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Sponsored by   September 17, 2019 FARGO COIN: U.S.-based financial giant Wells Fargo is developing a U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin that will run on the firm’s first blockchain platform. Dubbed Wells Fargo Digital Cash, the tokenized dollar will be piloted for internal settlement of cross-border payments on Wells Fargo’s global network in near real time, it said Tuesday. Its international locations will also be able to move funds between each other using the stablecoin. Full story LIVE AT LAST: Hedera Hashgraph has launched its long-awaited public network, backed by some of the world’s largest corporations and promising faster transactions and greater capacity to scale than any blockchain to date. Since December 2018, the network had been available in a testing environment to a small group of corporations and developers. As of 00:00 UTC Tuesday, anyone can open an account or build a decentralized app (dapp) on the hashgraph, which is similar to a blockchain but uses a different mechanism to achieve consensus about the state of the ledger. Full story ICO DOWNTURN: New cryptocurrencies aren’t raising money like they once did, even during marathon sales. In the first half of 2018, the average initial coin offering (ICO) raised $25.5 million, based on data reported by PwC. The biggest of them all, the yearlong EOS offering, closed during that era and raised a whopping $4.1 billion. But a second ICO that aimed to make EOS more usable hasn’t drawn as much investor interest – raising just $2.8 million worth of cryptocurrency over the same length of time. Brady Dale looks at why. Full story ETHER PAYMENTS: BitPay will soon support ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, on its crypto payments platform. With BitPay, subscribing merchants will be able to accept payments in bitcoin, bitcoin cash and ether, along with a handful of stablecoins. Speaking on the addition, ethereum co-founder and creator Vitalik Buterin said: “This truly opens up a new world of possibilities for the Ethereum ecosystem, and together we can continue to be a leading innovator for real-world use cases for cryptocurrencies.” Full story STILL ‘CRYPTO DAD’: Former Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo has joined the advisory board to the Chamber of Digital Commerce, a trade group focused on blockchain and crypto policy in the U.S. Giancarlo helmed the CFTC for two years, following a three-year stint as a commissioner with the agency. Under his watch, the CFTC allowed the first bitcoin futures products to enter the space. In a statement Tuesday, he said “the Chamber is at the epicenter of this emerging field of technology that can only be described as a movement.” Full story SPONSOR SECTION RATE-CUT ACTION? Bitcoin's three-day consolidation ended with a downside break on Monday. Even so, it’s too early to rule out a bullish move, as key trendline support near $10,100 is still intact. Further, some observers are expecting the cryptocurrency to pick up a strong bid after a U.S. interest rate cut expected Wednesday, although historical data puts that possibility in doubt. Full story TRANSFORMATIONAL TECH: Blockchain tech will be disrupting the majority of industries within five to 10 years, according to Gartner’s latest Hype Cycle for Blockchain Business report. “Even though they are still uncertain of the impact blockchain will have on their businesses, 60% of CIOs in the Gartner 2019 CIO Agenda Survey said that they expected some level of adoption of blockchain technologies in the next three years,” said David Furlonger, distinguished research vice-president at Gartner. The current digital infrastructure of organizations and paucity of clear blockchain guidance, however, are holding CIOs back from “getting full value with blockchain,” he said. WHO WON #CRYPTOTWITTER   Copyright © 2019 CoinDesk, All rights reserved.  Our mailing address is:  250 Park Avenue South New York, NY, 10003, US  Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list

ETH & BTC transaction fees / Crypto consolidation / Killing bitcoin

