Bitcoin tops $40,000 for the first time since June

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After dipping under $30,000 last week, Bitcoin rebounded and briefly surpassed $40,000 for the first time since June on Monday.

For the past couple of months, Bitcoin has been trading between $30,000 to just under $40,000. After hovering around this mark for the better part of June and July, speculators wondered whether the cryptocurrency was still dipping after correcting from its all-time high of $64,800 back on April 14, 2021. 

Bitcoin hitting 40K before dipping back down. 

At about 3 p.m. EDT Monday, the price of Bitcoin was at one point up as much as roughly 17% over the past 24 hours at $40,539. That also marked a 27% increase over the last week when prices bottomed out at around $29,500, according to Coindesk. 

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