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Jan 13 (Reuters) –
Bitcoin rose on Saturday above $20,000 for first time in over two months.
Bitcoin, the world’s greatest and best-known cryptocurrency, rose 4.6% to $20,853 at 01:01 GMT on Saturday, including $922 to its earlier shut.
The cryptocurrency is up 26.4% from the 12 months’s low of $16,496 on January 1.
Ether, the coin linked to the ethereum blockchain community, rose 5.91 % to $1,536.9 on Saturday, including $85.90 to its earlier shut. (Reporting by Siddharth Jindal and Maria Ponnezhath in Bengaluru Modifying by Chris Reese and Cynthia Osterman)
