“Do you have our card? Not at all, or it’s just not with you right now?” Today it’s a familiar phrase from any dialog at any store checkout. And while the buyer is standing there, their card, as a rule, has long been resting somewhere home in one of the forsaken boxes next to all the other unused things. “Let’s check if it is tied to your phone number,” the seller happily exclaims. And usually, these attempts are not crowned with success. Because with today’s abundance of choices in clothes, food, and entertainment, users, having received another plastic card, are unlikely to “take care” of each retailer by registering separately, studying the terms of the loyalty program, calculating how much money 100 points are worth in this particular store, etc. DeCenter analyzed how blockchain will help “bring loyalty programs back to life.”

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On December 10, it was announced that the first crypto smartphone HTC Exodus 1 would have the Brave blockchain browser installed in it by default. Co-founder and CEO of Brave Software Brendan Eich wrote about this on his Twitter. DeCenter figured out how the crypto analog would differ from the usual Google Chrome, Safari, or Opera, and whether a new device adapted for digital currency is even needed.

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🇭🇰 The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) is concerned about approving the initial public offering (IPO) applications of Chinese Bitcoin mining giants.
via CoinDesk

👥 The number of unique addresses on the Ethereum network reached a 50 million mark.
via The Block

🔐 According to Kaspersky Lab, cases of cryptojacking have increased 400% this year alone.
via ccn

📉 51-percent attacks lead to an immediate 12–15-percent decrease in the corresponding coin’s price, a group of university researchers says.
via The Block

😔 Timothy C. May, the co-founder of the Cypherpunks movement who authored the Crypto Anarchist Manifesto, passed away.
via Cointelegraph

Last Thursday, crypto-friendly Robinhood Financial LLC announced a new checking and savings account, stating the SIPC (Securities Investor Protection Corporation) would act as an insurer.

In a Friday interview with Bloomberg, the Corp.’s president and chief executive officer said he “disagreed with the statement that the SIPC protected those funds.”

By Sunday, Robinhood had deleted the post from its official website.

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Recently, a Coinbase user accidentally sent Litecoin (LTC) to a Bitcoin (BTC) address. Cryptocurrency exchange’s support team representative claimed the funds “could not be recovered.” That’s when crypto Twitter came to the rescue and helped the user regain control over his assets.

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Increasing the length of a white paper by 1 page is predicted to increase the amount raised in an ICO by around 1%, a research conducted by The Block suggests.

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In early 2018, the market of crypto assets radically changed direction. A to-the-moon rocket was never able to reach the moon, having landed inexperienced players somewhere in the stratosphere, and continued its descent on the nerves of the most seasoned and tested. But the immunity of the latter is not unbreakable, either, as now the market is in the phase of an ice age. Traders no longer believe that “it is falling now, only to rebound later,” and the miners are just tired of pedaling to generate electricity for their farms. This is the best time to learn new ways to mine and support blockchain technologies. DPoS is probably the best choice of those known today.

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A year ago today, Bitcoin’s price hit its all-time high at USD 20,000. The one-year return to this day is -83.4%; at the same time, the five-year return stands at an astounding 350%.

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🏦 A U.K.-based cryptocurrency-friendly fintech company Revolut has been granted a European banking license.
via sky news

💸 Initial coin offering (ICO) projects have moved over 400,000 ETH out of their wallets in the past 30 days.
via Cointelegraph

🗓 Coinbase announced the addition of crypto-to-crypto feature for its retail customers.
via CoinDesk

🛫 Tagomi Holdings Inc., an electronic brokerage startup for digital assets that is backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel’s venture capital firm, has launched.
via The Block

💨 The majority of the top 25 Bitcoin (BTC) trading pairs listed on CoinMarketCap are wash traded.
via Cointelegraph

This year, Coinbase has outperformed Grayscale’s Bitcoin Investment Trust (GBTC) on over-the-counter (OTC) markets in terms of Bitcoin trading volume, Diar’s recent analysis shows.

