With Asian speculators in both Japan and China driving up the price of Bitcoin to all-time record highs, the crypto-currency is now on the cusp of doubling in just the first five months of 2017.
The current Bitcoin price is just over $1950 and could possibly hit $2000 by the end of Friday's market session.
Bitcoin's meteoric rise has also helped increase the price and market cap of nearly all other crypto-currencies, such as with Etherium which has risen 1700% also since the beginning of the year.
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