- Bitcoin soared to a new all-time high Tuesday above $8,300 per coin.
- The coin recovered losses it incurred after a different cryptocurrency announced a $30.9 million hack.
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Bitcoin soars to new high above $8,300 after $30 million crypto hack
Bitcoin soared to a new all-time high Tuesday above $8,300 per coin.
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Bitcoin's upward climbed continued unabated Tuesday morning.
The cryptocurrency blew past Monday's record high of $8,285 to $8,368 Tuesday morning, trading up 1.24%. It gave up some of those gains and was trading at $8,289 just before noon ET.
The coin was sent in a tailspin after news broke that cryptocurrency firm, Tether, was hacked.
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Tether, which created a cryptocurrency called USDT that is pegged to the dollar, said in a blog post on Tuesday that "funds were improperly removed from the Tether treasury wallet through malicious action by an external attacker."
The company said $30,950,010 was taken Sunday.
Th news dragged the price of bitcoin down by nearly $450 early Tuesday, according to CoinDesk data.
This post has been updated from its original version.
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