Bitcoin earns 70% from its lows of 2018 and returns to touch the $ 10,000

The price of bitcoin has briefly surpassed Thursday the threshold of 10,000 dollars, recovering practically 70% of its value from the 5,922 dollars in which it was quoted on February 6, although it remains far from the nearly 20,000 dollars that came to be worth in the middle of last December.

Specifically, the price of bitcoin has arrived this Thursday to be quoted at a maximum of 10,064.98 dollars, although later it yielded some land and stood at 9,998.23 dollars, 5.49% more than the close of Wednesday, according to the data of CoinDesk.

On the other hand, a group of investors in cryptocurrencies filed a lawsuit against Coincheck on Thursday to force the Tokyo-based platform to allow them to withdraw an amount of assets valued at 183,000 dollars (146,676 euros) that were frozen after the theft of 427 million euros in cryptocurrencies at the end of January, according to Reuters.

The group of seven investors has filed a lawsuit in the Tokyo District Court and has also requested that Coincheck pay an annualized interest of 5% of the value of the virtual currencies from the moment of notification of the claim until it again allows withdrawals. of blocked assets.

Last Tuesday, Coincheck customers withdrew 40,100 million yen (301 million euros) after lifting the restrictions applied by the exchange house to the reimbursements of yen assets of its users, although it maintains the 'corralito' for the assets in cryptocurrencies.

The Japanese trading platform had reported last week that the decision to lift the restrictions is limited to the yen assets owned by Coincheck users at the moment, saying it plans to lift "as soon as possible" the restrictions on the withdrawal of cryptocurrencies as the platform is able to guarantee security in the restoration of operations in each one of them.

Coincheck acknowledged on January 26 have been the victim of the theft of 523 million XEM, unit of account of the NEM cryptocurrency, whose value would be around the time of knowing the facts the 427 million euros, affecting about 260,000 customers of the platform of exchange, which promised to return affected users some 378 million through yen payments through the Coincheck wallet.