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This Week in Coins: Bitcoin Starts Week Strong But Drops Hard Amid Wall Street Panic

It didn't take long for things to go pear-shaped. Bitcoin was closing in on its all-time high again on Monday after briefly touching $70,000 per coin on America's biggest crypto exchange, Coinbase. But by Friday, it had dipped so, so low: Bitcoin has over the week dropped by more than 9% to $61,358—dipping as low as $60,704—according to CoinGecko. The reason was in part down to a weak jobs report that sparked fears that the U.S. economy could be sliding into a recession, causing a Wall Street se...

Object Sighted Over City in Brazil Riles Up UFO Fans

A bizarre aerial phenomenon captured on video over Curitiba, Brazil is the latest to capture the attention of “ufologists,” people who track sightings of unidentified flying objects as evidence of alien visitors. A pair of videos uploaded to YouTube shows a triangular object hovering in the sky above the southern Brazilian city from different angles. The first, shot by Zona Desconhecida, has garnered over 31,000 views since it was uploaded on July 21. As the camera zooms in, the object appears t...