Crypto pastor's COVID-19 conspiracy / Binance launches Binance Pool / Crypto Masterclass

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Inside.com Part of   Network April 27, 2020

Dear subscribers, I hope you all had a lovely weekend, and welcome to your Monday Inside Crypto newsletter! If you missed Friday's free newsletter, you missed the half-off promo we're offering to our first 50 new subscribers who sign up for Inside Crypto Premium on a monthly basis. To take advantage of 50 percent off, simply use the promo code Crypto50 when signing up, which you can do here. Here's what you'll get: Full access to content five days a week, with an ad-free experience. Q&As with crypto experts, such as this interview with Ray Youssef, CEO and co-founder of Paxful. The latest studies and reports on crypto, including our own in-depth analysis. Our daily Masterclass with leaders from the crypto space giving their views on market conditions. Click here to upgrade to premium! Stay healthy, stay safe, Rebecca

Market Watch The market is a mixed bag of red and green during Monday trading. Bitcoin, however, is steadily gaining on the $8,000 mark. Can it reach that height again this week? Bitcoin: $7,729 (⬆️ 1.06%) // $141.8 billion market cap. Ethereum: $195 (⬇️ 1.14%) // $21.6 billion market cap. XRP: $0.196 (⬆️ 0.47%) // $8.6 billion market cap. Tether: $1.01 (⬆️ 0.29%) // $6.3 billion market cap. Top 100 Winner: Steem: $0.213 (⬆️ 21.03%) // $79 million market cap. Top 100 Loser: DigitByte: $0.011 (⬇️ 27.89%) // $150 million market cap. Prices are as of 2:00 p.m. ET.

The 5G COVID-19 conspiracy theory was reportedly started by a crypto-loving pastor. There have been plenty of conspiracy theories surrounding COVID-19, but one individual in the UK is reportedly behind the theory that the virus is fake and a cover... To read this story and others in this newsletter, simply sign up to Inside Crypto Premium. To sweeten the deal, we're offering our first 50 new subscribers 50 percent off on monthly plans. Simply use Crypto50 when signing up. Click here to upgrade to premium! SUBSCRIBE NOW TO FIND OUT MORE

Binance launches its mining pool Binance Pool. The crypto exchange introduced the latest addition to its product suite. In a notice today, the company said that the mining pool is focused on "empowering miners," in addition to the wider crypto mining sector. As part of its launch, the pool will operate with zero fees until May 31, at which point they will be set at 2.5 percent. Binance Pool is reportedly launching with a Bitcoin mining service using a Full Pay Per Share (FPPS) payment method. Support for additional crypto assets and customized services will follow. With the addition of the pool, ahead of the Bitcoin block reward halving event, Binance has said that the pool makes the Bitcoin hash power more decentralized. Binance Pool supports both Proof-of-Work (PoW) and Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanisms for mining. BINANCE BLOG

Crypto Masterclass, featuring Ashish Singhal. Our Crypto Masterclass feature showcases a well-known thought leader or expert in the crypto space, including their visions and advice for the future. "The BSN is probably not the first attempt, but may be the largest attempt at blockchain adoption by the government of a powerful nation." To find out more of Singhal's views on China's BSN, simply sign up to Inside Crypto Premium. To sweeten the deal, we're offering our first 50 new subscribers 50 percent off on monthly plans. Simply use Crypto50 when signing up. Click here to upgrade to premium! SUBSCRIBE NOW TO FIND OUT MORE

Binance partners with BitPay to support BUSD payments. The blockchain payment services provider BitPay is teaming up with crypto exchange Binance in an attempt to boost adoption of Binance's stablecoin BUSD. The stablecoin is now available to BitPay's two million users. In a statement shared with Inside Crypto writer Rebecca Campbell, the partnership will see BitPay enabling all its merchants to accept BUSD as a form of payment online as well as its cross-border business-to-business (B2B) billing platform without the need for integration. According to Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, the platform sees a growing number of businesses and merchants starting to adopt crypto. As such, Binance is happy to provide this service with BitPay, making the process easier.

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Bitfinex launches social networking platform. The crypto platform said that in response to customer demand, it launched Bitfinex Pulse, which aims to connect customers with each other to give them a trading edge. With the use of the social networking platform, a verified Bitfinex user can share their thoughts on crypto; it also givers users the option to decide whether pulses are posted publicly. Both verified and unverified Bitfinex users can publish private pulses. The platform says Bitfinex Pulse is intended to serve as a fun way for people to interact and share their views on the crypto market. According to Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardoino, while the idea isn't new, what distinguishes it from others is the availability of quality content. BITFINEX

This newsletter was written and curated by Rebecca Campbell. She has been writing and reporting on various industries for the past 10 years, more specifically tech in the last three.  Editor Beth Duckett is a former news and investigative reporter for The Arizona Republic who has written for USA Today and other publications.

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