Bitcoin Gains on Report Peter Thiel Makes Bet on Cryptocurrency

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Bitcoin is getting a boost from a reportBloomberg Terminal that billionaire Peter Thiel is making a big bet on cryptocurrency.

Founders Fund, the venture-capital firm co-founded by Thiel, has amassed hundreds of millions of dollars of bitcoin, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter.