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Also, if the gamer deposits point five Bitcoin in a casino that offers a two hundred percent match, they will receive a reward of one BTC. This will leave them with one point five BTC to gamble with. Some casinos will have the offer set at a specific BTC amount. The reward given is not affected by the amount of BTC the gamer deposits into their account. This offer can only be claimed by new gamblers.\nSome of the gambling destinations that have lucrative bitcoin welcome offers include:\n•\tBitcoin Casino – one hundred and fifty percent match of up to one BTC\n•\tMbit Casino – two hundred percent match of up to point zero Bitcoin\n•\tBit Casino – One hundred and fifteen match promo of up to one Bitcoin\n•\t7Bit Casino – One hundred percent match promo that can go as high as point seven five Bitcoin. 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GDAX’s 24 hour volume was $539,393,000.\n\nThe average price on the surveyed exchanges, as weighed by volume, was $8,746.83.\nVolatility was nearly average, with the BlockTribune Volatility Index coming in at 50.6. A higher number indicates greater price volatility with 50 describing an average day.\n\nLightning Network Reaches 1000 Mainnet Channels\n•\thttps://www.techtimes.news/lightning-network-reaches-1000-mainnet-payment-channels/\n\nEarlier this week, the number of open LN payment channels reached 1,000 for the first time. This marked yet another historic checkpoint for the development and adoption of this nascent technology, which many developers could be one of several long-term solutions to Bitcoin’s network congestion, which has reduced the most prominent cryptocurrency’s utility for small-value transactions and led many companies — including payment processor Stripe — to abandon support for Bitcoin payments.\n\nAlthough Lightning Network software is still firmly in the alpha testing phase, enthusiastic users have nevertheless begun setting up LN nodes on the Bitcoin mainnet and opening payment channels with one another. As of the time of writing, there were already 419 nodes running LN software on the mainnet, up from fewer than 30 on Jan. 17.\n\nFor reference, Bitcoin Cash — the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market cap — has 1,171 active nodes (excluding duplicate and non-listening clients), less than three times more that of the alpha-stage LN.\n\nBitcoin Still Good to Go\n•\thttps://www.techtimes.news/cryptos-positive-story-remains-intact-wall-street-strategist-undeterred-by-bitcoin-price-decline/\n\n“It has been a terrible few weeks but the fundamental positive story for crypto remains intact,” CNBC cites him as saying in the report, distributed late Thursday night just hours after the Bitcoin price declined below $8,000 for the first time since November.\n\nHe told clients not to panic, reminding them that throughout Bitcoin’s history, sell-offs have been generally been followed by significant rallies within a relatively short period of time. Based on this data, he said that it is worth the risk for investors to add to their positions, even if the market continues to decline.\n\n“Past sell-offs were followed by rallies of ~150% within 84 days,” Lee said. “In other words, we think the risk/reward at these levels warrants adding here, even if there is additional downside.”\n\nOther large-cap coins, meanwhile, have a similarly-bullish future. He forecast that Ethereum, which is currently trading at $943, should more than double to $1,900 by the end of the year, while NEO and Ethereum Classic could reach $250 and $60, respectively.\n\nBitcoin Arbitrage Over\n•\thttps://btcmanager.com/bitcoin-arbitrage-markets-evaporating-2017-versus-2018/\n\nThe fastest decline in crypto prices have taken place in South Korea. Which is actually fairly surprising as they are finally allowed to begin trading as of January 31. However, this is likely the dip that occurs prior to all major bull rallies, finalizing our bear raid for the prior month. With prices in South Korea for BTC and other cryptocurrencies falling at a rate even greater than when compared to international markets. Bitcoin used to trade at a 51 percent premium on Korean exchanges. However, the most recent crash has sent prices of BTC along with altcoins back in line with those of international markets across the world. This was the first time prices have been similar across the different world markets for BTC. South Koreans have grown accustomed to paying a premium for BTC.\n\nArbitrage exists where there is the most turmoil. South Korea is no longer having turmoil regarding their exchanges, so the arbitrage opportunity disappeared. When South Korea was worried about banning crypto entirely the highest Kimchi Premium existed. This was not coincidental. When Zimbabwe had a major uprising in 2017 the price of bitcoin was 50 percent higher on local exchanges and within the country than on international markets. When individuals stop trusting their governments the value of cryptocurrency skyrockets. Currently, the populations of the world have faith in governments that if they were people, would not be given loans at a bank. Yet, because they are governments in trillions of dollars in debt, other governments and banks continue to provide liquidity.\n\n\nIndian Crypto Ban FUD\n•\thttp://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/bitcoin-price-value-latest-india-ban-trading-south-korea-regulation-us-uk-rules-a8191566.html\n\n“The government does not consider cryptocurrencies legal tender or coin and will take all measures to eliminate use of these cryptoassets in financing illegitimate activities or as part of the payment system,” Mr Jaitley told parliament in his annual budget speech.\n\nThe ambiguous statement was reported in a range of media as a suggestion that India could ban the use of cryptocurrencies because they were illegal. But it seems that in fact Mr Jaitley was only suggesting the country would look to ban the use of cryptocurrency for illegal activity, at least according to major digital currency companies in India.\n\nNew regulations are expected to arrive after the G20 meeting in March, when many of the world's most powerful finance ministers meet. France, Germany and other countries have suggested they'll bring new proposals to that discussion, and attempt to institute them at an international level.\n\n\nIN OTHER NEWS\n\nLunyr Launches Open Beta\n•\thttps://news.bitcoin.com/pr-lunyr-blockchain-based-knowledge-sharing-platform-launches-open-beta/\n\n“In the early stages, Lunyr will serve as the go-to resource for reliable, easy-to-read and unbiased information about current and upcoming crypto projects. Once we grow a solid community of readers, we will aim to expand into other domains of knowledge including but not limited to innovative, bleeding edge topics in Finance, Law, Investment, Science, and Technology.”\n\nAfter the Open Beta, Lunyr articles will begin showing up in search engines globally including Google, Baidu, Bing, and Yahoo. Lunyr is currently developing multiple language support (Chinese, Korean, Japanese, German, Russian, etc.) to achieve its goal of becoming a global censorship-resistant, decentralized knowledge base.\n\n\n\n\nRussian Free Crypto Zone\n•\thttps://sputniknews.com/business/201802021061311417-blockchain-russians-free-crypto-zone/\n\nThe idea to launch the FreeZone project, which is essentially focused on creating a limit-free territory for a wealth of cryptocurrency operations, first occurred to entrepreneur Evgeny Mukhin back in June 2017, and just a month later, the legal entity was registered, according to the white paper, published on the company’s official website.\n\n\"Nikolay [Nikolay Batalin, President, co-founder] and I had an idea to launch an ICO campaign to raise funds for creating a financial infrastructure in the cryptomarket (bank, payment system, universal trading platform, and investment bank). We conducted a lot of research, scrupulously examined different countries’ legislation, talked to international lawyers but we failed to find a country where we could legally host an ICO campaign with no risks. At that point an idea occurred to us to build the first ever free crypto economic zone with unique conditions for block chain development and launching cryptoprojects.\"\n\nThe FreeZone is currently negotiating with 12 countries, rapidly progressing in the field. Mukhin said they are set to sign a free crypto zone agreement with one of these any time soon. \n\nThe company board has projected an investment return of 147% in 2019-2020, and by 2022 the FreeZone token’s value is expected to grow 80-fold.\n\nNSA Infiltrated Crypto Channels?\n•\thttps://www.investopedia.com/news/did-nsa-infiltrate-cryptocurrencies-0/\n\nRecent news that the National Security Administration (NSA) may have successfully launched investigations into \"Tor, I2P, and VPN,\" with an additional pending request for projects focused on cryptocurrencies, is likely to go over poorly with the cryptocurrency community.\n\nA photograph posted on the popular 4chan message board appears to show a memo from the U.S. Army Cyber Protection Brigade, dated August 21, 2017, according to bitcoin.com. The document suggests the U.S. Army teamed up with the NSA to conduct investigations into Tor, I2P, and VPN, three tools used to encrypt and obfuscate everything from data to the location of users.\n\nA grainy photo of the alleged letter was shared on 4chan, fueling speculation and conspiracy theories online.\n\n\n\n\nWhat’s Up with Parity?\n•\thttp://blocktribune.com/parity-technologies-still-seeks-answers-160-million-eth-lock/\n\nParity Technologies, the developer of multi-sig wallets for bitcoin and ethereum, is still seeking  a solution to recover frozen ethers accidentally locked-up last year.\n\nPolkadot raised $150 million in an ICO last year and is currently having to deal with $98 million-worth of its ether funds being locked up. Web3 Foundation spokesperson Ashley Tyson said in a report that due to the lock-up, plans to deploy bounties designed to fix code weaknesses and grant programs to spur development have been scrapped. She admitted that, at best, plans had to be “massively scaled back.”\n\nPhilippine SEC Crypto Regulations\n•\thttps://news.bitcoin.com/106900-2/\n\nCommissioner Aquino stated that The Philippines has sought to keep “an open mind” regarding cryptocurrencies and distributed ledger technology (DLT), alluding to the potential reduction in fees that virtual currency adoption could offer the approximately 10 million Philippine workers living abroad who are estimated to remit nearly $25 billion USD home each year.\n\nCommissioner Aquino indicated that The Philippines’ SEC is engaging with U.S. and Australian counterparts to develop the regulations. The commissioner has emphasized the protection of investors being the principal mandate of the SEC, stating “We want to come up with our own set of regulations. You have to be extra careful how investors in this new space are protected.”\n\nAlthough the commissioner conceded that the legislation is currently in the “drafting stage,” he expressed his expectation that the regulatory framework will be developed “within the year.”\n\nEthereum Price Predictions 2018\n•\thttp://www.ibtimes.com/ethereum-2018-price-predictions-experts-forecast-ether-q1-value-2648606\n\nIn a survey of more than one dozen finance experts conducted by International Business Times from Jan. 25-30 the average Ethereum price prediction for the first quarter of 2018 placed the cryptocurrency’s expected value at about $1,500.\nThe most bullish estimate is 200% growth.\nThe most bearish estimate was roughly a 90% drop.\n\n6 Use Cases for Request Network\n•\thttp://tkcryptos.com/request-network-6-use-cases-request-network/\n\nUse case 1 : Invoicing and Online payments with the Request Network\nUse case 2: Automation of jobs: Accounting, Audit, Expenses\nUse case 3: Business logic and trade Laws: Government Tax\nUse case 4: Simplification of commercial tools: Factoring, Escrow\nUse case 5 : Transparency of institutions.\nUse case 6: IOT and Smart Contracts.\n\nAeterinity Updates\n•\thttps://blog.aeternity.com/state-of-development-week-of-jan-22nd-2018-debc063093f4\n\nWe began implementing our Naming System, which we plan to include in one of our upcoming releases. You can read about it here: https://github.com/aeternity/protocol/blob/master/AENS.md\n\nWe began work on our Governance specification: https://github.com/aeternity/protocol/blob/gov/GOVERNANCE.md The specification is currently work in progress and you are welcome to leave your comments in the corresponding pull request: https://github.com/aeternity/protocol/pull/20\n\nWe continue to make great progress on our smart contracts language. Our plan is to be able to compile our first contract in next few weeks.\n\nStreamr – Building the World’s Leading Data Marketplace\n•\thttps://blog.streamr.com/2018/02/how-we-plan-to-build-the-worlds-leading-data-marketplace-in-2018/\n\nThere are four pieces of technology that Streamr is built upon. The first two – the Engine and Editor – are fully operational. The Engine is there to refine real-time information and automate actions around its use. The Editor is a visual programming tool to help make it easier to take that data and turn it into something even more interesting. These two components currently run on a centralised version of the Streamr Network.\n\nThe Marketplace and the decentralised Network are what’s still to come. We’re going to be talking about the Network in March at an event in London. It’s here that we’ll showcase what it will take to go from our current cloud-based infrastructure to a decentralised version as mapped out in our whitepaper.\n\nWell, there’s little point building a marketplace that functions on a technical level if there aren’t buyers and sellers to populate it. That’s what our COO, Risto Karjalainen, is currently working on. We’ve been at invitation-only meetings such as SAP’s IoT accelerator event in Berlin over the last month, and privately, all C level members of the Streamr team have been meeting with dozens of companies large and small. What most of these companies want from us now is more in-depth technical help in order to create functioning demos and use cases. This takes resources such as devs and people with experience in forging partnerships. We recognised this need a few months ago, which is why we started hiring and looking of ways to expand. Of course, onboarding can slow project development as current team members spend their time training new staff. However, we may have found a neat solution. As I mentioned in Transmission #3, we should have more news on that in several weeks from now.",
