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Bitcoin slides to $65,000 in weekend sell-off, with solana, XRP, dogecoin down 6%

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Bitcoin slides to $65,000 in weekend sell-off, with solana, XRP, dogecoin down 6%

The pullback erased most of Wednesday’s push toward $70,000 as hot producer-price data and a post-earnings Nvidia decline dragged risk assets lower heading into the weekend.

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