After cooling down for a couple of days, the most popular cryptocurrency, bitcoin (BTC) accelerated its pre-Christmas rally and for the first time in its history hit the USD 24,000 level. As is usual this week, the top cryptoasset was outperformed by its smaller peers. At pixel time (17:16 UTC), BTC trades at USD 24,049 and is up by almost 6% in a day and 31% in a week.
