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Bitcoin rises above $80,000 for first time

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                                Physical representations of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency are seen in this illustration, in October 2023. Bitcoin was trading near record $80,000 today after hitting it earlier in the session, following Donald Trump’s decisive victory in the U.S. presidential election earlier in the week.

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Physical representations of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency are seen in this illustration, in October 2023. Bitcoin was trading near record $80,000 today after hitting it earlier in the session, following Donald Trump’s decisive victory in the U.S. presidential election earlier in the week.

Bitcoin was trading near record $80,000 today after hitting it earlier in the session, following Donald Trump’s decisive victory in the U.S. presidential election earlier in the week.

Bitcoin, the world’s biggest and best-known cryptocurrency, is up 65.4% from the year’s low of $38,505 it hit on Jan. 23.

Trump has vowed to make the United States “the crypto capital of the planet.”

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