Aug 9, 2022

Bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) were trading lower Tuesday as investors and analysts focused on the upcoming Ethereum merge and awaited the release of U.S. consumer price data on Wednesday. BTC may be decoupling from traditional markets amid optimism stemming from Ethereum’s impending merge.

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