Crypto Daily Roundup – Aug 19, 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.

• “BTC is All Speculation. It’s not Backed by Anything.”
• Bitcoin has a higher transaction volume than gold
• Obama follows an Elon musk scam account instead his real one
• I have 5 years of coinmarketcap.com crypto price data in a csv file, feel free download for your own db, its free.
• Federal courts now accepting cryptocurrency for bail: a man charged with hacking the Redwood City video game company Electronic Arts has been ordered to pay his bail in cryptocurrency, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
• Indian Government might allow Cryptocurrency Tokens
• Daily Discussion Megathread – August 18, 2018
• Somone seems to write a contract to steal ownership of accounts, I noticed the transaction in my metamask, what to do now? I moved the eth away, yet, this would not like to loose this address!
• ICON Partners Blockchain Research Group Gives the Skynet Open Network Project the Highest Rating, Surpassing HashGraph, OmiseGo, Walton and IoTex
• BEWARE! Crypto-wallet Virus Affiliate Program is Being Offered to the Website Owners
• Ambrosus selected as member of the Rising Food Stars
• Hackers steal £10m from cash machines in global heist Indian bank centralized servers
• Warning about hacking threats on your MEW wallet.
• Bitcoin (BTC) and the Crypto Markets Do Not Need An ETF To Be Great
• US Judge Orders Bail Payment at $750K in Cryptocurrency for Alleged EA Hacker
• Precision is Everything: XRP
• Hi guys, Venezuelan here, yesterday the goverment anchored the minimum wage to their “cryptocurrency”, The Petro. One minimum wage is 0.5 petro which is around 30 USD per month. It was around 1 USD per month.
• SALT Loans
• Ripple is Using Three Major Cryptocurrency Exchanges for Their xRapid System
• Episode 008: Trans-Fee Mining: Ponzi Scheme or A Clever Way to ICO?
• DAEX works on a solution for the biggest issue of current crypto space – centralized exchanges
• Did anyone here ever take a crypto loan? And for what purpose? How do you see this niche in crypto market develop in the future?
• What does the little man inside you say?
• That‘s one way to say „thank you“
• Coinbase says their new wallet is the “easiest, and most secure” – and it’s not limited to coins that Coinbase supports…
• Metaverse from NEO cofounder, from rank 350 to 50 in one month
• 10 Year Anniversary: The domain name “bitcoin.org” was registered on 18 August 2008
• U.S. Congressman invites exchanges, crypto firms to discuss ICO regulation: report
• Chainlink officially announces partnership with OpenLaw!
• An ICO is as good as its ico marketing agency, what do you guys think?
• Bitcoin explained
• The Light in the Darkness – A Wallpaper I Made Today
• 90% of Employees at Major Crypto Exchange Binance Receive Salary in BNB
• The profound impact of Crypto Currency has been predicted since 1999 by Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize Winner in Economics
• More of a reason for you to get out of the grips of people selling your data and not giving you a piece of that pie
• Blast from the past -_-