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      "body": "DAILY TL;DR W/ CHESLINK\nJANUARY 29TH – FEBRUARY 2ND \nJanuary 31st\n\n1.\tBTC NEWS\n2.\tIN OTHER NEWS\n\nMARKETCAP ANALYSIS\nRecap from 11/20\nMarket Cap: $243,311,416,536\n24h Vol: $7,403,167,283\nBTC Dominance: 56.2%\n\nAs of 12/31\nMarket Cap: $592,941,301,681 \n24h Vol: $33,207,433,786 \nBTC Dominance: 38.0%\n\nAs of 1/8 \nMarket Cap: $743,509,110,252 \n24h Vol: $49,897,768,988 \nBTC Dominance: 34.2%\n\nAs of 1/15 \nMarket Cap: $644,874,662,903\n24h Vol: $38,996,461,258\nBTC Dominance: 34.4%\n\nAs of 1/22\nMarket Cap: $508,289,748,517\n24h Vol: $30,645,248,592\nBTC Dominance: 35.0%\n\nAs of 1/24\nMarket Cap: $537,183,052,350\n24h Vol: $28,587,095,263\nBTC Dominance: 34.5% \n\nAs of 1/29\nMarket Cap: $569,531,115,703\n24h Vol: $21,957,402,021\nBTC Dominance: 33.4% \tAs of 1/31\nMarket Cap: $508,132,588,040\n24h Vol: $26,999,399,577\nBTC Dominance: 33.5%\n\n\nBTC NEWS\n\nLightning Network Flushing Out Nicely\n•\thttps://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7u809l/ln_test_network_is_flushing_out_nicely_almost/\n/u/thieflar\nThere is really not much need to fear hub-and-spoke topology of upper layers, anyway. I expect some hubs to naturally develop, when particular service providers offer consistently spectacular service to end-users and attract widespread demand as a result. And this is not a bad thing.\n\nOne of the reasons why Lightning Network is such an attractive solution is because it allows Bitcoin, the layer beneath it, to remain maximally decentralized. It itself can centralize somewhat without having much of a negative impact on the protocol; the plan has always been to build the quick, easy, user-friendly, flexible stuff on top of the rock-solid base layer beneath. We can admit centralization (or other stuff like fraud-protection through payment reversibility, or Turing complete expressivity) into the second (or third, or fourth) layers, experimenting with the various models, until we have a fully fleshed out infrastructure supporting all manner of use cases while keeping our foundations as secure and sound as possible.\n\nAnyone who tries to whine about Lightning Network being \"too centralized\" is inadvertently admitting that they haven't gotten it yet. Bitcoin is the foundation, it's the layer we want to be simple, pure, efficient, decentralized, and minimal, while the fancy or \"trade-offy\" stuff is hosted on top of it.\n\n/u/gp2b5go59c\nIf you want to support the decentralization of the Lightning network, please use/test LND's autopilot feature it connects you to fairly well connected nodes and also avoids the hubs. While those hubs don't actually control anything it, the only concrete thing we can do to help the network is to build a more robust network that has a better connectivity (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectivity_%28graph_theory%29 for actual definition) and require less hops between any pair of nodes. It is a fact that the more those hubs are used, the more hops there will be between the farthest nodes in the network.\n\nTo get an idea go to https://lnmainnet.gaben.win/ , change the option to Viva (fixed) and start moving the HUBs outside of the center, you will notice that they already have an important % of the edges (channels) of the network.\n\n\nPineapple Fund Donates $1 million to FSF\n•\thttps://www.cryptocurrencyfreak.com/2018/01/30/free-software-foundation-receives-1-million-btc-pineapple-fund/\n\nScore one for the good guys. The Free Software Foundation has received a donation in Bitcoin that totals $1 Million USD from the Pineapple Fund.\n\nThe Free Software Foundation states their mission as the following:\nThe Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom. We defend the rights of all software users.\n\nWe’ve discussed the Pineapple Fund before, but for a quick summary: The organization was started in December by an anonymous donor who goes by the nickname “Pine” and claims to be among the 250 largest holders of Bitcoin in the world. The fund aims to give away $86 million worth of Bitcoin, and has already given $20 million worth of the currency to 13 organizations, including million-dollar donations to the Water Project, which provides clean water to people in sub-Saharan Africa, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights watchdog.\n\nCEO of Twitter Supports Bitcoin\n•\thttp://westerndawn.fr.nf//index/co-founder-ceo-twitter-support-bitcoin-path-towards-greater-financial-access/\n\nWhile Facebook has decided to close the page on bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, banning ads about bitcoin, ICOs and other “alternative” financial products, Square is delighted to pick up the market share that Facebook does not care about, and as Jack Dorsey, who is the CEO of both Twitter and Square, tweeted moments ago (in his capacity as boss of the latter), he “supports Bitcoin because we see it as a long-term path towards greater financial access for all.”\n\n“Instant buying (and selling, if you don’t want to hodl) of Bitcoin is now available to most Cash App customers. We support Bitcoin because we see it as a long-term path towards greater financial access for all. This is a small step.”\n\nAnd with that one tweet, which put Dorsey on the other side of the room from Zuckerberg who has explicitly opined against crypto – and the millions of Millennials who are addicted to the digital currency – Twitter may have just bought itself several more days of interrogation in Congress where it will have to explain again, and again, and again why a few thousands “Russian” retweets cost Hillary Clinton the election.\n\n\nIN OTHER NEWS\n\nLINE Opens a Crypto Exchange\n•\thttps://www.ccn.com/messaging-app-line-launching-cryptocurrency-exchange-60-million-japanese-users/\n\nIn an announcement today, the Tokyo-based chat app confirmed that it has filed an application with the Financial Services Agency (FSA) – Japan’s financial regulator – to register and launch a cryptocurrency exchange. The application is currently under review.\n\nIt’s a significant move, one which sees Japan’s biggest messaging service announcing its foray into cryptocurrency trading, to be enabled within its chat application that is ubiquitous among some 70 million Japanese users. The messaging app is also massively popular in other regional nations including Indonesia, Thailand and Taiwan.\n\nLine’s plan to launch the offering extends beyond Japan, with Bloomberg reporting its planned expansion to Hong Kong and cryptocurrency-friendly Luxembourg. If Line intends to bring its cryptocurrency exchange for all of its users globally, the likes of Coinbase, one of the world’s most popular cryptocurrency exchanges with some 13 million users across 32 countries, would pale in comparison.\n\nNext Big Thing in Crypto = IoT\n•\thttps://www.forbes.com/sites/nikolaikuznetsov/2018/01/30/analytics-crypto-gear-up-for-iot-data-deluge/#1c14d92923bf\n\nMany are focused on taking advantage of the explosion of useful data that IoT is expected to generate. Data is now considered a commodity, or the “new oil,” as some claim. In anticipation, businesses such as those in data and analytics and even blockchain are now intent on becoming integral parts of the IoT ecosystem.\n\nMajor tech providers such as Amazon and IBM are already offering solutions that combine infrastructure and data tools focused on IoT analytics. Even consulting services like Accenture are shoring up their capabilities in anticipation of the growing adoption of IoT in enterprises.\n\nIn addition to the analytics crowd, blockchain advocates are now also figuring into IoT. Blockchain-based data streaming platform Streamr, for example, aims to break down the barriers to access IoT data streams through a decentralized data marketplace. IOTA, which is developing its own open-source distributed ledger is envisioned to allow machine-to-machine transactions in which IoT devices will be able to pay each other directly.\n\nComplementary technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning can also help further automate and shorten the path to better insights. IBM, for instance, has been improving upon their Bluemix cloud and Watson AI platforms to better equip enterprises with the resources and agility to cope with these new demands. And when more people have access to data-driven insights, the opportunities for business growth likewise expand.\n\nArdorgate + AEUR. Fiat to Crypto.\n•\thttps://www.jelurida.com/ardorgate-euro-peg-launched?\n\nJelurida has partnered with Ardorgate (www.ardorgate.eu) to deliver an Ardor-based Euro pegged child chain token named AEUR. We are excited to announce today the official launch of that child chain service. This expansion pushes Ardor further towards enabling blockchain technology for small and medium sized companies. It continues to prove the viability of the Ardor platform, and also creates a much needed fiat to crypto entry point to the Ardor ecosystem.\n\nThe new AEUR tokens can be used to trade any of the assets existing on the Ardor platform, and can be exchanged for ARDR or any child chain coin tokens. This provides a quick and simple entry point into the Ardor and cryptocurrency world using Euro. As each AEUR token will always equal exactly €1, this token will have an inherent stability guaranteed and backed by Ardorgate and their strategic partner Mistertango Bank, the bank serving as the payment processor.\n\nThe AEUR child chain represents an important use case and milestone in the growth of the Ardor platform. It enables easy conversion of fiat to crypto, allows buying and selling of items with prices denominated in Euro, trading of blockchain assets and paying dividends again in Euro, and makes participation in ICOs with prices based in Euro easier for all users.\n\nLisk in 2018. Big things?\n•\thttps://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7u90ix/lisk_bitflyer_60_but_real_lisk_quantum_leap_is/\n2018 should become an amazing year for Lisk, because of\n•\tLisk Core 1.0.0 (95% complete)\n•\tRebranding Event (Feb. 20th in Berlin)\n•\tCustom tokens\n•\tSoftware Development Kit / dApp registration and\n•\tdecentralized exchange until late 2018\nSo if just the Bitflyer-listing moves Lisk up to 60+% - can anyone imagine what happens if all of these milestones above are implemented?\n\nVeChain Partners with iTaotaoke\n•\thttps://twitter.com/vechainofficial/status/958754959591264257\n\nVeChain partners with iTaotaoke, an online self-publishing content platform, to establish fairness and accountability for content creators on a digital copyright protection platform.#VeChainThor\n\nXRB Rebrands to Nano\n•\thttps://medium.com/@nanocurrency/nano-rebrand-announcement-9101528a7b76\n\nIn November, the team gathered to discuss the future of Raiblocks and develop plans to further the project’s growth. One topic discussed was the name itself (“Is it, ray or rye?,” “Ditch the Blocks!,” “Just call it Rai!”). Feedback from the community suggested that improvements could be made to better resonate with the public and a mainstream audience. Because of this, our team made the decision to rebrand.\n\nIt is with great pleasure that we announce Nano. The Core Team wanted a name that represented the simplicity and speed of the project, and Nano does just that. The new logo uses several nodes, playing on the block-lattice design of the network, that connect to form an “N.” All social media accounts will be updated to reflect the name and logo changes. The new website is nano.org.\n\nThe launch of Nano is just the beginning of what will be an exciting 2018! Beta testing sign-ups are open for both the desktop wallet and iOS mobile wallet.\n\nPolymath Network – Security Token\n•\thttps://blog.polymath.network/polymath-is-not-doing-an-ico-358d135fc481\n\nThe Polymath network is a technology platform for financial securities, and for that reason we hold ourselves to high standards. We built the POLY token to empower trillions of dollars of securities to migrate to the blockchain — not as a speculative investment through an ICO. We are not doing a public sale.\n\nAfter a rigorous year of R&D, user testing, and receiving feedback from top lawyers and developers in the space, we are happy to announce that we will be launching the Polymath platform in conjunction with the distribution of our native POLY token.\n\nMany analysts predict that eventually the majority of financial products will be traded on the blockchain as security tokens. Polymath’s security token protocol embeds regulatory requirements into the tradeable tokens themselves, which are available to verified participants only. By powering the next generation of securities tokens, Polymath aims to be the catalyst that will launch the securities token revolution.\n\nList of Tahoe Reno Current Cliens - Factory purchased by Blockchain LLC. For Ethereum Development\n•\thttp://tahoereno.com/clients/\n•\tAnchor Tenants\t\t\n•\tACH Foam Technologies\twww.achfoam.com\n•\tBarrick Goldstrike Mines\twww.barrick.com\n•\tBattery Systems, Inc\twww.batterysystems.net\n•\tChewy.com\twww.Chewy.com\n•\tFedEx Supply Chain, Inc\twww.supplychain.fedex.com\n•\tFulcrum Sierra Biofuels, LLC\t\n    www.fulcrum-bioenergy.com\n•\tGoogle\twww.google.com\n•\tJames Hardie Building Products\n  www.jameshardie.com\n\t•\tJet.com\t\n    www.jet.com\n•\tKuehne & Nagel\t\n    www.kn-portal.com\n•\tMars Petcare US\twww.mars.com\n•\tPanasonic Energy of North America\twww.panasonicnv.com\n•\tPetsmart\twww.petsmart.com\n•\tPPG Architectural Finishes, Inc.\twww.ppgpittsburghpaints.com\n•\tSchluter Systems, L.P.\twww.schluter.com\n•\tSwitch\twww.switch.com\t•\tTesla Electric Avenue\twww.teslamotors.com\n•\tThrive Market, Inc\nwww.thrivemarket.com\n•\tTire Rack\twww.tirerack.com\n•\tUS Ordnance, In.