Bitcoin soared above the 11-thousand U.S. dollar-mark on Monday,... the leading cryptocurrency's highest price in 15 months.<br />CNBC reports that the surge comes as Facebook recently announced plans to launch it own cryptocurrency called Libra in 2020.<br />The price for one Bitcoin hit a record of over 19-thousand dollars in late 2017,... but plummeted to around 3-thousand dollars over the course of 2018 and into the beginning of 2019.<br />Bitcoin has soared a whopping 170 percent this year, and the price of its closest competitor Ethereum has also jumped more than doubled in 2019.<br />
