Crypto Daily Roundup – Jan 4, 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.

• Novogratz Buys Another 2.7% of His Galaxy Digital Crypto Fund for $5 Million – CoinDesk
• Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Absurd Energy Consumption by 99 Percent
• Daily Discussion Megathread – January 3, 2019
• No Such Thing As A Crypto Expert
• BAKKT raises over $182 million and is also partnered with Microsoft and Starbucks to boost liquidity and use cases in institutional, retail, and consumer markets.
• BCH outed as scam in the Canadian Parliament [Audio]
• Base æpp, AirGap Wallet and AE Blockchain Explorer
• Warning: Bitcoin Cash ABC is now completely centralised with one pool BTC.top mining 50% of all blocks
• Learn About USDX — Earn More USDX
• Unlike ICOs, which issue Utility Tokens to the customer, STOs provide what is called a Security Token. Here are the law and KYC surrounding STOs.
• A digital exchange opening next week will enable investors to trade in companies including Apple Inc., Facebook Inc and Tesla Inc. outside of the U.S. even when the stock markets are closed.
• Companies began to charge ridiculously high prices for market data API, challenging new unfunded projects to scale. Market price data should be for free and open to anyone. As an answer, CoinPaprika released their new API, offering more than 25 million calls per month at no cost.
• 2018 has been a tough year while most of the major cryptocurrencies swam in a sea of red, However, blockchain development keeps evolving. According to OpenSea, every day there are 3 new companies launching on ERC-721 with new products.
• French Crypto Startup Disappears after Failed ICO, Leaves Unanswered Questions
• Bitmex says happy bday to Satoshi on the front page of The Times
• Why I Choose Crypto Over Fiat.
• New release – you can now easily find the exchange rate between government currencies and Blackbytes on the Byteball platform
• NASDAQ-Powered Digital Exchange That Tokenizes Traditional Stocks Is Set to Launch on Jan. 7
• Apple has lost $61 billion off it’s marketcap today. Bitcoin’s total market cap is $67 billion. A single company lost as much value in a day as Bitcoin is worth in total. Still think you are late to the party?
• Built a mining rig over christmas with my little cousins using my old K’nex. Got them all fascinated by crypto and surprisingly even the adults (40+) wanted to know everything, didn’t expect such a positive response from them. Oh and the rig has a FREE energy source, vid in comments… 😉
• u/drinkyafkingmilk: “If NANO does not reach $20 by the end of 2018, I will slice off my dick.” Ser, when slice dick?
• A crypto exchange ad during Liverpool Vs. Man City….
• Like it or not, crypto will remain nerd money unless Apple, Google, or Samsung brings us built-in, easy-to-use wallets.
• Overstock to become the first company in the nation to pay their Ohio taxes in bitcoin
• Apple, Facebook, and Tesla Stock Become Tokenized on Ethereum, Available Next Week