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'Omicron' The Cryptocurrency Rides New Variant Rollercoaster
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ndtv.comA cryptocurrency by the name of Omicron has entered the market
As global markets fell last week on news of the new Omicron coronavirus variant, one cryptocurrency with the same name soared after the Greek letter entered the investor lexicon.
The price of the hitherto-obscure digital token, whose Twitter feed has little more than 1,000 followers, rose almost ten-fold from Friday to Monday morning when it hit $688, before tumbling as much as 75 per cent, crypto tracker CoinGecko said.
Omicron the token, which its website describes as "a decentralized treasury-backed currency protocol," was trading at about $371 at 1435 GMT.
On Thursday it was worth about $65.The World Health Organization, which on Friday named the new COVID-19 variant Omicron,
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