Monday trading is proving positive for the market. Bitcoin is back up over $7,000 as April gets underway. Stellar, however, has seen a more than 16 percent increase following a charity matching campaign by Stellar's crypto asset, XLM, with the Tor Browser project. - Bitcoin: $7,146 (⬆️ 5.40%) // $130.8 billion market cap.
- Ethereum: $162 (⬆️ 13.09%) // $17.9 billion market cap.
- XRP: $0.191 (⬆️ 6.75%) // $8.4 billion market cap.
- Tether: $1.00 (⬆️ 0.05%) // $6.3 billion market cap.
- Top 100 Winner: Stellar: $0.048 (⬆️ 16.13%) // $992 million market cap.
- Top 100 Loser: Swipe: $0.791 (⬇️ 3.50%) // $48 million market cap.
Prices are as of 3:55 p.m. ET.
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The Bank of Korea has launched a pilot program for a central bank digital currency (CBDC) to maintain pace with other nations exploring them. Under a renewed plan, the BoK has said that it will be conducting a 22-month pilot to determine whether a digital currency can replace paper money. Read this story, plus all of our essential Inside Cryptocurrency content, five days a week, by subscribing to Premium! It's just $2 per week or $100 for the entire year. UPGRADE TO INSIDE CRYPTO PREMIUM  | | | |
Researchers have created a blockchain-based mechanism to undertake legal functions in a digital court. Professors Hitoshi Matsushima from the University of Tokyo and Shunya Noda from the University of British Columbia have been leading the project. According to an announcement, the aim of it is to settle legal disputes without the need for a "costly legal process." The announcement further stated that it was an extension to existing smart contracts that exist without central administration. Matsushima said: We designed a digital court which identifies and punishes parties who deviate from legal obligations such as commercial activities, but could potentially be any kind of agreement. On suspected violation of some agreement, those involved post their opinions to this digital court. The court algorithmically aggregates the parties’ opinions and judges who violated their agreement. If the digital court judges that a party violated the agreement, the party is fined by withholding a deposit made during the initial agreement. See also: Outsmarting counterparty risk with smart contracts THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO 
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Roger Ver, Bitcoin Cash advocate, has said that the Bitcoin Cash halving event is a "non-event." Roger Ver has burst anyone's bubble on a possible price explosion with Bitcoin Cash in response to the upcoming block halving reward. Read this story, plus all of our essential Inside Cryptocurrency content, five days a week, by subscribing to Premium! It's just $2 per week or $100 for the entire year. UPGRADE TO INSIDE CRYPTO PREMIUM | | | |
 Ethereum's co-founder believes he has the answer to discovering the identity to Satoshi Nakamoto. Charles Hoskinson, CEO of IOHK, who also co-founded Ethereum, gave his opinion during an interview yesterday. Speaking with U Today, Hoskinson said that the way to find out who the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto is based on "stylometry." This is a method used to work out is behind something based on how it was put together. The same method can be applied to discover the alleged creator behind Bitcoin. Hoskinson said that as long as the code was written 100 percent by Nakamoto... ...you can apply stylometric techniques to that code and apply it to all the open-source projects that have ever been written and there's a very high probability you're going to find a match between that code and other code and then transitively you can follow it. You probably can get a really good idea of who that person could be. See also: Charles Hoskinson: It will be easier to issue and maintain digital assets on Cardano (ADA) than Ethereum He went on to say that there were a few ways to narrow down on those who it could be. In Hoskinson's opinion, the community is looking for someone who is likely to be in their 50s or 60s, was educated in the 1980s or early 90s, and has an academic background rather than being a professional engineer. U TODAY
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 The Tor Project receives 20 percent of its donations via crypto. That's according to a tweet from Sarah Stevenson, the organization's fundraising director, that she posted on Friday. The Tor Project is the non-profit organization behind the Tor Browser. Stevenson also retweeted a charity matching campaign by Stellar and its crypto asset XLM. Throughout the month of April, Stellar is making donations in XLM that will be matched up to 1.9 million XLM, around $76,000, to six non-profit organizations: UNICEF France, the Tor Project, Heifer International, Watsi, Freedom for Press, and Women Who Code. Having accepted Bitcoin for its donations for a number of years, last March it took the step of accepting other coins such as Ether, Litecoin, Zcash, Monero, and Stellar. See also: Tor team warns of Tor Browser bug that runs JavaScript on sites it shouldn't @ELKAKAI/TWITTER
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Crypto exchange Gemini is adding support for the BAT token. In an announcement made today, the platform said that it was adding support for Basic Attention Token (BAT). Beginning on April 24, users will be able to deposit BAT into their Gemini account. Trading is expected to follow shortly after. Once listed, BAT, which is the native token of the Brave browser, will be the sixth-largest cryptocurrency on the platform. It follows the likes of Bitcoin, Ether, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, and Zcash. Gemini said: We will be offering USD, BTC, and ETH trading pairs for BAT on both our continuous order book and our automated block trading system. See also: Privacy-focused Brave browser added 1M new users in March GEMINI
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