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VC funding continues to flow. USD pegged coins hope to be “stable”. Wall St finds creative ways to get involved, while Aus banks experiment with private blockchains. Mining competition heats up with new ASICs. - Cryptsheets Sep 18

Summary: Venture capital continues to flow into the cryptocurrency space. Firms race to create USD pegged currencies in the hope these will be "stable". Wall St...

Crypto Market Correlations - 22 Aug

Data is based on coinmarketcap closing prices for the 22 August midnight UTC, 23 August 10am AEST. Correlation matrix of daily returns provided for 30D, 90D and...

Exchanges seek self-regulation. Capital pours in - Axoni $32m, SFOX $23m, Pantera $71m. Venezuela goes full crypto. Market Recap - 22 Aug

News Recap Intuit has been granted a patent which describes processing bitcoin payments over text messages. The application was first filed in 2014. Enterprise-...

Worldbank launch blockchain bond. ICE physical bitcoin trading + starbucks adoption. Bitmain $18bn IPO. Bitcoin Market Recap - 12 Aug

Summary: Worldbank launch blockchain bond. ICE physical bitcoin future + starbucks adoption. Bitmain prepare $18bn IPO. Bitcoin cash vulnerabilty solved by Bitc...

CFA adds crypto. EOS wants more capital. Mastercard patents. Ernst & Young acquires crypto tax company. - Weekly Recap 23 July

The CFA institute has added cryptocurrency to it’s CFA level 1 and 2 exams, making knowledge of the subject a requirement to becoming a chartered financial anal...

Blackrock runs numbers on Bitcoin. Litecoin & Binance banks. Bancor suffers hack then freezes tokens. - Weekly Recap 16 July

$6tn asset manager Blackrock runs numbers on Bitcoin. Litecoin buys stake in German bank. Binance to launch community bank. Bancor suffers hack then freezes tok...

EOS re-allocates $1bn of capital. Binance vulnerability. Aus government spend $740m on intranet of blockchains. - Weekly Recap 8 July

Coinbase custody. Swiss exchange. EOS $1bn VC. BIS rant. IBM 740m Aus gov deal. Binance vulnerability. Coinbase has launched an institutional custody business t...

Facebook crypto returns. VC launches new $300m crypto fund. Mt Gox coins coming home. - Weekly Recap 2 July

Korean Crypto Exchange Bithumb has halted withdrawals after suffering a $31m hack. This is the third hack in 12 months and comes two weeks after they received a...

Lightning strikes twice. Ethereum no longer a security. EOS network control just a phone call away - Weekly Recap 18 June

Bitcoin microtransactions are here. Satoshi’s Place is a Lightning Network powered online collaborative artboard. There are 1 million pixels on the canvas and e...

Mining industry heats up with new 7nm chip, new $700m farm and a new $12bn public company? - Weekly Recap 12 June

Mining hardware manufacturing is heating up with Japan based GMO unveiling a 7nm bitcoin mining rig. This is more powerful and efficient than incumbent Bitmain’...

EOS vulnerability + ETH dump. VISA network disruption. $1bn venture capital fund. - Weekly Recap 4 June

The Bank of England has released a working paper which suggests that the adoption of central bank digital currencies could disrupt commercial banks. EOS is patc...

Walmart + Bank of America Patents. Bitcoin Gold completely vulnerable. Diamonds on the blockchain. - Weekly Recap 28 May

Walmart has filed a patent for a blockchain based marketplace. Bank of America has been awarded a patent for a system of managing security and access in permiss...

HSBC blockchain trade financing. Nomura crypto-custody. Circle $3bn valuation + stablecoin - Weekly Recap 21 May

HSBC has completed a letter of credit trade finance transaction on its blockchain platform. They say the platform is now ready to be adopted across the $9tn ind...

Facebookchain? $1bn Mining IPO. Bloomberg Crypto Index. BaaS is the new SaaS? - Weekly Recap 14 May

A $190m deal has been struck to mine Bitcoin in Australia in an old coal power plant. The deal will include a power purchase agreement for 5 years at $0.11 AUD ...

Venezeula Petro gets 30% off crude. Telegram closes largest ever ICO. Zcash mining disrupted. Ethereum recovery fork - Weekly Recap 7 May

Alibaba is trialing a blockchain platform for supply chain tracking with Fonterra, one of the worlds largest Dairy exporters. Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini has...

Amazon & JP Morgan blockchain services. Wikileaks boycotts Coinbase. XRP + ETH are noncompliant securities? - Weekly recap 29 April

Amazon web services has launched “blockchain templates” to make it easier to build Ethereum or Hyperledger based blockchain networks. JP Morgan have conducted t...

NYC crypto inquiry. Amazon wants to sell your data. Ethereum a security? - Weekly recap 21 April

New York regulator launches inquiry into 13 of the largest Cryptocurrency exchange. Kraken don’t want to co-operate. Amazon patent’s a data streaming marketplac...

Bitmain targets Ethash after cryptonight failure + 7 new Bitcoin Lapps

Ethereum ASIC miners have been developed by Bitmain and are available for pre-order. The miner known as Antminer E3 will be the first ASIC miner compatible with...

Lightning is go. Privacy coins lose fiat unramp. Monero resists ASICs. Consumer apps Circle + Abra - Recap 21 Mar

Lightning goes live on the mainnet. Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck will stop handling privacy coins Monero, Dash, and ZCash. Currently the firm is awaiting ...

Lightning adoption continues. Cloud miners face crackdown. Thailand to enact new crypto legislation. - Recap 13 Mar

The lightning network reaches 1000 nodes. Meanwhile, Japan's third largest electricity provider is experimenting with bitcoin lightning payments. Chubu Electric...