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.
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💸 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.
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🇨🇳 The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) is reportedly designing its own prototype of a centralized, government-controlled cryptocurrency.
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🇨🇭 “The Federal Council currently sees no fundamental issues regarding financial market law that specifically concern blockchain/DLT-based applications and would require fundamental adjustments.”
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📈 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.
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💵 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.
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💸 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

​​Vitalik Buterin must be feeling particularly festive during this holiday season. Yesterday famous "non-giver of Ether" gave away 3,000 in ETH. The reason? Well, because, YOLO. Projects Sigma Prime, Prysmatic Labs and ChainSafe received 1,000 ETH each as an early Christmas present. All three are currently working on creating the next version of Ethereum, dubbed Ethereum 2.0.

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Coinbase, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange in terms of users, is taking a step towards creating a more informed user base by launching Earn, an educational platform that allows users to earn tokens while learning about crypto.

By using this service, which is still in the ‘invite-only’ mode, users can watch educational videos about new coins and tokens, and then earn them by answering skill-testing quizzes.

According to TechCrunch currently Earn provides educational content on 0x (ZRX), a protocol that lets you create decentralized exchanges, while preparing to launch webinars on Bitcoin and Ethereum.

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RChain is facing major budgetary shortfall and is “functionally bankrupt”, The Block reports. Once ranking 30th on CoinMarketCap and led by an all-star team including Vlad Zamfir, this project was hoping to rival Ethereum.

But now RChain’s management is accused of alleged financial mishandling, reckless investments with developers losing faith left and right. Projects lead developer, Medha Parlikar, quit in October alongside three board members, and RChain’s CFO Kate Gonsalves resigned a fortnight.

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The anniversary year for the first cryptocurrency was not entirely festive. Since January the total capitalization of the crypto market has fallen about eightfold. However, if we do not compare the current market position with the anomalies witnessed in the end of 2017, and evaluate it as a very young, emerging industry, the conclusions will be much broader and more favorable than just a multi-billion dollar FUD.

“I believe the disruption this technology will bring won’t be fully realized over the course of just one year,” says Max Kordek, CEO and co-founder of the Lisk cryptocurrency, noting that this area also needs many educational and research projects that will not be completed within one year. However, there are already some predictions for 2019. With the help of expert opinions DeCenter figured out which direction the crypto industry will develop in the upcoming year.

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Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies whose development teams are striving to keep their value at a fixed level. Today these coins are developing rapidly. According to the latest data 48 of them are supported by fiat or any physical asset, and another 23 are backed by other cryptocurrencies. 15 stablecoins try to maintain balance by using an algorithmic mechanism that should regulate the number of coins in circulation based on the state of supply and demand at the current market. Another 24 stablecoins do not belong to any of the listed types, but still claim to maintain value, despite market fluctuations. Thus, now there are 110 different types of stablecoins, and their number is constantly growing.

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👨🏻‍⚖️ Two congressmen are pushing for a bipartisan bill, that would exclude cryptocurrencies from SEC's 72-year-old securities law.
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💸 Social media giant Facebook is reportedly developing a stablecoin for WhatsApp transfers.
via The Block

😨 ConsenSys, the Ethereum-focused startup incubator and blockchain technology conglomerate, is spinning out or cutting off funding for a number of startups it previously backed, which might lead to major layoffs with as many as 50-60% of its employees possibly being let go.
via The Verge

🕵🏼‍ University research identified 4,818 pump and dump signals that were advertised on Telegram and Discord over a six month period.
via Bloomberg

⚒ Parity Technologies has launched beta version of Substrate, a highly-anticipated open-source tool for creating customized blockchains for DApps.
via CoinDesk