Additionally, there are no standards to protect your business because authorities like the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) do not regulate the cryptocurrency market. It could lose value and become useless if firms or consumers switch to a different cryptocurrency or stop utilizing digital currencies altogether.
In the last 24 hours, Bitcoin peaked at a new record high price of $68,568.85 according to Coinbase.

OK perhaps that’s a little far-fetched. But what is behind crypto’s crazy climb over the past 18 months, we hear you ask? We don’t mean to suggest that the pandemic hasn’t been involved, because we think it has, but not in the way that this chart criminal implies — not, in other words, because it’s some kind of safe haven that traders flock to when they are worried about Covid cases rising; the data don’t bear that idea out.
We’ll go through the several factors that influence demand for a particular crypto, but before we do that, it’s important to note that cryptocurrencies don’t fit comfortably into our existing asset categories.