Markets

• Price per Bitcoin BTC is at ~$7170 USD (+16.2% from last Monday)
• Price per Ether ETH is at ~$300 USD (-2.2% from last Monday)
• Price per Bitcoin Cash BCH is at ~$603 USD (+30.5% from last Monday)

Articles

• Bitcoin Surges Past $7,000 to Extend Record Rally by Bloomberg
• Hard and Fast Rules for Bitcoin SegWit2x Fork by Altcademy
• The bitcoin bubble by The Economist
• One of the Biggest Bitcoin Exchanges Just Added 100,000 Users in a Single Day by Bloomberg
• Bitcoin Surges After World's Biggest Exchange Announces Plans for Futures by Bloomberg
• Wall Street Learns to Dance Bitcoin's Tune by Bloomberg
• Argentina's Biggest Futures Market Plans to Join the Bitcoin Party by Bloomberg
• Beware Of The Bitcoin Bubble: Investment And Financial Advisors Warn by Forbes
• Amazon just bought three domain names related to cryptocurrency by CNBC
• Bitcoin futures approval sparks fears: 'The financial crisis all over again' by CNBC
• What Will Bitcoin Look Like in Twenty Years? by Hackernoon
• One Bitcoin Transaction Now Uses as Much Energy as Your House in a Week by Motherboard
• A cottage that’s heated for free with bitcoin mining by Quartz
• Bitcoin intrinsic valuation estimated at $571 USD by Frontline Analysts
• Do Bitcoin Markets have a Conversion Tort Problem? by Mechanical Markets

This week’s new initial coin offerings (ICOs)

• Blockstack is the second ICO project (after FileCoin) launching on CoinList, a sister arm of AngelList investment platform.
• Blockstack is an internet browser with built in access to decentralized applications and storage.
• Users are given a Blockstack ID that they own and use it to access an array of decentralized services on the browser.
• Blockstack token is required for operations on the Blockstack blockchain.
• Stock Blockstack services include domain name registration, user ID registration and namespace registration.
• Blockstack is offering an accredited investors sale of 440M tokens.
• The price will be determined after the registration period.

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