It's a good time to be a cryptocurrency investor, and by extension it's good to be an investor in cryptocurrency mining businesses.

The latest proof of that was Marathon Digital Holdings' (NASDAQ: MARA) nearly 15% pop in stock price Friday, a move sparked by an analyst price target increase but founded on continuing bullishness for anything crypto-related. By comparison, the S 500 index could only eke out a 0.6% gain that day.

The raiser was Reginald Smith of banking giant JPMorgan Chase. Before market open, Smith made an upward adjustment to his fair-value estimation of Marathon's stock. He now feels it's worth $8 per share, up from his preceding level of $7.

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Source Fool.com