Bitcoin, the world's first cryptocurrency, now has a market cap of around $1 trillion, which only took it 12 years. While tech stocks, including $Microsoft (MSFT.US)$ ,   $Apple (AAPL.US)$ ,   $Amazon (AMZN.US)$ , and   $Alphabet-A (GOOGL.US)$ , took about 33 years to surpass a $1 trillion market cap on average.
Now, Bitcoin sits around $54,000, up from $8,800 one year ago. The market has 2 distinct views on the highly volatile cryptocurrency.
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