The popularity of digital currencies or more commonly known as bitcoins is skyrocketing. This is characterized by the continuing rise in bitcoin prices over time.

Last week, the value of this digital currency again increased to US $ 5,700. This is the highest record ever recorded by Bitcoin sepangkang history.

Due to the popularity of digital currency in the midst of an increasing price certainly makes the market players more alert. Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Christine Lagarde said, now is the time for market participants to be careful and consider this more serious.

"I think soon we will see a big change," Lagarde said quoted by CNBC on Monday (16/10/2017)

However, Lagarde also reminded that the use of digital currency is not always bad. For this reason, market participants must be really careful in seeing this change. There are wider implications in the world of technology.

"I think we should not categorize anything related to digital currencies in negative speculation, like a ponzi scheme, it's much more than that," he explained.

"What we see, this currency can make us use technology that is more efficient and cheaper," he continued.

For information, rising prices from Bitcoin is due to the Fork plan to be performed by Bitcoin Gold and SegWit2x at the end of October 2017. Fork itself is a term used when a network of digital currencies (cryptocurrency) will be split into several entities. Someone who already has some digital currency, will get a new digital currency with the same amount.

For example for a Fork that will be Bitcoin Gold, if you currently have a thousand Bitcoin, then you will also get a thousand Bitcoin Gold after the Fork is complete. The value of the new digital currency itself can not be predicted. However, many investors are hoping to take advantage of this process.

This has led to many other digital currency owners, such as OmiseGo and NEO, who then sell their assets to buy bitcoins. This also increases the percentage of Bitcoin ownership when compared to other digital currencies, from only 48.8 percent to 53.2 percent.