CRYPTO INSIDER: Bitcoin traders might have found a 'golden opportunity'

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A potential "golden opportunity" has opened up for cryptocurrency arbitrage traders thanks to big differences in bitcoin's price between South Korean and other exchanges, sometimes as large as 13%.

Here's the scoreboard:

• Bitcoin (BTC): $9,946 (-4.88%)
• Ethereum (ETH): $$805 (-4.10%)
• Ripple (XRP): $0.88 (-7.34%)
• Bitcoin cash (BCC): $1,196 (-6.83%)
• Litecoin (LTC): $192 (-8.23%)

In the news:

• Bitcoin fell below $10,000 on Thursday for the fourth time in 2018
• Riot Blockchain's CEO is pushing back against critics and trying to convince the world his company is serious about crypto
• Coinbase is finally supporting new tech that could fix bitcoin's slowness problem
• A 21-year-old just raised $34 million to build an anonymous crypto-trading platform
• A bitcoin exchange founder was arrested for allegedly lying to financial watchdogs

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