Bitcoin down, other cryptocurrencies mixed early Tuesday morning
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The price of Bitcoin was lower by more than 1% Tuesday morning as other major cryptocurrencies were mixed.
The price was around $49,740 per coin, while rivals Ethereum and Dogecoin were trading around $3,338 (+0.07%) and 31.5 cents (-3.23%) per coin, respectively, according to Coindesk.
In cryptocurrency news early Tuesday, a high-severity security issue in the code of Ethereum’s most popular software client, Geth, was released earlier in the day, Coindesk reported.
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Details of the fixes weren’t disclosed "to give node operators and dependent downstream projects time to update their nodes and software," according to a posting on the release page.
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