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Market Summary

Market Cap: $89B
BTC Dominance: 50.79%
24 Hour Volume: 1.8B
Active Currencies: 830
Active Assets: 186
Active Markets: 4781

We're getting down to the final days before the dreaded August 1st, but please don't think we're in the clear just yet. November should be interesting as well, so keep that in mind. The $89B total market cap is right around where we were yesterday and Bitcoin dominance has been hovering around 50% for the past few days.

The top 20 on coinmarketcap looks to be a bit down today, but the majority are fairly minor drops. The biggest loser over the last hour and 24 hours looks to be Monero at 2.76% and 9.74%, respectively. It looks like Tether is gaining a bit, which is likely due to people getting ready for the fork. We saw this a bit before as well, with some attempting to find a safe place to put their money.

News

Blockchain Startups Take on Ticket Touting, But Will They Gain Traction? - altcointoday

Blockchain Startups Take on Ticket Touting, But Will They Gain Traction? If the fakes don’t get you, the bots will. That’s about the current state of the ticketing industry – one that, as most consumers know, has dealt with major problems of fraud and counterfeiting as online services have made them more accessible. In one…

Bitcoin Whales and How How They Make Market Waves - altcointoday

Bitcoin Whales and How How They Make Market Waves Sometimes when there’s a huge drop in bitcoin’s price traders called “bitcoin whales” are blamed for dumping on the market. Bitcoin whales are individuals or groups who hold vast quantities of bitcoins and can sometimes sway the market towards their preferential price. These market movers have been…

South Korean Yapizon Exchange Will Trade Bitcoin Cash Tokens - altcointoday

South Korean Yapizon Exchange Will Trade Bitcoin Cash Tokens It seems evident mainly Korean and other Asian exchanges want to work with Bitcoin Cash. More specifically, nearly all major Korean exchanges allow the trade of BCH tokens as we speak. The latest company to join this growing list is Yapizon, a lesser-known exchange. Things are…

Bankers Cash in on ICO Craze - altcointoday

Bankers Cash in on ICO Craze Critics deride initial coin offerings (ICO) as get-rich quick schemes – perhaps this decade’s equivalent of the dot-com bubble. But get-rich quick scheme or not, ICOs continue to soar in popularity, and the mainstream financial sector is calculating how it can get its slice of the pie. A recent feature in…

Bitcoin Cash Is Not Free Money - altcointoday

Bitcoin Cash Is Not Free Money Ever since the Bitcoin Cash hard fork was announced, many people have viewed its token as “free money.” While it is true these new tokens will be issued to users at no additional cost, they are most certainly not free money. In fact, many people feel Bitcoin Cash will take away some…

BTC-e Users Start Petition for the Release of Seized Money - altcointoday

BTC-e Users Start Petition for the Release of Seized Money The crowdfunding site change.org has recently posted a request for signatures to have the US government, and particularly the Department of Justice, release funds seized from the BTC-e site. The petition states: A few days ago a crypto currency exchange has been shutdown by the us…

Blockchain Startups Take on Ticket Touting, But Will They Gain Traction? - coindesk

If the fakes don't get you, the bots will. That's about the current state of the ticketing industry – one that, as most consumers know, has dealt with major problems of fraud and counterfeiting as online services have made them more accessible.

Could SPV Support a Billion Bitcoin Users? Sizing up a Scaling Claim - coindesk

Jameson Lopp is a software engineer at BitGo, creator of statoshi.info and founder of bitcoinsig.com. In this opinion piece, Lopp takes a deep dive into claims that it's safe to remove bitcoin's block size limit and instead rely on existing "simplified payment verification" (SPV) methods.

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Decred – A Hybrid Approach to Blockchain Governance - Dave Collins & Jake Yocom-Piatt

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