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How Might New Tariffs Affect Bitcoin?

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) fell by 5.4% on April 3 as the Trump administration's newly announced tariff policies were digested by the market. Now, with economic uncertainty sky-high and investors looking for havens from the turmoil, it's an open question whether the tariffs might deal severe harm to the cryptocurrency sector -- or if crypto might just end up getting dragged down along with everything else. The first thing that investors need to realize -- if they don't already -- is that Bitcoin is not something that's commonly used as a medium for processing international trade payments.