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Bitcoin-rivals bitcoin cash and bitcoin SV, both of which are offshoots of the original bitcoin, have suddenly soaredwith bitcoin SV now double where it started the year.

The bitcoin price has climbed on the back of the broader crypto rally, adding 5% over the last 25-hour trading period to hit a fresh high for 2020. Bitcoin cash, which split from bitcoin in 2017 in a so-called hard fork, has climbed around 7%.

Bitcoin SV, which in turn broke away from bitcoin cash in 2018 and is controlled by the controversial Australian computer scientist Craig Wright, has rocketed higher following reports Wright has acquired documents that might help prove he had a hand in bitcoin's creation a little over 10 years ago.

The price of bitcoin forks bitcoin SV and bitcoin cash failed to perform as well as bitcoin last ... [+] year but they have both started 2020 strongly.

Bitcoin SV has been climbing for the last month after struggling for most of 2019 and over the last few weeks has leaped sharply higheradding a staggering 80% in just the last week.

Wright, who has repeatedly claimed to be the mysterious creator of bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, is locked in a long-running U.S. legal dispute with Ira Kleiman who is suing for half of a 1.1 million bitcoin hoard, worth almost $9 billion.

Wright scored a minor victory in court last week when a judge ruled facts previously established in the Florida trial were now in dispute and granted Wright three weeks to unlock the so-called Tulip Trust that contains many of the first bitcoin ever created.

Wright claims the trust is currently inaccessible because several keys are held by an unnamed intermediary but now has until February 3 to find them.

However, U.S. judge Beth Bloom has expressed doubts that the documents will eventually appear.

"Given the defendants many inconsistencies and misstatements, the court questions whether it is remotely plausible that the mysterious bonded courier is going to arrive, yet alone that he will arrive in January 2020 as the defendant now contends," judge Bloom wrote in a court order dated January 10.

Bitcoin SV's supporters hope that this latest development in the complex story will mean Wright is accepted as bitcoin's creator and, with control of more than 1 million bitcoin, is able to steer the market towards his bitcoin SV.

The bitcoin SV price has added a whopping 110% over the last month, climbing above the psychological ... [+] $200 per token mark.

Meanwhile, the bitcoin and cryptocurrency market remains upbeat heading into 2020despite some dire warnings.

Yesterday, long-awaited exchange-traded bitcoin options launched on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, allowing traders to make more sophisticated bets on the future price of bitcoin.

Elsewhere, bitcoin's hash rate last week hit a fresh all-time high while some have speculated digital assets have begun to act as so-called safe havens.

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