Continued Price Drop / Hash War / Memes / Bitcoin ETF

Subscribe | View in browser $BTC (1:00 p.m. EST): $5,106.13 (-9.06%) // 90-day high: $7,382.19 // 90-day low: $5,105.51 / / More… $BCH ABC (1:01 p.m. EST): $348.28 (-9.35%) // 90-day high: $703.41// 90-day low: $345.98 // More… $ETH (1:01 p.m. EST): $153.95 (-12.81%) // 90-day high: $365.71 // 90-day low: $153.95 // More… $LTC (1:02 p.m. EST): $37.24 (-12.54%) // 90-day high: $74.80 // 90-day low: $37.23 // More… $XRP (1:02 p.m. EST): $0.49 (-3.97%) // 90-day high: $0.61 // 90-day low: $0.26 // More… Here are the 10 most important stories about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies today       1. The price of bitcoin continues to drop. The coin's price threatened to drop below $5,000 on Monday. Major altcoins have struggled as well with ethereum, litecoin and bitcoin cash down more than 10 percent, while ripple was down nearly four percent. The total value of all cryptocurrencies now stands at $171 billion, down more than $10 billion from Friday. –MARKET WATCH       2. The bitcoin cash hash war continued through the weekend. Jimmy Nguyen, CEO of nChain, recently said that a hash burst on Bitcoin Cash ABC was rented or subsidized from the BTC network to inflate results. Miners are currently voting between Bitcoin Cash ABC and Bitcoin Cash SV. Nguyen believed it is hypocrisy for miners to move hash for a day or two from a rival network and then use that to claim victory. –AMB CRYPTO       A 6-week MIT Blockchain Course Be guided by MIT faculty as you learn to harness the power of blockchain technology to solve real-world business problems in your organization. ​​​​​​​       3. Bear markets are good for at least one thing: Memes. Bitcoin Twitter has used memes to at least laugh through some of the pain of last week's downturn. Some of the most popular memes include Hide the Pain Harold, Non-Playable Character (or NPC), and a number of different Bingo cards. –BITCOIN.COM       4. Switzerland has approved a bitcoin ETF. The fund, which trades under the symbol $HODL, will begin trading on the county's Six Swiss Exchange beginning this week. Nearly half of the fund will be invested in bitcoin, while the rest will be put into bitcoin cash, XRP, ethereum and litecoin. Amun Crypto, a fintech company based in the United Kingdom, is offering the ETF. –BITCOINIST       Has your business tried newsletter ads? Our readers (like you!) are highly sophisticated and consider Inside to be a trusted source of news. How does sponsorship work?  1. Pick your audience (examples: founders, executives, marketers, developers, high-earning consumers) 2. Pick your geo (examples: USA, NYC, West Coast, etc.) 3. Sit back and watch the results roll in Click here to get started       5. Bitcoin's price went from $5,500 to $19,000 in a little more than a month last year – it can do it again. –NEWS BTC 6. Binance sent $600 million in bitcoin for just $7. –CCN 7. CoinDesk sits down with Linda Pawczuk, head of Deloitte's blockchain group, who says bad crypto headlines make clients "nervous." -COINDESK 8. Christie's recorded a $318 million art sale on blockchain. –CCN 9. Blockchain-related job postings have dropped. –COMPUTER WORLD 10. Here's an interview Michaela Juric, better known as the Bitcoin Babe, who discusses the challenges she has faced in her career. –BITCOIN.COM       Written and curated by David Stegon. He has been a reporter for 15 years, the past 10 focused on technology. Follow him @davidstegon. Editing team: Lon Harris (editor-in-chief at Inside.com, game-master at Screen Junkies), Krystle Vermes (Breaking news editor at Inside, B2B marketing news reporter, host of the "All Day Paranormal" podcast), and Susmita Baral (editor at Inside, recent bylines in NatGeo, Teen Vogue, and Quartz. Runs the biggest mac and cheese account on Instagram).       Capitalize on the economic opportunities offered by blockchain technology with MIT Sloan.

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