In the run-up to the bitcoin halving event, bitcoin prices regained $70,000 on Thursday in the international crypto markets. The most popular crypto token traded around $70,600, rising 4.5 per cent in the past 24 hours.

Meanwhile, ethereum rose 3.4 per cent to trade at $3,552, Binance Coin rose 4.5 per cent to trade at $604, Solana spiked 6.26 per cent to trade at $174 and Dogecoin spiked 6.76 per cent to trade at $0.195, according to the CoinDesk data.

At the same time, Grayscale’s bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) shows nearly $18 million outflows on Wednesday, a record low since going live in January.

It is expected that bitcoin’s halving event, expected later this month, will raise the prices of other tokens of the bitcoin ecosystem.

or the uninitiated, halving lowers the rate at which new bitcoin coins are minted, and therefore brings the new supply down. 

As of now, the existing block reward is 6.25 BTC, which will drop to 3.125 BTC once the halving takes place.

The most recent halving took place on May 11, 2020, resulting in a 12 per cent increase in prices during the subsequent week. This month marks the fourth occurrence of such an event since 2012.