Bitcoin briefly flips Google market cap as investors eye rally above $124K

Bitcoin briefly flipped Google parent Alphabet’s $2.4 trillion market capitalization to become the fifth-largest global asset, driving a wave of optimism among investors.

Bitcoin climbed to an all-time high above $124,000 on Thursday, stoking fresh optimism that the next leg of price discovery could push the cryptocurrency’s market value toward Apple’s $3.4 trillion.

Bitcoin (BTC) hit an all-time high of $124,457, leading the world’s first cryptocurrency to briefly surpass Google’s $2.45 trillion market capitalization, becoming the fifth-largest global asset.

“Bitcoin all-time high and it’s only Wednesday,” said Gemini co-founder Tyler Winklevoss in an X post, triggering a wave of optimistic responses, including from popular investor Kyle Chassé, who predicted that this would be the “best week for Bitcoin.”

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