Bitcoin blasts past $10,000 mark. Hours later the price tops $11,000 and keeps powering higher. The meteoric rise gets a shrug from investors, and stays within range of its peak valuation past the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. The main price-drivers are new main-street investors: Bitcoin adoption has skyrocketed among average Joes in Japan and Korea over the past several months, the Times’ Nathaniel Popper finds. Around 100,000 new accounts open on Coinbase, the leading bitcoin exchange, within days of Thanksgiving holiday.