Bitcoin has surged above $8,000 and theories around why abound

7:01am PDT - May 14th, 2019    bitcoin - TechCrunch

Bitcoin is now trading at around $8,130, up a whopping 60.84 percent over the past month, with the price surging $3,086.14 over the period. The cryptocurrency’s meteoric rise is reminiscent of its rocketing growth in the latter half of 2017, when prices reach…