Stocks finished in the green on Thursday as bitcoin topped $16,000 for the first time after a wild 48-hour surge that saw fortunes made and exchanges crash. Some Wall Street banks are walking away from the volatile cryptocurrency despite a new futures market set to launch this weekend.
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Stocks finished up Thursday while bitcoin trading volumes almost caught the amount of money traded on the New York Stock Exchange in an average today.
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