Markets

• Bitcoin BTC is at ~$9650 USD (+17.39% from last Monday)
• Ether ETH is at ~$471 USD (+29.04% from last Monday)
• Bitcoin Cash BCH is at ~$1715 USD (+39.77% from last Monday)

Articles

• Here’s What the World's Central Banks Really Think About Bitcoin by Bloomberg
• Hollywood Hitmaker Plans to Fund Next Blockbuster With Crypto by Bloomberg
• What Leonardo Tells You About Bitcoin by Bloomberg
• Warning Signs About Another Giant Bitcoin Exchange by NY Times
• Abu Dhabi sovereign fund chief disagrees with Jamie Dimon on bitcoin: 'One has to be open-minded' by CNBC
• SNB's Jordan sees crypto currencies as more of investment than currency by Reuters
• Bitcoin Mining Now Consuming More Electricity Than Many Countries by Power Compare
• Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe warns that Bitcoin is illegal by IAfrikan News
• Millenials Will Keep Their Bitcoin Until $190,000 According to Survey by Token Schedule
• Bitcoin Diamond Fork Launched by Token Schedule
• Tether, a startup that works with bitcoin exchanges, claims a hacker stole $31M by Techcrunch
• The Bitcoin Network Is Highly Susceptible to Internet Routing Attacks by The Merkle
• Bitcoin Nears $10,000 During Black Friday Weekend’s Shopping Frenzy by The CoinSpeaker
• Philippines to Legalize Bitcoin as a Security by Bitcoin News
• Launch of Indian Digital Currency Laxmicoin Postponed Following Raids by Coindesk

This week’s new initial coin offerings (ICOs)

• PROPS is a decentralized ecosystem of video applications.
• Reward the contributors, users, developers and viewers in PROPS (tokens) for spreading the network.
• Users hold PROPS to promote and host content, access exclusive features, and signal status across media apps.
• Introducing Rize, the first PROPS-powered app.
• Rize is a many-to-many social video app. It leverages PROPS video infrastructure, and enables users chat with friends in real time, engage with content creators and watch linear content together.
• Hard Cap: $25m.
• Built on the Ethereum network.
• Rize to launch with 1 billion PROPS token.
• 30% of Tokens to be held by company and advisors.
• 70% of Tokens to be distributed to public which includes Contributors, Developers, Viewers and Buyers/Investors.
• 2018 1’st Quarter is when the network will be launched & token distribution will commence.

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