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Fortune
Ben Weiss

Bitcoin hits all-time high before diving 5% amid fears of inflation

A man tries to pull a coin with the Bitcoin logo back up a mountain. (Credit: Illustration by Fortune)

Bitcoin boomed—and then tumbled. The world’s largest cryptocurrency hit another all-time high Wednesday evening, surging past $124,100, according to data from Binance. But, since notching a new record, the token has dropped 5% and now hovers below $118,000.

Ethereum, the world’s second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, is also hovering near all-time highs but is down 4% over the past 24 hours at about $4,500, per Binance. Still, the token’s price has soared over the past month to increase by almost 50%.

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