In response to the accusations of “manipulating markets” by adjusting Bitcoin Cash (BCH) futures settlements, the OKEx exchange claimed the change had been “based on the consideration of market integrity and customer interests.”

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While anti-records are being set on the market of digital assets on the value of Bitcoin over the past 12 months with it falling to $4,500, mining companies are not losing optimism and are demonstrating new achievements in developing more compact devices for mining coins. The Coinmine startup presented a mining rig on Wednesday, November 14, that looks like a game console and not a farm with ASIC devices. Will the new gaming device be a replacement for cumbersome farms and how will the project be beneficial for the creators and the miners themselves?

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Silk Road is a darknet platform for trading illegal goods founded by Ross Ulbricht in 2011 and named after the caravan road, a trade route between Europe and East Asia built in the 2nd century BC. Silk Road existed for two years and eight months. In October 2013, Ulbricht was arrested by the FBI in the San Francisco Public Library in Glen Park. Today, Ulbricht is serving a life sentence, and his Twitter account is collecting signatures for his release, having more than 22,000 followers.

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🗓 The Bakkt digital assets platform, which was created by the operator of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), is now “targeting” January 24, 2019, as a launch date.
via Bakkt

📉 According to Chainalysis, the value of Bitcoins handled by Bitcoin payment processors has dropped nearly 80% from $427 million in December 2017 to $96 million in September 2018.
via Reuters

🌊 Despite that Ether price has dropped to an 18-month low, ICOs are not liquidating their ETH treasuries.
via The Block

🗣 Taavet Hinrikus, CEO of the cross-border payments startup TransferWise, said the company wouldn’t use blockchain until there is more adoption.
via Fortune

💰 Binance Labs invested $3 million in San Francisco-based over-the-counter (OTC) trading desk Koi Trading.
via ccn

Andreas Antonopoulos released his new book, ennoscriptd Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and DApps.
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The Block’s senior correspondent, Frank Chaparro, went on Yahoo Finance to discuss the ongoing crypto bear market and how volatility may be scaring off investors.

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Cryptocurrency payments processing company BitPay will add support for the Paxos Standard (PAX) stablecoin.

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Today, when “every second project is stablecoin,” this type of cryptocurrency already occupies a separate niche within the global crypto space, having its own statistics and tracking tools, including the Stablecoin Index, the Stable Report, the Stablecoin Stats, and the Stablecoin Wars, some of which may become the “Coinmarketcap for the Stablecoins.”

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On October 31st, Bitcoin, the first digital asset, turned ten years old. During this time, the cryptocurrency market has grown from zero to over $200 billion, and about 15,500 exchanges have appeared. These figures are regularly increasing, and interest is not fading, despite the ever-changing moods. One of the reasons for this is that cryptocurrencies remain an effective method of earning. Trading on digital assets exchanges attracts fiat traders and other users who are overwhelmed with the idea of ​​making quick profits.

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💸 Buyers of the Grayscale Bitcoin Investment Trust paid a 100% premium for Bitcoin during its peak.
via Bloomberg

🔜 Telegram’s $1.7 billion Telegram Open Network (TON) project is 70% complete.
via The Block

💵 Cryptocurrency bank Silvergate Bank is preparing to raise $50 million in an initial public offering (IPO).
via ccn

🏦 BBVA and Banco Santander have joined the E.U. International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (IATBA).
via Cointelegraph

📑 Bitcoin mining cloud service provider Giga Watt has filed for bankruptcy.
via The Block

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According to Jacqueline Quintal from insurance broker firm Aon Risk Solutions, demand for crypto insurance services vastly exceeds the number of offerings on the market.

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Bitcoin’s (BTC) hash rate has dropped by 44% from all-time high. Source »

Despite the fairly loyal attitude of Japan’s financial regulators to the crypto industry, which has recently been self-regulated, local authorities are continuing to develop new measures to control services that work with digital currencies. During the ninth meeting of the cryptocurrency-dedicated research group of the Financial Services Agency of Japan (FSA), the financial authorities of the country discussed the conditions for creating a legislative framework for monitoring the operation of crypto wallets.

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In 2019, Zcash is preparing a network update called Blossom. To make the upgrade as convenient as possible and meet the developers’ plans, the founder of the cryptocurrency Zooko Wilcox published a document on GitHub, where each user can leave suggestions for improving the system. Nonetheless, hidden mining software—apparently created by “Russian hackers”—was discovered in the most secure and confidential Zcash network.

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🗣 In an interview published by American Civil Liberties Union, Edward Snowden said that “one day Bitcoin will be gone.”
via The Block

💰 According to a recent research report by Outlier Ventures, venture capital investments in the blockchain space are up 316% from 2017.
via Outlier Ventures

🗓 The Mt.Gox trustee is seeking to extend the deadline for filing civil rehabilitation claims to December.
via CoinDesk

😨 Cryptocurrency trading platform BitMEX reports that at least 12 initial coin offering (ICO) projects that raised over $50 million have not launched yet.
via Cointelegraph

🇮🇳 Indian police have charged four individuals involved in a multi-level marketing (MLM) crypto scam.
via ccn

Cryptocurrency mining operations in China have reportedly started the selloff of mining machines by weight.

The miners are being sold “by kilo,” according to the F2Pool founder’s post on the Weibo microblogging platform.

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Sonny Singh, the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of global crypto payment processor BitPay, has predicted that Bitcoin (BTC) will hit $15,000 to $20,000 by the end of 2019 due to the financial giants’ entry into the space.

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Every week, The Block publishes expert cryptocurrency legal analysis by Stephen Palley and Nelson M. Rosario, who summarize three cryptocurrency-related cases. The summaries are provided for educational purposes only and should not be considered legal advice.

This week’s cases are:
• Gevorkyan v. Bitmain
• Copytrack Pte Ltd. v. Wall
• Cunningham v. Brown

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The launch of the Minter main network is not far off, which means it is time for all BIP holders to think about whose node to delegate their coins to. Check out a guest post explaining why one should be attentive to statistics and other indicators of the validator in the testnet.

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Many have chosen to work in the crypto industry. Since the beginning of the fall, two Nobel Prize winners have been working at Cryptic Labs, the economist Christopher Pissarides and Harvard University professor Eric Maskin. Earlier, Oliver Hart, who is also the winner of a prestigious award, went to work for the Prysm Group. Not only beginning specialists are choosing a career in the field of financial technologies. Besides, more and more world renowned universities offer appropriate training programs. But are there any prospects on the labor market if cryptocurrencies are getting cheaper?

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