This week we cover: Bitcoin halving DeFi adoption Central Bank Digital Currencies Bitcoin’s privacy Ethereum 2.0 Facebook’s Libra project Safe haven and recession-proof status COBINHOOD SHUTS DOWN OR SHUTS FOR AUDIT NBA PLAYERS CONTRACT TOKENIZATION SUIT ON TETHER AND BITFINEX MANIPULATION EVERSTAKE AND CHAINLINK FEAR, GREED AND MENTALITY ARE YOU READY TO RUN WITH THE...Continue Reading

BLOCKFI CHASING INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS BlockFi is a cryptocurrency lending start-up that raised $18.3 million USD in series A funding back in August of this year. Among the funding parties, contributions were made by Winklevoss capital, Galaxy Digital and Morgan Creek. BTCMANAGER reported this week,  BlockFi is intending to launch Institutional Services, a new platform specifically...Continue Reading

VITALIK STRIVING FOR MOST SECURE CHAIN This week, Vitalik Buterin,Ethereum co-founder, made a bold statement at Devcon 5 that after Ethereum transitions to Proof of Stake (PoS) “…the cost of a potential attack would make Ethereum the safer network of the two”, with bitcoin being the other. The switch from the Ethereum proof of work...Continue Reading

BITCOIN OUTPERFORMS … EVERYTHING The proof is in the numbers. Bitcoin is currently 2019’s best performing asset, even after the recent pullback to $8.2K USD from the high just shy of $13K USD achieved in June. Goldman Sachs deems Bitcoin “the best performing asset class of the year-to-date …(where)… prices have more than doubled in...Continue Reading