And a bitcoin is now worth $1,843

Unit of Bitcoin passed dollar value of one troy ounce of gold this year

With a 94 per cent year-to-date gain, and a single “coin” now worth $1,843, bitcoin has been on a helluva run lately.
 
The increase in the cost of the massively-volatile electronic tokens has led to many comparisons with that other favourite outsider “currency’’ — gold — recently.
 
True, a unit of Bitcoin passed the dollar value of one troy ounce of gold this year, and is now more than $600 higher.
 
But the daily swings in the digitally created asset have been vast. Even during the huge run up this year, it has moved more than five