The exchange rate of bitcoin for the first time exceeded $7000, breaking below the next psychologically important level.

It happened just a month after the cryptocurrency for the first time crossed the mark of $5000. The steady growth of bitcoin in the last days associated with speculation on the fact that cryptocurrencies may become the most popular financial asset after the largest North American operator of financial derivatives CME Group said it will begin trading futures contracts on the bitcoin this year. Last month, CEO of JPMorgan Chase James Dimon said that bitcoin is a fraud, to which his Bank will never have any relationship.