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Cryptocurrency has been on a wild ride since $7,000 in value just last week. >> that's an extreme short-term price swing for any currency. bitcoin is digital money bought, sold and kept in so-called wallets online. it's encrypted so you can buy and use it anonymously. >> the traditional markets are taking renewed interest in it and bitcoin's value has exploded. just take a look at how its dollar value has shot up. it started at less than $800 in january before topping $17,000. this week and some of those traditional markets are hoping to cash in on the big business of bitcoin by opening there ...

>> yes, they have circuit breakers. it is the biggest one-day point drop in history. it was unbelievable. however, in 1987 we had a bigger percentage drop. this was not 1987. this is something we're still investigating. we have not -- we have had like you call them the fat finger error, human error in the past. right now all of the futures exchanges and stock exchanges, they don't know what went wrong. >> it's like terminator, the machines have taken over. >> they trade a lot of stocks fast. >> christine romans, "minding your business." one thing weighing on traders' minds, the new jobs report...