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Steve Bannon wants in on the cryptocurrency craze.
Bannon, President Donald Trump's former chief strategist and the former head of the website Breitbart, has invested in bitcoin and is making plans to dive into the cryptocurrency markets with a group of academics at Harvard to launch a new cryptocurrency called "deplorables coin.
Here are the current crypto prices:
And today's news:
- A tiny crypto firm making 9-figure bitcoin trades is taking a page out of Goldman Sachs' playbook to become a juggernaut
- Cryptocurrency experts have slashed their year-end forecast for Bitcoin by more than 50%
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