Crypto Daily Roundup – Aug 21, 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.

• Just another reason they should dump credit cards and adopt the damn crypto already!
• Kin (still in beta) surpasses daily active users of all Ethereum Dapps combined, then adds that amount over again in new users over 24 hours. Most users have no idea what cryptocurrency is and they are actually spending it.
• Developments in the NANO ecosystem: BrainBlocks (founded by Daniel Brain, Principal Software Engineer at PayPal) announces new logo, BrainBlocks as a corporation, implementation of a PayPal button, and more
• Cringe-worthy stat of the day: Over 70% of executives already believe they are “blockchain experts” LOL
• My bitcoin interview on CSpan
• Top 8 Important Crypto Launches of 2018
• Daily Discussion Megathread – August 20, 2018
• BrainBlocks News: New Logo, Corporation formed, PayPal Button enabled, and seed round coming soon!
• Adoption – Pay for Billboard with Crypto in the UK
• Travala open daily discussion
• According to Google, 53 percent of visitors leave pages that take more than three seconds to load. Now compare it to the crypto world. Speed is critical for crypto payments to succeed.
• ASX looks to unleash blockchain technology on the Australian stock market
• Here are four ways to Improve the Decentralized Internet
• Crypto is Taking Over Venezuela, Due to the Country’s Destroyed Fiat System
• CoolBitX is a Taiwanese FinTech company founded in 2014. They just released their second generation mobile hardware wallet, CoolWallet S. Here’s Michael OU, CoolBitX CEO & Founder in a podcast about the new wallet release.
• I made this IOTA wallpaper over the weekend, hope you guys like it so far – WIP
• Akoin — Africa’s Next Game Changer
• CEO of Hello kitty joined Constellation as key advisor
• Understanding the igaming approach behind Blockchain smart contracts
• Wall Street Interest in Crypto at an All Time High!
• From today you can now send and receive Byteball Bytes with usernames e.g. @markzuckerberg instead of long, meaningless wallet addresses (the @markzuckerberg username is still available)
• Tube8 Will Pay Users in Crypto to Watch Porn
• [NSFW] Crypto Ads keep getting in the way of my market research
• Four exchanges join Winklevoss’ Virtual Commodity Association
• Venezuela UPDATE. It’s done. 5 zeroes were knocked off. Minimum wage will be 52 Bs. until September 1st (When it will get raised to 1,800 Bs.) today one USD is around 100 Bs. (It was 10,000,000 Bs. yesterday).
• Gamifying Crypto — The Benefits of Personalized Avatars
• Why using crypto is going to become inevitable. Felt like it belongs on this sub.
• Niklas Makschin’s Racecar is Supporting Cryptocurrency Adoption!
• A sign that the human race is evolving
• Saw this on another sub and felt like it might be applicable here.
• Coinbase volume down 83% since January, showing a stark decline in retail interest
• Bakkt CEO: Crypto Trading Platform Won’t Support Margin Trading
• You may have missed some of these updates on Vechain. This will bring you up to speed.
• Announcement: eToro Adds IOTA to Expanding List of Cryptoassets
• Here on Binance, you can teach people how to do count forward and backwards!!!
• BAKKT solution is much better than ETF