📮 21-09-2019
📈 MarketCap: $269 B
📊 24h Mcap %: -2.04%
⚠️ Bitcoin Dom: 66.8%
Active Coins: 2,525
24h Vol %: -19.43%
24h Vol: $48 B
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Patrick Byrne, who resigned as CEO of Overstock last month, has sold his 13% stake in the firm for $90 million to move to crypto and precious metals. Byrne said that, by the end of the week, he will have reinvested all of the proceeds into “investments that are counter-cyclical to the economy.” “Gold, silver and two flavors of crypto,” he wrote. Overstock was one of the first companies to accept crypto payments and acquired the company behind Ravencoin (RVN).
IOTA Foundation launches Industry 4.0 Marketplace, a platform that allows IoT devices to communicate with each other with the Tangle. Automation will be king in this new reality. Devices will not only contain information or directives, they will also become active decision-makers and optimizers. This allows machines to move from a procedure-oriented paradigm to a goal-oriented one, which requires devices to be allocated resources to accomplish their objectives.
Bitwise Asset Management, has once again tried to convince the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on the bitcoin ETF, In a new presentation, delivered to three SEC Commissioners – Hester Peirce, Robert Jackson Jr., and Elad Roisman, Bitwise said that the bitcoin spot market has “materially improved” and become “efficient” in the past two years. The regulated futures market has become “significant,” with the average daily volume for bitcoin futures on the CME exchange at ~$235 million in August 2019.
Zap wallet will soon let you buy bitcoin in the app and deposit the sats directly into your Lightning wallet after each buy. “You can buy bitcoin inside of Zap with a bank account, debit card, Zelle, whatever — and it will give you the bitcoins, from purchase to spending on Lightning, in less than five seconds,” Zap founder Jack Mallers said. The wallet uses Turbo channels to settle the transactions. Zap’s iteration can be integrated by other Bitcoin companies and service providers as well.
San Francisco-based crypto exchange Coinbase has announced the support for Telegram and 16 additional digital assets. Coinbase is considering the addition of a range of new assets; namely, Avalanche, Celo, Chia, Coda, Dfinity, Filecoin, Handshake, Kadena, Mobilecoin, NEAR, Nervos, Oasis, Orchid, Polkadot, Solana, Spacemesh, and Telegram. Coinbase added that it intends to explore assets that have not yet launched and which Coinbase may choose to support in the future.
Bitcoin popularity does not seem to be slowing down as the number of Bitcoin ATMs across the world continue to rise. The total number of Bitcoin ATMs across the world at the writing has reached 5,592. These Bitcoin ATMs are distributed in over 74 countries with over 551 operators. Wherein The USA accounts for a whopping 62.3% of the total number of ATMs spread across 3,678 locations. Canada takes the second spot with 707 locations, followed by the UK with 274, Austria with 252, and Spain with 94.
Another cryptocurrency exchange has delisted a slew of privacy coins following recent regulatory requirements from the international body the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). According to a notice from Korea exchange Upbit, transaction support for monero (XMR), dash (DASH), zcash (ZEC), haven (XHV), bittube (TUBE), and PIVX (PIVX) will end Monday, Sept. 30. Generally speaking, privacy coins conduct transactions on public ledgers without exposing an individual’s address or identity.
Emergency cash injection is the first since the 2008 financial crisis, which spawned Bitcoin’s success. Arthur Hayes, CEO of derivatives giant BitMEX, forecast that fresh quantitative easing (QE) would further decrease faith in fiat currency. The comments come a day after the Fed swooped to decrease interest rates on some loans which reached more than 10%, or four times its target. More than $53 billion was pumped into the economy.
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group is adding options to its Bitcoin futures contracts in Q1 2020, pending regulatory review. im McCourt — CME Group Global Head of Equity Index and Alternative Investment Products — said: "Based on increasing client demand and robust growth in our Bitcoin futures markets, we believe the launch of options will provide our clients with additional flexibility to trade and hedge their bitcoin price risk."
SoFi an American online personal finance company that provides student loan refinancing, mortgages and personal loans, has begun rolling out a beta version of its cryptocurrency trading service to current members with three initial assets: bitcoin, litecoin, and ether. Firm is partnering with Coinbase to complete trades. Crypto trading through SoFi Invest will be available in 36 states including Alabama, California, and Ohio. New York residents will not be able to trade cryptocurrency on the platform at this time.
Velas, a self-learning and self-optimizing AIDPoS blockchain platform known for it's secure, interoperable, extremely scalable transactions has announced that it's native token(VLX) will be listed on a major crypto exchange. As per the announcement, BW.com, One of the leading exchanges by trading volume, has listed VLX (Velas) and open VLX/BTC and VLX/USDT trading pair, From September 18, at 15:00 UTC onward, Crypto investors will be able to buy and sell VLX tokens, use them to access services built upon the Velas blockchain.
