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Bicoin price tops $500 as China fears subside: It had been rumoured for a couple of weeks that People’s Bank of China had issued a deadline for all banks in the country to cut-off bitcoin exchanges. The 15th April deadline came and went and it was business as usual, at least for BTC China. The price of bitcoin rose back up past $500 mid-week following this news.

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