Key market events in December 17-23, 2018
- According to the Blockchain Transparency Institute, most exchanges lie about their transaction volumes. The real figure is close to 1% of the number displayed on the CoinMarketCap. Bitfinex and Binance are exceptions, though, of course, many have doubts about Binance.
2.Bloomberg gained access to the financial documentation of Tether Limited, which issues the USDT stablebcoin, and confirmed that almost a year ago, on January 31, 2018, all the coins issued by the company were secured by $2.2 billion.
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Payment giant Western Union is about to introduce cryptocurrency transfer services right after the tests are done. However, according to the president of the division of the Global Money Transfer payment system Odilon Almeida, so far the cryptocurrency has not gained wide traction, since it needs to be controlled by the authorities and reduce volatility.
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The Reddit user under the nickname sotashi urged Bitcoin owners UTC to withdraw their funds from all exchanges on January 3 at 16:00 to celebrate the decade of Genesis Block, and at the same time to check how many bitcoins are in circulation now and whether all exchanges are truly decentralized.
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The Coincheck cryptocurrency exchange, which lost more than $500 million to the hacker attack in January 2018, received an operating license from the Financial Services Agency of Japan after improving service, increasing security and introducing anti-money laundering measures.
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An accounting company Grant Thornton LLP conducted a second audit of stablecoin USD Coin (USDC) by Circle and Coinbase, which confirmed it was secured by fiat currency. By the end of November 2018, 177,190,279 USDC were released, and $180,192,792. 7 more remained in the reserves of issuing companies.
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Bitcoin network complexity dropped by 10% as the coin value grew, and the miners started earning more on mining this first cryptocurrency.
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Coinbase, the largest US exchange, confirmed that it was transferring almost $5 billion in cryptocurrency to a new repository for the cryptoassets of its clients. The total transfer amount included 5% of company’s Bitcoin reserves, 8% of Ethereum stash and 25% of Litecoin.
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The analytical company McAfee Labs published a report, which says the number of virus software for hidden mining increased by 4467% in 2018. IoT devices are the main attack vector.
10.Facebook began the development of a stablecoin secured by US dollar for WhatsApp users. The coin would be launched in India, where the messenger has about 200 million active users.
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ConsenSys aims to close its startup incubator, which included 36 projects. The company explained that all these startups have not created cost-effective products and are not ready to join the new ConsenSys. Therefore, the number of ConsenSys employees can be reduced by 60%.
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The Israeli firm GMT, which has 250 branches and cooperates with MoneyGram, American Express and other financial companies, has joined the RippleNet network.
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Wong Ching, a 24-year-old Bitcoin millionaire, decided to raise awareness about the crypto industry in a rather peculiar way - he dropped 100 million Hong Kong dollars (about $12.8 million) from the roof of a high-rise building.
Market analytics from club experts for December 17 - 23, 2018
Surprisingly enough, the last week turned out to be rather joyful and full of festive mood. The price of BTC and altcoins started to grow. The total market capitalization climbed from $103 billion in the beginning of the week to $133 billion.
Trading volumes also showed a good growth - on average roughly $17 billion. The BTC kept dominating the market at 53-54%, falling to 49% only by December 20, when there was a massive increase in altcoin price.
The BTC price climbed from $3276 to $4009 over the week, peaking at $4144.
This week witnessed the historical maximum of BTC trade volume - 2.27 million BTC or $9 billion. The last record was set on December 7, 2017, with almost 2 million BTC.
Moreover, the drop of recent corrections during the weekend was followed by good purchasing volumes.
There are reasons to assume that the buyers have accumulated enough funds and strength, and the reporting periods, together with the u, keep pointing out that the trend is about to change - if not globally, then at least locally. We expect quite a few landmark events in 2019 - the launch of Bakkt is just one of them. The train is about to leave, so hop on!
Changes in the cost and capitalization of the TOP-10 cryptocurrencies in the period for December 17-23, 2018:
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4. TOP-3 growing coins from the long-term portfolio for December 17-23, 2018 (including portfolio updates)
What an amazing week – all coins in the recommended portfolio showed growth! The best-performing coins are NKN +110% (successful launch of the testnet), Mysterium MYST +103% (release of a VPN application for the blockchain), Edgeless +96% (official launch of Slots). Others kept up, with the exception of Quarkchain QKC, which only grew +7%.
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