Santa Rally / Blythe Masters / Chia / Waves Funding

Subscribe | View in browser $BTC (1:08 p.m. EST): $3,837.16 (8.19%) // 90-day high: $7,382.19 // 90-day low: $3,286.14 / / More… $BCH ABC (1:08 p.m. EST): $139.06 (38.14%) // 90-day high: $703.41// 90-day low: $80.95 // More… $ETH (1:09 p.m. EST): $104.92 (10.73%) // 90-day high: $365.71 // 90-day low: $85.11 // More… $LTC (1:09 p.m. EST): $30.58 (6.24%) // 90-day high: $74.80 // 90-day low: $22.09 // More… $XRP (1:09 p.m. EST): $0.37 (11.78%) // 90-day high: $0.61 // 90-day low: $0.26 // More… Here are the 10 most important stories about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies today       1. Bitcoin's Santa Rally continued into Wednesday. The coin has now seen its price increase 20 percent since last Friday thanks to five consecutive positive days. The rally, which coincided with the one-year anniversary of bitcoin's record high price, has given experts hope that bitcoin finally found a floor. –BLOOMBERG       2. Blythe Masters has stepped down as the CEO of Digital Asset Holdings. Masters, a former JPMorganChase executive, joined the blockchain startup in 2015 with great fanfare. Her main mission has been to explain blockchain in a way that financial firms and investors can understand, removing the hype around cryptocurrencies to look objectively at the underlying technology. Masters said her resignation comes for personal reasons, but it must be noted that her departure coincides following a year of a significant drop in the price of bitcoin. –CNBC       Meet the Owl featured in This Week in Startups 2018 Year in Review No one has time for awful meetings! The Meeting Owl is a game changer and we use it all the time at Inside. Their smart 360° conferencing camera is seamless and the autofocus feature is LEGIT. If you have a remote team, you need to try a Meeting Owl. Use the 30-day return policy but we don't think you'll need it. Use code INSIDE to get $100 off Meeting Owl Pro Kit.       3. Bram Cohen, the founder of BitTorrent, continues to push ahead with his cryptocurrency, Chia. The coin has been marketed as the anti-bitcoin. It bills itself as "green money for a digital world," since it uses a proof-of-space mining process opposed to the electricity-guzzling proof-of-work mechanism. Proof-of-space uses hard disk space to complete mining operations, which Cohen said is largely underutilized on computers and laptops. –CCN       4. Waves Platform has raised $120 million to roll out a private version of its Vostok platform. Waves serves as a public blockchain network that helps digital startups create tokens. The company had benefited from the boom in initial coin offerings last year. The company's own token, known as Waves, doubled in price amid of the funding announcement. It now has a market value of $383 million. –FINANCE MAGNATES       Get started with your own Kubernetes cluster in minutes. DigitalOcean Kubernetes is now available. Learn more.       5. Wong Ching-kit, the bitcoin millionaire that made it rain cash in a Hong Kong neighborhood earlier this week, has been arrested. –COIN TELEGRAPH 6. Galaxy Digital CEO Michael Novogratz does not expect bitcoin to drop much more. –COIN TELEGRAPH 7. Vodafone, Huawei and Intel, among others, have formed a blockchain industry group. –THE NEXT WEB 8. Tim Draper has made an investment in OpenNode, a bitcoin payments processor. –COINDESK 9. Coinbase has announced support for four more ethereum tokens. –COINSPEAKER 10. Medici Ventures uses the Ravencoin blockchain to purchase equity in Chainstone Labs. –THE-BLOCKCHAIN       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).       ASC 606 on mind? Get exclusive access to expert advice on our live Webinar. Register Now. Owl Labs is the creator of the Meeting Owl, the first 360-degree smart conference camera. Learn more.

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