📬 Daily Cryptocurrencies & Blockchain Update, September 16th, 09:50:00 CET
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Bitcoin
🔼 The controversial crypto-currency yo-yoed dramatically on Friday, briefly falling below $3,000 to as low as $2,985 in the morning before hustling in the afternoon to soar as high as $3,819 as investors digested news of a clampdown by the Chinese government on bitcoin trading.https://goo.gl/FkAEuG
🔽 September has been a wild ride for Bitcoin, echoing January 2017 as a month dominated by news driven by the Chinese government. The current round of announcements began on the Sept 4, when the government made the sale and trading of ICO tokens illegal across China. Many of these digital assets were traded on bitcoin exchanges.https://goo.gl/6kGwMm
🔼 The relief effort for Barbuda has seen huge generosity from around the globe and event highlighted some new directions for charitable donations not seen before via the Calvin Ayre Foundation. Bitcoin Community steps up. https://goo.gl/N2YwGW
📶 Technical Analysis:https://goo.gl/vLeLwL
Ethereum
🔼A new version of ethereum's Geth node software has been released, which includes support for the upcoming "Byzantium" upgrade as well as a series of performance enhancements. Named Megara, the freshly-coded Geth release has been reformatted to include all improvements developed for Byzantium, which forms the first of two parts in the wider "Metropolis" update. Ethereum is currently on target to activate the Byzantium hard fork within the next month. https://goo.gl/HFZSBx
🔼 Built on the Ethereum distributed ledger the Dublin-based Blockchain Board of Derivatives (BBOD) is designed to be the world’s first, autonomous, on-chain derivatives execution venue, which allows trading cryptocurrency smart derivatives contracts (futures and options) with high liquidity and unprecedented security.https://goo.gl/WCDnoo
📶 Technical Analysis: https://goo.gl/VJqrv6
NEO
🔼 Strange CNY Wallet in NEO https://goo.gl/ykJ2tv
📶 Technical Analysis: https://goo.gl/2mKYeE
Upcoming ICOs
🆕 Bitair starts in 3 days https://bitair.io/
🆕 Sense starts in 10 days https://sensetoken.com
🆕 Ties Network starts in 5 days https://ties.network/
Blockchain News
🔼Fujitsu, Japan's largest IT equipment and services provider, is partnering with the Japanese Bankers Association (JBA) in a bid to test the viability of running financial services on a blockchain platform. https://goo.gl/WZ5qx3
🔼Advertisers now have powerful ways to target specific user demographics thanks to tech giants like Facebook and Google. Since these companies derive their profit from advertisers, this leads to possible conflicts of interests. Users are left wondering if the “news” they are reading is really impartial, or if it might have been influenced by the wishes of an advertiser. Can the Blockchain Free Media? https://goo.gl/r7JWJG
🔼 While online retail sales have increased astronomically over recent years, in the online retail space, from shoes, to purses, and even to software-as-a-service (SaaS), retailers are facing challenges in the ways that they reach and satisfy customers. New Blockchain technology solutions are coming that will help to simplify the customer acquisition process, as well as help customers to make informed choices before buying. https://goo.gl/kgZbHw
Recent Scams
🚩 Avoid Coinify.pro
🚩 Avoid Btccoinwallet.com
🚩 Avoid 13xbtc.com
Final Summary:
What a bounce! From below $100BN to Nearly $130BN again within a hours. Looks like the news has set in and Jamie Dimon has actually started buying Bitcoin. This was a major bounce but must be cautious when trading. Looking for any news of the weekend that could change this.
Key Events/Conferences Today:
Blockchain Hotel Essen, Germany
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