Bitcoin is nearing all-time highs in price and market cap last set three years ago.

We have, in order, Cheese Bank with a $3.3 million theft, Akropolis with its $2 million loss, Value DeFi with a whopping $6 million exploit and finally Origin Protocol's loss of $7 million.

Japan's three largest banks, as part of a group of 30 private sector actors, are set to collaborate on an experiment with a digital yen.

Sam Trabucco, a quantitative trader at Alameda Research, believes four general factors are pushing up the price of Bitcoin.