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Bitcoin rises above $80,000 for first time - REUTERS
Nov 10 (Reuters) - Bitcoin was trading near record $80,000 on Sunday after hitting it earlier in the session, following Donald Trump's decisive victory in the U.S. presidential election earlier in the week.
Bitcoin, the world's biggest and best-known cryptocurrency, is up 65.4% from the year's low of $38,505 it hit on Jan. 23.
Trump has vowed to make the United States "the crypto capital of the planet".
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Reporting by Shivani Tanna in Bengaluru Editing by Tomasz Janowski
