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Market Wrap Year-End Review: Bitcoin Peaks as Coinbase Goes Public

Tesla’s bitcoin acceptance helped to send the BTC price to an all-time high near $65,000 in April, almost unthinkable just a few months earlier. Coinbase’s direct stock listing marked the exact date of the market top.

The peak of the bitcoin market in April 2021 perfectly coincided with the elevated hype surrounding the Coinbase direct stock listing. (William Henry Jackson/Art Institute of Chicago, modified by CoinDesk)
The peak of the bitcoin market in April 2021 perfectly coincided with the elevated hype surrounding the Coinbase direct stock listing. (William Henry Jackson/Art Institute of Chicago, modified by CoinDesk)