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Presented by Subscribe | View in browser Good morning! Awesome news today. You'll love reading about Bitcoin, Ethereum, Libra, and BitGo. Plus, some shenanigans. Don't forget our Bitcoiner list on Twitter. Today's follow: Adam Back, a pioneering cryptographer and cypherpunk. Back is the inventor of Hashcash, which was cited by Satoshi Nakamoto in his Bitcoin whitepaper. You'll always learn something from @adam3us.       Market Watch: The market is back up again. The top five are all up. Nine of the top 10 currencies are up. Only Tether (#6) is down, and it's down just 0.40%. Ethereum is still making great gains and it's back over $200 again. XRP took a sharp upturn, as did BCH. Let's hope this trend continues. Bitcoin: $10,227 (⬆️ 0.03%) // $183.5 billion market cap. Ethereum: $200.90 (⬆️ 5.15%) // $21.6 billion market cap. XRP: $0.27 (⬆️ 4.79%) // $11.7 billion market cap. Bitcoin Cash: $315.39 (⬆️ 3.59%) // $5.67 billion market cap. Top 100 Winner: Function X: $0.35 (⬆️ 46.17%) // $36.6 million market cap. Top 100 Loser: RIF Token: $0.13 (⬇️ 4.78%) // $65.0 million market cap. Prices are as of 10:25 p.m. EDT.       1. Ethereum's daily transaction fees are on the verge of passing Bitcoin's, according to a Coin Metrics analysis. As of Sunday, ETH's daily transaction fees were $182,899 compared to $185,993 for BTC. The analysis shows when Bitcoin's fees were higher than Ethereum's since January 2018. Using that metric, Ethereum's daily transaction fees blew past Bitcoin's on February 19th and March 18th of this year. Bitcoin fees have fallen in the last 30 days while Ethereum's have gone up; Coin Metric says this is probably due to Tether's migration from Omni to Ethereum. -- COIN METRICS       2. BitGo Chief Technology Officer Benedict Chan says consolidation in cryptocurrencies could be a good thing. While he said BitGo, a digital asset trust and security firm for institutional investors, would like to support all of the projects being developed in the space today, consolidating talent and technology toward a few strong projects would benefit the entire industry. He also said institutional investors interested in crypto have increased in the last six months, but they aren't actually getting into the market due to a lack of custodial services, global liquidity, and portfolio lending margins. Today, he noted, five new bitcoins entering the market every 10 minutes. He expects that to increase to 6.25 BTC every 10 minutes next year after the scheduled halving. -- BLOOMBERG Do you believe there are too many crypto projects in the market today? Email me at allen.taylor@inside.com and let me know.       A MESSAGE FROM AUDIBLE Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook plus two Audible Originals are free. Explore all the ways listening on Audible can help improve mind, body, and soul with entertainment, information, and inspiration. Sign up at audible.com/insidenews for your 30-day Audible free trial.   3. Dr. Saifedean Ammous, professor of economics at Lebanese American University and author of The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking, said the way governments can kill bitcoin is to improve their monetary policies. In a talk at the Baltic Honeybadger 2019 conference in Latvia, Ammous said government organizations can rid the world of cryptocurrencies by making their own currencies sound, eliminating the need for alternative forms of money. He added that any government controls and censorship against bitcoin would advertise bitcoin's value proposition and thus make it more resilient. He went on to say government controls do not override human incentives but change costs and bans lead to black markets and that people find a way to get what they want because "society is stronger than the state." -- YOUTUBE / BITCOINBOY       4. Active for just a couple of weeks, the Bitcoin.com crypto exchange is already being accused of inflating its volumes. Bitcoin.com launched its crypto exchange on September 2. This morning, @danheld tweeted that Bitcoin.com has merged its order books with HitBC and Bequant through Multiexchange.com. Bitcoin.com is not the only exchange to come under scrutiny for allegedly faking trading volume. BitForex was accused of faking volumes last year. Earlier this year, two South Korea crypto exchange executives went to jail for faking trading volumes at Komid. Some reports indicate that crypto exchanges have faked volumes by as much as 95 percent. According to CoinDesk, only 10 crypto exchanges have actual trading volume. -- BITCOINIST       A MESSAGE FROM CATALINA CRUNCH What happens when a startup founder reinvents the cereal business? You start eating Catalina Crunch every morning. It's Keto-Friendly, Low Carb, Gluten/Grain Free has Zero Sugar and is packed with 10g Plant Protein and 6g Fiber. Catalina Crunch comes in 4 tasty flavors: Dark Chocolate, Cinnamon Toast, Maple Waffle & Honey Graham. Get 10% off your first order with code INSIDE10. Shop Now 5. BUIDL Bootcamp founder and instructor Justin Moon created his own bitcoin