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Wall Street Still Loves Bitcoin Even if Fever Is Cooling

Morgan Stanley rolls out its first Bitcoin fund.
The Bitcoin logo on a cushion displayed at a Bithumb exchange office in Seoul, South Korea.Photographer: Jean Chung/Bloomberg
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A lot of the speculative heat has come out of cryptocurrencies, as evidenced by the 40% plunge in Bitcoin from its October peak. That’s done nothing to deter Wall Street’s product machine.