It looks like the U.S. authorities are finally taking bitcoin and its peers seriously.

Simon Peters, an eToro crypto analyst, said of bitcoin’s 5 percent increase to over $10,400. The increase happened just after the Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said “Every major central bank is currently taking a deep look” at cryptocurrency options. Bitcoin has increased 44 percent since the beginning of 2020. (Business Insider — February 12, 2020