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November Week 5

News

• CME group expected to launch BTC futures mid-December (~2nd week)
• Nasdaq considering BTC trading early 2018
• Ethereum reaches all-time-high of $480
• Vitalik introduces Ethereum 2nd Sharding-Chain to scale Visa level
• Ethereum Casper(PoS) FFG Testnet launching soon

Bitcoin (BTC)

• SegWit transaction makes up 12% of all transactions. Scaling problem will be alleviated by more exchanges and wallet service providers begin supporting Segwit.
  • http://segwit.party/charts/#
• Blockchain.info will begin supporting Segwit address 1st quarter of 2018.
  • https://goo.gl/rXinRN
• CME launching BTC futures in December.
  • https://goo.gl/KLfoMc
• Nasdaq plans to launch BTC futures first quarter of 2018.
  • https://goo.gl/XtE1DC
• Coinbase obtains partial victory over IRS
  • https://goo.gl/DoXqW8

Bitcoin Cash (BCC, BCH)

• Blockchain.info will support BCC first quarter of 2018.
  • https://goo.gl/rXinRN
• Bitstamp will list BCC in first week of December.
  • https://goo.gl/kQetWm
• Roadmap released
  • https://goo.gl/nJWLaR

Ethereum (ETH)

• Hashpower totals [111.0k GH/s]
  • https://goo.gl/LYGQ1t
• Metropolis update will be divided into 2 forks - Byzantium and Constantinople, Byzantium fork completed Block 4,370,000 (10/16 2:30pm) difficulty bomb (Ice Age) reduced mining rewards from 5 to 3 ETH.
• November 23 update
  • https://goo.gl/jPYCAv
• Devcon3 videos released
  • https://goo.gl/UdVHEc

IOTA

• Listed on Korean exchange Coinone
  • https://goo.gl/quQqAk
• IOTA foundation launches data marketplace for IoT
  • https://goo.gl/Qq2g6a