August 19, 2018 | Read in Browser |
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“People spend too much time doing and not enough time thinking about what they should be doing.” - Naval |
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MARKET |
COIN | PRICE | 24H |
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BTC | $6,455.380646 | +0.01% |
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ETH | $302.904814 | -1.42% |
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XRP | $0.347949 | +2.82% |
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BCH | $573.984492 | +0.18% |
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EOS | $5.346904 | +1.36% |
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*Information as of 9:30 AM EST
TRADING |
Crypto Market Endures Crazy Week of Price Movement
BTC
- Bitcoin had a volatile week, trading between $5800 and $6700
- However, Bitcoin remains at about the same price it was trading seven days ago
- Bitcoin dominance rose to over 50% for the first time since December of last year
ALTS
- Altcoins had an equally interesting week, following Bitcoin's price movement as they usually do
- Ethereum was hit the hardest of the top market capitalizations, dipping all the way to September 2017 lows
- Alts were resilient, they surged the past couple of days with almost all of the top 100 market caps being in the green
BIGGEST GAINERS
- TaTaTu (+258.68%)
- PKG Token (+179.72%)
- Aston (+67.17%)
- Parkgene (+65.50%)
- Bob's Repair (+65.28%)
BIGGEST LOSERS
- AC3 (-54.15%)
- OWNDATA (-49.52%)
- Aurora (-43.52%)
- LinkEye (-41.98%)
- CarBlock (-41.95%)
MINING |
SoftBank Denies Deal with Mining Giant Bitmain
FAKE NEWS
- Recently, the Chinese publication QQ reported that Bitmain had secured financing from Japan's SoftBank for its impending IPO
- After receiving an anonymous tip, CoinTelegraph reached out to SoftBank to make light of the situation
To clarify, Kenichi Yuasa from the Corporate Communication Office of SoftBank Group responded:
"Neither the SoftBank Group Corp. nor the SoftBank Vision Fund were in any way involved in the deal."
WHAT'S THE VALUATION?
- The same Chinese publication QQ also expressed that Bitmain will have an estimated IPO valuation of $30 billion due to SoftBank's involvement
- In July, Bitmain reported Q1 profits of $1.1 billion and led a financing round that put its estimated valuation at $14-15 billion
- With uncertainty in the pre-initial IPO financing structure, Bitmain's estimated IPO valuation is now unknown
Bitmain could IPO on the Hong Kong stock exchange as soon as September.
TECH |
Ellen, Kanye, and the Pope are Receiving Crypto as Tron Supporters Take Twitter by Storm
#OPERATIONTRONSTORM
- #OperationTronStorm is an effort to target influential people in the world to raise awareness of Tron (TRX) capabilities
- Among those influential people are Kanye West, Ellen, the Pope, Snoop Dogg, and more
SEEDIT SUCCESS
- To facilitate the payments over Twitter, Seedit, a service created for the Tron protocol, recently launched its TRX Twitter payment integration
- Currently, Seedit allows users to send TRX over Twitter for the fee of 0.05 TRX
To learn how to use Seedit to send payments, visit here.
GIVEAWAY |
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BREW BITS |
- New reports show that Google Play's anti-crypto mining app policy has not been effective.
- Binance released information that 90% of their employees choose to receive salary in BNB.
- U.K. blockchain startups are exploring options as Brexit decisions loom overhead.
LEARN LINGO |
ASIC Miner
noun
ASIC is short for “Application-Specific Integrated Circuit”. ASIC Miner means a computer chip or “integrated circuit” which was built for the single purpose of mining cryptocurrencies.
COIN OF THE DAY |
Hush (HUSH) |
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Hush is an implementation of the Zerocashprotocol, offering a high standard of privacy preserving confidentiality of transaction metadata. |
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