Sunday, August 19, 2018

Crypto Market Endures Crazy Week of Price Movement

August 19, 2018 Read in Browser
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MARKET
COIN PRICE 24H

BTC $6,455.380646 +0.01%

ETH $302.904814 -1.42%

XRP $0.347949 +2.82%

BCH $573.984492 +0.18%

EOS $5.346904 +1.36%

*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

  1. TaTaTu (+258.68%)
  2. PKG Token (+179.72%)
  3. Aston (+67.17%)
  4. Parkgene (+65.50%)
  5. Bob's Repair (+65.28%)

BIGGEST LOSERS

  1. AC3 (-54.15%)
  2. OWNDATA (-49.52%)
  3. Aurora (-43.52%)
  4. LinkEye (-41.98%)
  5. 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
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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.


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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.


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