Binance ranked third among the most popular sites for IEO and held 6 crowdsales, according to ICObench. Most IEO was this year on the Exmarkets (11) and Probit (10) platforms. A total of 50 IEOs have been conducted since 2017.
Bitcoin holders can now pay for products on Amazon.com through Lightning Network using browser extensions from the crypto-processing startup Moon.
The blockchain platform of the Interbank Information Network from JPMorgan Chase is already used by 220 banks. By the summer of 2019, the investment bank promises to make additions to it in order to expand opportunities.
Retail investors from South Korea increased their cryptocurrency investments by 64% this year. They expect the market to rise.
Ethereum creator Vitaly Buterin said that in 2013 he wanted to get an internship at the company OpenCoin (now Ripple Labs), but he was denied a US visa.
Tennis player Serena Williams, Serena Ventures, has invested an undisclosed amount in Coinbase, the largest crypto-exchange in the United States.
By analogy with the book and the film “Prepare for the First Player”, crypto-businessman Eric Meltzer launched the global game “Satoshi's Treasure”, in which participants need to find 400 of the 1000 pieces of a private key from a bitcoin wallet with $ 1 million.