BTC climbed above $36,000 for the primary time in round 18 months throughout Asian buying and selling hours on Thursday, and the bullish momentum fed by way of to U.S. publicly-traded companies with crypto publicity, such because the Coinbase (COIN) change, software program developer MicroStrategy (MSTR) – which owns a lot of bitcoin, buying and selling platform Robinhood (HOOD) and mining companies Marathon Digital (MARA) and Riot Blockchain (RIOT).