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📉 According to a recent CNBC report, just about every single asset class has posted negative returns or unchanged performance year to date.
via CNBC

⛏ Bitcoin mining giant Bitmain confirmed major layoffs, with more than 50% of staff leaving the company.
via CoinDesk

🏦 ⁠Bank of America submitted an application to patent a blockchain system, which will use the technology in cash handling procedures.
via Cointelegraph

🇰🇷 South Korea’s blockchain association wants Gwangju, the 6th largest city in the country, to be turned into a ‘specialized Crypto-Valley District.’
via CCN

☠ According to the Bitcoin Obituaries website, the first cryptocurrency ‘died’ 90 times in 2018.
via Bitcoin.com

​​In the week of December 17 to December 23rd both Bitcoin and Ethereum reached their 7-month high in weekly trading volumes. Bitcoin’s volume reached $46 Billion, while Ethereum’s stopped at $18.5 Billion. The graph also shows, that the volumes for both Bitcoin and Ethereum are still very correlated.

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According to CoinDesk contributor Arwen Smit, there are three areas of conflict, between six “incompatible truths,” that have been slowly taking shape, and that 2019 will see them unleashed in full force. These areas are:

- Ideology vs product-market fit
- Market capitalization vs adoption
- Believers vs non-believers

How will they shape the crypto space in the upcoming year?

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CCN spoke with Nimrod May to find out if SIRIN Labs, which launched its blockchain smartphone, the FINNEY, just a few weeks ago, will continue making phones or focus on developing an OS. May also gave a side-by-side comparison of the SIRIN FINNEY and the HTC Exodus 1.

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The cryptocurrency industry has matured by one year, but investors are still way too trusting. With the support of stars and large companies, fraudulent ICO projects still find their victims. DeCenter has collected the most high profile scams and stories of fraudulent projects that took place in 2018.

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2018 showed crypto users the essence of blockchain projects, many of which did not enter the launch phase after collecting funds through an ICO. Now the crypto market is waiting for actual proof that the blockchain technology is really a necessity for various sectors of the economy. DeCenter spoke with Gregory Kim, CEO of Quantfury, whose product and company offer an application for trading on the traditional and crypto markets without fees and is an example of true blockchain implementation in Fintech.

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🇯🇵 Japanese internet giant GMO is leaving the crypto mining industry due to extraordinary loss of JPY 35.5 billion and will discontinue manufacture of all mining equipment.
via Cointelegraph

🇮🇳 According to a recent report, the Indian government might legalize cryptocurrencies, but with strict regulation attached.
via CoinDesk

❎ The Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin has delisted 10 crypto tokens, that have not met strict set of operational criteria.
via NewsBTC

🖊 Bear market has triggered a rise of M&A activity among crypto companies with good liquidity, that have been acquiring numerous successful startups throughout the year.
via Bitcoin.com

📉 Prominent crypto investor Kyle Samani believes that major layoffs at Bitmain might be followed by a dump of company's crypto stockpile, which includes a massive number of Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash.
via CCN

​​In December, the Bitcoin price has sagnicially outperformed the S&P 500 index, CCN reports. During this month, the index noted ten back-to-back daily selling sessions during mid-term — causing a crash of almost 20%, its lowest since April 2017. The S&P’s sister indexes, Dow Jones and Nasdaq, also plunged significantly within the same timeframe. The trio together came closer to record the worst monthly crash since the financial crisis of 2008. At the same time Bitcoin underwent an impressive bullish correction, jumping towards its monthly high of $4,237.

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​​Tomorrow is the largest expiry of the year for bitcoin options - the "Dec expiry". 25,500 bitcoin options will expire on Deribit, with 80% of options expiring are calls.


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A South Korean court has ruled in favor of the Bithumb exchange after a user was hacked for around $355,000 and moved to sue the firm over the loss. The customer who brought the lawsuit against the exchange was 30-year-old Ahn Park, who alleged his Bithumb account was hacked on November 30, 2017.

In an attempt to reclaim his funds, Park took Bithumb’s parent firm, BTCKorea.com, to a civil court in the Korean capital Seoul, stating: “Considering that Bithumb offers similar services to the financial sector, it requires a high degree of security measures required by financial institutions.”

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The cryptocurrency market is developing in two directions. One of them is investment in cryptocurrencies and in tokens that are promoted through ICOs. The other is investment in the cryptocurrency infrastructure: from creating convenient applications on digital wallets to clearing the “bottlenecks” of cryptocurrency blockchains by using technological “second layers”.

