Crypto Daily Roundup – Jan 17, 2019

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.

• XRP Classic looks like a cheap scam
• PIRL.io explaining their 51% attack protection. Video plays on their ipfs video platform that is ran on their masternode network
• Today is a special day! Jan 16th marks the 1 year anniversary of Bitconnect’s shutdown 🎉🎉
• Guys my master TA skills shows that the bear is not over till we breach this line.
• LocalBitcoins Venezuela has double the trading volume than The Venezuelan Stock Market
• Daily Discussion Megathread – January 16, 2019
• Reoccurring. . .
• Announcing Loom PlasmaChain Interoperability with Cosmos Hub
• Russian Claim to Buy Bitcoin is Fake
• Ethereum Classic’s ‘51% Attack,’ $1 million loss, raise concerns about security. For users to feel secure, cryptocurrencies will need to be able to demonstrate that they are implementing the best practices for guarding their tokens.
• Kraken CEO – PLEASE do not store more coins on an exchange (including @krakenfx) than you need to actively trade
• Binance Targets EU, UK Traders With New Fiat-to-Crypto Exchange – CoinDesk
• Malta Mania: are ALL projects moving there?
• Developers War – Winners Revealed (Byteball)
• Official Launch of #Binance’s EUR/GBP Fiat Exchange – http://Binance.je
• Why Ether is Valuable
• Chain-Watchers Track Cryptopia Hack Tokens, Highlight Possibility of Inside Job
• The Price of Your Precious Bitcoin Is Meaningless
• Binance freezes stolen Cryptopia funds.
• Interview with Zoe Adamovicz, CEO & Cofounder of Neufund
• Proof that HotBit is a Scam Exchange (completely fake volume: there are no mature GRIN coins yet)
• Brave browser featured in PC Magazine – Ability to earn BAT coming soon
• Ethereum Constantinople Hard Fork Delayed Due To Security Vulnerability
• Years ago coins like worldcoin went on an impressive bull run with bitcoin, but then died out before the next bubble. What are some coins from the 2017 bull run that will never again hit their ATH? What coins will and why?
• Factchecking Ripple Part 1: Are financial institutions really using XRP?
• Ledger Nano S firmware update
• Relex (RLX): The Scam Exposed
• A move from $3000 to $1,000,000 per bitcoin sounds a lot less crazy than it getting to $3000 in the first place.
• I just modeled some cryptocurrency Google search trends against BTC price. I thought the results were interesting, so I wrote a blog post here and posted the code. Hope y’all find it interesting.
• What kind of money do you want? Permissioned or Controlled? We still have time to decide.