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Coinbase announced the renewal of a partnership with PayPal that had been paused earlier this year.

“U.S. customers can instantly withdraw Coinbase balances to PayPal, providing even faster access to their funds through one of the world’s easiest and most widely-used payment platforms. These withdrawals are not only fast; they’re free and incur no fees.”

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According to a Bloomberg News report, Tether Ltd.—the company behind the infamous U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin—has sufficient cash reserves to back up every USDT on the market.

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Bitcoin, the undisputed king of cryptocurrencies, has not yet succeeded in becoming a medium of exchange, and some predict its fate is becoming a means for storing value and “digital gold.” People need, however, an everyday cryptocurrency. Or a couple of them? Or maybe millions? DeCenter figured out what would happen if everyone could release their own cryptocurrency and how it would change business relationships, the entertainment industry, and the world of social media users.

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Blockstream has recently expanded its satellite service to the Asia-Pacific region and added support for Lightning Network transactions.

“Bitcoin has always been about uncensorable money, and now we have uncensorable communications as well,” said the company’s CSO Samson Mow.

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📉 The protracted bearish mood prevailing in the cryptocurrency market is making institutional investors hesitant, JPMorgan Chase analysts say.
via Cointelegraph

🇨🇳 The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) is reportedly designing its own prototype of a centralized, government-controlled cryptocurrency.
via Bitcoin.com

🇨🇭 “The Federal Council currently sees no fundamental issues regarding financial market law that specifically concern blockchain/DLT-based applications and would require fundamental adjustments.”
via ccn

📈 From December 13 to December 18, daily trading volume of the Gemini dollar (GUSD) stablecoin skyrocketed from 1.5 million to approximately 36 million units. The spike seems to have been caused by trades against Bitcoin on the China-based OEX, Modern Consensus assumes.
via Modern Consensus

💵 Tim Draper has invested $1.25 million in OpenNode, a startup aiming to help businesses easily accept Bitcoin payments for their goods and services.
via The Block

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The Block prepared a roundup of the Ethereum’s initial coin offering (ICO), analyzing where the tokens distributed during the crowdsale eventually ended up at and whether Ether—the network’s native digital token and third-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization—could be deemed a security.

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Mark Dow—a former International Monetary Fund economist who bet that the world’s first cryptocurrency, which was then trading at its peak, would decline in price due to the arrival of futures contracts—has closed his short position on Bitcoin.

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Despite that at the moment, many crypto market players are primarily concerned about the prolonged fall in cryptocurrency rates, experts warn of growing threats in the field of cybersecurity. In particular, we are talking about cryptojacking, or hidden mining, the cases of which have increased by 400% since the beginning of the year. This is indicated by representatives of Kaspersky Lab. In Russia alone, the number of cases of cryptojacking increased from 3.5 million to 13 million. In the article below, we will discuss how the situation in the field of cryptosecurity has changed over the past 365 days and what to expect from 2019.

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While the crypto market is preparing new-year gifts, or low prices and the opportunity to enter the market, people think about what to give to their loved ones for the winter holidays. DeCenter has compiled a guide on New Year gifts that can be bought for cryptocurrencies. We emphasize that it is not necessary to convert digital assets into fiat money because there are already companies in the world that accept Bitcoin, Ether, and other coins as payment.

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📈 Crypto market gains $29 billion this week as Bitcoin adds another 6% on the day taking it to $3,750.
via CCN

💸 The San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase moved $5 billion in crypto into its upgraded storage model last week. Specifically 5% of all BTC, 8% of all ETH, and 25% of all LTC.
via Coindesk

📚 According to a new survey completed by cryptocurrency trading platform eToro 44% of online investors state that lack of educational resources is the main barrier to trading crypto.
via Forbes

💰 New Bloomberg report says Tether may in fact have the promised billions backing its stablecoin secured at Noble Bank in Puerto Rico.
via Bloomberg

🗣 Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao remains optimistic for the future of crypto as he calls 2018 a “Correction Year” in a recent interview.
via Cointelegraph