Bitcoin, the biggest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, has spiked to a two-week excessive of $17,010 on the Bitstamp alternate. 

The biggest cryptocurrency by market capitalization has almost 4% during the last 24 hours. 

The latest value uptick got here on the cusp of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s much-anticipated speech that’s going to happen this Wednesday at the Brookings Establishment, an American analysis group that was based again in 1916.  

The market will probably be searching for clues concerning the central financial institution’s future financial coverage. Over the previous few weeks, a number of Fed officers have indicated that the central financial institution might hike the benchmark rate of interest by 50 foundation factors.

The Fed’s aggressive financial coverage is taken into account to be the primary motive behind the collapse of cryptocurrency costs this week. Different danger property additionally took a extreme hit this 12 months, with rates of interest surging to the very best degree since 2008. 

Earlier this month, the Fed accredited the fourth 75-basis-point hike in a row.