Markets

• Bitcoin BTC is at ~$6290 USD (-45.10% from last Monday)
• Ether ETH is at ~$617 USD (-48.64% from last Monday)
• Bitcoin Cash BCH is at ~$807 USD (-54% from last Monday)

Articles

• India Turns Against Bitcoin But Embraces Blockchain by Bloomberg
• Roubini Says Bitcoin Is the ‘Biggest Bubble in Human History’ by Bloomberg
• Bitcoin Whipsaws Investors as Bubble Shows Signs of Bursting by Bloomberg
• Where Will Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, And Other Cryptocurrencies Be Twenty Years From Now? By Forbes
• Davos: Bitcoin is not a currency by CNN
• Bitcoin is bottoming, expect a 70 percent surge: Trader by CNBC
• Worries Grow That the Price of Bitcoin Is Being Propped Up by NY Times
• UNICEF Asks Gamers to Mine Cryptocurrency for Syrian Children by Bitcoin News
• Bank of America Becomes the Latest Credit Card-Issuer to Ban Bitcoin by Bitcoin News
• Bitcoin Fell Off A Cliff And No One Knows How Far It Is To The Bottom by Gizmodo
• Mathematical Proof That the Lightning Network Cannot Be a Decentralized Bitcoin Scaling Solution by Jonald Fyookball (Medium)
• Bitcoin SegWit update by Dan Romero (Medium)

This week’s new initial coin offerings (ICOs)

• Technology company that powers the real-time buying and selling of media on decentralized applications and the broader digital environment
• ClearCoin (CLR) tokens power its distributed ledger blockchain technology that can improve the supply chain of the rapidly growing media and advertising industry.
• ClearCoin’s solutions increase efficiencies and reduce the reported $16 billion of annual ad fraud.
• CLR serves to power the distributed ledger technology that tracks ad inventory for quality and fraud
• Token Name: ClearCoin Token (CLR)
• Based on the Ethereum Network
• Hard Cap: 1 billion CLR
• 1 CLR = $0.03 USD
• Usage of Funds
• 70% - Engineering & Product
• 30% - Marketing & Sales
• 10% - Operating & Administrative

From Altcademy

• New free course, Ethereum Smart Contract 101. By the end of Day 5, you will learn enough to feel comfortable with writing smart contracts on Ethereum block chain.
• Start learning new skills by taking our free courses, Coding 101, Bitcoin 101, and Data Science 101.
• We have two other active Weekly Newsletters (AI and VR) to give you the most important news in that industry every week.