Here's Why MoneyGram Adoption Can Boost Litecoin Price 10x
Source: Adobe/Sergey A decision by the peer-to-peer payments company MoneyGram to allow users in the US to buy, sell and hold litecoin (LTC) and other cryptocurrencies could push the litecoin price up by more than 10x, some believe. The news that MoneyGram will offer litecoin to its users broke on Wednesday this week, when the payments company called cryptocurrencies “additive to everything we're doing at MoneyGram,” and said users in nearly all US states will now be able to trade them. In addition to litecoin, MoneyGram users will also get access to trade and hold bitcoin (BTC) and ethereum (ETH). But since litecoin has a much smaller market capitalization than the two other cryptocurrencies, the news led to a much bigger market reaction for LTC. In response to the news, the price of LTC pumped in the market as trading volume surged for the coin. Within 1 hour of the news breaking, LTC was up more than 10% to just over $61. As of press time on Thursda...