CRYPTO INSIDER: Bitcoin crawls toward $10,000 - again

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Bitcoin is slowly crawling towards $10,000 on Thursday for the first time in just over two weeks.

Here are the current prices for other coins:

What else is happening:

• Charlie Munger, the 94-year-old vice chairman of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, called bitcoin "noxious poison," saying "the more popular it got, the more [he] hated it."
• JPMorgan argued that cryptos face a major hurdle even if they become widely accepted as money.
• Llew Claasen, the executive director of the Bitcoin Foundation, forecast that the cryptocurrency will go to $40,000.
• Meet the richest people in bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, who are worth more than $17 billion combined.
• In South Korea, one bitcoin costs $26,000 to mine. In Venezuela, it's just $530, CNBC reports.
• Hackers reportedly stole $50 million in cryptocurrency using "poison" Google ads, Fortune reports.

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