Crypto Daily Roundup – Aug 31, 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.

• Square wins patent for Cryptocurrency payment Network
• ARK Core v2: Technical Progress Update
• “This is a community effort … and we are starting in a country that has problems Nano can solve.”
• The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New York Times Since 1995
• Daily Discussion Megathread – August 30, 2018
• IoTeX releases Testnet Beta (Epik) – Code batch includes Roll-DPoS consensus, candidate voting, smart contract management and more.
• Our market is being manipulated every single day which is massively impacting volatility. Whales shouldn’t be able to scam the little guy like this. Fully automated markets could be the solution to bringing balance to crypto markets
• Bitcoin Annual Transaction volume reaches $1.3 Trillion and surpasses PayPal
• The Blockchain Payment Network Is Growing
• Approximately 10 percent of all funds raised by ICOs between 2015 and 2017 were stolen by hackers, around $400 million. Why it keeps happening, and how we can avoid it?
• IBM World-Wire – Stellar Protocol
• What features or information are important to you on an exchange?
• The Unbanked is the Biggest Untapped Market for Crypto
• Enigma Announces Eight Launch Partners using “Secret Contracts”
• Binance CEO Comments on the Instability of Fiat as Currencies Plunge all over the World
• Bank just confiscated my last $18k. I’m a broken man; I lost everything. But I am thankful for the ephemeral glimmer of hope that cryptocurrency brought to my life.
• Different types of Consensus Algorithms. Great overview by Aviv Lichtigstein
• CZ tweets ‘this bull run will be a significant one’ then deletes tweet
• How to become a Buttcoiner in 3 steps.
• Very Healthy Correction – #Bullish, bottom is in.
• Lisk successfully completes the Lisk Core 1.0 Mainnet migration
• Interesting read about bulletproofs
• Front cover of this months British Airways business life inflight magazine.
• Death bets on Augur blockchain – how likely is it that such thing is going to happen?
• Here’s a new dual-chain “attention token” using XLM for utility and ETH for STO
• Elastos 1 Year Anniversary Video: Cyber Republic Community Gets 16.5 Million $ELA To Build dAPPS (CR100), Token Burn, Smartweb Alpha & So Much More!!!
• Bitcademy introduces blockchain technology to African football positively impacting local communities and helping young athletes succeed
• Press Release: Blockchain Platform Orbs Marks Strategic Expansion Into South Korea
• BitTorrent app will soon be paying its users directly in cryptocurrency to seed files, lending bandwidth to the swarm in exchange for cryptocurrency.
• WTF is TaTaTu and does any sane person believe they raised 550 million in a private token sale? I though ICOs were not too popular in 2018
• John McAfee’s ‘unhackable’ Bitfi wallet got hacked — again.
• Investment