bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were rising thursday alongside stocks with investors continuing to eye federal reserve chairman jerome powell’s speech friday at the jackson hole economic conference as a catalyst likely to swing digital assets the price of bitcoin has risen 2 over the past 24 hours to 21700 bitcoin was well above its recent bottom of 20800 which came following a plunge late last week that sent the largest crypto tumbling down from above 24000 that was bitcoin’s highest level since a dramatic selloff in midjune dragged the token down from 30000 which is still less than half its alltime high near 69000 reached in november 2021