Cryptocurrencies are trending lower Tuesday morning and the leading cryptocurrency Bitcoin has returned below $6,500.
Overall cryptocurrency market capitalization shrunk nearly $20 billion over the past 24 hours and was $254.35 billion around 9.48 am ET.
Market sentiment was hurt after a popular crypto wallet for Ether called MyEtherWallet warned users that the Hola chrome extension has been hacked, compromising user activity data.
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