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Bitcoin surpasses USD 62,000 first time since April

George Town, Oct 18 (UNI/Sputnik) The bitcoin exchange rate stood at above USD 62,000 on Monday morning for the first time since April, according to trading data.
Data from the largest cryptocurrency exchange in terms of trading volume, Binance, showed that bitcoin gained 1.6 percent to USD 62,080, as of 04:27 GMT, only 4.5 percent less than the record high of USD 64,850, which it reached in April. On Sunday evening, its price was nearing the USD 63,000 threshold.
The CoinMarketCap portal, which calculates the average price for more than 20 exchanges, displayed Bitcoin's value gaining 1.6 percent to USD 62,060.
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