Crypto Daily Roundup – Oct 30, 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.

• I updated that “Market Cap as Sound” generator to be a little more accurate
• TIL there is an island in the pacific called Yap that uses circular stones as currency. The stones are too large to move so the ownership of the stones is passed by word of mouth to transact business. The location of the stone is irrelevant even in the case of one lost on the bottom of the sea
• Daily Discussion Megathread – October 29, 2018
• Ripple snags Google’s Vice President of Products…
• Fidelity Reveals Crypto Strategy, Hardware Wallet Trezor Adds 8 New Coins, and IOTA Tangle Tackles Waste Management
• NuMoney launches exchange-linked Debit Cards so users from all around the world can cash out from ATMs
• Ripple Claims to Have Sold $163 Million XRP in Q3 of 2018
• Coinmama took their services one step farther announcing that their platform now supports SEPA, to enables crypto purchases directly from EU Bank accounts. Opening our market to investors from 33 countries within the EU.
• The last few decades we have witnessed innovations in modern medicine, science, and technology at a much faster rate than at any time before in history. Blockchain can help AI do more by being a reliable source of power to draw from.
• Major tech players has dominance and control over users’ internet activities. The centralized approach these companies apply to their apps and services create silos that result in fragmented user experiences.
• Apex Technologies, parent company of Apex Network ($CPX), receives Global Top 100 Red Herring award
• COSS API is live now!
• Are centralized governments blocking us from reaching the Utopian dream?
• “Mastering Bitcoin” Book Appeared on Chinese TV
• DEVCON4! Join us at r/CryptoDevs for coverage of the leading ETHEREUM conference hosted by the official ETH foundation – Oct 30th to Nov 2nd.
• 11-02-2018, Prague, Czech Republic. r/PandoraBoxchain: Scaling high-load computing & AI in trustless environments
• MapleChange Crypto Exchange Hacked For 913 Bitcoin (BTC) and has recently Shutdown without giving back funds to their customers… So guys if you have invested huge amounts in Crypto please use a hardware wallet and transfer your coins to it… Don’t leave your coins in exchanges
• Every post in r/tether has been deleted over the past 2 months, why?
• New Survey Suggests That 59% Of Investors Don’t Believe Tether Is Backed by USD
• Berlin is on its way to become the next Blockchain Mecca
• IOTA now listed on Blockport
• These flash crashes and sudden moonings all seem like carefully planned manipulations.
• Liquid, Coinbase and Lendingblock discuss regulation in crypto
• Bitstamp, one of the world’s largest exchange, acquired by a Korean Gaming Giant
• How Blockchain Would Have Stopped the China Chip Hack and Other Acts by the Thugs of our Generation
• Huge increase in trading volume on the top exchanges on the last 24 hours
• $NIX new technical overview on Pedersen Anonymous Deposits – Private Address-less transactions
• Bitcoin News: Individuals and Businesses in China Can Now Own and Transfer It Legally
• ICON x Seoul Metropolitan Government: Demonstration of ICON: ID Card, Voting System & S-Coin Payment
• “Telling the whole neighborhood we own Bitcoin!”
• DO NOT BUY OYSTER PEARL (PRL), THE SMART CONTRACT HAS BEEN BREACHED.
• CZ at the Forbes CEO conference. The room is est. to own more than $300b. A fellow panelist asked in honesty “isn’t bitcoin only used by criminals?”
• Oyster Update – OysterProtocol
• Fidelity, Bakkt and Coinbase are the New Era of Institutional Wars
• PRESS RELEASE: eToro becomes first investment platform to offer Binance Coin
• Oyster Update – OysterProtocol
• Deranged Maniac Stalking Down Crypto Personalities
• Ron Paul calls for exempting crypto from capital gains tax!!