Agenda nearly Finalized for Upcoming ETC Summit.

Can't see images? Click here... Hey There, A highlight of ETC Summit will be the Mining Panel, moderated by Bob Summerwill, featuring: Nishant Sharma of Bitmain  Werner Almesberger of Linzhi (who has a long history in Linux kernel development and open source - see his Wikipedia) Alex Tsankov of Block Reaction (SHA3 proposal author) Henry Quan of ePIC Blockchain. And not Kristy-Leigh Minehan (read all the juicy details in Decrypt) There will also be the following individual presentations prior to the panel: Nishant - "Building Trust As a Miner or Miner-Maker" Werner - "Linzhi E1400 ASIC miner: Decentralized Memory Architecture" Alex - "ECIP-1049: Why Ethereum Classic should adopt SHA3 Proof of Work" Reserve your ticket today at https://etcsummit.com. Sponsorship opportunities are still available. In addition to the talks there will be lightning talks and an opportunity for demos and co-working. RSVP for Free here Where: Vancouver, Canada When: October 3rd 2019, 8am PST to October 4th, 5pm PST Venue: Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront, Vancouver Check out the full speaker lineup at https://etcsummit.com/. Best wishes!  ~Bob Summerwill Executive Director | Ethereum Classic Cooperative @BobSummerwill Questions about the conference?  Please email info@etccooperative.org. ETC Cooperative 636 Avenue of the Americas, New York United States SHARE TWEET FORWARD You received this email because you are a valued member of the ETC Community. Unsubscribe

