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Subscribe | View in browser $BTC (12:14 p.m. EST): $6,391.82 (-1.11%) // 90-day high: $7,382.19 // 90-day low: $5,971.14/ / More… $BCH (12:14 p.m. EST): $568.12 (-3.70%) // 90-day high: $703.41// 90-day low: $417.76 // More… $ETH (12:15 p.m. EST): $210.10 (-1.53%) // 90-day high: $365.71 // 90-day low: $171.58 // More… $LTC (12:15 p.m. EST): $51.88 (-2.50%) // 90-day high: $74.80 // 90-day low: $47.78 // More… $XRP (12:15 p.m. EST): $0.50 (0.08%) // 90-day high: $0.61 // 90-day low: $0.26 // More… Here are the 10 most important stories about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies today       1. Square generated $43 million in bitcoin revenue during the third quarter. That is a $6 million increase from the previous quarter. While the company only made about $500,000 in profits from that business, it continues to expand its interaction with cryptocurrencies. The company open sourced its cold storage setup last month and has steadily expanded its crypto offerings to new areas. –CCN       2. Bitmain has rushed to deploy more than 90,000 Antminer S9 machines to the western Chinese region of Xinjiang in preparation for the bitcoin cash hard fork. The company is reaching out to local mining farms in the coal-rich region of Xinjiang to set up operations that can take advantage of the fork. Xinjiang, and other nearby regions including in Mongolia, have a glut of energy that cryptocurrency miners have tried to take advantage of for years. –COIN TELEGRAPH       6-Week Blockchain Programme Prepare your business for the blockchain revolution, as you learn from global experts and industry leaders, and interact with an international cohort of like-minded professionals.       3. Amazon Web Services has partnered with Kaleido, a blockchain-based startup, to create an ethereum marketplace for enterprises. Kaleido offers blockchain specific support to businesses as part of a larger cloud platform. The marketplace will make it easier for enterprises to find a full stack of tools that encompass things from internal tools for developers to app interfaces. –SMARTEREUM       4. Here is a case study on the breach of StatCounter, a leading web analytics vendor, that provides insight about another avenue for cryptocurrency attacks. The site had infected scripts that were used by its customers to collect bitcoins on the sly. Overall, the hackers were able to infect more than 700,000 sites with its code. –WE LIVE SECURITY This item first appeared in Inside Security. Subscribe here.       HHHEEEELLLLOOOOOO!!!!! Your remote folks are sick of being ignored in meetings. So stop it … please … #ForPetesSake Watch the video.       5. A Swedish man convicted of mailing a pipe bomb to a cryptocurrency exchange was sentenced to seven years in jail. –THE NEXT WEB 6. Bitcoin has had a tighter price range lately than the Mexican peso, the Argentine peso, and the Turkish lira, among other traditional currencies. –MARKET WATCH 7. Teachers in China were caught using school computers to mine ethereum. –THE NEXT WEB 8. Hut 8, a Canadian bitcoin mining company, set a company record with $13.5 million in revenue last quarter. –COIN TELEGRAPH 9. Developers believe Zcash's zk-SNARKS protocol may help ethereum scale faster than Plasma. –CRYPTO GLOBE 10. A bitcoin pioneer who gave away more than $100 million in cryptocurrency has no regrets. –BLOOMBERG       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).       Oxford Blockchain Strategy Programme. Explore the effects of blockchain technology on your business strategy. Dozens of analysts covering news on 2,000 coins in 24/7 realtime. Over 80,000 staff-written headlines. CryptocurrencyNewsfeed.com

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