Bitcoin advocates say this time will be different as the virtual coin surges back to price levels last seen in the wake of the collapse of the cryptocurrency market bubble almost three years ago. The largest cryptocurrency has jumped about 30% this month and topped $13,852 -- the high from June 2019 -- on Wednesday. It’s now at levels not seen since January 2018, when it was on the way down just weeks after climbing to an all-time high of about $20,000. Bitcoin later dropped to as low as $3,136 in December 2018. Proponents of digital assets say the recent rally isn’t another speculative frenzy among individual ... (full story)