\twww.usord.com\n•\tWal-Mart Distribution Center \twww.walmart.com\n•\tZulily, Inc\twww.zulily.com\n•\t1-800 Flowers.com\nwww.1800flowers.com\n\nFacebook Bans Crypto Ads\n•\thttps://www.facebook.com/business/news/new-ads-policy-improving-integrity-and-security-of-financial-product-and-services-ads\n\nWe’ve created a new policy that prohibits ads that promote financial products and services that are frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices, such as binary options, initial coin offerings and cryptocurrency.\n\nWe want people to continue to discover and learn about new products and services through Facebook ads without fear of scams or deception. That said, there are many companies who are advertising binary options, ICOs and cryptocurrencies that are not currently operating in good faith.\n\nThis policy is intentionally broad while we work to better detect deceptive and misleading advertising practices, and enforcement will begin to ramp up across our platforms including Facebook, Audience Network and Instagram. We will revisit this policy and how we enforce it as our signals improve.\n\nICON News and Updates from Mainnet\n•\thttps://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7u72cu/icon_icx_new_website_block_explorer_\n\nwhitepaper/Website: https://icon.foundation/?lang=en\nBlock Explorer: https://tracker.icon.foundation/\nWhitepaper: https://icon.foundation/resources/whitepaper/ICON-Whitepaper-EN-Draft.pdf\nPartnerships: https://icon.foundation/contents/team/partners?lang=en (Includes Bloomberg and Forbes)\nRoadmap: https://icon.foundation/contents/projects?lang=en\nYou can check @PretzelMiser twitter's account as he posts about everything that is happening at the Summit. Link to his Reddit topic: https://np.reddit.com/r/helloicon/comments/7tztb4/icon_annual_summit_semi_live_tweets/\nLink for the live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOF0QljFyHQ&app=desktop\nVending machine accepting ICX: https://twitter.com/PretzelMiser/status/958554025850384384\n\nDAPPS on ICON (https://i.redd.it/v4vmayu4kdd01.png)\n\nWe received announcements and details about 6 DApps (7 if Nucleus Vision commits to ICON- please do if you’re reading this!) that are working with ICON and are coming out with products in the near future. BlueWhale, TINK, Silkroad, Uppsala, Ad4th, and Smilegate’s project. I’ll highlight just a few.\n\n•\tTINK: Short for Trust Link. The project is still in the early stages, but their team is extremely solid. Most of the devs are from CarnegieMellon- the name may not impress you if you don’t know about it, but it is probably the top engineering/programming school in the world. It’s at a higher level than MIT, Stanford, Harvard, etc. I would take a hard look at this one when more info comes out because it is guaranteed to be well developed.\n•\tUppsala/Sentinel: Cyber security is a big industry, and surprisingly not many projects are trying to break into this space in the crypto world. Uppsala is already backed by huge companies including SoftBank Ventures, the investment arm of a massive Japanese company.\n•\tSmilegate: This one was the big surprise. It’s understandable how it could be seen as a letdown to western audiences viewing the event, but Smilegate is massive. Koreans are very excited about this partnership. Smilegate is a gaming company that is very well known in Asia. It’s a multibillion-dollar company with hundreds of millions of users- that’s not a typo. Their game Crossfire has over 650 million users alone. They are signing an MOU with ICON in the next week and plan to create a social gaming ecosystem with ICON, on the blockchain. Examples he gave of their plans involved incentivizing creators of games on the platform, incentivizing p2p activity, and trading/selling in-game items on the blockchain. They’re hoping to have a tangible real-world result for people to use later this year.",
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      "title": "Daily TL;DR - January 29th (Your One Stop Daily News)",
      "body": "DAILY TL;DR W/ CHESLINK\nJANUARY 29TH – FEBRUARY 2ND \nJanuary 29th \n\n1.\tBTC NEWS\n2.\tIN OTHER NEWS\n\nMARKETCAP ANALYSIS\n\nRecap from 11/20\nMarket Cap: $243,311,416,536\n24h Vol: $7,403,167,283\nBTC Dominance: 56.2%\n\nAs of 12/31\nMarket Cap: $592,941,301,681 \n24h Vol: $33,207,433,786 \nBTC Dominance: 38.0%\n\nAs of 1/8 \nMarket Cap: $743,509,110,252 \n24h Vol: $49,897,768,988 \nBTC Dominance: 34.2%\n\nAs of 1/15 \nMarket Cap: $644,874,662,903\n24h Vol: $38,996,461,258\nBTC Dominance: 34.4%\n\nAs of 1/22\nMarket Cap: $508,289,748,517\n24h Vol: $30,645,248,592\nBTC Dominance: 35.0%\n\nAs of 1/24\nMarket Cap: $537,183,052,350\n24h Vol: $28,587,095,263\nBTC Dominance: 34.5% \n\nAs of 1/29\nMarket Cap: $569,531,115,703\n24h Vol: $21,957,402,021\nBTC Dominance: 33.4%\nBTC/BCH NEWS\n\nStarbucks Says No to Bitcoin\n•\thttp://www.ibtimes.com/starbucks-ceo-says-bitcoin-has-no-future-currency-trusted-cryptocurrency-coming-2645896\n\nHoward Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks, believes there will one day be a cryptocurrency that achieves legitimacy and widespread use—but he doesn’t believe that digital currency will be Bitcoin.\n\nWhen the call turned to the topic of payments and future innovations, Schultz brought up Bitcoin just to shoot it down. “I don't believe that Bitcoin is going to be a currency today or in the future,” he told investors on the call.\n\n“I'm talking about the new technology of blockchain and the possibility of what could happen not in the near-term, but in a few years from now with a consumer application in which is trust and legitimacy with regard to a digital currency,” he said. Schultz acknowledged that when one of those currencies goes gain mainstream acceptance, Starbucks intends to adapt and allow consumers to use the cryptocurrency to make their purchase.\n\n“I personally believe that there is going to be a one or a few legitimate trusted digital currencies off of the blockchain technology,” Schultz said, noting that the legitimacy of those currencies will have to be made legitimate by companies accepting them. Until then, though, the Starbucks CEO seemed content to sit and wait to see how everything plays out.\n\n\nIN OTHER NEWS\n\nStatus Invests $5 Million into Matrix AI\n•\thttps://venturebeat.com/2018/01/29/status-invests-5-million-in-matrix-to-create-a-blockchain-messaging-superpower/\n\nEnter Status, the mobile Ethereum client built entirely on peer-to-peer technologies. Today, Status has announced a significant investment in New Vector, the company behind Matrix.org — the open standard for secure and decentralized communication.\n\n“Matrix will use the capital to expand its team significantly over the course of 2018 and continue development of both the Matrix protocol and improving the Riot.im client,” Status cofounder Jarrad Hope told me. “Matrix is already used by millions of people worldwide, and in 2018 this number may reach the tens of millions.”\n\nWithin Matrix, the user can collaborate on projects across different communication apps and third-party tools within one workspace. External networks include Slack, IRC, Twitter, Gitter, and more. Users can have hosted services and integrations from New Vector run on their own server, providing teams with full end-to-end encryption.\n\nThis new collaboration is expected to create a bridge between Matrix and Whisper — Ethereum’s own real-time communication protocol — and allow Status dApps to be integrated as widgets within Riot.im. It also allows the Status Network token to be used, enabling cryptocurrency payment mechanisms in Riot.im.\n\nMATRIX AI\n•\thttps://medium.com/@theblockanalyst/award-winning-ai-scientist-launches-matrix-ai-network-to-take-smart-contracts-mainstream-8a417fdd7f81\n\nMATRIX AI Network³ is an adaptive, self-optimising and interoperable “Blockchain 3.0” solution that supports smart contracts and machine learning services. By combining AI and blockchain technology MATRIX aims to revolutionise the user experience of executing smart contracts, by making the whole process faster, easier and safer. As per the technical white-paper⁴:\n\nWith MATRIX, no programming expertise is needed anymore for designing smart contracts. The unique code generation technique of MATRIX allows automatic conversion of an abstract description of a smart contract into an executable program. MATRIX only requires users to input the core elements (e.g. input, output, and transaction conditions) of a contract with a scripting language. Then a code generator based on a deep neural network is able to automatically convert the script into an equivalent program.\n\nTo return to the quote from the Quartz article, this is a potential game-changer. MATRIX will allow anyone to use natural languages to directly implement smart contracts in their business. The MATRIX neural networks will generate a library of templates based on initial inputs, that are then automatically refined and evolved based on historical data, as per the below visual representation from the MATRIX business white-paper⁵.\n\nHong Kong Chooses Education over Bans\n•\thttps://crypto-lines.com/2018/01/29/crypto-education/\n\nThe Financial Service Treasury Bureau (FSTB) and the Investor Education Centre (IEC) all subsidiaries of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) have teamed up to launch a campaign aimed at raising awareness of the potential risks associated with ICO’s and the trading of cryptocurrencies. This will include TV campaigns and print media to warn the public to stay away from cryptocurrencies.\n\n“The increase in media coverage and hype around ICOs and ‘cryptocurrencies’, such as bitcoin, has aroused public interest. However, the public might use these as speculative tools without full understanding of their nature and potential risks. Through this series of public education initiatives, the Government aims to provide the public with a correct and comprehensive understanding of ICOs and ‘cryptocurrencies’, so that they can thoroughly assess the risks before making transactions or investment decisions.” Mr Joseph Chan, Secretary for Financial Services, and the Treasury.\nThis crypto education strategy was also implemented by Thailand when the government choose to educate its citizen rather than ban cryptos.\n\nOMERS Planning to Raise $50 Million\n•\thttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/omers-expands-cryptocurrency-presence-with-50-million-ethereum-public-company-offering/article37764394/\n\nOntario pension giant OMERS is pushing further into the rapidly expanding cryptocurrency business through the creation of an Ethereum-focused public company that is planning to raise $50-million.\n\nNewly-formed Ethereum Capital Inc. announced Monday morning that it is launching a private placement co-led by Canaccord Genuity Corp. and CIBC Capital Markets to sell 20 million subscription receipts for $2.50 each. Its plan is to then amalgamate with publicly-listed B.C. shell company Movit Media Corp., with investors set to receive one share in Movit for each Ethereum Capital receipt after the offering's anticipated closing date of Feb. 16. The combined firm will be known as Ethereum Capital Corp.\n\n3iQ Announces Glocal Cryptoasset Fund\n•\thttps://www.investmentexecutive.com/news/products/3iq-announces-global-cryptoasset-fund/\n\nToronto-based 3iQ Corp. has received formal approval from Canadian securities regulators to act as a portfolio manager and investment fund manager permitted to invest in multiple cryptoassets, the firm announced Thursday. 3iQ’s Global Cryptoasset Fund will invest directly in units of bitcoin, ether and litecoin, three of the leading cryptoassets.\n\n“We have worked diligently to provide a pure, low-cost, secure method for both accredited and institutional investors to assume a core position in this new and expanding asset class,” says Frederick Pye, 3iQ CEO, in a statement.\n\nBlockstream Aiming to make Fiat Currency with Blockchain Tech\n•\thttps://www.trustnodes.com/2017/11/21/blockstream-issue-fiat-currency-using-blockchain-tech-raises-25-million\n\n“Blockstream’s Elements Platform sits at the heart of the recent launch of DG Lab DVEP™ (Digital Value Exchange Platform), an advanced framework for real-world payment systems built on blockchains.\n\nDG Lab DVEP™ is an application and business logic layer built on top of Blockstream’s Elements Blockchain and will enable rapid development of use cases and services for the Japanese market,” Blockstream said.\n\nDG Labs is seemingly building trademarked products on top of Blockstream’s elements project, which appears to mainly include the Lightning Network and Liquid, a hardware based sidechain of sorts. They have further agreed to collaborate with Tokyo Tanshi Co with the aim of “issuing and circulating local currencies using blockchain technology and entering the cryptocurrency OTC market.”\n\nBloomberg describes Tokyo Tanshi Co. as a company that “provides inter-dealer and money market brokerage services in foreign exchange and currency funds, IRS, currency swaps, FRAs, OTC options, and financial futures transactions.\n\nIts activities include call funds, buying and selling of bills, buying and selling the domestic commercial paper, mediation of interbank deposits, securities loan transactions, and fluidization commodity, as well as buying, selling, and mediation of property.”\n\nWalton Annual Meeting Overview\n•\thttps://medium.com/@thelatemercutio/huge-news-from-the-2018-waltonchain-annual-meeting-a-full-overview-e44cde81ccb1\n\nWaltonchain recently announced they were finalizing a partnership with the China Mobile IoT Alliance, and skeptics have called into question the validity of the agreement. This statement about mobile-phone integration, combined with the attendance of the Deputy Manager of Shenzhen China Mobile, a subsidiary of China Mobile Communications Corporation, seemingly puts this to rest.\n\nAs far as the actual integration goes, I suspect Walton may implement their NB-IoT (Near Band) chips. They broadcast over long distances and will probably be used for their smart waste management system to connect real world data to the Walton blockchain, which specifically uses mobile communication networks and GPS to improve efficiency, among other things.