Coinbase the Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin exchange had a stock offering and raised $100 million with a $1.6 billion valuation. Coinbase exchanges about $25 billion worth of cryptocurrency.

The Bitcoin market cap is around $65 billion, with the entire cryptocurrency ecosystem now being worth $140 billion.

The South China Morning Post reports that some are putting their money into bitcoin because of the tensions with North Korea.

There is also a lot of innovation with ICOs. Initial coin offerings to fund companies outside of regular stock exchanges.

Here are the latest charts of bitcoin and ethereum.

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