Bitcoin surges over 25% as shorts get squeezed and Washington leans into crypto

Bitcoin has broken a months-long downtrend, climbing more than twenty-five percent to surpass seventy-nine thousand five hundred dollars on Friday. Euronews reports the surge was driven by a wave of short covering, a liquidity push from the U.S. Treasury, and a new embrace of the crypto industry by the White House.

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