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Bitcoin falls back below $40,000 as it wraps up wild week of trading

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A Bitcoin sign is seen at the entrance of a cryptocurrency exchange office on April 16, 2021 in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Bitcoin’s price fell back below $40,000 level on Friday after Chinese authorities intensified calls to crackdown on mining and trading the cryptocurrency.

The digital coin was last down about 9% at a price of $36,575.97 by 2:30 p.m. ET, according to Coin Metrics data, on pace for its worst week since March 13. It bounced above the $42,000 mark on Thursday as digital currencies attempted to rebound from a big sell-off earlier in the week.

Other cryptocurrencies were in the red Friday, with ether last down 14.2% at $2,403.03, XRP off by 14.7% at $1.01 and litecoin falling 15.4% to $178.14. Dogecoin, a meme-inspired crypto supported by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, was down 12.9% at 35 cents.

Bitcoin’s gains were capped Friday after the U.S. Treasury Department said a day earlier that it would require any cryptocurrency transfer worth $10,000 or more to be reported to the IRS.

“Cryptocurrency already poses a significant detection problem by facilitating illegal activity broadly including tax evasion,” the Treasury said.

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