Leading cryptocurrencies edged higher Thursday as risk-taking investors continued to cheer the Federal Reserve’s bold half-point interest rate cut. Cryptocurrency Gains +/- Price (Recorded at 9:45 p.m.

The stock market is on fire on Thursday and that has extended to cryptocurrencies as well. Over the past 24 hours, the value of Bitcoin ( BTC 5.43%) jumped 6.5% at 1 p.m. ET to $63,700, Ethereum ( ETH 6.40%) is up 7.6% to $2,470, and Dogecoin ( DOGE 4.93%) is up 6.3% to $0.1068.

Bitcoin surpasses $63,500 on Thursday The price of Bitcoin (COIN:BTCUSD) is up 3.3% to $63,705 at the time of writing, following the rise in stocks and gold, driven by the 0.5% interest rate cut by the Fed.