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Illuminated application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) mining devices and power units in a rack inside a disused shipping container at the BitCluster cryptocurrency mining farm in Norilsk, Russia, on Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020. Norilsk may soon be famous for a different type of mining — it now hosts the Arctic's first crypto farm for producing new Bitcoins.Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg

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By Ksenia Galouchko

January 19, 2021 at 11:18 AM UTC

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For the first time since 2017, Bank of America Corp. clients with $561 billion combined say Bitcoin is the world’s most crowded trade as speculative euphoria hits Wall Street.

Investors surveyed by the investment bank this month see signs that long positions in the largest digital currency are reaching unprecedented levels, while retail traders and institutional names join the crypto boom.