Crypto Market Mischief Follows Week of Rising Regulator Scrutiny
By Vildana Hajric No financial market wants scammers breaching the walls. But now is a particularly bad time for cryptocurrencies to be showing vulnerability to mischief. A significant spike in Litecoin followed quickly-debunked headlines that Walmart Inc., the world’s largest retailer, had agreed to accept the cryptocurrency as a payment mechanism at its stores.[…]