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Bitcoin Price Soars 15% to $7.2K But Breaking $8K Won’t Be Easy

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Time Stamp: April 2, 2020 1:43 PM - Modified On: August 29, 2021 - Published By:
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Bitcoin (BTC) is trading at $7,106 representing an impressive 14.7% gain in the last 24 hours and 6.8% for today. Other global markets are also up off the back of President Trump’s comments around the likelihood that crude oil production will be cut back, which is one of the triggers which caused Bitcoin to slide from $9K to $8K in early March.Looking at performance relative to its peers, Ether (ETH) and XRP both continue to underperform versus Bitcoin as was the case last week. Bitcoin dominance remains at 66%. Cryptocurrency market

Crypto to the Rescue After Khan Academy’s COVID-19 Traffic Surge

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Time Stamp: April 1, 2020 7:54 PM - Modified On: August 29, 2021 - Published By:
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The founder of education platform Khan Academy has put out an urgent call for donations following a 250% surge in users due to the coronavirus crisis.CEO Sal Khan asked users to donate fiat — or they can donate Basic Attention Tokens (BAT) via their Brave browsers — to help the platform stay open during the pandemic.Khan said the surge was due to record numbers of students forced to stay home during lockdowns and social distancing requirements. A billion schoolkids are staying home because of COVID-19Khan Academy is a non-profit organization that