Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, the price of Bitcoin Sores, but is it for real?

Walmart wants to let you shop with your voice.

And recent Horowitz shakes up VC again,

and a scathing look at YouTube's algorithm problems. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

So maybe there was some April foolery of consequence yesterday after all. The price of

Bitcoin hit its highest level in five months yesterday returning above the

$5,000 a coin mark in a frenzy of trading that took place all within the space of about an hour.

Bitcoin soared as much as 20% in overnight or during the day trading, at least if you're in Asia it then settled to around

four thousand seven hundred dollars but that still put the cryptocurrency up 15% to

make it the biggest one-day gain since April of last year.

Etheorems ether, Ripples XRP, the second and third largest coins by market cap,

also jumped 10%, but they do tend to move in sympathy with Bitcoin's price fluctuations.

Was there any news in crypto that could have sparked this surge? No, there wasn't. And as I said, the trading was frantic. Six

million trades executed in about an hour, or three or four times the usual amount of

trading. So traders are pointing the finger at some mystery buyer quoting Reuters.

Olivier von Landsberg Sadie, chief executive of London-based

cryptocurrency firm BCB Group, said,

the move was likely triggered by an algorithmic order

worth about $100 million spread across major exchanges.

U.S. based coin coin base, and Kraken, and Luxembourg-based bit stamp.

Quote, there has been a single order that has been algorithmically managed

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