(Bloomberg) -- Bitcoin is closing in on $80,000 for the first time, boosted by President-elect Donald Trump’s embrace of digital assets and the prospect of a Congress featuring pro-crypto lawmakers. The cryptocurrency climbed as much as 4.3% to an ...

Bitcoin set another all-time high Friday amid continued optimism about the election of Donald Trump and a potentially more crypto-friendly Congress.

Bitcoin reached $77,000 for the first time in history. Experts speculated that if the newly elected US President Donald Trump wins, the price of the cryptocurrency could rise, according to Binance. The first cryptocurrency reacted positively to Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election and began breaking its all-time highs on election

The billionaire Tesla CEO is in a stronger position to influence development of federal rules that would put more of the fully self-driving cars on the road.

Trump, who once dismissed the digital token as a 'scam', now wants to make the US 'the bitcoin superpower of the world'.