The price of Bitcoin (BTC) has broken through $45,000 for the first time in nearly two years as the market prepares for a widely expected approval of a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) within the next few days. 

Bitcoin climbed rapidly from a price of $42,000 on Jan. 1, surging more than 6% in the last 24 hours and 170% in the last year, per CoinMarketCap data. 

Bitcoin is trading higher than any price reached in 2023 and marks a significant new yearly high for the asset just two days into 2024. 

Bitcoin’s price performance comes as the market gears up for the SEC to approve one or several of the 14 outstanding applications for a spot Bitcoin ETF product, currently pending a decision with the regulator. 

The last time Bitcoin traded above $45,000 was nearly 20 months ago on April 5, 2022, when Bitcoin closed the day at $45,241 before descending into an enduring bear market that saw Bitcoin fall as low as $15,600, per TradingView data. 

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Market commentators remain divided over the potential impact an ETF approval will have on the price of Bitcoin in the short term. 

Analysts from crypto options trading platform Greeks.live claim that Bitcoin won’t experience a significant rally on the day of an approval, d

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Author: Tom Mitchelhill

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