New York — Bitcoin just notched one of its best weeks on record, surging about 40% over the seven days to Friday. Anyone expecting the notoriously volatile digital currency to take a breather at the weekend should have thought again.

It’s on Saturdays and Sundays, when most other assets barely budge, that bitcoin tends to go particularly nuts...

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