Monday, June 18, 2018

Daily Coin Update - Tuesday, June 19th 2018

Daily Coin Update

Tuesday, June 19th 2018

Coin Value 24h Change 24h Volume Mkt Cap
(BTC) Bitcoin $6,709.92 +3.68% $4b $115b
(ETH) Ethereum $516.79 +3.94% $1b $52b
(BCC) BitConnect $0.5083 +2.85% $2k $5m
(XMR) Monero $127.79 +3.78% $33m $2b
(DASH) Dash $268.88 +3.47% $141m $2b
(XRP) Ripple $0.5364 +2.33% $279m $21b
(NEO) NEO $39.40 +3.69% $87m $3b
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Square / $0.01 / Russia / Metronome

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Here are today's ten most important Bitcoin stories, efficiently ranked & summarized by smart humans, not algorithms:

$BTC (1:27 p.m. EST): $6,781.14 (3.64%) // 90-day high: $11,849.50 // 90-day low: $6,247.06/ / More

$BCH (1:27 p.m. EST): $891.26 (4.46%) // 90-day high: $1,786.80// 90-day low: $608.37 // More

$ETH (1:28 p.m. EST): $521.44 (4.36%) // 90-day high: $831.65 // 90-day low: $365.43 // More

$LTC (1:29 p.m. EST): $98.86 (2.42%) // 90-day high: $251.03 // 90-day low: $93.45 // More

$XRP (1:29 p.m. EST): $0.54 (2.89%) // 90-day high: $1.20 // 90-day low: $0.47 // More

Here are the 10 most important stories about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies today

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1. Square has received a “bitlicense” from New York State. The license allows the company to facilitate buying and selling of bitcoin through its Cash app. Square is the ninth company to receive a “bitlicense” from the state. Square continues to push forward in the cryptocurrency space. The company said it made a $200,000 profit from bitcoin in the first quarter of the year, the first quarter it began allowing users to pay for products with the digital coin. –BUSINESS INSIDER

Square receives 'bitlicense' in New York
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2. A $0.01 difference in electricity prices may be the reason several bitcoin mining operations have chosen Washington State over Oregon. Washington has become a haven for mining operations, thanks to cool temperatures, relaxed governments, and low energy costs. The wave, though, has largely passed Oregon. While the state’s electricity costs are lower than the national average they cannot beat Washington’s best price – missing by just 1 cent per kilowatt hour. –OREGON LIVE

Miners avoid Oregon over small price different
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3. Two of Russia’s largest banks will pilot cryptocurrency portfolios. Sherbank and Alfa Bank, under the watch of the Bank of Russia, will allow clients to purchase shares in a special fund that will trade the six most popular cryptocurrencies on major exchanges. The coins currently include bitcoin, bitcoin cash, and ethereum, and will be reevaluated four times each year. Their proportions inside the fund will be balanced with a trading algorithm. -COINDESK

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4. Jeff Garzik, one of the first bitcoin developers, has formally launched his own altcoin, Metronome. The coin was first announced last October. Metronome’s prime selling point is that tokens can be exported and imported across a variety of different blockchains without altering the coin’s total supply. It does this with an intricate system of smart contracts. As a result, this feature will allow Metronome to last for “generations,” even if the individual blockchain networks fade into obscurity. -CCN

Developer launches Metronome cryptocurrency
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5. Switzerland’s Bank for International Settlements believes processing all payments in bitcoin “could bring the internet to a halt.” The report aimed to look into bitcoin, separating fact from hype. The bank came away largely unimpressed, saying that bitcoin will never replace the dollar or other traditional currencies as everyday money. The biggest issue, it said, was the processing power needed to complete transactions, something the internet in its current state is not able to handle. -CNN

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6. A group of former Denver Post reporters and editors plan to launch a new publication powered by blockchain. The group left The Denver Post to create a new local state online newspaper, The Colorado Sun, after newsroom layoffs and deteriorating morale following a change in the newspaper’s ownership. The new venture will use blockchain technology from ConsenSys-backed blockchain startup Civil Media Company to store data. There is currently a Kickstarter campaign for the fledgling outlet, which hopes to raise $75,000 over the next month. –COIN TELEGRAPH

New newspaper to use blockchain
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7. Check out this interview with DIAMCO COO Anton Trantin. His company is working to tokenize diamonds. -IRISH TECH NEWS

8. Phillip Nunn, CEO of The Blackmore Group, still believes bitcoin will reach $60,000 per coin this year. His reasoning is fairly straightforward: As blockchain continues to take off so will bitcoin. -BITCOINIST

9. Silk Road (How to Buy Drugs Online), the first cryptocurrency-funded play, will be coming to Trafalgar Studios later this year. The play, written in 2014, follows a young technology expert who explores the Dark Web while trying to find his way in the regular world. –THE STANDARD

10. Developers are asking the wrong questions when it comes to scaling, one crypto analyst argues. He believes the focus should be on creating a decentralized currency, opposed to focusing just on scaling. That will lead to larger adoption. And to make his point, the author uses Star Wars gifs. -CCN

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From the Forums

Looking at the correlation of r/bitcoin comments and daily BTC price.

More mod anger on Reddit.

Ethereum keeps gaining developers.

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📰 CoinSheet - June 18, 2018 📰

June 18, 2018
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COIN BULLETIN

SEC doesn't believe Ether (and Bitcoin) are securities

William Hinman (the SEC director of Corporation Finance) has given us a breakdown of how the SEC views cryptocurrency and ICOs.

"...If the network on which the token or coin is to function is sufficiently decentralized – where purchasers would no longer reasonably expect a person or group to carry out essential managerial or entrepreneurial efforts – the assets may not represent an investment contract. Moreover, when the efforts of the third party are no longer a key factor for determining the enterprise's success, material information asymmetries recede. As a network becomes truly decentralized, the ability to identify an issuer or promoter to make the requisite disclosures becomes difficult, and less meaningful.

And so, when I look at Bitcoin today, I do not see a central third party whose efforts are a key determining factor in the enterprise. The network on which Bitcoin functions is operational and appears to have been decentralized for some time, perhaps from inception. Applying the disclosure regime of the federal securities laws to the offer and resale of Bitcoin would seem to add little value. And putting aside the fundraising that accompanied the creation of Ether, based on my understanding of the present state of Ether, the Ethereum network and its decentralized structure, current offers and sales of Ether are not securities transactions."

You can read the full speech here.

You can read Marco Santori's (a lawyer) comments about this here.

You can read Kyle Samani's (a fund manager) comments about this here.
 

BitLicense

Square, you get a BitLicense!

Xapo, you get a BitLicense!

(more coming soon)

What else is going on...

  1. Russia's Largest Banks Are Piloting Bitcoin and Crypto Portfolios
  2. Chip Maker Nvidia Adds Blockchain-AI Startup to Incubator
  3. Etoro Is Launching an OTC Crypto Trading Desk for Institutions
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Ether is not a Security?

I liked this read from Preston Byrne. He's a lawyer, but he's not your lawyer. And this is not legal advice,
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Bitcoin

Some capitulation. That's about it. But we're still bearish.
Here are some support lines. As you see, our weekly support line (S1) decreased to around 6k.
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