It stepped up the currency bitcoin of 14% Tuesday , recovering about half of the losses suffered last week, which was the worst since 2013, as investors once again to buy the largest and most famous digital currency in the world.
After falling almost 30% in one trading session on Friday to close to $ 11,160, it bitcoin rallied more than 15% in yesterday's session to 16073, before retreating from some of its losses to end late trading at $ 15890 in light trading on the Beetstamp Stock Exchange Luxembourg .
While investors and analysts believe that a fall in last week's bitcoin was a natural correction after sharp jumps in prices, more warnings were issued by market regulators and central banks.
In a language like warning, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siljanov said on Monday that only professional investors should deal with digital currencies , not investors.
Israeli Securities Authority Chairman Shmuel Hauser said on Monday that he would propose legislation that would ban the circulation of shares of companies whose focus is on the bitcoin and other currencies on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
The value of the bitcoin has increased about 12 times since the beginning of the year, with its rise from less than a thousand dollars to 19666 on the 17th of this month on the stock market and more than twenty thousand dollars in other exchanges.
And the bitcoin of a digital currency based on encryption, and characterized as decentralized, that is not controlled by non-users.
Encrypted digital currencies do not have a serial number and are not controlled by governments and central banks like conventional currencies, but are handled only on the Internet without physical presence.