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Bitcoin prices drop 30 percent since last week's record high, now trading at under $14,000

South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service said on Tuesday it does not consider bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to be currencies of any kind.

Bitcoin falls by more than 10 percent, on a one-week low of $15,800 at the cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp

Bitcoin has since pared some of the losses and last traded at $16,939, down 4.3 percent for the day.

After rallying high in the cryptocurrency market, Bitcoin tumbles to 20 percent in ten hours

As bitcoin slumped, other cryptocurrencies climbed. Ethereum the second-biggest, was up almost 6 percent by 1320 GMT.

As the Bitcoin touches a record $16,000, here are a few things to know about the volatile currency

Despite many attempts to find the creator of bitcoin, and a number of claims, we still do not know who Satoshi Nakamoto is, or was.

Bitcoin dips below $11,000 after recording a high of $11,800 on 3 December

On 4 December, bitcoin had slipped back to around $10,919, down 2 percent on the day but still up more than 100 percent over the past three weeks.

Bitcoin gets past $10,000 mark, soars to an-time high of $10,234 in some exchanges

Bitcoin has soared more than 900 percent so far this year, posting the largest gain of all asset classes, amid increased institutional demand for crypto-currencies

Bitcoin recovers more than $1,000 after losing one-third of its value in less than four days

Bitcoin tumbled in the second half of last week, falling as low as $5,555 on the Luxembourg-based Bitstamp exchange on Sunday.

Bitcoin surges to a new record high of more than $6,000

On Friday, bitcoin hit a record peak $6,000.10 BTC=BTSP on the BitStamp platform, and was last at $5,964.24, up 4.7 percent on the day.

Chinese bitcoin exchange BTCChina will stop all trading from 30 September onwards

Regulators have cracked down on the industry amid concerns that Chinese investors are speculatively piling into cryptocurrencies.

'Bitcoin Cash' off to a slow start due to lackluster support for its network

Bitcoin's split has created a new competitor to the original digital currency, which remains the oldest and most valuable in circulation.