The world's largest payment system Visa was constantly opposed to Bitcoin from the very first steps of the Cryptocurrency. First, this, of course, concerned turnover and throughput of the network. By these parameters, Bitcoin is hopelessly losing. However, he was able to strike (albeit formal) on the other side. Since the beginning of December, the Bitcoin rate has been growing rapidly: only for one day on December 6 the price increased by 2 thousand dollars, and for December 7 - by 3 thousand (excluding peaks on individual exchanges, where there was an increase and $ 5,000 during the day)! On some Korean exchanges, the price in terms of the official won rate reached 20 thousand dollars!

The suppression of the activities of an organized criminal group by Bulgarian law enforcement agencies in May led to the seizure of more than 200,000 Bitcoins - more than $ 3 billion at today's prices. According to a press release from the Center for the Rule of Law of South Eastern Europe (SELEC) of May 19, a regional organization consisting of 12 member states, including Bulgaria seized 213,519 BTC.

London financial expert, CEO of NEX Group, Michael Spencer, was among those financiers who consider Bitcoin a bubble. Nevertheless, he believes that the price of Bitcoin will reach $ 20,000, and only after that, it will sharply go down. In an interview with Guy Johnson on Bloomberg TV in London, Spencer said he had no idea if the Bitcoin price would double before it halved, but noted that the $ 20,000 level could be reached "damn fast." Johnson called the growth of Bitcoin, which exceeded the $ 11,000 mark last Wednesday, "irrational."

Despite the expectations of the "collapse of the bubble," which is intensified due to the fact that Bitcoin with whistling passes all the new frontiers, every new level is given to it more easily and almost without serious corrections. On the morning of December 6, another price level of $ 12,000 was passed, at which the price did not stop and moved on, approaching $ 12,500, and the GDAX exchange went up to $ 12,540.

Western Union (WU), which is one of the largest operators of international transfers, launched a campaign against remittances involving cryptocurrency exchanges. The decision, which also complies with the Company's internal regulations, is an attempt to impede the provision of services and transactions related to cryptocurrencies. At Reddit in early December, a post appeared, the author of which asserts that the company advised the Kraken crypto exchange to not process transactions related to digital currencies, as this contradicts its internal rules.

Yicai Global reports that Pan Gongsheng, Vice Chairman of the People's Bank of China (PBoC), speaking at the annual event dedicated to financial literature organized by China Business News and JPMorgan Chase, said that the regulator made the right decisions about restrictions on the country's Cryptocurrency market and the prohibition of ICO.

Last Friday, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission of the United States (CFTC) announced that it allows two exchanges from Chicago - CME and CBOE - to launch Bitcoin futures. The CBOE Chicago Option Exchange decided to outperform the CME and release futures first. The company said that the auction will be launched on December 10, what is 8 days earlier than CME, which announced the launch of cryptocurrency derivatives on December 18.

The British government plans to impose strict rules on Cryptocurrency, in particular Bitcoin, to combat fraud, tax evasion and money laundering.The UK Treasury will regulate the use of the Cryptocurrency, as a result of which it falls under the law on combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism.

As expected, Bitcoin quickly played his position and even set a new high at $ 11,845. This was promoted as official news that the US regulator allowed the exchanges to sell futures and options for Bitcoin, as well as rumors that NASDAQ is also going to launch Bitcoin futures next year. Later this rumor was disproved, but managed to manifest its influence. Now Bitcoin continues to bargain at the borders of the new border of 12 000 dollars, and most likely with the beginning of the week it will pass this level. At least there are no weighty reasons that could prevent this. Capitalization of Bitcoin closely approached the mark of 200 billion dollars, and the total capitalization of Cryptocurrencies exceeded $ 350 billion.

In most countries of the world, people are allowed to buy and sell Bitcoins and other crypto-currencies for profit from investments. However, as we have seen in countries such as Bangladesh, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nepal, the sudden prohibition of Bitcoin may be around the corner and very quickly become a problem for active traders. This in itself gives sufficient grounds for the crypto-investors to pay more attention to confidentiality and anonymity when trading and making transactions with cryptocurrencies.