In the 18 days since the peak, the daily closing price had movement of 12% on average in either direction, with the high of 36% gain on April 17th, from $68.36 to $93.07. The price has been driven by high volume, with average trade volume of 208,236 BTC over the course of the past 18 days, compare to 63,205 BTC over a 18 day period from two months ago.

 

Bitcoin became headline news about two weeks ago when the surge in price took the world by storm, if Bitcoin was not a mainstream currency before then, it has certain hit the radar of the casual investors by now.