Source: Ashleigh Mattern, CBC News, December 28, 2017
‘We’re in the biggest experiment in human history,’ says blockchain expert
Bitcoin is the most well-known cryptocurrency, with good reason; its price has been hovering around $20,000 per bitcoin lately, increasing more than 1,600 per cent since the start of the year.
It’s also an extremely volatile investment. In December alone, its value rose almost 80 per cent, and then dropped by 40 per cent on Dec. 22 before slowly climbing back up.
