Bitcoin drops $2000 as yet ANOTHER hack attack rocks cryptocurrencies
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Bitcoin price LIVE: Bitcoin drops $2000 as yet ANOTHER hack attack rocks cryptocurrencies
BITCOIN'S price is yet to recover from a cyber attack yesterday evening on digital wallet provider BlackWallet. Over $400,000 (£290,000) of cryptocurrency Stellar Lumen after an unidentified group broke into the web-based wallet application.
By DAVID DAWKINS
PUBLISHED: 07:43, Tue, Jan 16, 2018 | UPDATED: 10:04, Tue, Jan 16, 2018
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9.59am - UPDATE - Slipping?
Bitcoin $11,503.
Ethereum $1,031.
Ripple $1.23.
Bitcoin has dropped $2,128.28 on the day so far at the time of press. Yikes.
Etheruem has lost $259.37.
Ripple may have only lost a few cents but that marks a third of its price!
9.23am - UPDATE - Let the price plunge begin
Bitcoin is down to $11,794 after hacks, revelations of price manipulations, and threats of government regulation have dominated the new year.
Remember this time last month we were all watching agasp as bitcoin's price headed towards the $19,000 peak it hit on December 19.
Ethereum $1,081.
Ripple $1.36.
Feeling down? Over in Japan a new eight-member girl pop group have emerged called Kasotsuka Shojo ('Virtual Currency Girls'). The new band dress as french maids with mexican wrestler masks over their faces and each member represents a different cryptocurrency. Obviously.
The Financial Times (who else) are reporting that Hinano Shirahama, as bitcoin, has appointed herself the band's leader, however in an early onstage tussle at the group's first ever gig, bitcoin's leadership was challenged by Rara Naruse, the representative of bitcoin cash.
The FT's guy in Tokyo reports that the song, “The Moon and Virtual Currencies and Me” opens with the lyrics, “It’s hell if you buy at a high price!”, but, “don’t underestimate the market!”.
Lot of countries banned bitcoin. It's a very bad new who invested lot of money on bitcoin.
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