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Bitcoin breached the $23,000 threshold for the first time since early August, before dipping late Sunday. Ethereum, too, was up over the weekend, trading at $1,640. Overall, both crypto and traditional markets are looking optimistically at the evidence of waning inflation and an unlikely steep recession.
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