\n\nhttps://t.co/V4xofh9gSA\nOn Jan. 23, Waltonchain’s affiliate Xiamen Citylink Technology Co., Ltd. (Citylink) officially signed a partnership with Zhangzhou Branch of China Telecom Corporation Limited.\n\nThis partnership between Citylink and China Telecom Zhangzhou is the first step for domestic cooperation between Waltonchain and China Telecom. Waltonchain will put its maximum efforts to help China Telecom Zhangzhou build a smart city. We also believe that the full support from China Telecom Zhangzhou will promote the innovative construction of blockchain-based Value Internet of Things and the development of the innovative layout of commercial ecosystem applications by Waltonchain.\n\nLamden Clove Early Access Program\n•\thttps://blog.lamden.io/introducing-the-clove-early-access-program-62ca9cb9d6a8\n\nThis program will be available to select businesses to allow them to use the Clove atomic-swap protocol in their products once the alpha launches, helping their users to interface with their product using any major cryptocurrency.\n\nClove is a decentralized atomic-swap protocol that will allow users to easily swap coins between all major chains. This will allow users to more easily interact with blockchain services. Clove works through Lightning Network inspired payment channels. Transactions initiate from private chains, and utilize the ledger as a public service for managing secure and guaranteed remittance of funds from chain to chain.\n\nACES Bitcoin/ARK Interoperability\n•\thttps://medium.com/@arkaces/aces-completes-bitcoin-ark-service-updated-website-and-releases-marketplace-api-documentation-95e26be49e11\n\nThe Bitcoin/ARK service is an interoperability application to allow for liquid movement between Bitcoin and ARK, in both directions. It leverages the Bitcoin Listener and ARK Listener we released in 2017. The service includes the ability for consumers to open channels with the service provider to connect a Bitcoin address to an ARK address, and vice versa. We are calling this a channel service.\n\nThe ability to create channel services allows for a dynamic service with Service Linking. In the diagram below you can see how we connect two independent channel services together to create one long service. The service below shows a BTC to ETH channel service. With this link, any time BTC is received at the BTC Service Receiving Address, ETH is moved to the ETH receiving Address. Service linking will allow new blockchains to simply connect to a single coin to gain access to all the blockchain services that exist on the ACES marketplace.\n\nEnjin Coin Announces Efinity\n•\thttps://blog.enjincoin.io/enjin-coin-announcing-efinity-and-our-new-updated-roadmap-c7616cc7ab79\n\nEfinity is our upcoming game-channel network for performing highly scalable gaming transactions.\n\nBy opening a game channel with an Efinity network, a game will be able to perform nearly infinite volumes of transactions between millions of players and the game server — at high speeds and nearly no costs.\n\nThese transactions remain trust-less and verified on the Ethereum blockchain.\n\nAfter meetings with multiple game developers who are adopting Enjin Coin, we’ve added new features to support more advanced items systems on the platform. Speed and scalability has also become a major topic of focus, and our plans are described later in this update.\n\nFirst Part of Sharding is Nearly Done\n•\thttp://archive.is/CN23U\n\nEthereum is getting closer to deploying new technology that would allow the network to scale, its founder said.\n\n\"It seems like part one of phase one is getting something like being already done,\" Vitalik Buterin said in a developer meeting.\n\nThe technology, known as sharding, attempts to split the ethereum blockchain's data into more manageable parts. Buterin went to state that the next phase of the four-stage scaling proposal will be completed in \"a month and a bit,\" adding that development work will likely circulate on stateless clients, a type of ethereum software that does not need to process the complete history of the platform.\n\"Then from there we're going to try and shard it into a working test, a kind of test network,\" the ethereum founder said.\n\nIn the meeting, Buterin also reflected on Casper, ethereum's new consensus protocol that is currently in testing. As detailed by CoinDesk, the test network has been derailed by issues with the software it deploys. However, Buterin said that in spite of hiccups, the core of the project is sound, or as he put it: \"the Casper aspect of Casper… is totally successful.\"\n\nStellar Lumens to $4 in 2018\n•\thttps://investinghaven.com/growth-stocks/stellar-lumens-price-forecast-4-usd-2018/\n\nWhen assessing the intrinsic value of a cryptocurrency, we consider the use and volumes as the best reflection of the current and projected intrinsic value. The projects mentioned above are key to spreading the use and adoption of Lumens therefore increasing its value over time. The key for the adoption to continue (and not just peak and free fall) is scalability, speed and cost of transactions. Those are the key factors investors (especially those in for the long HODL) should keep an eye on.\n\nWhen trying to understand XLM or Lumens intrinsic value is the fact that they support ICOs (while offering low transaction fees and fast settlements) and the planned Lightening Networks integration in 2018. We expect this to be an important success factor for this Cryptocurrency in 2018. \n\nFor a long term perspective, we can see in the following chart that 4 USD is very likely in 2018 provided the Team continues on delivering on their commitments, no major security flaws in their code (watch also the exchanges supporting Lumens) and of course the overall sector performance. And always remember, investing in Cryptocurrency is a high risk high reward investment. They key is to know what you are investing in, score the lowest entries and stick to charts so you don’t panic sell.\n\nBlockchain Technology Overview for the National Institute of Standards and Technology\n•\thttps://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/Publications/nistir/8202/draft/documents/nistir8202-draft.pdf\n\nLong blockchain overview with fairly technical analysis.\n\n\n\n\nICONOMI CEO Interview\n•\thttps://medium.com/iconominet/ceo-insights-tim-m-zagar-8fd236c16cd4\nWhen the whole world began measuring time the same way, it was a huge change for the world economy. Blockchain puts everything over the same denominator in a similar way. Lately, the Internet has begun to develop in the direction of computer applications talking to each other in networks. Blockchain provides a uniform language for this kind of communication.\n\nWe offer software, a platform for Digital Asset Arrays (baskets of digital assets), and managers pay us for the use of our services. Comparing the opportunity to invest in this new industry to finding gold in the Wild West: we are not the ones looking for gold, we are the ones selling shovels. We see where people are digging, but we do not know whether or not there is gold there.\n\nToday, through our platform, people can invest small amounts in start-up companies. This was not possible in the past; you couldn’t invest 50 euros in Google. Start-up companies were dependent on a small number of large-scale venture capital funds. Our technology allows people to invest in start-up companies without the intermediary of venture capital funds. We provide financial and technology experts with the tools to buy the crypto coins of different companies and place them in baskets. Then an individual can buy this basket instead of buying twenty different coins individually. Disruptive investments are generally more meaningful, but what pushed us to create ICONOMI was the realization that people would want to invest in the crypto-economy and that it makes more sense to invest in the industry as a whole than to buy shares in individual companies.",
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      "body": "DAILY TL;DR W/ CHESLINK\nJANUARY 22ND – 26TH \nJanuary 26th \n\n1.\tBTC/BCH NEWS\n2.\tIN OTHER NEWS\n\nMARKETCAP ANALYSIS\n\nRecap from 11/20\nMarket Cap: $243,311,416,536\n24h Vol: $7,403,167,283\nBTC Dominance: 56.2%\n\nAs of 12/31\nMarket Cap: $592,941,301,681 \n24h Vol: $33,207,433,786 \nBTC Dominance: 38.0%\n\nAs of 1/8 \nMarket Cap: $743,509,110,252 \n24h Vol: $49,897,768,988 \nBTC Dominance: 34.2%\n\nAs of 1/15 \nMarket Cap: $644,874,662,903\n24h Vol: $38,996,461,258\nBTC Dominance: 34.4%\n\nAs of 1/22\nMarket Cap: $508,289,748,517\n24h Vol: $30,645,248,592\nBTC Dominance: 35.0%\n\nAs of 1/24\nMarket Cap: $547,151,289,206\n24h Vol: $28,474,334,892\nBTC Dominance: 34.6%\n\nAs of 1/24\nMarket Cap: $537,183,052,350\n24h Vol: $28,587,095,263\nBTC Dominance: 34.5% \nBTC/BCH NEWS\n\nBitcoin (2014) vs Amazon (2018)\n•\thttps://www.tradingview.com/chart/BTCUSD/xA6hUmUK-BTC-The-Battle-Between-the-Bulls-and-Bears\n\nA comparison to Amazon from the 2001 bubble and Bitcoin from the 2018 bubble. \n \nUkranian Politicians Hold $200 mil+ of BTC/BCH\n•\thttps://www.trustnodes.com/2018/01/26/ukrainian-politicians-declare-200-million-worth-bitcoin-bitcoin-cash-holdings\n\n57 Ukranian politicians, government officials and company CEOs have declared holdings of more than 21,000 bitcoins, with Bitcoin Cash following as their biggest second crypto holdings.\n\nSome of the biggest declared bitcoin holdings are by Golubov Dmitry Ivanovich, a millennial apparent former hacker of sorts, now a member of the Ukrainian Parliament (Verkhovna Rada in Ukrainian.)\n\nA combined total of 21,128 bitcoins were declared, currently worth $222 million, after Ukrainian officials were required to declare their holdings in an ant-corruption probe.\n\nDmitry V. Palpatin declared the largest holdings of any crypto other than bitcoin, so having 7,711 Bitcoin Cash, now worth around $11 million.\n\nThe 28 year old was elected to the country’s parliament in 2015 following some curious PR based on his last name, with his official title being “Emperor” at LLC Palpatine Finance Group.\n\nBitcoin Solutions with Schnorr Signatures\n•\thttp://bitcoinist.com/new-schnorr-based-multi-signature-scheme-coming/\n\nThe Schnorr signatures algorithm could help to address Bitcoin’s scalability problem because it reduces the number of signatures required in a transaction. Indeed, Schnorr signatures could help reduce storage and bandwidth by at least 25 percent. Also, Schnorr signatures could help shield Bitcoin from certain types of spam attacks.\n\nNow, Gregory Maxwell, Andrew Poelstra, Yannick Seurin, and Pieter Wuille have published a paper entitled “Simple Schnorr Multi-Signatures with Applications to Bitcoin.” In it, the researchers propose a new Schnorr-based multi-signature scheme, MuSig, which they define as “a protocol that allows a group of signers to produce a short, joint signature on a common message.”\n\nMuSig brings a new concept, key aggregation. This scheme further reduces the number of signatures in a multi-signature scheme to one single signature. Dr. Wuille explains:\n\nIn a multi-signature scheme that supports key aggregation, the multi-signature looks like a single-key signature, but with respect to an aggregated public key that is a function of only the participants’ public keys. This means that verifiers don’t actually need to know the original participants’ public keys anymore – they can just be given the aggregated key instead.\n\nTherefore, by implementing key aggregation, verifiers no longer need to know the original participants’ public keys. Instead, verifiers require only the aggregated key.\n\n\n\nIN OTHER NEWS\n\nCoinFi Aims to be the Crypto Bloomberg Terminal\n•\thttps://news.bitcoin.com/pr-kucoin-becomes-first-cryptocurrency-exchange-to-list-coinfi-cofi-token-on-jan-29-2018/\nSteemit+Coinigy+Cointracking\n\nWhen the stock market and financial data transitioned from analog to digital networks in the 70s-early 80s, Michael Bloomberg launched a business that revolutionized the way equities traders processed information. \n \nBecause every serious trader required a Bloomberg terminal in order to trade effectively, Bloomberg LP still owns 29.4% of the $25 billion financial data industry - 36 years since its inception. \n \nAs finance moves from traditional markets to the blockchain, a similar disruption will occur.\n\nAs the market opportunity of providing financial intelligence to crypto investors continues to grow, Wall Street institutions will do what they always do - use their tremendous resources to build “toll-booth” businesses that will tax the eco-system. \n \nBloomberg costs $24,000 USD for an annual subscription and is only available to the elites. But unfortunately for them, the dominant market intelligence platform for crypto won’t be built through antiquated, pre-internet enterprise sales models. \n \nInstead, it will be built around a token economy - a sustainable system that intelligently incentivizes & rewards those who provide value to the eco-system - the researchers, analysts, curators, and coders.\n \nCoinfi Ecosystem Infographic Link\n\nThere is an arms race coming between Wall Street and the crypto community (see an interesting comparison of these projects here) to build the dominant market intelligence platform - the Bloomberg of the crypto markets.  \n \nCoinFi aims to be the Bloomberg for Crypto. We’re excited about the coming wave of disruption in the financial markets, and we’re proud to be the first exchange to bring you the CoinFi (COFI) token, which powers the CoinFi market intelligence platform. Starting on Jan 29, 2018, the CoinFi token will be available for trading on KuCoin. \n \nFor a deeper examination of the problems facing crypto traders and how CoinFi is solving them, we highly recommend this interview with CoinFi cofounder Timothy Tam.