Bitcoin’s going through a serious quiet spell. The world’s largest digital currency is seeing fewer major price swings and low volatility, signs that the coin may be nearing a bottom.
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The words bitcoin and boring have rarely been uttered in the same breath. But the cryptocurrency did something strange in recent weeks: it stayed relatively still.