Bitcoin surged above $26,000 in early Asian trading on Friday after financial markets stabilized as regulators in the United States and Europe moved to bail out banks with cash.
The daily change in BTC was +7.14%. On Friday, March 17, the cryptocurrency's price reached $26,162.0.
The Bitcoin network has added nearly a million wallets with non-zero balances in the last few weeks. The number of non-zero wallets on the network decreased from approximately 44.2 million to approximately 43.8 million at the end of February. This figure had recovered to a new all-time high of 44.778 million by March 15.