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffAGfR8UGrs&feature=youtu.be&t=6m4s\n\nRobinHood Announces Commission Free Trading\n•\thttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-robinhood-cryptocurrency/startup-robinhood-to-launch-commission-free-cryptocurrency-trading-idUSKBN1FE2DC\n\nRobinhood has set up a new entity called Robinhood Crypto to offer the new, free service. It already allows individuals to trade U.S. stocks and exchange-traded funds without paying commissions through its Robinhood Financial LLC subsidiary. \n\nThe company earns money by collecting interest on customer deposits and by directing orders to certain trading venues. It also offers a premium paid account for $10 per month, which gives users added features. Robinhood will broker customers’ cryptocurrency trades through existing exchanges and market-makers, Tenev said, though he would not identify which ones. Prices will reflect the fees Robinhood must pay those third-parties, a spokesman said. \n\nWhile U.S. securities law requires stock brokers to disclose which venues they direct orders to, the rules are still in flux for cryptocurrency brokers. \nRobinhood’s virtual coins will be stored offline to thwart hackers from stealing them, Tenev said. Cryptocurrency exchanges have been besieged by hackers, with billions of dollars worth of bitcoins and other coins stolen since 2011.  \n\nAt least initially, Robinhood’s new service will only be available in California, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana and New Hampshire, where it has secured a money service business license. Founded in 2013, Robinhood was valued at $1.3 billion in its most recent round of venture capital funding in April. \n\nWalton Partners with Mobius\n•\thttps://medium.com/@thelatemercutio/waltonchain-partners-mobius-a-protocol-for-the-future-of-blockchain-86d9a1d417a0\n\nMobius comes with a host of advantages for the Internet of Things, and it’s clear that Walton is leveraging their advanced hardware to combine with Mobius’ innovative patent-pending software. With Mobius, existing real world data and apps can be connected to smart contracts on the blockchain, and any coin or token can be integrated into existing apps. The Mobius network could be used for in-app payments in a dApp store, for example. Mobius’ live DApp Store allows companies to accept blockchain payments with over 1,000 TPS, displaying their immense scalability.\n\nWorking together with Waltonchain’s scalable child chain structure, you can imagine an ultra-scalable blockchain network, capable of handling large streams of data. But remember, Walton isn’t just using Mobius’ network. They are partnered with the guys who created it. They are going to work together to build new IoT solutions with the best hardware and software for the job.\n\nExpanding further, Mobius has near-zero fees, allowing for micropayments between smart devices oracles. Their protocols allow for smart devices to share resources and make payments, which will create Smart Markets in a Machine-to-Machine economy. Mobius gives this example: “If a part fails, this could lead to bids between machines from a distributed grid of resources to order new parts, without the need for a middle-man.” Working together, secure and innovative smart contracting capabilities can take Waltonchain’s Internet of Things platform to the next level.\n\nBanks Don’t Want XRP\n•\thttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-25/ripple-wants-xrp-to-be-bitcoin-for-banks-if-only-the-banks-wanted-it\n\nBanks, however, balked at XRP. They said there was no way they could use an instrument that regulators may never approve, according to an executive in the cross-border payment industry familiar with Ripple’s business. Moreover, the real power in the cross-border payment system wasn’t banks but the big companies that used it for their cash needs around the world. A corporate treasurer for a Fortune 500 company wasn’t going to tell its bank to use a startup with a digital currency, the person says. \n\nSo Ripple pivoted away from XRP and focused on RippleNet, which is similar to Swift in that it’s primarily a messaging system that tells banks where to send the money. It also has a service that helps banks settle transactions.\n\nXRP has fallen 55 percent from $2.92 in early January. Swift’s Newman says such volatility is bound to turn off bankers and their clients. “If the value of a cryptocurrency is going up and down like a yo-yo, this isn’t a serious medium of exchange,” he says. “It adds unnecessary complexity. The solution is worse than the problem.”\n\nVouching for Bitfinex/Tether \n•\thttps://news.bitcoin.com/vouching-bitfinex-and-tethers-bank-accounts-hold-nearly-3-billion-usd/\n\nZhao Dong, a prominent Chinese early bitcoin adopter and shareholder in Bitfinex, recently posted on Weibo seeking to provide anecdotal evidence as to the integrity of Bitfinex and Tether’s financial reserves. The post claims that Zhao Dong and Lao Mao, the chief executive of Big.one, have witnessed first hand the balances of Bitfinex and Tether’s respective bank accounts during a meeting with Bitfinex’s chief financial officer, Giancarlo Devasini. The post alleges that the combined bank accounts of Tether and Bitfinex hold nearly $3 billion USD.\n\nAccording to a rough translation, Zhao Dong’s Weibo post states “Lao Mao (and I) just had a look at the USD account of Tether and Bitfinex in Giancarlo’s (Boss of BFX, CFO) room, in which Tether’s account holds 1.8x billion USD and Bitfinex holds 1.1x billion USD. The total number of the two accounts is around 3 billion USD, which is beyond the current circulated supply of USDT. This debunks all rumors around USDT.”\n\nCoincheck Theft Loses Over 500 million XEM\n•\thttps://cryptonews.com/news/coincheck-hacked-more-than-500-million-xem-stolen-1093.htm\n\nThis morning, the Japanese crypto exchange platform Coincheck was hacked and had 526 million XEM (c. USD 400 m) stolen, Lon Wong, President of the NEM.io Foundation, told Cryptonews.com.\n\n“As far as NEM is concerned, tech is intact. We are not forking. Also, we would advise all exchanges to make use of our multi-signature smart contract which is among the best in the landscape. Coincheck didn't use them and that's why they could have been hacked. They were very relaxed with their security measures,\" Wong said.\n\nAs of right now, the XEM coin’s price has fallen by 18.46% in the last 24 hours (and the fluctuations are almost impossible to follow, because of their erratic behavior), which is significantly higher than its previous fall of a measly 1% in the week between January 18 and January 25. The coin dropped in price to USD 0.77 at 08:34 UTC today, not long after the news was published on Yahoo Japan. It eventually recovered to USD 0.78, where we are right now, but this is still a far cry from its last week average of USD 1.05. (source: coinmarketcap.com)\n\nChinese Officials say ICO Ban May End\n•\thttp://bitcoinist.com/chinese-official-new-regulations-2018-may-end-ico-ban/\n\nSpeaking at the Southeast Asia Blockchain Summit, Yang, who is also director of the Center for Financial Technology, further “denied” a blanket ban on cryptocurrency trading and ICOs would continue indefinitely.\n\nGood ICO projects are allowed to develop in a legal and risk-controlled environment rather than simply adopting a one-size-fits-all approach. [The China Securities Regulatory Commission] may launch equity crowdfunding pilot program in the near future, which will be an opportunity for ICO to get in compliance.\n\nRussian Legislator: Crypto May Be Traded on Stock Exchanges\n•\thttps://www.ethnews.com/russian-legislator-suggests-cryptocurrency-trading-on-stock-commodity-exchanges\n\nAnatoly Aksakov, the head of the Financial Market Committee in the State Duma, the lower house of Russia's parliament, has reportedly said that the Russian Federation's Central Bank may allow the launch of cryptocurrency trading on the Moscow Stock Exchange.\n\n\"We have the St. Petersburg International Commodity Exchange, the Moscow Stock Exchange, the [Russia Trading System], but they actually act as a non-profit partnership. Although they are also ready to participate in this process, and there are specialists in stock exchange operations there. I suppose that, the Central Bank is now considering the Moscow Stock Exchange, perhaps also the St. Petersburg Commodity Exchange for this purpose. But now there is a stronger urge to work with the Moscow Stock Exchange.\"\n\nGigaFactory Sold to Blockchains LLC\n•\thttps://www.rgj.com/story/money/business/2018/01/23/industrial-park-houses-tesla-gigafactory-nearly-sold-out-after-blockchains-deal/1059002001/\n\nThe industrial park that plays host to Tesla, Google and Switch in the Reno area is almost sold out as a blockchain software company is finalizing plans to buy more than half of its land.\n\nBlockchains LLC, is purchasing 64,000 acres at the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center, with the deal expected to fully close by the first week of February, said Lance Gilman, principal and director of the industrial park.\n\nThe company specializes in financial services, security, software and apps using blockchain technology — a secure digital ledger or record that is typically associated with cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. Blockchains LLC specifically deals with the Ethereum blockchain, which anchors the second-biggest cryptocurrency in the world. The Ethereum cryptocurrency is only trumped by Bitcoin in terms of market cap. Governments in Brazil and Ukraine, for example, are looking into using the technology to create more secure electoral records and platforms.\n\nWall Street Vets Raises $50 Mil for Crypto Funds of Funds\n•\thttps://www.coindesk.com/wall-street-veterans-raise-50-million-crypto-fund-funds/\n\nAfter going down the crypto rabbit hole, Nader, who's also worked for Morgan Stanley, teamed up with a former private wealth analyst at Morgan Stanley, Jacob Kirschenbaum, and others to launch Cryptolux Capital, a crypto fund of funds. And revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, Nader has secured about $50 million of the $100 million the fund is seeking.\n\nWhile the number of crypto hedge funds has grown from about 124 in October to 175 today, Nader positions his experience in one of the traditional financial system's worst hours as the key to Cryptolux's success.\n\n\"I look back to what I saw in the financial services world, and that really sets the stage for me to be excited about crypto,\" Nader said. \"When you're watching the five biggest investment banks in the country either go out of business or change their entire business model, you realize that the banking system is not as strong as many people may have believed it was.\" \n\n“I've got this view that this banking system is not infallible, and wouldn't it be nice if there was a system that went around, or was outside of the banking system for the use of wealth?\"\n\nThe second way Nader aims to offset downside risk is by further hedging with cryptocurrency futures options. 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Quipping that unlike Gold or the US Dollar, Bitcoin has a predictable finite supply and is tamper proof, Wozniak claimed Gold’s value will be diluted once more efficient methods of mining are invented. He also remarked that the US Dollar is ‘kind of phony’ due to the centralised control over creation and use, lending itself to abuse.\n\nComparing Bitcoin to a house, Wozniak said that no matter how much the price went up or the government taxed it, the house would still exist as a real stable asset, undiluted and worth what it’s made of. In the same way, he said, Bitcoin is limited in amount and nobody could ever dilute the supply, making it valuable as a stable asset.\n\nThe tech geek also touched on Ethereum, another blockchain based cryptocurrency, and claimed that it opened a whole new world, with people writing thousands of applications for the platform. He signed off with a quote that there is a lot to cryptocurrencies than meets the eye.\n\nRapper 50 Cent Forgot About 700 Bitcoin\n•\thttp://bitcoinist.com/rapper-50-cent-forgot-bitcoin-stash/\n\nAn unsuspecting 50 Cent may have accrued $8.5 million in Bitcoin album sales he “forgot about” after fans purchased ‘Animal Ambition’ in 2014. The rapper allegedly made the comments in response to an investigation by showbusiness magazine TMZ, which suggested copies of the album had netted him around 700 BTC, at the time worth $400,000.\n\nAnimal Ambition was a pioneer in Bitcoin acceptance in the music industry when 50 Cent made the somewhat unexpected decision to partner with BitPay via his Shopify store. At the time, prices were around $660, putting his untouched earnings at between $7 million and $8.5 million.\n\n“Ima keep it real i forgot i did that sh*t lol,” he added to subscribers on his Instagram profile.\n\n\n\nIN OTHER NEWS\n\nICON Mainnet 1.0 Launches\n•\thttps://medium.com/helloiconworld/icon-mainnet-1-0-launched-d54b9132017e\n\nWe are happy to announce that the maintenance check of our testnet, which started last December, has been completed, and today, January 24th, 2018 (18:25 UTC), we have successfully generated the Genesis Block of the ICON Mainnet and minted all ICX as planned. Thank you for your patience and support!\n\nDApps can now be developed on top of the ICON network and our team is already helping 5 DApp teams to launch new services. Although we are eager to showcase these projects today, the community needs to wait a bit longer. We will open the details on January 31st at the ICON Annual Summit: The Genesis. \n\nQ: Is there a native ICX Wallet?\nA: Our native ICX Wallet is called ‘ICONex’. We are in final steps of launching the wallet on official Chrome Web Store. Thank you for your patience.\n\nWeiss Cryptocurrency Ratings \n•\thttps://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/24/weiss-ratings-gives-ethereum-higher-rating-than-bitcoin.html\n\nUnveiling its cryptocurrency grades, Weiss Ratings said Wednesday that Ethereum rates a B, or “good,” while Bitcoin gets just a C+, for fair. No virtual money earned an A, or “excellent.”