Bitcoin Price: Stability in Bitcoin Exchange Rate at last
Bitcoin is unusually stable. Bitcoin has been dancing around the $450 mark for the past month or so. Markets are asking questions about where the value is going as well as asking why the price is showing such a level of stability. Bitcoin is a volatile currency and evidence of growing stability has to be viewed positively, especially in light of the hardening of stance this week from the PBOC. The cryptocurrency is now in a place where external factors are causing fewer and fewer unexpected changes to the bitcoin price. We are, as a community, seeing the Bitcoin price gain stability and....
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