QuadrigaCX Mishap / Mt. Gox Problems / MakerDAO / Ethereum Mining

Subscribe | View in browser $BTC (12:31 p.m. EST): $3,630.85 (-0.32%) // 90-day high: $6,286.41 // 90-day low: $3,286.14 / / More… $BCH ABC (12:31 p.m. EST): $122.81 (0.49%) // 90-day high: $432.88// 90-day low: $80.95 // More… $ETH (12:31 p.m. EST): $122.33 (0.99%) // 90-day high: $201.35 // 90-day low: $86.08 // More… $LTC (12:32 p.m. EST): $41.85 (-3.20%) // 90-day high: $49.19 // 90-day low: $22.09 // More… $XRP (12:32 p.m. EST): $0.30 (0.43%) // 90-day high: $0.52 // 90-day low: $0.28 // More… Here are the 10 most important stories about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies today       1. QuadrigaCX accidentally moved 103 bitcoins into a cold storage wallet it cannot access, according to Ernst and Young, the exchange's court-appointed monitor said. The exchange has been unable to access its cold wallet storage for nearly two months following the death of CEO Gerald Cotton, who allegedly was the only person with the necessary passwords. QuadrigaCX has already filed for bankruptcy protection as Cotton's widow tries to recover the more than $135 million in inaccessible coins. In this latest mistake, the company put nearly $400,000 of coins into an inaccessible wallet. –COINDESK       2. Nobuaki Kobayashi, the trustee in charge of the remaining assets from Mt. Gox, liquidated around $312 million in bitcoin between February and June of last year. The sale went against the advice of experts, who believed that by reintroducing that much currency into the market caused the price of bitcoin to drop. GoxDox, an organization established to assist Mt. Gox creditors, released a photograph of a bank statement last week that showed the alleged transactions. The sale is notable as Kobayashi allegedly went against the suggestion of Kraken CEO Jesse Powell, who explicitly told him not to sell Mt. Gox's holdings for fear of a large price drop. –COIN TELEGRAPH       Ad Intelligence is creating stronger connections. Today's world generates 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. Sifting through that much available information is hard. Micron is helping analyze that data to create stronger connections between AI, organizations, and most importantly, people.​​ Learn More. 3. An astounding $234 million in ethereum is being held as collateral on the MakerDAO smart contract, according to crypto analyst Kevin Rooke. MakerDAO is a decentralized autonomous organization, which has a stable coin called DAI that is tied to the US dollar. Investors can leverage their ethereum tokens to generate DAI, which can be used for other purposes and are seen as a more stable form of currency. The platform holds their tokens until the investors pays back the DAI tokens they had taken. MakerDAO, though, has seen the amount of ethereum it holds as collateral rise 28 percent month over the last three months. At this rate, the platform would have nearly half the ethereum in circulation in one year. –AMB CRYPTO       4. The total amount of etherem being generated has reached its lowest rate in history. Etherscan, a firm that collects data on the ethereum blockchain, showed that 13,370 coins were created on Sunday. This is down from more than 20,000 per day just this past December, and a far cry from the more than 39,000 per day created in July of 2015. The recent decrease, though, comes as little surprise as developers have made it more difficult to mine ethereum. –COIN TELEGRAPH       Ad Engineers Build Business with GitPrime Ship faster because you know more, not because you're rushing. GitPrime aggregates historical git data into easy to understand insights and reports, to help make engineering teams more successful. Debug your development process with objective data. Get started today. 5. Turns out that Bitcoin Cash developer Amaury Sechet is not Satoshi Nakamoto after all. Sechet made the claim last week on Twitter, which was apparently a stunt to show how easy it is to manipulate old signatures on the blockchain to create "proof." –CCN 6. Craig Wright, a person who has previously claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, has entered into an online spat with Wikileaks over … something. –BITCOINIST 7. Bitcoin Exchange Guide provides an in-depth look at the Constantinople hard fork, and the steps developers have taken to improve the security bugs that have twice delayed the project. –BITCOIN EXCHANGE GUIDE 8. Ric Edelman, founder of Edelman Financial Engines, said a bitcoin ETF is "virtually certain - the only question is when." –CNBC 9. Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has become a celebrated champion for bitcoin during his recent media tour, in part because he is explaining how the currency can help people right now instead of selling a pie-in-the-sky dream. –THE NEXT WEB 10. Chainalysis, a company that tracks cryptocurrency transactions, has raised $30 million in their second financing round. –CCN       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) and Susmita Baral (editor at Inside, recent bylines in NatGeo, Teen Vogue, and Quartz. Runs the biggest mac and cheese account on Instagram).       Ad Owl Labs is the creator of the Meeting Owl, the first 360-degree smart conference camera. Learn more.

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