{"id":52434,"date":"2021-11-06T10:44:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T08:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=52434"},"modified":"2025-09-03T10:12:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:12:43","slug":"bitcoin-cash-rises-5-on-fake-kroger-collaboration-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bitcoin-cash-rises-5-on-fake-kroger-collaboration-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Cash rises 5% on fake Kroger collaboration news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 5, an item on Kroger&#8217;s investor website announced adding Bitcoin Cash as a payment option. The press release turned out to be fake.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ICYMI: This morning a press release was fraudulently issued claiming to be The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Kroger?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Kroger<\/a> Co. that falsely stated the organization will begin to accept Bitcoin Cash. This communication was fraudulent and is unfounded and should be disregarded.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kroger News (@KrogerNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KrogerNews\/status\/1456647441223147523?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The company refuted the information, calling the message &#8216;fraudulent&#8217; and &#8216;baseless&#8217; and urged readers to disregard it.<\/p>\n<p>The press release stated that the chain would begin accepting Bitcoin Cash from December 1, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The CNBC correspondent Dominic Chu also published a screenshot of the message on Kroger&#8217;s investor site.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is like <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DeepFake?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DeepFake<\/a> quality stuff <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24KR&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$KR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mtC2s9687j\">pic.twitter.com\/mtC2s9687j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dominic Chu (@TheDomino) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDomino\/status\/1456590398747463685?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Following the news, Bitcoin Cash rose 5%, to $632. As of writing, the token was trading around $598.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-11-06-v-10.15.05-1024x640.png\" alt=\"Price of Bitcoin Cash rose 5% on fake Kroger collaboration news\" class=\"wp-image-155296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-11-06-v-10.15.05-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-11-06-v-10.15.05-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-11-06-v-10.15.05-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-11-06-v-10.15.05-1536x960.png 1536w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-11-06-v-10.15.05-2048x1280.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Chart BCH\/USDT on Binance. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/ru.tradingview.com\/symbols\/BCHUSDT\/\">TradingView<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier the largest American cinema chain AMC <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/amc-to-add-ethereum-litecoin-and-bitcoin-cash-support-alongside-bitcoin\">announced the addition of Bitcoin Cash<\/a> and other cryptocurrencies as a payment option for tickets by the end of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in September, Litecoin <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/walmart-denies-partnership-with-the-litecoin-foundation\">surged by more than 35%<\/a> on a fake report of a Walmart\u2013Litecoin Foundation collaboration, and then likewise collapsed after denials by the companies.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 crypto news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 5, an item on Kroger&#8217;s investor website announced adding Bitcoin Cash as a payment option. The press release turned out to be fake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[754,1209],"class_list":["post-52434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin-cash","tag-fake-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52436,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52434\/revisions\/52436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}