Bitcoin price news: Bitcoin prices CRASH after latest hack - What is the price of BTC?

The cryptocurrency market, particularly bitcoin, is suffering heavily this morning, with almost $17 billion being wiped clean off the market in 24 hours.

BTC has dropped 6.54 percent today to trade at $6,291.80 as of 3pm today.

The market is seeing significant losses as well, losing much of the gains made over the last few days.

Ethereum is trading 10.90 percent down at $475.65, with Ripple trading for $0.502136. Litecoin is down to $87.56.

Several widespread hacks have seen investors selling off their coins to keep their money safe, with exchanges cracking down and money laundering schemes.

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STEEM 0.16
TRX 0.16
JST 0.029
BTC 68458.56
ETH 2443.43
USDT 1.00
SBD 2.59