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  • further retreating from record highs.

  • Bitcoin slumped 10 per cent on Thursday to attend a low.

  • The world's most popular crypto currency has lost nearly a quarter since touching a record $42,000 on January the eighth.

  • The pullback comes amid growing concerns that Bitcoin is one of a number of financial market price bubbles.

  • Traders also said that fears US President Joe Biden's administration could attempt to regulate crypto currencies have weighed on sentiment.

  • During a Senate hearing on Tuesday, Janet Yellen Biden's picked ahead the U.

  • S Treasury expressed concerns that crypto currencies could be used to finance illegal activities, she said.

  • I think we need to examine ways in which we can curtail their use and make sure that money laundering does not occur through these channels.

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Bitcoin drops 10% as pullback continues

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    林宜悉 posted on 2021/01/21
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  • Effort made to try to do or accomplish something
  • verb
  • To try to do something challenging or difficult

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  • A system for sending something quickly.
  • Fast train or bus
  • A train, bus, or other vehicle that travels rapidly with few or no stops.
  • adjective
  • Clearly and explicitly stated; not merely implied.
  • Traveling or able to travel at high speed.
  • Sent by a fast mail service
  • Moving or operating rapidly and directly.
  • Traveling at high speed
  • verb
  • To send something by fast mail
  • To state or show what you think or how you feel
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  • To show (a feeling, thought, etc.) by words or actions.
  • To convey thoughts or feelings in words or by gestures and conduct.
  • To send (something) speedily to a destination.

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financial

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  • Relating to accounting or financial records.
  • Relating to the management of money and other assets by businesses or organizations.
  • Relating to companies that manage money.
  • Relating to the economy.
  • Relating to investments.
  • Relating to money or finance.
  • Relating to money or the management of money.
  • Relating to the planning and management of finances.
  • Relating to finance or money.
  • Relating to money, investments, or the management of funds.
  • Relating to the reporting of a company's financial performance.
  • Relating to the provision of funds or resources.
  • noun
  • A person who provides advice on financial matters.
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  • Money provided to support a person or activity.

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currency

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  • Widespread acceptance
  • Money system that a country uses
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  • The state of being commonly known or accepted
  • A system of money in digital form
  • The money used in a particular country
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  • The state of being commonly known or accepted
  • The quality of being up-to-date
  • The money that is used in a particular country or area

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  • To come into one's mind.
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  • To be found to exist or appear in a particular place or situation.
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  • To take place; to happen.

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  • To control something with rules or laws
  • To set/adjust (a clock, etc.); restrict motion in

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administration

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  • The work of running something, e.g. a business
  • People managing a business, government etc.
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  • The act of giving or applying something
  • The management of an estate
  • The process or activity of running a business, organization, etc.
  • The process or activity of running a business, organization, etc.
  • The act of giving medicine or treatment
  • The office or function of a person or group in authority
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  • The people responsible for managing an organization

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examine

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  • To inspect (someone or something) in detail to determine their nature or condition.
  • To inspect (someone or something) in detail to determine their nature or condition; investigate thoroughly.
  • To question (someone) formally in a court of law or other official context.
  • verb
  • (Medical) to test to find out what is wrong
  • To test your knowledge or ability
  • To ask questions; to look closely at something

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record

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  • A collection of facts about a particular person or thing.
  • Highest or most extreme level achieved
  • Round plastic disc on which music has been stored
  • A vinyl disk storing recorded sound
  • The best performance ever achieved in a particular sport or activity.
  • A written account of past events
  • A collection of related data elements
  • Official documents or information
  • History of a person's past actions or achievements
  • A thin disc of vinyl on which sound has been recorded.
  • verb
  • To indicate a temperature, speed, etc.; register
  • To write down or say what happened
  • To put music, sounds onto a device to store it
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  • To convert sound or images into permanent form
  • To set down in writing or some other permanent form for later reference

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retreat

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  • Act of a force moving back from a winning enemy
  • A place away from home and work to relax
  • Movement slowly backward, like floods of water
  • A change away from a previous opinion or belief
  • Act of going away from something difficult
  • verb
  • (Of army, etc.) to move back from a winning enemy
  • To go away from home and work for a vacation
  • To move slowly backward, like floods of water
  • To stop arguing for a particular opinion or belief
  • To go away from something difficult/dangerous

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