A Bitcoin sign is seen at the entrance of a cryptocurrency exchange office on April 16, 2021 in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Bitcoin’s price fell back below the $40,000 level on Friday after Chinese authorities intensified calls to crackdown on mining and trading the cryptocurrency.
The digital coin was last down 10.7% at a price of $35,891.2 by 4:05 p.m. ET, according to Coin Metrics data, on pace for its worst week since March 13. It bounced above the $42,000 mark on Thursday as digital currencies attempted to rebound from a big sell-off earlier in the week.
Other cryptocurrencies were in the red Friday, with ether last down 16.9% at $2,328.91, XRP off by 17.1% at 98 cents and litecoin falling 18% to $172.8. Dogecoin, a meme-inspired crypto supported by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, was down 15% at 34 cents.
Bitcoin’s gains were capped Friday after the U.S. Treasury Department said a day earlier that it would require any cryptocurrency transfer worth $10,000 or more to be reported to the IRS.
“Cryptocurrency already poses a significant detection problem by facilitating illegal activity broadly including tax evasion,” the Treasury said.
