比特幣的幣值已經升到10000美元一個了。目前它的價值已經比年初（968美元）上漲了800%還多。

要知道，現在離比特幣幣值突破8000美元僅僅過去了七天，離它突破7000美元甚至還不到一個月。

比特幣升值的原因？

目前數字加密貨幣仍然是一個被炒得火熱的概念，越來越多的公司都在談論它，還有不少企業采用了這項技術。

支付處理公司Square就是一個例子。它的用戶現在已經可以通過Square Cash服務買賣比特幣了。雖然不少企業開始擁抱比特幣背后的“區塊鏈”技術，但BTIG分析師馬克·帕爾默依然對Squre的股票給予了降級，理由是它的股值上漲得“過火了”。

比特幣的火熱，一方面離不開金融行業對它的使用不斷增加，更重要的是公眾對比特幣的認知在不斷提高。

Ritholtz財富管理公司的約什·布朗指出，比特幣已經“正式成了一場投資者的狂歡”。

另外，IG集團的首席市場策略師克里斯·威斯頓在周一的一封致客戶的信中表示，隨著比特幣即將于12月的第2個星期起在芝加哥交易所上市的消息傳來，投資者生恐自己“錯過了這一撥”，這也是導致投資者掀起另一波買入熱的原因之一。

現在入手比特幣是不是太晚了？

在感恩節期間，很多人在跟親友聊天時會被問到這個話題。也有很多人認為現在入手比特幣仍然為時未晚。

11月22日至24日，開設新的比特幣賬戶的人超過了10萬人。也就是說，現在比特幣交易平臺Coinbase的用戶已經超過了嘉信理財公司的客戶。Coinbase平臺目前的用戶總數已達1310萬人。不過這兩家公司還有一個比較有趣的對比：Coinbase雖然坐擁千萬用戶大軍，但其客戶資產總額卻遠遠不及嘉信理財的3.3萬億美元。

據CNBC的數據報道，去年11月，Coinbase的用戶還僅有490萬人，現在已經翻了一倍還多。

現在貌似人人都在買進比特幣，但你在入手之前，應該先想清楚這幾件事：第一，數字貨幣幣值的波動性是相當大的；第二，數字貨幣對沖基金會對你的投資收取高額的手續費；第三，比特幣之所以會漲，純粹是因為人們覺得它會繼續上漲，并且成為主流的數字加密貨幣。

比特幣會漲到多高？

威斯頓表示，新投資者的加入和近來的“瘋狂勢頭”只會把比特幣炒得更高。很多分析師都不敢斷言比特幣漲到何處才是個頭，也不敢預測除了投資者的跟風心理，比特幣的瘋漲到底還將標志著什么。

漲到10000美元的比特幣無非是個主觀數字罷了。你不必每次當某個指數漲了幾倍時，都給它戴一個新帽子，假裝它很重要。

——J.C. Parets (@allstarcharts)，2017年11月27日

比特幣的幣值仍然極不穩定。要知道比特幣并不是只漲不跌的，過去幾年，比特幣曾經暴跌過五次，損失曾經達到80%。不過這幾次暴跌也并非都是壞事，反而更讓人們對這種數字貨幣產生了興趣。

MBMG公司的常務董事保羅·甘博斯指出，數字加密貨幣本質上是一個做高了就拋的局。他還表示，目前熱門的比特幣和以太幣都是被用戶以“賺一筆就跑”的投機心態炒起來的。（財富中文網）

譯者：賈政景

Bitcoin is on its way to being worth $10,000 per coin. Currently, the cryptocurrency is up 800% compared to the beginning of the year, when it was priced at $968 per coin.

This new high comes just seven days after bitcoin broke $8,000 and not even a full month since it hit the $7,000 mark.

Why is bitcoin rising?

As buzz around cryptocurrencies continues to increase, more and more companies are talking about the technology. Some organizations are even adopting it.

Square is one such case. The payments processing company now allows customers to buy and sell bitcoin through Square Cash. Even as companies start to embrace the blockchain technology that makes bitcoin possible, BTIG analyst Mark Palmer still downgraded shares, calling the company’s stock rally “overdone.”

But rather than a growing use throughout the financial sector, it seems growing public awareness of bitcoin is what’s driving the price surge.

Bitcoin is “officially an investor mania,” according to Josh Brown from Ritholtz Wealth Management.

Factors like the anticipation of the CME listing cryptocurrency futures in the second week of December and investor FOMO (fear of missing out), are driving “another frenzy of buying,” said Chris Weston, chief marketing strategist at IG Group, in a note to clients Monday.

Is it too late to buy bitcoin?

Apparently, this is what many were asking friends and family around Thanksgiving tables over the holiday weekend. And lots of people seem to have decided that no, it’s not too late.

More than 100,000 people opened new Coinbase accounts between November 22 and November 24, which means there are now more Coinbase users than Charles Schwab accounts. The total number of accounts on the platform is now around 13.1 million. But there’s an important detail to point out in the Coinbase and Charles Schwabcomparison: The cryptocurrency trading accounts are worth much less than the $3.3 trillion total client assets in the more than 10 million open Schwab accounts.

Coinbase users have more than doubled from the 4.9 million accounts open last November, according to data from CNBC.

It may seem that everybody is investing in bitcoin, but there are a few things to consider before you buy: the cryptocurrency is extremely volatile, crypto hedge funds charge serious fees to invest your money, and the value of bitcoin is only based on the assumption that it will continue to grow and become the predominant cryptocurrency.

How high will bitcoin go?

All these new investors and “mad momentum” are driving prices higher, according to Weston. It’s not clear where the ceiling is or, for many analysts, what the higher prices really signal besides a me-too trend among investors.

Bitcoin at 10,000 is just an arbitrary number. You don't need to lie to people and make a new hat every time an index ends in 3 zeros pretending it matters.

— J.C. Parets (@allstarcharts) November 27, 2017

The price of coins is still extremely volatile. Bitcoin has crashed, losing 80% of its value, on five different occasions over the last few years. But these severe dips often generate additional public interest in the cryptocurrency.

Paul Gambles, managing director of MBMG, said cryptocurrencies are essentially a pump and dump scam, adding that the prices of favorite coins like bitcoin and Ethereum are propped up by users pumping and dumping.