Currencies

Bitcoin rallies above $30,000 for first time

The price of the world’s most popular cryptocurrency traded as high as $31,824 early Saturday, with almost all other markets closed over the first weekend in 2021.

Bitcoin no match for gold in coronavirus world

The recent surge in bitcoin’s price has created some new believers, but the cryptocurrency will never supplant gold as a store of value or medium of exchange, some Wall Street investors say.