Due to the latest cryptocurrency market plummet, many have started expressing the sentiment that Bitcoin mining is facing its demise. The article below refutes this unfounded and defamatory assumption.

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The cryptocurrency trading platform ErisX has closed a $27.5 million fundraising round. Among the startup’s backers at this stage are Nasdaq, Fidelity, Bitmain, and ConsenSys.

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Americans know how to invest and love doing it, but due to the subtleties of U.S. law, they cannot take part in the vast majority of ICOs. They do so only if the proposed token is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and any investment in it will not contradict the wording of the law. But who wants to mess with the official bureaucratic machine? We tried to figure out whether the procedure of registering a token in the SEC is so terrible and found five reasons why it should be done.

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“The ICO market is dead,” said Barry Silbert, head of the Digital Currency Group. Most members of the crypto community agree with an opinion that the initial coin offerings are no longer in demand. According to research by the analytical agency ICORating, crypto startups have begun to practice a new method of collecting money, the STO, which stands for Security Token Offering and means placing security tokens on the exchange.

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🇮🇷 CoinDesk has interviewed one of the Iranian citizens whose Bitcoin address was recently blacklisted by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
via CoinDesk

🇺🇸 The elimination of initial coin offering (ICO) fraud can be reached only through international cooperation, co-director of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement division said.
via ccn

🇨🇭 Switzerland’s Financial Market Supervisory Authority (Finma) has allowed cryptocurrency businesses to handle up to USD 100 million in public deposits.
via Bitcoin.com

📧 Founder and CEO of ConsenSys Joseph Lubin sent a letter to employees, outlining a new phase in the company’s work.
via The Block

💵 Overstock subsidiary Medici Ventures is investing in an agricultural blockchain business that aims to store grain transactions on a distributed ledger.
via Cointelegraph

Crypto lawyer Jake Chervinsky spoke with Bitcoin Magazine to hash out what the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s recent enforcement against initial coin offerings and related services means for the crypto industry going forward, and what the term “guidance by enforcement” encompasses.

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Cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex has introduced trading services for institutional customers. This month, the platform will be charging no fees for BTCUSDC trades. The company has also set a minimum order size of $250,000 for clients willing to participate in OTC (over-the-counter) trading.

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A graphical representation of J.P. Morgan employees who have left Wall Street for the crypto world.

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According to a recent Kaspersky Labs study, the number of users affected by hidden mining is only growing. Perhaps the reason for this is the “new generation” of botnets that specialize in mining cryptocurrencies. What are the weaknesses of security systems used by malicious bots, and the inhabitants of which countries are most vulnerable to their attacks?

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When winning a race, in 51% of cases, the participant wins in most outcomes. This applies to both gambling and investing in the stock or cryptocurrency market. Only there is one “but”: the frequency of correct hits does not matter, but only the magnitude of the gains with the right hit matters. This effect is named after the baseball legend of the 20’s George “Babe” Herman Ruth, Jr. The famous baseball player, despite a large number of outs, remained one of the best hitters in the history of baseball. How exactly is this fact related to investing?

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🇪🇺 Seven southern E.U. member-states have signed a declaration to endorse the use of the blockchain technology.
via Modern Consensus

💵 Bitwise Asset Management is set to launch two new cryptocurrency funds, supposedly aiming to outperform its rival—Grayscale—which is one of the largest and earliest investors in the market.
via The Block

📈 A recent study conducted by researchers from Imperial College London reveals that pump-and-dump schemes account for about $7 million of monthly cryptocurrency trading volume.
via MIT Technology Review

🌎 R3’s Corda Settler application will initially support XRP in a move coming after a year-long lawsuit between the two companies that was settled back in September this year.
via CoinDesk

⌨️ Coinbase, one of the largest U.S.-based exchanges, now supports trading in privacy-focused Zcash (ZEC) cryptocurrency.
via ccn

In an interview with Decrypt Media, Victor Santos—CEO of the AirFox blockchain startup that was recently fined by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for not having registered its initial coin offering as a security—discussed what impact the settlement might have on the future of the industry.

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Together with the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) and KPMG, Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) successfully finished trialing a blockchain-powered know-your-customer (KYC) application.

The test showed that the KYC procedure could be “radically simplified” if using the distributed ledger technology.

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Commerzbank, ING, Natixis, and Rabobank have conducted a live commercial paper transaction on the Euro Debt Solution application, which runs on the Corda platform developed by R3.

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The current state of the market, which has already been dubbed the “crypto winter,” causes a considerable number of investors to have two questions: “Who is to blame?” and “What to do?” Another interesting question is related to the role that the news outlets have played in the recent digital assets market decline.

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The world’s second-largest stock exchange will launch its own Bitcoin futures in the first half of 2019, said vice president of Nasdaq’s media team Joseph Christinat, noting that at this stage, the exchange is awaiting the decision of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). According to Christinat, CFTC has no reason to deny Nasdaq listing of derivatives for Bitcoin since the new exchange product meets all the requirements of the regulator. What are the critical differences between Nasdaq contracts and those offered by CME and CBOE, and how will they affect the digital assets market?

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🗓 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has again postponed the decision deadline for a Bitcoin ETF proposed by VanEck and SolidX.
via SEC

💵 Morgan Creek Digital wants to bet $1 million that digital assets will outperform the S&P 500 during the next ten years.
via CNBC

🏦 Grayscale holds over 1% of Bitcoin’s circulating supply in its Bitcoin Investment Trust (GBTC).
via Diar

🇺🇸 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is offering $800,000 grants to anti-forgery blockchain startups.
via CoinDesk

🇨🇱 State-owned Bancoestado was justified in closing the accounts of cryptocurrency exchange Orionx, as per the Supreme Court of Chile ruling.
via Cointelegraph

A brilliant thread on the current cryptocurrency market situation by What Bitcoin Did Podcast’s host Peter McCormack.

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A podcast with Gabor Gurbacs, Director of Digital Assets Strategy at VanEck/MVIS, on:
• The VanEck ETF application
• Why manipulation is not unique to Bitcoin
• The high bar for Bitcoin ETFs with the SEC

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An article on the ongoing XRP security debate. The question is: Could Ripple’s native digital token qualify as a security based on what company’s executives have said publicly in the past?

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Most banks traditionally are giving cryptocurrencies a wide berth, preferring the motto “To blockchain yes; to cryptocurrency, no.” “It’s extremely challenging. The legalized cannabis industry are having a much easier time than our cryptocurrency clients,” said Joe Ciccolo, president of the BitAML compliance service provider. But while many giants have “matured” only for the introduction of blockchain platforms, some players are not afraid to declare gentle relationships with crypto projects.

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