Baku. 21 July. REPORT.AZ/ Price of bitcoin (virtual cryptocurrency ) increased by 68% and reached 2 953 USD from 1 759 USD.

Report informs, record price of bitcoin was recorded $ 3,000 on June 12. At present, the bitcoin sold for $ 2,800.

Notably, reason for the increase in bitcoin was the adoption of the new "SegWit2x" software on July 16 by the crypto-net community. It also increased confidence in bitcoin. As a result, bitcoin's price has again reached a historic record level.

Notably, updating "SegWit2x" enhances network accessibility. According to Coin Dance crypto-currency statistics agency, in the next two days, “miners” will be preparing for the launch of the new software. Program is expected to take exactly 2 weeks. But after 3 months, the probability of facing risks caused by process of doubling the volume of the block, which is the second phase of the process, will occur.