| 📈 30 Second Cryptocurrency Price Summary | Current Bitcoin Price: $19,119 | Bitcoin price is ranging around the $19,000 as the wider market anxiously awaits the latest inflation data for September. | Top-20 altcoins are also travelling somewhat sideaways, with Ethereum moving less than 1%, BNB dropping just 1% and Cardano the largest mover with a fall of 2%. | Top Stories for October 12, 2022 🔥 | | Bitcoin payments company CoinCorner is looking to install NFC card readers across El Salvador, to enable tap-to-pay payments via the Lightning Network. | The system would use the new "Bolt Card", which was launched today, in an effort to reduce the pain points associated with regular BTC payments in the country. | The Lightning Network is a layer-2 scaling solution for Bitcoin, allowing for quick and cheap payments with BTC – the opposite of what the base network currently provides. | | Meta Platforms has partnered with Microsoft to integrate Microsoft Office 365 products into Meta's virtual reality. | It was announced yesterday that "Teams" video calling would integrate with Meta's "Quest" and "Quest Pro" virtual reality headsets, allowing people to have virtual board room meetings. | Other popular applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook will also be available within Meta's virtual reality. | | Solana decentralized finance (DeFi) derivatives platform Mango has suffered an exploit that resulted in the loss of more than $116 million, following the intentional manipulation of the MNGO token. | The attacker was able to take a position on the MNGO-PERP contract, inflated the price of their position on other exchanges, and then borrowed funds against the position which they then withdrew from the platform. |
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