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Bitcoin price crosses $50,000 first time since May 15

| @indiablooms | Aug 23, 2021, at 03:19 pm

Moscow/UNI/Sputnik: 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.

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