Interesting! Does this mean that Bitcoin is now less of a risk as it is less volatile?

Also, with regard to trading volumes, I assume that simply means that more people are trading it now than before?

No, I definitely don’t think of it as less risk. As an investment for your retirement I would advice against it. As an “insurance” against a financial end of the world and a fun “spice” in your portfolio, maybe. 🙂

About the volumes, I can’t say if there are more people trading or if they just trade in higher volumes.

Since I wrote #0, the price has surged another 16 percent, hitting 10,144.

Wow! Any reason for such an ongoing positive trend? Is the confidence that was once there returning?

It’s been like this since its beginning. Steep climbs and then heavy falls, but in the long run up. It may be traders pushing it, I don’t know. By the way, its up another 10 percent since #4. 11,323.

13,677 now, 21 percent up since yesterday.

I remember those highs of the Bitcoin price. I don’t remember how high it went that time though. It’s about four times as high today, less than two years later.