Well-known venture investor and cryptocurrency enthusiast Tim Draper plans to meet with Facebook top managers in order to discuss the possibility of investing in the new stablecoin.

"I am interested to hear the story," Draper said in an email to Bloomberg News. "We will see if it is a fit."

The founder and head of the BKCM LLC cryptocurrency hedge fund Brian Kelly (Brian Kelly) said that behind the growth of Bitcoin are strong fundamental factors.

In the program "Fast Money" on CNBC Kelly explained why this month the price of the first cryptocurrency rose to the level of November last year. In addition, according to the founder of BKCM LLC, there is a high probability that the $ 3,200 mark will become the "bottom" of the market.

As Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire said, the cryptocurrency industry is almost ready to change the underlying truths of civil society.

Allaire stressed that the main problem lies in the trust between people and technology, including the blockchain technology. At the same time, a simple principle operates in the cryptocurrency community: "we believe in cryptocurrencies".

Winnie Lingham, general partner of Multicoin Capital and the head of Civic, believes that if the Bitcoin rate rises above $ 6.200, this will signal the beginning of a new cycle in the bull market.

"That said, if we can break $6.200 for BTC, it will likely mark the start of another major bull run and could run hot and high, but if it's pure speculation and other assets benefit disproportionately to value created, it's likely not going to end well again," Lingham said.

Chinese cryptocurrency billionaire Zhao Dong expressed the opinion that the "bearish" market is not over yet and the rate of Bitcoin will not exceed the mark of $ 6,000 for most of 2019.

Zhao Dong believes that the price of Bitcoin will be within the channel $ 4,000- $ 6,000 at least until October of this year. As for the recent rise in the price of the first cryptocurrency, the rate is still in this channel.

Throughout the existence of Bitcoin, it was repeatedly called a bubble. This was also the case in the period of super-fast growth in 2017, when many economists claimed that the bubble would pop soon.

However, according to Ran NeuNer, the host of the Crypto Trader program on CNBC, not one bubble can pop twice.

Lead Monero developer Riccardo Spagni said that Bitcoin will always have competitors, but it can become the global reserve currency.

Spagni stressed that Bitcoin will never remain the only cryptocurrency, as this contradicts the very nature of human society, where struggle and competition are inevitable.

The head of the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange, Brian Armstrong, believes that in order to take digital assets, it is necessary to reduce volatility, as well as to improve the scalability and use of coins.

According to Brian Armstrong, the strong volatility of the cryptocurrency market scares off large investors, who are used to investing in traditional financial institutions, so the industry needs more stable prices.

Well-known entrepreneur Andreas Antonopoulos said that in order to use Bitcoin in the financial sector, it is necessary to develop scenarios for its practical application.

Antonopoulos believes that one day the time will come when the first cryptocurrency will take the place of the current banking system based on fiat payments. However, for this, average consumers must understand the advantages of Bitcoin and thoroughly explore the options for using it.

Tom Lee, co-founder of the US research company Fundstrat Global Advisors, expressed the opinion that the price of Bitcoin should be at around $ 14,000.

Lee also said that the old Bitcoin whales returned to the market and began a mass buying up of the first cryptocurrency due to the changing mood in the industry.

The general director of the cryptocurrency company BCB Group said that the latest increase in the Bitcoin rate was due to the purchases of one investor who distributed $ 100 million on three major exchanges.

Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie, in a conversation with Reuters, said that the reason for the Bitcoin breakthrough above $ 5,000 was a certain investor who made deals totaling about 20,000 BTC simultaneously on the three largest exchanges - Coinbase, Kraken and Bitstamp.

As stated by the head of the White Company, Elizabeth White, it is "extremely unlikely" that cryptocurrencies will be able to surpass the traditional financial system, at least at the current stage of development.

Elizabeth White emphasized that at the moment "the volume of transactions in fiat currencies is an order of magnitude greater than the volume of cryptocurrency payments," so it's too early to talk about replacing traditional money with digital assets.

The founder and head of investment company BKCM LLC Brian Kelly said that the next goal of Bitcoin was the mark of $ 6,000.

In an interview with CNBC's "Futures Now" program, Kelly said that after yesterday's sudden jump in the first cryptocurrency rate by 17% and reaching the $ 5,000 mark, the bottom of the cryptocurrency market seems to have passed.

​The new Browser Extension "Conflict of Interest", developed by Luke Childs, will allow users to identify cryptocurrency posts on the social network Twitter, as well as evaluate the bias of the content.

The tool, developed by Luke Childs, is available as an extension for Opera, Google Chrome and Firefox browsers. The purpose of Conflict of Interest is to reveal the accuracy of the information and the motives of those who write about cryptocurrency on the social network Twitter.​

Venture investor and famous cryptocurrency enthusiast Tim Draper advised the president of Argentina to legalize Bitcoin in order to improve the economic situation in the country.

The head of the American retail giant Overstock Patrick Byrne emphasized the blockchain's potential in the economy and said that in the future the invention of this technology would be equated with the creation of the Internet.

According to Patrick Byrne, the blockchain revolution we are currently seeing will be more important for future generations than the invention of the first printing press or the creation of the Internet.

The head of the major cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX Arthur Hayes believes that the "cryptocurrency winter" is over and the course of Bitcoin this year will reach $ 10,000.

The famous "patent troll" Craig Wright has already filed 155 applications for patents in the field of blockchain and cryptocurrency.

Australian engineer and entrepreneur Craig Wright, who repeatedly presented himself as Bitcoin's anonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto, filed 155 patent applications in two years, according to The Next Web (TNW).