\n\nB : EOS, Ethereum\nB- : Steem, Cardano, NEO\nEverything else C+ to C-\n\nWeiss Ratings Old Corruption\n•\thttp://exiledonline.com/cnbc-scams-america-again/\nWeiss also has a history of misleading investors. In 2006, the same year that Cramer’s company bought the Weiss Report, the SEC accused Weiss of misleading investors and violating securities laws, and slapped the investment advisor and his company with a combined $2.1 million fine. Among other things, the SEC charged [6] Weiss with making false claims that readers who followed his advice earned up to 400% returns: “In fact, during the relevant time period, many subscribers who followed each Weiss Research trading recommendation – as Weiss Research encouraged its subscribers to do – experienced overall returns that were substantially lower than Weiss Research’s profit examples and most actually lost money.”\nThis isn’t the first time Weiss has been charged by the SEC with violating securities laws: In 1972, the SEC suspended Weiss for four months [7], charging that Weiss’s investment publication “had been used to promote the sale of a fraudulent unregistered investment contract.”\nARK Partnership with Blockport Exchange\n•\thttps://bigblocksblog.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/ark-new-exciting-partnership/\n\nBlockport, unlike many new exchanges appearing today, feels like it could take a significant share of the market away from Coinbase. The antics of companies such as Coinbase have done some serious damage to the world’s view of crypto investments. Blockport aims to regain this lost confidence by creating an environment of encouragement and education within an easy-to-use exchange platform. They aim to bridge the gap between the crypto economy and the traditional world of finance.\n\nBlockport will be a Hybrid-decentralised exchange. It might not be a purist’s idea of pure decentralization but newcomers to exchanges would very much benefit from the advantages of a centralized platform (customer support and help when needed) with the decentralized features (holding your own crypto assets and peer to peer exchanges).\n\n•\tThe partnership is solidified by a shared goal; to make the world of cryptocurrency accessible for everyone.\n•\tBlockport are poised to use the ARK ecosystem for their decentralized exchange and fund storage.\n•\tLars Rensing, CFO of ARK will join Blockport as an advisor to strengthen the collaboration. The two teams will be working closely to find the best ways to collaborate and further their combined goals. 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Blockchain and cryptocurrencies are often criticized for their excessive energy consumption, this initiative is also a demonstration of the possibility of innovating in this field while remaining environment-friendly”, explained Wassim Bendella, Business Developer at iExec.\n\nNew Tokens Added to Bitfinex\n•\thttps://medium.com/bitfinex/new-tokens-added-to-bitfinex-f00391305214\n\nWe are pleased to announce support for RLC, RCN, REP, TRX, ELF, AID & SNGLS, tradable against BTC, ETH and USD.\n\nArsenal Sponsored by CashBet\n•\thttp://www.trustnodes.com/2018/01/24/arsenal-partners-cashbet-crypto-first\n\nCashBet Coin is to become the club’s exclusive and official Blockchain Partner, with Arsenal in turn become the first major team in world football to officially partner with a cryptocurrency.\n\n“With our ICO for CashBet Coin, we are actively targeting a global, multi-billion dollar marketplace of iGaming content providers, operators and players,” Dr. Mike Reaves, CEO and Founder of CashBet.\n\nDesigned specifically for iGaming, CashBet Coin will improve the online experience for real money, casino, social, skill-based, eSports and sports betting players through increased trust and transparency, faster payouts, reduced fees and dedicated player protection.”\n\nTop 7 Cryptos for Long Term Dividends\n•\thttp://www.trustnodes.com/2018/01/24/arsenal-partners-cashbet-crypto-first\n\n1.\tAnnual return is roughly 5.5%.\nNEO is also a cryptocurrency that exists on NEO’s blockchain. 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So you can do the maths that if the volume and amount of coins traded increases on KuCoin exchange, the bonus of holding the KuCoin Shares will increase as well.\n\n3.\tAnnual return is based on exchange trading volume.\nBridgeCoin is the native token of a new and popular decentralized exchange called CryptoBridge DEX.\n\nThe native token of this platform, BridgeCoin, is designed to share revenue with its holders and can be bought and sold like any other cryptocurrency And if you are a HODLer of BCO tokens i.e. BridgeCoin, you can stake it and earn 50% revenue share of the CryptoBridge DEX.\n\n4.\tAnnual return is roughly 5%.\nKomodo dividends are not like pure staking where you need to keep your wallet open all the time. Instead you just need to keep you KMD in a wallet and move around it on yearly basis.\n\n5.\tAnnual return is roughly 4.8%.\nPIVX is another proof-of-stake currency that is trying to be anonymous by applying Zerocoin protocol. And just like almost all proof-of-stake currencies, it also has its staking model which pays decently for staking and holding your PIVX coins in a wallet. Moreover, there is no cap for staking. \n\n6.\tAnnual return is roughly 5%.\nNAV is a fully functional POS cryptocurrency operating since 2014 based on Bitcoin’s core code. Some of the USPs of this currency are faster transactions (30 seconds), optional privacy with dual blockchains, and a POS staking rewards system that allows you earn while you are sleeping! There is no cap for staking.\n\nThere are some more currencies that offer such lucrative deals such as COSS, ARK and QTUM, but I have not purposely covered them because I don’t have concrete data for them neither have real-time stats of holding these currencies.\n\nCrypto with Dividends\n•\thttps://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7b3mvx/list_of_dividendpaying_cryptos\n\nTaaS - direct dividends. Two payouts thus far. Here's their second payout: https://medium.com/@Taas/fully-transparent-and-well-performing-6b49c58cbb95\nRialto.ai - direct dividends. Zero payouts thus far.\nQuantumProject - indirect dividends, 4 destruction events thus far. (7%)\nBinance Coin - indirect dividends, 1 destruction event thus far.\nTenX - direct dividends.\nTrueFlip - direct dividends, no longer operational?\nBeth.jp - direct dividends, no longer operational. Scam?\nSIFT - direct dividends, one payout thus far it seems.\nEdgeless - direct dividends, still developing their platform\nOmiseGo - direct dividends, from staking\nNEO - direct dividends in GAS. Here's the calculator: https://neotogas.com\nModum - direct dividends, scheme very unclear\nARK - direct dividends from delegates you support. Here's the calculator: https://calculator.reconnico.com/\nLisk - direct dividends for voting for delegates\nDecred - proof of stake ticket system, doesn't require online wallet if you use a pool\nParticl - currently POS but staking from offline wallet coming \nCOSS - weekly share of exchange fees\nBMC - will be adding some sort of mechanism for leasing tokens\nKNC - leasing rewards I believe\nWAVES - leasing gets you transaction fees\nXEM - harvest transaction fees, does not require online wallet but 10k minimum\nNXS - staking requires 1k minimum\nBLOCK - direct dividends, from staking (15% ROI) or running service node (30% ROI) https://blocknet.cohttps://blocknetprotocol.com/about\nNEBL - direct dividends, from staking (10-15% ROI) https://nebl.io calculator: http://nebliostats.com/calculator.php\nRISE - direct dividends from delegate you vote for (20% ROI) https://rise.vision calculator: https://dpostools.com/RISE\n\nPoS/Masternode Pooled Website\n•\thttps://stakeunited.com/\n\nInteresting concept, looks like garbage and I wouldn’t trust it. 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      "body": "DAILY TL;DR W/ CHESLINK\nJANUARY 22ND – 26TH \nJanuary 22nd \n\n1.\tBTC NEWS\n2.\tIN OTHER NEWS\n\nMARKETCAP ANALYSIS\n\nRecap from 11/20\nMarket Cap: $243,311,416,536\n24h Vol: $7,403,167,283\nBTC Dominance: 56.2%\n\nAs of 12/31\nMarket Cap: $592,941,301,681 \n24h Vol: $33,207,433,786 \nBTC Dominance: 38.0%\n\nAs of 1/8 \nMarket Cap: $743,509,110,252 \n24h Vol: $49,897,768,988 \nBTC Dominance: 34.2%\n\nAs of 1/15 \nMarket Cap: $644,874,662,903\n24h Vol: $38,996,461,258\nBTC Dominance: 34.4%\n\nAs of 1/17\nMarket Cap: $547,619,005,202\n24h Vol: $58,838,546,348\nBTC Dominance: 34.9%\n\nAs of 1/19\nMarket Cap: $578,716,549,272\n24h Vol: $33,601,889,009\nBTC Dominance: 34.1%\n\nAs of 1/22\nMarket Cap: $508,289,748,517\n24h Vol: $30,645,248,592\nBTC Dominance: 35.0%\n\nBTC NEWS\n\nBitcoin Monte Carlo Simulation for 2018\n•\thttps://medium.com/@xoelop/weve-simulated-the-bitcoin-price-for-the-whole-2018-you-won-t-believe-the-result-4a602679dac2\n\nBasically, in a Monte Carlo simulation in finance we assume that the future behavior of the price of an asset will be similar to its past behavior, and we generate a lot of random versions of that future, called random walks, similar to the past. That’s done taking random samples from the past and stacking them together to build each one of those random walks.\n\nIt looks like the most likely price is somewhere between $24K and $90K. To find that price more precisely, we could do several things. One of them is simply calculating the 50% percentile of the distribution of final prices: $ 58843. Another one is estimating the probability density function with Kernel Density Estimation and finding the price corresponding to the maximum of that function. \n\nIt’s important to note that this estimation doesn’t have to be taken to the letter and it’s better used as a way to find confidence intervals on where the future distribution where be. In this case an 80% confidence interval for the price of bitcoin would be between $13,200 and $271,277. Another way to look at this is that the chance that the price at the end of the year will be below 13,200 is the same as that of it being above $271,277 (if the price moves in the future similarly to how it did the past).\n\nIn particular, if we want to calculate the probability that that price will be equal or lower than today’s (Jan 20th 2018 - $12951) it comes out to 9.84%.\n\nBitLicense for New York\n•\thttps://www.coindesk.com/contortions-compliance-life-new-yorks-bitlicense/\n\nIn June 2015, in a race to be a first mover in the space, the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) enacted the BitLicense regulatory framework, a licensing regime that covers substantially all \"virtual currency business activity\" to the extent it touches New York or its residents.\n\nAs such, the BitLicense has prompted flight from New York by larger players such as Bitfinex and Shapeshift and has had a chilling effect on others acting in an abundance of caution.\n\nIn all, uncertainty as to the reach of the licensing requirement has left many companies with three options: avoid doing business in New York entirely, attempt to structure a business around the law, or engage in potential or outright non-compliance with the law.\nBased on the fact that DFS has received so few applicants to date, and has only five rejected applications on file, one could infer that many are electing non-compliance.\n\n\nIN OTHER NEWS\n\nARK Launches Blockchain Creation Deployer\n•\thttps://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@cryptomagic/ark-summary-as-team-announces-first-steps-towards-point-click-blockchain-through-launch-of-ark-deployer\n\nIt is now possible for developers to launch their own blockchain in a matter of minutes using the new Ark Deployer script.\n\nThe fact that Ark is currently compatible with 12 of the 18 program languages it intends to use, means that this could be an absolute game changer. (Java, Python, PHP/Laravel and Ruby are just some of the 12 that are live now).\n\nArk was one of the first blockchain projects to incorporate in the European Union. The Ark ACES project allows ARK to interact with Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum blockchains. This enables Ark to use the features of other blockchains such as Smart Contracts.\n\nFirst Blockchain Agricultural Trade SUCCESS\n•\thttps://cointelegraph.com/news/higher-than-expected-louis-dreyfus-reports-results-of-first-blockchain-agricultural-trade\n\nOne of the leading global commodity traders Louis Dreyfus Co. (LDC) has stated that its first venture into Blockchain produced results “even higher” than expected, Financial Times reportsMonday, Jan. 22.\n\n“The blockchain technology has the potential to significantly optimise administrative processes around international trade. We are excited that this test was succesfully [sic] completed and that we can move to further exploring the added value and use of the blockchain technology.”\nWithin the agriculture and food supply chain spheres, various experiments have been attempted to incorporate Blockchain as a means of improving transparency, specifically for products where such transparency is in demand, such as coffee, location-tracked crops and livestock.\n\nOriginTrail - Supply Chain Blockchain Protocol\n•\thttps://coinjournal.net/origintrail-raises-us22-5m-supply-chains-blockchain-protocol/\n\nThe roadmap for OriginTrail’s growth includes the development of its decentralized network and a plug-and-play solution, suitable for all product supply chains, based on a mission to bring interoperability and information integrity. Using OriginTrail, all stakeholders will be able to securely share their data and keep sensitive data fully encrypted at all times. By supporting global standards for data exchange (GS1, IoT, compliance standards), OriginTrail will assure compatibility with existing ERP systems, making implementation process quick and efficient.\n\nThe OriginTrail protocol will run on an off-chain decentralized peer-to-peer network, called the OriginTrail Decentralized Network (ODN). It will enable peers on the network to negotiate services, transfer, process and retrieve data, verify its integrity and availability and reimburse the provider nodes. The project was implemented to enhance transparency, safety, fairness, and trustworthiness in food supply chains by allowing customers to verify the traceability of every item sold online.\n\nOriginTrail is part of the Bits x Bites food tech accelerator program and has already established itself within the food supply chain space. The pilot project with Chinese online food store Yimishiji was in November awarded by the Walmart Food Safety Collaboration Center and admitted into its Innovation Pipeline.