Silicon Valley-based cryptocurrency trading platform Sfox has raised $23 million in new investment, led by venture firms Tribe Capital and Social Capital, to help investors make large trades by routing their orders to multiple places, enabling faster execution and better prices.

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How Much Can You Earn with the Lightning Network?

One of the developers of Lightning Alex Bosworth is considered to be the sender of the first real transaction on the Lightning main network. On December 27, shortly after the successful testing of the protocol, he reported on topping up his mobile balance with the help of a Lightning payment through the Bitrefill service. And on January 20, a reddit user described the "first physical purchase" via Lightning, as he purchased a VPN router from the TorGuard provider, which had earlier announced the support of Lightning payments. In February, the most famous pizza buyer Laszlo Heinitz joined the ranks of the first users. In 2010 he paid 10,000 BTC for a pizza, and this year he bought two pizzas via the Lightning Network.

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What Affects the Cost of Bitcoin?

The capitalization of the cryptocurrencies market fell to $190 billion this week. Bitcoin and almost all altcoins have fallen in price, but the cryptocurrency with the nine-year history decreased more slowly, as a result of which its market dominance increased to the next high of the year at 54 percent. Compared with the record value of $20,052, reached on December 17 last year, Bitcoin found itself at $6,000, losing about 70 percent of its price from the peak. As Tom Lee, the head of Fundstrat Global Advisors, said on August 12, his organization tracks the movement dynamics of 50 cryptocurrencies, and "they are moving in the same direction." He admitted that Fundstrat had just started "dividing the market into sectors."

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🇨🇳 Chinese police have arrested three suspects allegedly involved in a massive cryptocurrency theft.
via CoinDesk

🇮🇳 Former head of India’s branch of Bitconnect has been arrested.
via Bitcoin.com

❌ SoftBank official has said the company is not involved in the investment deal with Bitmain.
via Cointelegraph

🏃🏻‍♂️ Cumulative downloads of Square’s Cash app have surpassed those of Paypal’s Venmo.
via ccn

🔞 Tube8, an adult entertainment platform, will use blockchain to reward their visitors with cryptocurrency for certain interactions with the platform.
via TNW

“As the crypto-asset class seasons and institutional demand builds, there are a plethora of opportunities for traditional firms.”
via Bloomberg

Playboy is suing a cryptocurrency technology company on allegations of fraud and breach of contract, claiming that the latter failed to integrate the blockchain technology into Playboy’s online media channels.

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Cryptocurrency exchanges Gemini, Bitstamp, BitFlyer, and Bittrex have formed the Virtual Commodity Association. The organization will aim to eliminate fraud and manipulation in cryptocurrency markets.

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The Crypto Market in a Bubble: Which Altcoins Are Not Meant to Survive the "Ice Age?"

Not the best of times have befallen the market of altcoins as the rate of even such resilient digital assets as Ether, ZCash, and Monero has crept downward. Meanwhile, Bitcoin has been less affected in recent weeks by the overall market decline, as the world's first cryptocurrency has maintained its position and has not fallen below $5,800. At the end of July, Bitcoin rose to $8,450. Such a striking difference from its colleagues could not but cause discussion in the crypto community. Thus, despite the negative forecasts, Bitcoin coped with a sharp decline in the cryptocurrency market. Questions about whether the fate of the dinosaurs, which suffered a quick and imminent death, is in store for the altcoins, or whether the reasoning about the impending disappearance of most of the coins is nothing more than unjustified speculation will all be discussed in the following article.

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China: Despite the Ban on Digital Currencies, Development of DLT Has Been Chosen

Everyone knows the rumors regarding the sharply-negative attitude of the Chinese government toward digital assets and the release of tokens. Leading miners and crypto instruments have left the country, picking more friendly jurisdictions. The general public, however, does not lose hope to join the world of innovations, at least through the technology of the distributed registry, which is not banned in China but has even received the full approval from the ruling party.

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🇻🇪 The new bolivar’s value will be linked to a cryptocurrency.
via Bloomberg

🇨🇳 Zheshang Bank has issued securities worth $66 million, using its proprietary blockchain platform.
via CoinDesk

📊 China’s Center for Information Industry Development (CCID) officially released its fourth crypto project ranking.
via Bitcoin.com

🇺🇸 The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) plans to use the blockchain technology to verify the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) certificates.
via ccn

🗣 BlockShow Americas 2018 has opened its doors.
via Cointelegraph

The HODL crowd is getting rekt—at least according to Google.
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Tencent has also denied its participation in the Bitcoin mining giant Bitmain’s latest funding round.

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MetLife has started piloting diabetes insurance payments on a blockchain in Singapore. The project will aim to assist pregnant women diagnosed with gestational diabetes.

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Bitcoin Rides the Waves Created by the Whales

Past week in crypto.

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Why Ethereum Fell below $300 and What Vitalik Buterin Has to Say about It

August 13, 2018, became one of the most unfavorable days in the last nine months for Ether (ETH), the second cryptocurrency in the world in terms of market capitalization, because the coin’s rate dropped to $260. Two days later, the co-founder of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin did not react to the drop in the value of the cryptocurrency and talked about his current developments and upcoming plans at a private event in San Francisco.

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🇦🇺 People in Australia will soon be able to pay their bills in cryptocurrency.
via Bitcoin.com

🇨🇳 WeChat has reportedly blocked a number of crypto- and blockchain-related accounts.
via CoinDesk

📈 The Bitcoin price has increased by more than 5 percent within a short period of time due to the temporary downtime of cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX.
via Cointelegraph

🗣 In an interview with NullTx, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak discussed his involvement in a new crypto startup company and his interest in the blockchain technology.
via NullTx

💸 Non-profit organization Coin Center has called for legislation that will provide Bitcoin investors with a safe harbor on federal taxes incurred as the result of hard forks.
via ccn

How Bitcoin’s crash compares to history’s biggest bubbles: https://goo.gl/pS9Y4R

Liechtenstein’s Union Bank AG has announced it will be the world’s first fully licensed and regulated bank to issue its own security tokens and, subsequently, its own stablecoin backed by fiat currencies “such as the Swiss franc.”

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Alternative opinion: today’s spike in the Bitcoin price was caused by the issuance of an additional 100 million USDT tokens.

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The Old Bolivar, the New Bolivar, and the Not so Bolivar: A Look Back at the History of the Petro

The petro: tracking the world's first national cryptocurrency's story up to the present day.

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The Rules of Cryptocurrency Trade in South Korea: What’s Happening and What to Expect in the Future

South Korea is one of the most developed countries in the world and a key Asian economy known for its technological business. Unsurprisingly, the country has become a pioneer in the blockchain industry. Following the technology of the distributed ledger, the trade of cryptocurrencies also came to South Korea, a business which quickly gained popularity among the inhabitants of the country. In particular, this applies to young Koreans, a fact which is confirmed by surveys.

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