Markets

• Price per Bitcoin BTC is at ~$6242 USD (-12.9% from last Monday)
• Price per Ether ETH is at ~$314 USD (+4.6% from last Monday)
• Price per Bitcoin Cash BCH is at ~$1177 USD (+93.7% from last Monday)

Articles

• Bitcoin Plunges 29% From Record High by Bloomberg
• Crypto Wallet Company Faces More Problems After July Hack by Bloomberg
• Bitcoin’s Exorbitant Energy Costs May Prove to Be Biggest Risk by Bloomberg
• What Keynes Knew About Bitcoin by Bloomberg
• Nearly a Third of Millennials Say They’d Rather Own Bitcoin Than Stocks by Bloomberg
• Bitcoin Is No Bubble, Says Investor With $213 Million Stake by Bloomberg
• Ethereum Creator Wonders Whether His Currency Should Be Scarcer by Bloomberg
• IBM Has a New Blockchain Idea: Tracking Marijuana Sales by Fortune
• Bitcoin Cash Skyrockets, Bitcoin Price Drops As Civil War Continues by Forbes
• Bitcoin: The World’s Most Dramatic Bubble Ever? (Pay wall) by The WSJ
• Millennials are experiencing extreme bitcoin FOMO by Business Insider
• $700 Million Stuck in 115,000 Unconfirmed Bitcoin Transactions by Cryptocoinsnews
• BitTorrent inventor announces eco-friendly bitcoin competitor Chia by Techcrunch
• Bitcoin mining uses more energy than Ecuador — but there’s a fix by New Scientist
• A note from Bob on the transparency of Tether (USDT) by Of Numbers
• Segwit2x cancellation email by Bitgo.com

This week’s new initial coin offerings (ICOs)

• Dmarket is creating a blockchain based platform that enables in-game items to be traded across different games and platforms.
• Game developers can connect their game to DMarket to enable their users to start trading.
• DMarket addresses the market of games that do not have an exchange platform for in-game items, which is around 90% of all games.
• DMarket is creating the DMarket coin which will act as the only transactional currency on DMarket.
• 36 Million DMarket Tokens have been sold in a pre-sale round at an exchange rate of 1ETH = 1,000 DMarket Tokens
• The public sale is scheduled to start on 14th of November 2017 with a hard cap of 100 Million tokens at a rate of 1ETH = 750 DMarket Tokens

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