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Bitcoin Turns Boring as Speculative Frenzy Fades Into Apathy

Photographer: Christinne Muschi/Bloomberg
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The words Bitcoin and boring have rarely been uttered in the same breath.

But after a dizzying rally, a gut-wrenching crash and near-constant ups and downs over the past two years, the cryptocurrency did something strange in recent weeks: it stayed relatively still.