Crypto Daily Roundup – Aug 11, 2018

Every day we collate the hottest Cryptocurrency articles from around the web and social media. Below is our reading list for the past 24 hours.

• 5,000 Merchants Can Now Accept Cryptocurrency Payments in Chile
• EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Blockchain Futurist Conference To Welcome Nearly 2,000 Attendees to Toronto, Canada
• PRESS RELEASE: Orvium Announces Appointment of María del Carmen Pastor Sempere, Director of BAES Blockchain Lab, as Advisor
• Brazil Presidential Candidate Amoedo want to make Bitcoin legal currency
• Daily Discussion Megathread – August 10, 2018
• Paying for everything at a festival using a Cryptocurrency Wristband that is simply tap-to-pay! Amazing use of Crypto!
• An Exhaustive Guide to Buying Cryptocurrencies (anywhere in the world)
• You’re the reason we can’t have nice things. Yes, YOU.
• To all the bag holders quitting Crypto, remember – Tom Randolph on Twitter
• [Analysis] CME futures’ volumes are soaring while CBOE falls flat
• Volkswagen Group confirms working on real use-cases for their cars, using Bitcoin, Ethereum, IOTA
• Dead Snow. The Swiss Alps Mining Scam ICO
• Turkish Lira another example of not-so-stable-fiat-currency. How government corruption can devaluate your savings.
• CNN MONEY: “The World Bank is getting in on blockchain”.
• Thai SEC Reports Exploding Interest in Cryptocurrency Licensing
• Interview with the CEO of XTRABYTES
• Centralized or Decentralized, which is the right choice for Crypto Exchanges? – Forex Markets Live
• Fiat is a dead project
• Grandad was watching the news and hit me with this today
• Korean Media | Walton Blockchain Institute President, Kong Jongryul: The Next 30 Years are the…
• r/cryptocurrency waiting for the bull market like
• Potentially the biggest partnership in Cryptocurrency history in the making? Facebook is talking to Stellar about making a big move into Crypto.
• IoTeX & SmartHab: Smart buildings and cities, powered by IoTeX.
• [MEME] Every coin’s sub right now.
• Should every investment portfolio hold 1-6% cryptocurrencies? New Yale study says yes. • r/investing
• WARNING: KuCoin’s Hong Kong office is empty. Be extremely cautious about depositing money into this exchange. (Proof Photos Attached)
• Vitalik wants a crypto card for mass adoption and STK is building it with multi-token payment channel
• Very detailed deep-dive into blockchain scalability issues
• Own Nothing, Control Everything
• Investing in cryptos…not looking forward to Christmas this year and all the broken promises.
• Bitcoin – As a one-world currency
• These are tough times but if you can make it through this you will have truly earned your gains when the next run up comes
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• Crypto Market Cycle Cheat Sheet