By Jemima Kelly
LONDON (Reuters) - Bitcoin rocketed to another record high close of $16,000 on the Luxembourg-based Bitstamp exchange on Thursday after gaining more than $4,000 in just 48 hours, stoking concerns that a rapidly swelling bubble could be set to burst.
There were huge disparities between prices across different exchanges. On GDAX, one of the biggest, the price reached $19,500.
Here are some facts that you might not know about the largest and best-known cryptocurrency.
(Reporting by Jemima Kelly; editing by Mark Heinrich)
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