\n\nIMF Calling for International Crypto Discussion\n•\thttps://www.coindesk.com/imf-calls-for-international-cooperation-on-cryptocurrencies/\n\nThe International Monetary Fund (IMF), an organization of the United Nations that aims to foster global monetary cooperation and financial stability, has called for global coordination on cryptocurrencies, warning of the risks of surging cryptocurrency prices.\n\nPreviously, the IMF has advocated a balanced approach on cryptocurrency regulation. Christine Lagarde, managing director of the organization, said in September of 2017 that cryptocurrencies may give traditional government-issued currencies a \"run for their money\" and it is \"not wise\" to ignore them.\nShe added that cryptocurrencies would bring \"massive disruptions\" and warned that central banks and financial services need to pay closer attention to the technology.\n\n\"We want to make sure that bad people cannot use these currencies to do bad things,\" U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin added.\n\nNEO Critiques on Reddit\n•\thttps://www.reddit.com/r/NEO/comments/7rwwsk/some_good_points_that_address_critiques_of_neo/\n\nRecently, the following critiques of $NEO have gained traction on Twitter & Reddit without appropriate response:\nNEO's consensus network is and always will be centralised 2) Consensus nodes need to be centrally approval 3) The number of consensus nodes is too small.\nhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUBJMg2UMAAEKka.jpg\nhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUBJNmCUMAA0_El.jpg\n\nWe'll start with NEO's consensus algorithm Delegated Byzantine Fault Tolerance (dBFT).\ndBFT shares similiarities with dPoS:\nConsensus nodes are elected by $NEO holders (1 NEO = 1 vote) 2) Consensus is achieved when >66% of all CNs agree on the next block.\nhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUBNl-kVMAA82HD.jpg\nhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUBNmCgX0AA0l-m.jpg\n\nBFT & PoW consensus algorithms each come with their own advantages and disadvantages, summarised in the comparison table. The important differences are in:\nNode identity management\nScalability (no. of nodes)\nPerformance (throughput).\nhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUBPcZdUMAAJZAw.jpg\nhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUBPcc5VwAANSaR.jpg\n\nIf the multi-year effort is successful, NEO will be a global, distributed, highly scaleable, high finality (unforkable) & high concurrency network powering Smart Economy.\nOwning $NEO is literally owning a share of this network and all $GAS fees. I'm willing to take the risk.\n\nPoW vs. BFT:\nhttp://vukolic.com/iNetSec_2015.pdf\nNEO Consensus:\nhttp://docs.neo.org/en-us/node/consensus.html\nNEO Coopetition:\nhttps://medium.com/proof-of-working/decentralization-from-coopetition-b10d7ce3b9d\n\n\nVISA + ICON?\n•\thttps://medium.com/@gregjanderson20/visa-secure-banking-with-icon-d915f9b0b5bb\n\nOne of the most intriguing rumblings brewing is a potential partnership with VISA. Speculation is that VISA could be looking for a solid entry into crypto space, while keeping the volatile nature of cryptocurrency in check. The way this could potentially happen is the VISA card working more like a secured credit card instead of a credit-based card. ICX holders would be able to apply for a card, and utilize their available balance in the upcoming wallet to use for purchases around the world.\n\nKeep in mind, ICON has been working on vending machines and ATMs in local college campuses for a while now. Being able to translate this into a partnership with VISA would give ICON the global reach they are aiming for, and would quickly turn them into the dominant force.\n\nHowever, VISA recently announce they have no intentions of working with any cryptocurrencies. We’ll see how this plays out.\n\nVeChain – Cryptocurrency Disaster Recovery Plan\n•\thttps://medium.com/@vechainofficial/vechain-passes-the-first-ever-cryptocurrency-disaster-recovery-plan-from-pwc-f69ccf238a7a\n\nVeChain spearheaded the first Cryptocurrency Disaster Recovery Plan (CDRP) that meets the demands of accredited firms and approved by PwC. This is the first of its kind in the world and sets a standard for corporate level DRP and risk management of internal or external controls on blockchain solution and cryptocurrency assets both on digital and physical wallets.\n\nThe criteria of this plan had to ensure a large volume of daily transactions in large amounts, referencing SOX 404, System and Organisation Controls (SOC), ISO 27001 as well as the key lifecycle management controls from WebTrust standards to comply with the needs of large enterprise users and meet regulatory requirements.\n\nThey covered 3 varying levels of attack/risk. By completing this process, to the standards set by PwC and global enterprises, VeChain Thor and VeChain are one step further to cater to mass adoption.\n\nNational Research Council of Canada Trialing Ethereum\n•\thttp://cryptobible.io/nrc-canada-trialing-ethereum-blockchain/\n\nThe National Research Council of Canada (NRC), a government initiative, is trialing the ethereum blockchain for recording government contracts. For the pilot, the NRC is partnering with blockchain startup Bitaccess to use its Catena platform for publishing information on government grants and contributions over the open-source blockchain.\n\nFour Cryptos that Will Help Ethereum Live Forever\n•\thttps://medium.com/@rfusseryiii/erc-20-and-voltron-the-4-limbs-that-will-make-ethereum-live-forever-and-make-your-pockets-fatter-699a19b65c7a\n\nPlasma: The ERC-20 token OMG is currently undergoing development of a plasma-enabled exchange known as the OMG network, and according to the Omise Go team, the decentralized exchange “can support all the world’s currencies plus crypto for >1B users simultaneously.” This technology relies on Sharding, which cannot be implemented until Ethereum’s “Casper” update is live.\n\nThe Raiden solution exists as the asset “Raiden Network”. Raiden may have fallen out of the top 100 market cap assets, and perhaps IOTA is more promising for machine-machine transactions… but if ERC-20 remains the de-facto standard, there’s a chance we’ll see a comeback.\n\nRequest Network is the “Future of Commerce”, “Paypal 2.0\", and one of the most promising ways for crypto to gain rapid adoption. The idea is simple, make a tool that converts crypto to cash quickly and easily. ‘Easily’ cannot be understated. Through the development of external apps funded by the team’s community hub, you can expect Request to be implemented by individuals, small businesses, and even empires.\n\nRequest has partnered with the Kyber Network, a decentralized exchange that will allow Request to integrate its platform to the high liquidity that comes from active markets. From the same article, assuming Kyber has only 5% dominance in the (very competitive) space of crypto exchanges, that would easily place Kyber at a market cap of $1.2B, roughly 2.4x the current market cap. That means you can expect Kyber’s price to increase from it’s current $3.72 to a healthy $8.90. That’s a pretty safe bet, too. The mainnet launches Q1 2018.\n\nThe Smart Contract Connectivity Problem, is the inability of a smart contract to interact with any external data feed, or other resource that is run outside the node network in which the smart contract itself is executed.\nAnd here’s the solution:\nChainLink is secure blockchain middleware that allows smart contracts on various networks to connect with the critical resources they need to become useful for 90% of use cases.\n\n\nTEPCO Invests in Electron (Ethereum Based Startup)\n•\thttps://www.ccn.com/decentralized-future-japans-biggest-energy-giant-invests-ethereum-blockchain-startup/\n\nIn an announcement on Friday, TEPCO revealed its investment in London-based blockchain startup Electron toward the end of 2017.  With revenues of over $456 billion, TEPCO is Japan’s largest utility provider servicing millions of homes in Japan alongside subsidiaries and affiliates in 8 other countries. TEPCO said the two companies will explore solutions to make away with today’s centralized infrastructure to usher in a decentralized blockchain platform for energy transactions.\n\nElectron has long touted the benefits of using blockchain technology to upgrade the energy industry’s infrastructure (some 30-40 years old at this point) for efficient power sharing with major cost savings.\n\nUsing the Ethereum blockchain, Electron demoed a platform simulating data from 53 million metering points at individual homes from 60 energy providers and proved that energy supplier switches could be executed up to 20 times faster than current switching rates. The same ‘smart meter’ service could also be deployed to other utilities including telecom and water, convincing one former executive from major European utility provider Npower to join Electron’s board.\n\nFidentiaX (FDX)\n•\thttps://steemit.com/blockchain/@quoineliquid/quoine-lists-fidentiax-on-qryptos\n\nFidentiaX is building the World’s 1st Marketplace for Tradable insurance policies by leveraging blockchain technology.\n\nMost people do not realize that insurance policies with cash value can be traded in the market for a higher cash value, that is, an individual could sell his policies to a 3rd party instead of surrendering the policy. In 2014, policies lapses and surrenders were in excess of US$112billion in the US alone, of which it was estimated US$57billion could have been resold in the open market.\n\nFidentiaX’s vision is to create a trading marketplace and repository of insurance policies for the masses by leveraging blockchain technology. This blockchain-powered marketplace will provide a trustless, immutable, auditable and transparent environment to disrupt the status quo.",
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      "body": "DAILY TL;DR W/ CHESLINK\nJANUARY 15TH – 19TH \nJanuary 19th \n\n1.\tBTC NEWS\n2.\tIN OTHER NEWS\n\nMARKETCAP ANALYSIS\n\nRecap from 11/20\nMarket Cap: $243,311,416,536\n24h Vol: $7,403,167,283\nBTC Dominance: 56.2%\n\nAs of 12/11\nMarket Cap: $462,879,608,891\n24h Vol: $25,098,117,991\nBTC Dominance: 61.7%\n\nAs of 12/31\nMarket Cap: $592,941,301,681 \n24h Vol: $33,207,433,786 \nBTC Dominance: 38.0%\n\nAs of 1/8 \nMarket Cap: $743,509,110,252 \n24h Vol: $49,897,768,988 \nBTC Dominance: 34.2%\n\nAs of 1/15 \nMarket Cap: $644,874,662,903\n24h Vol: $38,996,461,258\nBTC Dominance: 34.4%\n\nAs of 1/17\nMarket Cap: $547,619,005,202\n24h Vol: $58,838,546,348\nBTC Dominance: 34.9%\n\nAs of 1/19\nMarket Cap: $578,716,549,272\n24h Vol: $33,601,889,009\nBTC Dominance: 34.1%\n\nBTC NEWS\n\nFrance and Germany Upcoming Possibility of Bitcoin Regulations\n•\thttp://www.ejinsight.com/20180119-france-germany-to-make-joint-bitcoin-regulation-proposal-at-g20/\n\nFrance and Germany will make joint proposals to regulate the bitcoin cryptocurrency at the next summit of the G20 group of major economies in Argentina in March, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said.\n\n“We will have a joint Franco-German analysis of the risks linked to bitcoin, regulation proposals and these will be submitted as a joint proposal to our G20 counterparts at the G20 summit in Argentina in March,” Reuters quoted Le Maire as telling reporters.\n\nBitcoin Doomed with No More Customers?\n•\thttps://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/01/19/bitcoin-stuck-without-plan-gain-customers-could-doomed\n\nAccording to Moore, there are three types of customers who first adopt technologies in a predictable sequence. Innovators are technologists at heart and arrive first, even before a compelling use case may exist. Next, Early Adopters are visionaries who have taken notice of the Innovators, and they see the disruptive potential of a new technology. \n\nFinally, the Early Majority arrives. These customers are pragmatists. They do not seek the first-mover advantage that the Early Adopters prize; rather, they want workable solutions and will not be patient with glitches and bugs. This group is massive compared to the Innovators and Early Adopters, and their adoption is critical to a technology's success.\n\nIN OTHER NEWS\n\nDASH Scholarship at ASU\n•\thttp://bitcoinist.com/dash-funds-blockchain-research-arizona-state-university/\n\nIn November last year, Arizona State University (ASU) entered into a collaboration with Dash, a top-20 cryptocurrency with a market cap of just over $6.5 billion, according to CoinMarketCap. The self-funding crypto offers many distinctive characteristics, including instant and private transactions through its InstantSend and PrivateSend features respectively.\n\nAccording to AZ Big Media, the move came after Dash donated $50k to the ASU’s Blockchain Research Laboratory (BRL) in August last year.\n\nThe partnership will introduce the Dash Scholars Program, which will provide $100k to fund undergraduate and graduate research fellowships, and open source projects. The program will also contribute $100k to the BRL and $50k to the Luminosity Lab and blockchain course development. In addition, $100k will be allocated to an ASU online graduate course scheduled for this fall.\n\nVitalik’s DAICO Alternative to ICOs\n•\thttps://themerkle.com/vitalik-buterin-releases-revolutionary-new-daico-model-for-icos/\n\nButerin’s proposed model could greatly improve the traditional structure of an ICO and eliminate the risk of resources being used in an inappropriate manner by ICO creators for personal gain. The “DAO” in “DAOICO” refers to a Decentralized Autonomous Organization that is governed by a smart contract.\n\nA DAICO contract is published by a single development team that wishes to raise funds for a project. The DAICO contract starts off in ‘contribution mode,’ specifying a mechanism by which anyone can contribute ETH to the contract, and get tokens in exchange. This could be a capped sale, an uncapped sale, a Dutch auction, an interactive coin offering, a KYC’d sale with dynamic per-person caps, or whatever other mechanism the team chooses. Once the contribution period ends, the ability to contribute ETH stops and the initial token balances are set; from there on the tokens can become tradeable.