Crypto Daily Roundup – Sep 1, 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 $ELA To Build dAPPS (CR100), Token Burn, Smartweb Alpha & So Much More!!!
• Bitcademy introduces blockchain technology to African football positively impacting local communities and helping young athletes succeed
• Press Release: Blockchain Platform Orbs Marks Strategic Expansion Into South Korea
• BitTorrent app will soon be paying its users directly in cryptocurrency to seed files, lending bandwidth to the swarm in exchange for cryptocurrency.
• WTF is TaTaTu and does any sane person believe they raised 550 million in a private token sale? I though ICOs were not too popular in 2018
• John McAfee’s ‘unhackable’ Bitfi wallet got hacked — again.
• Investment
• Blockchain jobs are booming in Asia, even as cryptocurrency prices struggle
• Cboe is telling market makers it is close to launching ether futures
• Is an invite-only cryptocurrency a good or a bad idea?
• #Waltoncoin ($WTC) will be listed on @BithumbOfficial, the global leading cryptocurrency exchange.
• Korean Ministry Blockchain Initiative — ICON vs Samsung SDS
• A short story
• A cross post from 3 years ago. Man how the times have changed
• Daily Discussion Megathread – August 31, 2018
• He’s been studying in the U.S. legally for 7 years. Bank of America froze his account anyway
• “Fujitsu reaffirms its partnership with IOTA. Fujitsu’s main objective is to apply the tangle technology, and ensure the originality of parts and administer supply chain in an effective manner.”
• Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Jobs Up 50% in Asia According to Recruitment Firm
• CCN.com is officially off my reading list. So much slanted FOMO & FUD…clearly paid interests involved here.
• Bank of America freezing accounts of customers suspected of not being US citizens
• Vitalik showing up at the Bitcoin Cash mining summit, trying to help. (he was denied)
• Announcements continue: new partnership with BRAVO! – TokenDesk
• Bakkt’s Cryptocurrency Exchange is Coming, But Will Institutional Investors Follow?
• $800 Million: Bitcoin Whale Starts Moving Funds Associated With Silk Road’s Operator
• To those who run a NANO node, please update it! vote by hash will go live in less than 24 hours.
• Waltonchain Official Bithumb Listing Announcement
• Iran unveiled its “national cryptocurrency” and it is a textbook example of a shitcoin
• ETH block reward reduction to 2 ETH/Block confirmed and accepted for Constantinople.
• BNP Paribas invites Vechain to present their product for the wine industry.
• Asia +2 | USA +1 | Europe? What’s the next catalyst to drive mass adoption?
• My Cryptocurrency Portfolio for 2018
• CryptoCurrency = Future Billionaires
• The next bubble will be epic and horrible
• Bakkt is game changer.
• Disrupting Financial Markets – Some Pretty Convincing Numbers
• Commentary on Ethereum Foundation’s Upcoming Fork Decisions [r/CryptoCurrency Events]
• Ethereum’s Next Network Upgrade Will Reduce Issuance by 33%
• When will this sub get this up/down vote image or another custom?