A single bitcoin












BTCUSD, +0.10%










 was last valued at $8,287.42, up 1.3% since Wednesday at 5 p.m. Eastern Time on the Krakan cryptocurrency exchange.
“To our thinking, this was the single most surprising response of the whole survey,” wrote Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research.
Ether












ETHUSD, -0.43%










the second-largest digital currency, is up 1.7% at $483.57, Bitcoin Cash












BCHUSD, -0.77%










added 2%, trading at $853.10, Litecoin












LTCUSD, -1.11%










was trading unchanged at $87.44 and Ripple’s XRP coin












XRPUSD, -1.11%










was last trading at 47 cents, up a slight 0.3%.
The Cboe Global Markets contract for August












XBTQ8, +0.99%










was up 1.9% at $8,275 and the CME July contract












BTCN8, +0.74%










is up 1.5% at $8,265.
Read: Positive ‘price drift’ suggests bitcoin has room to move higher

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