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Most major cryptocurrencies are deep in the red Wednesday, with bitcoin down 7% while ethereum and Ripple's XRP are down more than 10%.
Here are the current crypto prices:
In the news:
- The Winklevoss twins are teaming up with Nasdaq to sniff out bad actors on their cryptocurrency exchange
- Amazon's cloud business is using this weird 1976 'Saturday Night Live' skit to explain its new blockchain product
- John Pfeiffer predicts bitcoin will hit $700,000, he told Sohn Conference attendees this week its the first viable replacement for gold
- Chinese police seized 600 bitcoin mining computers
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