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Not only people, but also cryptocurrencies can enjoy some long holidays. And if we can celebrate the new year twice, the old and the new, then Bitcoin can celebrate its birthday twice: on October 31st, the day the white paper was published, and on January 3rd, the day the genesis block was generated. Therefore, as soon as the first wave of congratulations resounds, the community will be preparing for a new holiday. This year the January 3rd celebration will be marked with the Proof of Keys campaign. See what the crypto community has to say about it.

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🎭 The Wall Street Journal analyzed 3,300 ICO (initial coin offering) projects and found that 16% of them showed signs of “plagiarism, identity theft, and promises of improbable returns.”
via Cointelegraph

🔚 Japanese Internet solutions giant GMO will no longer develop, manufacture, or sell cryptocurrency mining machines.
via The Block

⚖️ Craig Wright’s recent dismissal motions in regard to a billion-dollar Bitcoin lawsuit where he is named as a defendant were denied.
via Bitcoin.com

👩‍⚖️ Crypto law firm Silver Miller announced the start of a new federal court lawsuit against trader Jeremy Spence, the alleged operator of a crypto Ponzi scheme.
via PR Newswire

🙅🏻‍♂️ Mark Karpeles, a former CEO of now-defunct Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, pleaded not guilty in the final argument for his trial.
via CoinDesk

In a recent cleverly executed phishing attack, hackers managed to swindle the users of a popular Electrum wallet out of over $880,000 worth of Bitcoin.

The company warned its clients not to download the wallet from any source other than its official website.

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”For billions living under authoritarianism, it [Bitcoin] can be an alternative money system and an escape from economic control. And for all of us, it preserves the peer-to-peer virtues of cash in an increasingly digital financial world.”

WhalePanda tweeted that this column on the importance of the first cryptocurrency for freedom is probably the best Bitcoin article published on mainstream media he’s ever read.

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This week’s #CryptoCaselawMinute features:
• A new case from Argentina regarding crypto theft;
• A “double escrow” Bitcoin purchase that went south;
• A Federal Trade Commission injunction extending to crypto assets.

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Despite that the bearish trend brought down the majority of cryptocurrency rates, the leading market players in 2018 were provided with new opportunities. So, while traders and investors nervously watched cryptocurrency charts, crypto companies and blockchain projects struck 115 partnerships, mergers & acquisitions, and takeovers to further improve their organizations, products, and services. As a result, the year 2019 promises to be a challenging but exciting, during which we will see a rapid growth of the entire crypto industry. DeCenter considered the most memorable crypto deals of the past year and the degree of their influence on the digital assets market.

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Despite the disappointment of users in the ICO model and the organization and implementation of blockchain projects, 2018 is still going down in history as the time of the birth of the crypto gaming industry. The industry, as the name implies, combines digital tokens and various games. We collected the essential things that formed the game market.

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🔑 Today—ten years after Satoshi Nakamoto launched the Bitcoin network by creating the “genesis block”—the Proof of Keys campaign started, encouraging users to gain control over their private keys.
via The Block

🦅 New York has become the first U.S. state to establish a digital currency task force.
via Cointelegraph

🇪🇺 The E.U.-based trading platform that is set to launch next Monday will enable its customers to purchase tokens representing shares in Nasdaq-listed tech firms.
via Bitcoin.com

🔮 In 2019, the blockchain technology will become “more useful” and “boring,” according to a forecast by MIT Technology Review.
via MIT Technology Review

🔝 CoinDesk released its annual ranking of the most influential people in the crypto industry, naming Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao as a leader.
via CoinDesk

CoinDesk published an exclusive guest article outlining key events that will shape the cryptocurrency regulatory landscape in 2019.

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It is most convenient to divide any history into different periods. At school, we were taught that world history consists of periods extending over several hundred years—from primitive society to modern times. We are accustomed to dividing the history of states into periods of 25, 50, or 100 years. And the history of the contemporary world economy is calculated in periods of 10–20 years. Each such period is usually associated with well-known figures who played an essential role at the time. These are kings, politicians, great generals, scientists. The history of cryptocurrency and blockchain in the world chronicle is just beginning, and we are still viewing it under a microscope as almost every event is perceived as a historical moment. And the time intervals are still tiny. But there are already plenty of actors in its history.

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