Below is the article containing key takeaways from a paper that analyzes Ethereum’s smart contract topology.

The study was conducted by a group of researchers from the Northeastern University and the University of Maryland.

Scientists state, among other things, that approximately 60% of all contracts created have never been interacted with.

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At Devcon 4, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin said that in order to succeed, the project he created needs to depend on him less. A step back is “a necessary part of the growth of the community,” he claimed.

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The Twitter social network is one of the favorite habitats for the representatives of the cryptocurrency community, but its capabilities are not being fully utilized. Social networks are what the millennial generation likes, and without which generation Z cannot even imagine living. Although lately, the majority of social networks have witnessed a slowdown in the number of users (in the case of Facebook, it is a significant outflow of the young and middle generations), such communication systems have great educational potential.

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Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are already on the verge of a revolution. The Decentralized Autonomous Vehicles Foundation (DAV) network enables people owning vehicles or charging stations to pay other counterparties with services they can provide them. Using this peer-to-peer system, users have access to a vast infrastructure that can take them anywhere or bring them anything. The DAV lays the foundation for a decentralized transport infrastructure that will have built-in incentives for all participants, i.e., consumers, businesses, software developers, hardware manufacturers, service providers, insurers, and arbitrators. How will the new auto world function without people?

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💸 According to Bloomberg, initial coin offerings (ICOs) may have raised less than it seems.
via Bloomberg

🤝 Bitcoin mining infrastructure provider Bitfury has attracted $80 million of capital in a closed funding round.
via Cointelegraph

📕 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will publish clear guidance regarding initial coin offerings (ICOs) soon.
via CoinDesk

⚙️ Bitcoin mining giant Bitmain has officially released new 7nm (nanometer) “Antminer” hardware.
via Cointelegraph

🦅 Bitcoin ATM operator Coinsource has become one of the latest companies to receive a BitLicense from the New York State Department of Financial Services.
via The Block

The Winklevoss twins are suing early Bitcoin adopter Charlie Shrem.

”Either Shrem has been incredibly lucky and successful since leaving prison, or—more likely—he ‘acquired’ his six properties, two Maseratis, two powerboats, and other holdings with the appreciated value of the 5,000 Bitcoin he stole from the Winklevoss twins in 2012.”

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It seems the issue of sexism might be a concern at the events dedicated to cryptocurrency and blockchain. What’s the solution?

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Switzerland’s Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) advises banks and securities dealers to assign a “flat risk weight of 800% to cover market and credit risks” against crypto assets.

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Recent survey by the German Consumer Centers of Hesse and Saxony showed that 28% of respondents between the ages of 18–29 are willing to invest in cryptocurrencies.

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A Russian exchange WEX is the successor of the scandalous BTC-e platform, which was closed by the FBI last summer. Having started paying debts to users, WEX enjoyed the trust of traders and an excellent reputation for some time. The events of recent months show, however, that WEX became the heir of not only the infrastructure and debts but also the infamous dark history of its predecessor.

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📉 The number of Bitcoin short positions on the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex hit a three-month low.
via CoinDesk

🇮🇱 The Bank of Israel’s recent report recommends that the country’s central bank should not issue the national cryptocurrency anytime soon.
via ccn

🇨🇳 The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) has warned of “bubbles” in blockchain-related financing and investment.
via Reuters

🇦🇪 The Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) has issued a thought paper on cryptocurrency and blockchain infrastructure for issuing digital assets.
via Bitcoin.com

⚡️ Bitstamp will soon replace its engine with the one developed by tech provider from the Wall Street guard, which would reportedly boost the speed of order matching on the platform by 1,200x.
via The Block

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Two candidates supportive of cryptocurrency have won the U.S. mid-term gubernatorial elections in the states of California and Colorado.

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On November 3, hackers breached StatCounter, a popular web analytics platform, in an attempt to attack the cryptocurrency exchange Gate.io.

The representatives of the exchange service claim all user funds are safe.

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In late December, cryptocurrency exchanges may expect no less than $4 billion in yearly revenues. The figure may be double that of 2017, according to a report by Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. The study also indicated that information about the decline in interest in cryptocurrency trading was greatly exaggerated. DeCenter spoke with experts from digital asset exchanges and identified the major development trends for the near future. What awaits traders in 2019?

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The investment bank Goldman Sachs has started attracting a limited number of clients for trading in Bitcoin-based derivatives. According to The Block, this is a non-deliverable forward contract (NDF) for Bitcoin, which will be settled in fiat currency. This tool is similar to existing futures contracts for cryptocurrencies from the CBOE and CME trading platforms. A Bitcoin NDF, however, will not be traded on the stock exchange. Let’s understand what the significance of this tool is for the cryptocurrency market and how a financial conglomerate contributes to the adoption of digital assets at the institutional level.

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⛓ Cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex has enabled pre-fork trading in Bitcoin Cash ABC (BCHABC) and Bitcoin Cash SV (BCHSV).
via Circle

📈 During the third quarter, Square generated $43 million in revenue from Bitcoin and a profit of $500,000.
via Square

👩‍⚖️ Over 85% of all Bitcoin ever confiscated or seized is coming from just two cases—Silk Road and SELEC.
via The Block

📚 URL shortener Bitly, which recently blocked crypto-related links from Andreas Antonopoulos’ upcoming book, seems to have resolved the issue.
via Cointelegraph

🎙 Anthony Pompliano’s popular cryptocurrency podcast Off the Chain has been blocked on Apple’s iTunes app without any explanation.
via CoinDesk

A mysterious buyer snapped up 67,000 acres in the Nevada desert earlier this year. At the end of October, the buyer gave The New York Times’ Nathaniel Popper a tour of the property and described his ambitious plans. It involves a town, an e-gaming arena, underground vaults, and lots of blockchain.

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is charging the founder of EtherDelta, Zachary Coburn, with operating an unregistered exchange.

Over 18 months, the platform “executed more than 3.6 million orders, including tokens that are securities under the federal securities laws,” according to the Commission.

Coburn agreed to pay $300,000 in disgorgement, $13,000 in pre-judgment interest, and a $75,000 penalty.

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The Commissioner for the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Brian Quintenz gave a speech on the regulation of intellectual contracts at the GITEX Technology Week in Dubai. He has acknowledged that there are still many problems in the field of smart contracts that need to be resolved, and therefore market participants are unlikely to avoid CFTC control.

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On Thursday, November 1, the decentralized cloud storage blockchain Sia successfully completed a planned hard fork, after which ASIC miners from Bitmain and Innosilicon cannot participate in the production of blocks. As a result, only one type of mining equipment, which is produced by a subsidiary of the Sia developer company, Obelisk, remained compatible with the updated Sia protocol. The miners, who believe that the “developer” monopolization is no better than that of Bitmain, refused to change the algorithm and formed a competing branch of the blockchain, which operates according to the old consensus mechanism.

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