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Presented by Subscribe | View in browser Good afternoon Bitcoiners! Let me say what a pleasure it has been to be your editor for the past couple of weeks. Rebecca Campbell will be with you again on Monday. If you want to keep up with me or have an interest in the top developments in decentralized finance, I'm planning a special issue around that topic for Inside CFO next Wednesday. Follow Inside CFO for the latest in corporate finance. Meanwhile, enjoy this issue of Inside Bitcoin. Also, don't forget about the Top 100 Bitcoin list on Twitter. Rebecca will get back to adding to it shortly. -- Allen, guest editor       Market Watch: For the second day in a row, ABBC Coin is the biggest gainer. Today's gain is almost three times yesterday's. On the flip side of the coin, Stellar--one of the top gainers yesterday--is today's biggest loser. The top five are maintaining. Bitcoin: $10,181 (⬆️ 2.07%) // $182.7 billion market cap. Ethereum: $216.93 (⬆️ 0.74%) // $23.3 billion market cap. XRP: $0.29 (⬇️ 2.09%) // $12.5 billion market cap. Bitcoin Cash: $317.07 (⬆️ 0.98%) // $5.7 billion market cap. Top 100 Winner: ABBC Coin: $0.24 (⬆️ 31.88%) // $135.8 million market cap. Top 100 Loser: Stellar: $3.00 (⬇️ 11.26%) // $1.4 billion market cap. Prices are as of 12:32 p.m. EDT.       1. Exchanges worldwide are delisting privacy-oriented cryptocurrencies, which could lead to a black market. The U.S. and 36 other countries published a global regulation manual for cryptocurrencies in June and gave crypto exchanges 12 months to comply. Called the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the goal of the multi-national organization is to suppress money laundering and the use of cryptocurrencies for criminal and terrorist-related activities. As a result, crypto exchanges are delisting privacy-related cryptocurrencies because the regulations single out anonymous uses of crypto. Privacy-oriented cryptos, called stealth cryptocurrencies, include Monero, Zcash, and Dash. Coinbase UK delisted Zcash in August while OKEx Korea delisted all three cryptos plus Horizen and Super Bitcoin earlier this month. Coincheck delisted Monero, Zcash, and Dash last year when Japan cracked down on stealth cryptocurrencies. -- CRYPTO.IQ       2. Coinbase has listed Dash in all markets except New York and the United Kingdom. Coinbase Pro listed Dash last week, but the listing on Coinbase opens the top-20 cryptocurrency to retail customers for trading. In other news, Coinbase is also considering a listing for Telegram and Polkadot among a list of 17 cryptocurrencies under consideration. These include Avalanche, Filecoin, Handshake, Mobilecoin, NEAR, Oasis, Orchid, and more. -- DECRYPT       A MESSAGE FROM AIRBNB Earn money by sharing your space. Millions of travelers stayed in an Airbnb last year. Turn your extra space into extra money. Learn More 3. Follow Friday - @danheld Dan Held is the director of business development at Kraken Exchange. His tweets are prolific and profound, including one of Held's most interesting Medium posts (they're all interesting).  He made news in September 2018 when he said bitcoin mining uses less energy than gold mining, the banking system, and governments. Responding to charges that Bitcoin's proof-of-work consensus is "wasteful," Hedl explains how work is energy, a concept introduced by French mathematician Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis. Going through the history of energy, from the discovery of fire to nuclear fusion, he finally gets around to Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper. Finally, answering concerns around energy consumption, he explains the mining efficiency of ASIC miners and delves into the relative cost of energy. If you're looking for a good, long read, this is it. Held has been in the crypto world for a while and co-founded @ZeroBlock, which was acquired by @Blockchain.  He writes in-depth articles on a ton of topics related to Bitcoin and cryptocurencies. Plus, he does a lot of public speaking on the subject, as well. You'll find him at Twitter LinkedIn His blog Medium CoinDesk Crunchbase       4. Of 197 decentralized finance (DeFi) projects listed at Defi Prime, 179 of them are built on the Ethereum blockchain. Be In Crypto lists tokenized assets as one of the top 5 reasons Ethereum is looking better than it ever has. Last week, Spanish bank Santander made history by settling both sides of a $20 million bond on the Ethereum blockchain. On Monday, Harbor followed that by tokenizing $100 million in real estate funds. Tokenization is the process of taking real world assets and backing them with cryptocurrency or another digital asset. The process provides proof of ownership for the underlying asset and other key benefits such as cost savings, faster settlements, and more. The Ethereum DeFi ecosystem consists of tools for managing assets, financial derivatives, margin trading products, decentralized insurance products, KYC and identity management tools, lending, payments, prediction markets, and more.  -- BE IN CRYPTO       A MESSAGE FROM VETTERY Keep your recruiting strategy competitive with Vettery's 2019 Tech Salary Report We aim to make the recruiting process more transparent for job-seekers and hiring managers, across the board. And we noticed there's one thing people can't stop talking about: salary. We believe that when all parties are on equal footing, everyone is poised to have a better hiring experience. Get the report 5. Silvio Micali is an MIT professor, recipient of the Turing Award, a cryptography pioneer, and now co-founder of Algorand, a blockchain focused on a borderless future. Algorand launched in 2017 and has raised $260 million using open-source technology to build a more innovative proof-of-work consensus protocol that can't be forked. Micali is credited with pioneering zero-knowledge proofs, verifiable random functions, and probabilistic encryption. -- FORBES       6. MakerDAO awards a grant to Opolis, a decentralized employment platform, to facilitate the integration of a Dai-based payroll integration feature. Opolis is currently in launch mode with the mission to provide W2-like stability for workers in the freelance, or gig, economy. Opolis is structured around a guild concept that allows freelancers the ability to accept payment in fiat money or cryptocurrencies by consolidating receipts into one, participate in group health insurance, set up a self-directed IRA or 401k plan, find gigs in the Opolis gig marketplace, receive group pricing on services that are typically reserved for large corporations, financial automation, and more. Opolis has already established guilds for writers, digital nomads, creatives, student professionals, professional service providers, coworking space employees, health and wellness professionals, real estate professionals, tradespersons, blockchain industry, developers, and rideshare workers. The official launch date is November 1, but Opolis is taking sign ups and giving away free services to 10 winners plus one grand prize winner who will receive a year of free healthcare.   -- CRYPTONINJAS       7. The Justice Department has arrested two Ethereum consultants on extortion charges related to an initial coin offering. Steven Nerayoff and Michael Hlady, CEO and COO of Alchemist LCC, allegedly threatened to hijack their startup client's ICO unless they were paid extra money on top of their initially agreed upon consulting fee. The startup client, referred to as "Jane Doe" in the DOJ's indictment, eventually sent 10,000 ETH as a loan to the consultants, which they allegedly refused to pay back. At the time, the ETH was worth about $4.45 million. -- ZDNET       8. Pro basketball player Spencer Dinwiddie has tokenized his NBA contract. A point guard for the Brooklyn Nets, Dinwiddie has converted his $34 million contract into digital tokens allowing him to receive a lump sum payment from investors. The transaction was made possible through smart contract technology, but converting future income into a present asset has its risks. ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees praised the decision and predicts it will become common practice. -- CCN       9. According to Deloitte's 2019 Global Blockchain Survey, 53 percent of senior executives say blockchain is a top five priority for their company and 86 percent believe it will achieve mainstream adoption. Additionally, Statista reports there are 40 million crypto wallet users as of June 2019. State of the Dapps lists over 3,000 total DApps with more than 110,000 daily active users. There clearly is a growing interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, but there is still a prevailing attitude in some quarters that crypto is used primarily for illegal activities (it was 44 percent in February 2018). -- HACKERNOON       10. Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne continues to believe in cryptocurrency. He recently sold 4.8 million shares of his former company, worth $90 million, to buy gold and bitcoin. –KITCO       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 Earn money by sharing your space. List your place now. Vettery is changing the way people hire and get hired. Get in touch.

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