\n\nIn addition to publishing the new DAICO model, Buterin also announced subsidies of between US$50,000 and US$1 million to reward any work that contributes to solving the ongoing scalability issue present in the cryptocurrency environment.\n\nCrypto Trading Bots\n•\thttps://bravenewcoin.com/news/cryptocurrency-trading-bots/\n\nGekko is a free open-source bitcoin trading bot that can be found on Github. It allows users to execute basic cryptocurrency trading strategies. The bot aggregates live price data, calculates indicators, executes live orders, and can simulate live markets using historical price data for the backtesting of trading strategies.\n\nWhile its functionalities are somewhat limited compared to some of its peers, Gekko is a good trading bot for those new to the cryptocurrency markets who want to test out different automated trading strategies.  \n\nZenBot is another open-source cryptocurrency trading software that can be found on GitHub. It can be downloaded for free and its code can be modified by anyone who feels it could use an upgrade. Zenbot supports multiple digital assets and uses a technical analysis-focused approach to execute trading strategies. It also offers high-frequency trade execution, extensive backtesting, and a paper trading function to test strategies in real-time.\n\nHaving said that, on the bot’s GitHub page its developer warns from using it with large amounts of trading capital as some users have reported losses in live trading even when paper trades showed gains.\n\nCryptoTrader is a cloud-based platform that allows users to develop their own cryptocurrency trading bots which are hosted on the platform. The software supports multiple currencies and exchanges, and allows for thorough backtesting of trading strategies. Additionally, CryptoTrader provides a marketplace where users can sell trading strategies that they have developed as well as buy other user’s strategies.\n\nThe prices for subscriptions to CryptoTrader ranges from 0.0013 BTC to 0.016 BTC per month and can be paid for in both bitcoin and litecoin.\n\nHaasbot is probably the most popular crypto trading bot on the market today. The bot provides candlestick chart pattern recognition and allows users to combine that with several other trading signals to develop more advanced crypto trading strategies. Furthermore, the trading bot is supported by a long list of major bitcoin exchanges and is fully customizable in terms of when it should execute trades.\n\nHaasbot also allows users to engage in arbitrage across exchanges as well as protect their investments using stop-loss limits, among other value-adding functionalities. At a price ranging from 0.035 BTC to 0.084 BTC for a three-month license, this bot is at the higher price end and recommended for more advanced traders.\n\nOMG Potentials\n•\thttps://medium.com/@petehumiston/omisego-omg-real-problems-real-solutions-everything-you-need-to-know-8-reasons-to-buy-92551527c0a7\n\nI have derived a value of $74.25 per token by looking out to 2022 and discounting fees from transactions (Discounted Fee Flow/ DFF). My price target is based on several assumptions (discussed below) and potential share of the remittance market, mobile wallet market, cryptocurrency trading volumes, and digital economy that I believe OmiseGO could capture. Although a bullish price target from current levels, I believe I could be severely underestimating the value of OmiseGO given conservative assumptions, lack of global market data, and other market opportunities not addressed. I’ve also included a sensitivity analysis to further analyze the impact of tweaks to discount rate & transaction fees. Note: I am modeling for Asia markets ex China.\n\nEverex and OMG Possible Visa Connection\n•\thttps://twitter.com/AtichaiSiri/status/953950270618181633\n\nEverex and Omise got invited by Visa to join Visa’s Everywhere Initiative for exploration of payment solutions! Stay tuned for bigger news, guys!\n\nBAT to Work with Twitter\n•\thttps://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/7l4033/transcript_of_ama_with_brendan_eich_ceo_of_brave/\n•\thttps://mobile.twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/954010713944551424\n\n\nOn Twitter, it is on the roadmap after Twitch. As with Reddit, requires parsing the DOM to find payees.\n\nVitalik Leaves VC for Full Time ETH Work\n•\thttps://investfeededge.com/ethereum-co-founder-vitalik-buterin-leaves-fenbushi-capital/\n\nVitalik Buterin, co-creator of Ethereum (ETH/USD) and one of the more prominent figures in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space, has stepped down from his position at Chinese venture capital firm Fenbushi Capital.\n\nFounded in 2015, Fenbushi invests solely in blockchain-enabled companies, with the aim to “accelerate the inevitable future of Blockchain economy.” Buterin was initially involved with the firm as a General Partner; however, Buterin and Fenbushi have both officially confirmed that he will now be staying on only in an advisory capacity, with Buterin clarifying that he will “no longer be able to devote sufficient time to meet the growing demands of both Fenbushi and Ethereum.”\n\nAmong Buterin’s concerns were the facts that blockchain tech has yet to relieve the world’s unbanked, provide censorship-resistant commerce for the masses, facilitate micropayments, advance the potential of smart contracts, and rescue citizens of countries struck by hyperinflation.\n\nExplaining that his aim is to direct his energies solely toward developing Ethereum to meet rising expectations, and ensure that it can ‘walk the walk’, Buterin stated that he would be focusing on the numerous challenges the platform was facing, such as scalability issues and the introduction of sharding and the Casper proof of stake protocol.\n\n“I expect 2018, at least within the Ethereum space that I’m best able to speak about, will be the year of action. It will be the year where all of the ideas around scalability, Plasma, proof-of-stake, and privacy that we have painstakingly worked on and refined over the last four years are finally going to turn into real, live working code that you can play around in a highly mature form in some cases on testnets, and in some key cases even on the public mainnet. Everyone in the Ethereum space recognizes that the world is watching, and we are ready to deliver.”\n\nUS Treasury Warns about Venezuelan Petro Crypto\n•\thttps://themerkle.com/us-treasury-warns-investors-about-petro-cryptocurrency/\n\nVenezuela’s Petro cryptocurrency has made a lot of media headlines over the past few weeks. For now, it still remains unclear how well this project will fare, especially because the country’s Senate has no plans to approve it. It seems the US Treasury Department is warning investors regarding the new cryptocurrency. It is possible that this form of money violates sanctions against the OPEC nation’s socialist government.\n\nAccording to the US Treasury Department, the Petro can be seen as an extension of credit to the Venezuelan government. This would consequently expose US-based investors to legal risk if they purchase this currency in the future. The consequences of such risk should not be underestimated. In fact, it would open up a proverbial can of worms no one wants to tangle with right now. For now, the Treasury’s statement is only an official warning rather than an actual guideline, though.\n\nByteball (Another DAG)\n•\thttps://themerkle.com/introducing-byteball-a-dag-based-digital-currency/\n\nTo help fix blockchain issues, new technologies are emerging on the market, known as data acyclic graph systems (DAG). New cryptocurrencies have emerged, such as IOTA, RailBlocks and Byteball. The systems upon which these currencies are based allow users to further leverage the potential of the technology.\n\nByteball offers numerous benefits, such as:\n\n- Encrypted chat between users\n- Blackbytes providing private, untraceable value transfers\n- Ability to send Bytes via chat apps\n- Multi-signature support\n- A user-friendly wallet\n- No limitation to the number of transactions\n- A fair distribution and a limited supply\n- Smart contracts can bind transactions to conditions\n- GB/BTC exchange, insurance against flight delays etc.\n- Ability to send Bytes via email by adding the recipient's email address where you would normally add their Byteball address.\n\nOKCoin to Launch in Korea\n•\thttps://www.coindesk.com/okcoin-to-launch-cryptocurrency-exchange-service-in-south-korea/\n\nAccording to The Korea Times, the Beijing-based firm is eyeing a partnership with NHN Entertainment, a Korean developer, publisher, and distributor of mobile and PC games, for the venture.\n\nThe news source suggests that NHN is considering the partnership and an equity investment, though the move has apparently not been finalized\nOKCoin was established in China in 2013, but had to shutter its domestic exchange operations in October 2017, following Chinese regulators' crackdown on cryptocurrency exchanges. Since then, the company has shifted to an over-the-counter model, and turned its attention to international markets.\n\nThe exchange has already put in place the OKCoin Korea website and is accepting pre-orders for cryptocurrencies before the official launch. It aims to offer more than 60 digital currencies to be traded against the Korean won, according to the site.\n\nVeChain So Much Hype\n•\thttp://ethereumworldnews.com/vechain-recommended-choice-step-rockets/\n\nFirst thing first, the coin launched two-three years ago in 2015 being part of a product that does have actual users right now. In the community and ecosystem we enthusiast about maybe everyday that is rare to meet.\nThe firm backing up the digital currency is a BaaS company [Blockchain-as-a-Service] targeting on developing towards the IoT [Internet of Things]. Might sound similar to IOTA [MIOTA], however unlike the later one – VeChain is on the authenticity within supply chains terms.\n\nThe idea is that, by using blockchain technology, the authenticity of goods that are purchased can be verified. It’s a system that aims to ensure product quality, but in a decentralized, global network that cuts across industries. Using smart chips, products are tracked throughout their lifecycles. The chips can also help with quality control, like with agricultural or food product where a change in temperature could affect the goods.\n\n\nDragonChain\n•\thttps://medium.com/@PAAlmasi/dragonchain-blockchain-business-magic-9c3ffe4ad47e\n\nIn 2014, Disney started privately developing a blockchain project, DragonChain, that would provide enterprises with over 20 use cases. Several years later in 2017, Disney agreed to make the project open sourced and helped created the DragonChain Foundation to maintain ownership and responsibility of the open source code. The team is now in the process of creating server-less environments for enterprises, as well as creating an incubator to encourage startups to leverage their blockchain. Today, DragonChain trades for $3 a coin, however, since the DragonChain team already has a fully functioning product, with over 200 projects set to utilize their incubator, and a planned integration with Amazon AWS, this coin could easily trade for $60 a coin in 12 months.\n\nThe DragonChain mission to create a truly scalable and secure blockchain solution for enterprises has clearly filled a demand as the platform already has 200 projects in the pipeline. Pair their adoption progression with the planned integration with Amazon AWS and this coin could undoubtedly touch $60 a coin in 12 months.\n\nNapoleonX Algorithmic AI Trading\n•\thttps://cointelegraph.com/news/trading-bots-to-govern-an-investment-strategy-of-newly-created-decentralized-autonomous-funds\n\nNaPoleonX answers two questions. The first one relates to the use of Blockchain technology in investment beyond the crypto-world and the second one relates to the merger of conventional and crypto-trading. In Blockchain-based algorithmic asset management, investors will find a solution to both profitability and security.\n\nIn anticipation of broad conventional asset tokenization, the highly experienced NaPoleonX team has innovated the Decentralized Autonomous Fund (DAF) that makes investing in both cryptocurrencies and conventional assets on the same platform possible and robust. As trading bots are posing a real challenge to conventional asset management methods, being more effective and cost-efficient, NaPoleonX is introducing algorithms so that cryptocurrencies can be traded securely and transparently. In short, NaPoleonX is an innovative investment platformdevoted to cryptocurrency holders.\n\nNaPoleonX will be fully regulated and licensed, and Napoleon Crypto SAS already has 20 high performing strategies which enable the creation of 10 DAFs. The ICO for this ambitious project will be launched Jan. 22nd and the team is aiming to collect €15 mln.\n\nVisa Will Not Support Any Cryptos\n•\thttp://www.livebitcoinnews.com/visa-confirms-will-not-support-bitcoin-cryptocurrencies-future/\n\nA lot of cryptocurrency users are not too happy with Visa right now. Their decision to suspend WaveCrest’s services has not gone over too well. It seems the payment card giant has another reason for this rather sudden decision. More specifically, they have zero intention of supporting any cryptocurrency through their network. Bitcoin is not a payment system, hence it has no business piggybacking on Visa’s infrastructure. A very clear sentiment that will create some interesting discussions.\n\nThere is a good reason why Visa and cryptocurrencies won’t play nice. In fact, everyone knows these two industries will not mix particularly well. Visa is the world’s largest credit card company in the world. Most people used Visa-issued cards to spend cryptocurrencies in a more convenient manner. For Visa, this brought along a lot of new users, but also grave concerns. After all, the company doesn’t want to bear any responsibility for currencies they don’t natively support. Right now, fiat currency-based transactions are the only type the company plans to process.",
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