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It was not immediately clear if the news release was actually authentic.
- Interestingly enough, the sites that picked up the story failed to notice that the impostor credited the press release to Walmart-corpCom, which isn’t related to Walmart in any way.
- This triggered a marketwide reaction, and most cryptocurrencies pumped tremendously in a matter of minutes. Bitcoin touched $47K, and Litecoin – the hero in the fake story touched $240.
- In aggregate, the entire market added a whopping $80 billion in a matter of minutes.
- Moments later, though, speculations ran rampant that the story is fake,, and it didn’t take long for LTC to plunge.
- The price plunged to $175, and it currently trades around that level. This had the entire market lose about $100 billion in the minutes after.
- It didn’t take long for CNBC and other media outlets to confirm that the story was fake.
- A Walmart spokesperson confirmed that the press release wasn’t authentic.
