-issued currencies with a 125 percent climb in 2016.Bitcoin – a web-based “cryptocurrency” that has no central authority, depending instead on thousands of computers across the world that validate transactions […]