CoinMarketCap has introduced a new 'liquidity' metric which will counteract fraudulent data reporting from exchanges.

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Samsung entering the Blockchain world.
https://youtu.be/vgI1DbH1gFc

Was the Universa-Central Bank of Tunisia fake deal the beginning of an exit scam by the Russian project?

https://bit.ly/2KkKrku

Volume of Payments And Transactions: BTC vs Payment Systems

🔹BTC takes 3rd place by transaction and payments volume outpacing Paypal
🔹The average volume of BTC transactions exceeds 462 times the volume of Visa

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Bitcoin Holding Got Higher Returns Compared to DeFi Schemes

If you had $1000 on Jan 1st 2019 and:

🔹Invested in $BTC, you'd have $2,372 (+138%)
🔹Invested in $ETH, you'd have $1,373 (+38%)
🔹 Lent on DyDx, you'd have $1,060 (+6%)
🔹 Lent on Compound, you'd have $1059.21 (+6.921%)
🔹 Lent on Uniswap, you'd have $1196 (+20.61%)

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Bitcoin (BTC) is under a spam transaction attack, the mempool being at 90 megabytes: highest in a year.

This is hindering low tx fee transactions from going through for up to 80 blocks.

Bitcoin Average Transactions Per Day Hit All Time High

While the price has retreated almost 40% from its 2019 high, bitcoin transactions are still rising and are on track to make this year the highest in its history.

BTC transactions peaked in mid-December 2017. This also correlates with the $20k price peak which occurred around the same time.

This indicator shows that the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is growing and Bitcoin continues to gain acceptance.

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Blockchain-Related Venture Investing Activity Is Gaining Traction to ATH

While the blockchain crowdfunding market has slowed down slightly, the VC investment market is thriving.

Some of the deals in the last 30 days:

🔹BisonTrails raised $25.5M from Blockchain Capital, Coinbase and ConsenSys.
🔹CoinList $10M from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey
🔹Pomp’s Morgan Creek raised $61M for blockchain fund, Targets $250M
🔹KindredVentures raised $56M
🔹 Nifty Gateway acquired by Gemini.
🔹TRM Labs raised $4.2M from investors including PayPal and Y Combinator
🔹Radpay Raised $1.2M in Seed Round with the participation of investment firms Resiliency Ventures and BlackLaunch
🔹DeFi Startup Compound Finance Raised $25M Led by Andreessen Horowitz
🔹BitOrb exchange raised $6.4 Million

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Gatehub has seen 1.4 million user records, including passwords and 2FA keys, stolen and leaked on the dark web.


https://bit.ly/2qtUEUU

Main News

Crypto exchange ShapeShift is rolling out zero-fees in the hope that it will chip away at the dominance of custodial exchanges like Coinbase and Kraken. link

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the country’s de facto central bank and financial regulator, has proposed to allow the listing and trading of cryptocurrency derivatives on approved local exchanges. link

CEO of payment processor PayPal revealed during an interview that the only cryptocurrency he owns is Bitcoin. link

Bitcoin.com Launches $200M Bitcoin Cash Investment Fund. link

DappRadar uncovers over $73 million in unaccounted Ethereum DApp volume. link

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Daniel Larimer: "We have been working on some solutions to improve Rex in the short term and more generally solve the cpu pricing problem. I look forward to sharing the details of today’s discussion. #eosio will keep getting better as we overcome these challenges!"

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