Bitcoin News in Review: Price Drops, Apple Pay, Peercoin, and More

Bitcoin News in Review: Price Drops, Apple Pay, Peercoin, and More

Welcome back to another Bitcoin News in Review, where we feature some of the biggest stories of the week here on CryptoCoins News. This week, we saw a substantial drop in the bitcoin price, saw Walmart and Best Buy reject Apple Pay, saw a surge in the Peercoin price, and more. Check out this Bitcoin News in Review after the break. Bitcoin Price Drop. At the time of this writing, one bitcoin is worth $402, and was in the $300's earlier this week. What could have caused this large price drop? One theory is that Alibaba's U. S. IPO caused the crash. While it's impossible to know for sure....


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