Bitcoin Available at Walmart 🚨

Bitcoin has slipped further from record highs. Pre-header 2: You can now buy BTC at some Walmart stores ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ [CoinMarketCap Earn]( Market Activity Total Market Cap $2.60T (-2.49%) 24 Hour Volume $123.64B (+0.88%) Notable Movers[(OKB) $27.71]( (+14.26%) Notable Movers (DeFi)[(RUNE) $10.49]( (+23.78%) Bitcoin Dominance 45.98%[(-0.85%)]( Bitcoin Price[(BTC) $63,395.78 -4.46%)]( Ethereum Price[(ETH) $4,133.91 (-2.40%)]( Cardano[(ADA) $2,19 (-4.13%)]( Fool Me Once Remember when everyone covered that fake news that Walmar was accepting Litecoin for purchase? Reuters, CNBC fell for the fake press release (along with some crypto media, not pointing fingers) — giving Litecoin a huge price boost before the illusion was shattered. One of the main reasons (with 20:20 hindsight) that the Litecoin press release was fake — in the opinions of many — is that Litecoin was such a random coin to be selected by the giant retailer. If you’re going to accept crypto, why pick anything other than Bitcoin? Today, it seems like we were right — Walmart will dip its toes into the Bitcoin pool by letting its shoppers buy Bitcoin at a whopping 200 whole Coinstar kiosks within their stores. Since (as we will detail more below) Walmart has over 4,700 stores in America — we figure that shoppers will soon be buying Bitcoin at approximately .04% of Walmart locations. Still! One small step for adoption, one bigger step for Bitcoin, am I right? SPONSORED AD Buy $100+ of Crypto, Get $50 of Bitcoin Trusted by millions of users across 200 countries. For a limited time, buy $100+ of crypto on your first purchase and get $50 of bitcoin. What are you waiting for? [Buy Crypto]( Trusted by millions of users across 200 countries. For a limited time, buy $100+ of crypto on your first purchase and get $50 of bitcoin. What are you waiting for? [Buy Crypto]( Today’s Top Stories 📰 Check out [CoinMarketCap Alexandria]( for tech deep dives, analysis, daily news and easy-to-understand guides on how crypto works! [Today’s Top Stories ]( Bitcoin's Pullback Continues 📉 Bitcoin has witnessed a further pullback from the record highs clocked earlier this week. The world’s biggest cryptocurrency retreated to lows of $62,117.41 in the early hours of Friday — a peak-to-trough fall of 7.19% from the all-time high of $66,930 on Wednesday. Although there are fears the current dip could continue into the weekend, several strategists remain confident that the latest breakout means further upside lies ahead. [What analysts say.]( Walmart Offers BTC Purchases 🎉 Walmart has made a pretty big crypto announcement — and don’t worry… it isn’t a hoax. We’ve checked. The major retailer has revealed that shoppers at some of its U.S. outlets will be able to purchase Bitcoin at 200 Coinstar kiosks. It’s fair to say that Walmart is dipping its toe into the water here — the latest figures suggest it has 4,743 stores in the U.S. alone. [Using this service is also way more expensive than an exchange.]( Hack Targets… REvil 👀 The ransomware group REvil has just got a taste of its own medicine. According to Reuters, a multi-country operation has resulted in the criminal gang being hacked and forced offline. REvil has been behind a number of high-profile attacks this year — targeting the Colonial Pipeline and causing gas shortages across a large part of the U.S. Now, the group's leaders are attempting to vanish without a trace. [Find out more here.]( FTX Gives Away $500 at New Arena 🏀 The basketball stadium used by Miami Heat has been officially renamed as the FTX Arena — and the exchange has marked the team’s opening game with a bang. All of the spectators sitting in one of the arena’s 80 sections have been given $500 each — with some estimates suggesting this PR stunt would have cost a cool $150,000. Inevitably, this caused a frenzy on social media. [Here's our story.]( Thanks for reading! Have a great day — more news tomorrow! 👋 [Read More]( [App Store]( [Google Play]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [Telegram]( © 2021 CoinMarketCap [Update Settings]( | [Unsubscribe]( [coinmarketcap.com]( CoinMarketCap OpCo LLC, 8 The Green, STE 6703, Dover, Delaware 19901, United States