Bitcoin Moves Above $99,000 After Billion-Dollar ETF Inflow Day -- WSJ

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By Vicky Ge Huang

Bitcoin is closing in on the $100,000 milestone Friday after investors poured more than $1 billion of new money into exchange-traded funds tracking the cryptocurrency.

The largest digital currency by market value recently traded at $99,244 as of midday Friday, up 2% from its level 24 hours ago, according to the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index.

The 11 bitcoin ETFs saw a little over $1 billion in net inflows Thursday, the highest so far this week according to J.P. Morgan estimates and Bloomberg data out Friday morning. BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust led the pack with $608 million in inflows.

The funds' total trading volumes surpassed $7 billion on Thursday, nearly three times as high as the running daily average of $2.5 billion since they launched in January, J.P. Morgan analyst Kenneth Worthington said in a Friday research note.

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