Only a paper moon: Bitcoin price briefly shows $870B on CoinMarketCap
A mysterious glitch caused popular coins to show astronomical gains on CoinMarketCap, Coinbase, among others. Crypto traders experienced a moment of joy, followed by confusion, when a glitch caused several data aggregators to briefly display enormous gains for Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and other cryptocurrencies.CoinMarketCap and several other price indexes showed Bitcoin’s price closing to $900 billion as ETH showed over $81 billion. The momentary glitch also impacted Cointelegraph’s price indexes. Hey @CoinMarketCap, you doing ok there buddy? pic.twitter.com/WfXwpSmURU— Cointelegraph....
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