Bitcoin price LIVE: $8k BTC sinking as PayPal CEO calls it a 'pump-and-dump scheme'

BITCOIN endured to fall overnight and misplaced a massive $880 from its maximum point this week. wish of a speedy recuperation to $10,000 now appears not going, and considered one of PayPal's founders has defined the era as, "a enormous pump-and-dump scheme, the likes of which the world has never seen."
Bitcoin is priced at $8,851 with Ethereum down at $629, and XRP at $0.eighty one.

bill Harris, the founding CEO of PayPal has grabbed the headlines this morning after describing all cryptocurrencies as a "rip-off".

Writing for Recode, he said: in my view, it’s a gigantic pump-and-unload scheme, the likes of which the arena has by no means visible.

"In a pump-and-sell off recreation, promoters 'pump' up the rate of a safety developing a speculative frenzy, then 'dump' some of their holdings at artificially high expenses.

"And some cryptocurrencies are pure frauds. Ernst & younger estimates that 10 percent of the cash raised for initial coin services has been stolen.

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Mr Harris claims, "It enables to remember that a bitcoin has no price in any respect."

including that "losers are sick-knowledgeable customers caught up within the spiral of greed.

"The end result is a big transfer of wealth from ordinary households to internet promoters."