Bitcoin rises 9.8% to $39,035 on Sunday

Bitcoin surged 9.8 per cent to $39,035.47 on Sunday, adding $3,492.71 to its previous close.

Bitcoin, the world’s biggest and best-known cryptocurrency, is up 40.7 per cent from the year’s low of $27,734 on Jan. 4.

Ether , the coin linked to the ethereum blockchain network, surged 7 per cent to $2,532.77 on Sunday, adding $165.77 to its previous close.

Other digital coins like XRP, Litecoin also rose over 5 per cent in the last 24 hours.

Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk tweeted on Sunday that the electric carmarker will resume allowing bitcoin transactions when miners who verify transactions use more renewable energy.

“When there’s confirmation of reasonable (~50 per cent) clean energy usage by miners with positive future trend, Tesla will resume allowing Bitcoin transactions,” he said in the tweet.

A German research paper published in the academic forum Joule found that bitcoin was responsible for up to 22 megatons of CO2 emissions annually – which is the same level of pollution coming from Jordan and Sri Lanka combined in an entire year.