After a week marked by increase, Bitcoin registered increases in the early hours of Thursday and quoted US$99.652,5 at 9, with an increase in 2,5% In the last 24 hours, according to Lemon data.
Other cryptocurrencies also quoted upwards: Ethereum (7,58%)solana (5%), XRP (3,57%) y BNB (0,83%).
The impulse in the value of Bitcoin occurs after the president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced a New commercial agreement with the United Kingdom. This is the first bilateral commercial agreement since the Republican leader imposed a strong tariff policy to countries around the world.
While the details will be announced today, the main objective is reduce tariffaccording to the agency AP. In specific numbers, Trump ordered a tax 10% to British imports, in addition to tariffs of the 25% A cars, steel and aluminum.
“The agreement with the United Kingdom is complete and integral and will consolidate the relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom for many years. Due to our long history and mutual loyalty, it is a great honor that the United Kingdom is our first announcement,” Trump wrote this morning in the social network Truth Social.
-He added: “Many other agreements, which are in serious negotiation stages, will continue!”
For Julián Colombo, general director of Bitso Argentina, This announcement is only one of several factors that explain the increase in Bitcoin’s price. “On the one hand, there is something of confidence that the fall of recent months has already passed and the assets will bounce. On the other hand, Bitcoin proved to be much more resilient than other market assets, including within the crypto world,” he told La Nacion.
And he completed: “I think the thesis is increasingly validating that Bitcoin is an asset that has a value ‘per se’ And that, although it is affected by macro issues, there are also many factors within the crypto world that influence it. ”
In turn, Colombo said that his scheduled scarcity, its resistance to censorship and its growing institutional recognition They will lead Bitcoin to a bullish future. “In the long term, its conception as a reserve of value continues to consolidate,” he said.
Bitcoin touched its highest price -us $ 109,500- on January 20, at the time of Trump’s assumption. That day, ads were expected of Procrypt measures, but the president focused his speech on other aspects of the economy. This generated noise in the industry and the value of the cryptoactive fell to US $ 103,000. Since then, Bitcoin always quoted Under the psychological brand of US $ 100,000, with a floor of around US $ 80,000.
