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Tom Lee: Bitcoin Could Benefit from Ether Futures

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Bitcoin bull Tom Lee believes that Ether futures trading may hurt the cryptocurrency but could benefit Bitcoin. If there’s one thing you can say about Fundstrat’s Tom Lee, it’s that he’s very optimistic about Bitcoin. In early July, Lee stood by his prediction that the price of the world’s number one cryptocurrency would hit $25,000 by the end of the year. Since then, he has consistently maintained that market trends show that BTC price will rise throughout the latter half of 2018. Now he’s found an unlikely ally in the potential gains of BTC – Ether futures trading. What Hurts Ether… Lee was recently commenting on Cboe announcing that they were close to launching Ether futures trading. He took the approach that such a circumstance could actually harm the altcoin. The main reason why futures trading could be bad for Ether is that it would allow bears to bet against it, thus having the potential to knock its value down quite a bit. Lee cites how the price of BTC fell dr...
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Mycrypto Raises $4 million

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Wallet solution Mycrypto has raised $4 million to build a platform allowing users to create new wallets, the full details of which are in this edition of The Daily. Also, the wallet advertised by software guru John McAfee, Bitfi, is removing the ‘unhackable’ claim from its branding, an Islamic crypto exchange applies for a license in Malta, and Eminem’s new album features bitcoin. Mycrypto Raises $4 Million to Create New Wallets Popular ethereum interface Mycrypto has raised $4 million in a funding round led by Polychain Capital. The money will be used to build a platform that allows users to create new wallets as well as buy, sell and trade cryptocurrencies. The news comes after the team recently launched a desktop app with which clients can manage or use their cryptocurrency without online resources or protocols and secure their funds outside an exchange. The platform is non-custodial, does not hold customers’ funds or personal data, and users are in control of thei...
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Vitalik Buterin Explains The Community’s Effort In Building A Much Stronger Platform

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In his tweet, it was mentioned that the quest of changing the Ethereum blockchain algorithm from a Proof-of-Work which it’s currently running to a Proof-of-Stake, which is said to make the community better and most importantly, make it less expensive for the community to engage in transaction processing on its blockchain actively started in early 2014. The first attempt as he reiterated was with the Slasher algorithm. Though it introduced some important updates, Slasher came with a whole lot of challenges which included “long-range attacks” where “attackers withdraw their stake from deposits on the main chain and use it to create an alternate ‘attack chain’.” Vlad’s research clearly got Vitaliks attention, and all efforts were put into making the Casper the winning protocol that will drive the Ethereum blockchain. With some modifications from the founder himself, the project was making headway with the new modification called the Casper the Friendly Finality Gadget (FFG). ...
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Cryptocurrency Exchange Binance Buys Ethereum Wallet Service in First-Ever Acquisition

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Binance, one of the world’s two largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has just completed its first-ever acquisition. According to  TechCrunch , the Malta-based exchange operator acquired Trust Wallet, creator of the eponymous mobile  Ethereum wallet  that includes support for ether, as well as ERC-20 and ERC-223 tokens. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed, but Binance confirmed that it included a mixture of cash, Binance stock, and Binance tokens (BNB). Trust Wallet is not one of the better known Ethereum wallets. It has about 50,000 downloads on Android through the Google Play store, earning a 4.6 out of 5 star rating from 1,138 reviewers. Download statistics were not immediately available from Apple’s App Store, but the wallet had a comparable rating from a similar number of reviewers. For comparison,  imToken , the most popular Ethereum wallet, has more than 5 million monthly active users, most of who are based in Asia. “The Trust Wallet team shares t...
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Trillion-Dollar Asset Manager Opens Financial Services for Bitcoin, Ethereum and Crypto Hedge Funds

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Northern Trust, a traditional financial institution that was founded in 1889, is piloting new cryptocurrency programs to expand its services.  Forbes  reports that the company’s expansion into blockchain will involve three “mainstream hedge funds.” Hedge fund clients that are betting on Bitcoin and Ethereum will be able to use new financial services being developed by Northern Trust to help value and record cryptocurrency investments. The Chicago-based company is one of the largest banks in the US. It has nearly $10.7 trillion in assets under management, and reportedly represents nearly 20% of the wealthiest families in the US. Its services are managed through a network of 85 US offices across 19 states, Washington, D.C. and 23 international locations, including Canada, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. https://dailyhodl.com/2018/07/31/trillion-dollar-asset-manager-opens-financial-services-for-bitcoin-ethereum-and-crypto-hedge-funds/
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Jeffrey Tucker, economist and editorial director for the American Institute for Economic Research, is calling out banking elites and governments for their long-standing monopoly on money, which has led to “world wars, depression and inflation, enormous government indebtedness, and the rise of leviathan states that learned to print their way to power and riches.” In a recent report, Tucker advises central banks and governments to stop meddling in the world of crypto — where they’re not wanted, not qualified and not going to succeed. But banks are hardly lying down and rolling over. They’re lining up solutions to kick Bitcoin and crypto to the curb, challenging the fintech startups that are vying to take away their monopoly and world dominance. Tucker addresses their central scheme to stop the competition: issue their own digital currencies. But a government-backed, central bank-branded coin would have nation-state borders and would live on a permissioned blockchain. It would ...
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