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Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 22 Aug 2021, 10:20 pm Print
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Moscow: The price of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency was going up over 2.5 percent in the early hours of Monday, briefly surpassing the $50,000 mark.
Data from the Binance cryptocurrency exchange showed that Bitcoin was trading up 2.5 percent and was at over $50,000 at 02:42 GMT on Monday.
Meanwhile, the CoinMarketCap portal showed that Bitcoin’s value was going up 2.33 percent, to $49,915.
At the start of August, the price of Bitcoin was on the rise, hitting the highest level since mid-May at over $44,000 on August 8.
(With UNI/Sputnik inputs)
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