hardware wallet for $110. Moon calls his wallet, which sends and receives bitcoins, Bitboy. The wallet uses a QR code, "air-gapped" feature to secure it from hacking and is considered "stateless," which means it wipes away all data processed during each usage session during the shut down process for the sake of transaction security. Moon posted a video to showcase the device on Twitter. Moon built his wallet with the assistance of code published in Jimmy Song's book on bitcoin programming and some assistance from Stepan Snigirev of CryptoAdvance. The wallet does not make use of private encryption keys. -- DECRYPT       6. eToro conducted a survey and found that 40 percent of millennials would consider investing in cryptocurrencies during a recession. eToro polled 1,000 people and also discovered that members of Generation X prefer tangible goods wheres Generation Z prefers real estate. According to the National Association for Business Economics, 74 percent of U.S. business economists expect a recession by the end of 2021. -- THE TOKENIST Would you invest in crypto during a recession? Email me at allen.taylor@inside.com and let me know.       7. Maria Lobanova at The Tradable recommends the use of hardware wallets and diversification of crypto holdings in more than one location as ways to combat potential losses. The most common scams crypto thieves use to gain access to crypto holdings, she says, are phishing, exchange fraud, mobile phone cracking, pop-up windows, and trojan apps. One other tactic scammers use is to earn crypto enthusiasts' trust on messenger app chats to convince the naive to exchange tokens in a "fee-less" transaction, and when the unexpecting fall for it they end up willingly transferring their cryptocurrencies to a wallet address never to see them again. To avoid mistakes, use reliable crypto services, don't trust password-only services, don't use public wi-fi connections and hotspots to make crypto transactions, and never leave your device unattended in a public location are just a few of her recommendations. -- THE TRADABLE       8. A Kraken bug lets users buy bitcoin for $2,000 less than market price and sell at $2,000 more than market. A Twitter thread involving Kraken Exchange's account mentions an unreleased advanced order type that included the bug. The exchange said no liquidity was lost but that trade executions on either end of the $8,000-$12,000 spread were executed. Kraken also said stop market orders were correctly filled at market price. Only one trade was executed at about $100. -- COIN TELEGRAPH       9. Germany and France have issued a joint statement opposing Facebook's Libra. Their concerns include security risks, investor protection, money laundering, terrorist financing, and "monetary sovereignty." Facebook is still defending its proposed cryptocurrency saying it doesn't create new value. Project lead David Marcus has taken to Twitter to defend the currency. Meanwhile, what appears to be a fake secondary market for Libra has developed as Calibra, Facebook's Libra wallet, Chief Operating Officer Tomer Barel is distancing himself from the Libra Investment Token distributed to members of the Libra Association.  -- MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW       10. A United Kingdom police force is auctioning off 500,000 GBP in cryptocurrencies acquired from a seizure during two illegal sales transactions. Cryptocurrencies include bitcoin, ethereum, and ripple. A 19-year-old man was found guilty of illegally supplying personal data and hacking services online. He was sentenced to 20 months in prison and ordered to repay over 400,000 GBP in fees he charged customers. The auction will be managed by Wilsons Auctions beginning September 25. -- IRISH TIMES       Inside Bitcoin is written and curated by award-winning journalist and former newspaper editor Allen Taylor. Recognized by the Dallas Bar Association three times for excellence in legal reporting, Allen has since gone on to author, edit, or ghostwrite several white papers, books and e-books, and over 10,000 blog posts for clients ranging from small business owners to global management companies and corporate executives. Learn more about him on LinkedIn. Editor: David Stegon (senior editor at Inside, whose reporting experience includes cryptocurrency and technology).       Ad Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook plus two Audible Originals are free. Visit audible.com/insidenews The first Keto-friendly, Zero Sugar, Low Carb Cereal brand. Get 10% off today with code INSIDE10.

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