Bitcoin cash skyrockets 80%, breaks above $4,000

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Bitcoin cash skyrocketed 80 percent to break above $4,000 on Wednesday after the leading cryptocurrency exchange said it would begin trading in the bitcoin offshoot.

Bitcoin cash traded at $4,329.52 on Coinbase as of 12:12 p.m. ET time.

Coinbase said traders would be able to buy and sell the digital currency ” once there is sufficient liquidity” on the GDAX exchange, which is owned by Coinbase.

Bitcoin cash was created on August 1, when Hong Kong-based digital currency exchange Bitfinex said a group of bitcoin miners would be “forking” from the main bitcoin to create a new version that trades faster and easier.

The new digital currency has had a staggering run higher ever since its split off, rising more than 880 percent in that time period.

Bitcoin cash since its inception

Source: Coinbase

The original bitcoin, meanwhile, fell more than 9 percent on Wednesday to $16,680, according to Coinbase.

—CNBC’s Evelyn Cheng and Reuters contributed to this report.

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