- ASX down 0.19% at 6666.30.
- Bitcoin millionaire 2 guesses away from losing fortune.
- DarkMarket taken down, Australian man arrested.
The Australian market has slightly dipped at open today, down 0.19% at 6666.30 points, weighed down by tech stocks and consumer staples.
Altium has plummeted more than 5.3% in morning trade while Xero and Afterpay both shed around 1.5% each.
Bitcoin continues to trade around US$33,000 this morning. A Bitcoin millionaire is two incorrect guesses from losing his fortune after forgetting the password to an account worth about US$245M. He was paid in the cryptocurrency in 2011 when it was worth just a few dollars.
In tech news, authorities have taken down the world?s largest dark web marketplace, DarkMarket. An Australian man believed to be the operator of the illegal site has been arrested by German law enforcement, while 20 servers that host the site have been seized.
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