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[^2] During the reported trading session, Bitcoin's price rose above $77,500. [^3] Bitcoin's pseudonymous nature makes it challenging to analyze user-level activity because a single user may control multiple identifiers known as addresses. [^4]\n\nThe authors propose a method for refining heuristic-obtained clusters by grounding the clustering on contrastive embeddings yielded by graph neural networks. [^5] At Bitcoin's current price near $78,824, the traced coins carry a value of roughly $433.5 million. [^6] The recovered 61 BTC are now worth about $4.81 million. [^7]\n\nAll major cryptocurrencies advanced during the reported trading session. [^8] Global investors were carrying the lowest currency hedges on U.S. assets since 2015 at the time of the report. [^9] Current heuristic-based methods are prone to errors such as merging different users together. [^10]\n\nThe researchers release a publicly available dataset of Bitcoin transaction graphs containing a substantial number of clusters. [^11] The cryptocurrency market's weekly performance was negative for the week that includes the reported trading session. 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