Markets

• Bitcoin BTC is at ~$16174 USD (-14.07% from last Monday)
• Ether ETH is at ~$780 USD (+6.99% from last Monday)
• Bitcoin Cash BCH is at ~$3104 USD (+70.36% from last Monday)

Articles

• Tax-Free Bitcoin-to-Ether Trading in U.S. to End Under GOP Plan by Bloomberg
• Novogratz Halts Hedge Fund, Says Bitcoin May Drop to $8,000 by Bloomberg
• Bitcoin Lost Almost 20% of Its Value This Week by Bloomberg
• Hedge Funds Prepare to Trade Against Bitcoin by Bloomberg
• Bitcoin Cash deals frozen as insider trading is probed by BBC
• Bitcoin could hit $60,000 in 2018 but another crash is coming, says startup exec by CNBC
• After Losing 40% Of Value, Bitcoin Bounces Above $14,000 by Coin Telegraph
• BitPay Stops Processing Payments Less Than $100, Backpedals Two Days Later by Coin Telegraph
• Crypto traders offended as Bitcoin India users’ accounts blocked by Coinpedia
• Could the World's First Bitcoin Billionaires Cash Out? We Asked Experts by Inverse
• Two Weeks After Losing $60 Million in Bitcoin, Nicehash Is Back by Bitcoin News
• Major University in Belarus Debuts Crypto Diploma Course Following Legalization by Bitcoin News
• PR: Segwit2x to Be Reborn in Coming Weeks Ahead by Bitcoin News
• From Hard Fork to $4K: A Bitcoin Cash Price History by SFox

This week’s new initial coin offerings (ICOs)

• Place to find and hire the most reputable service providers,
• Opporty is a live business-focused ecosystem with a blockchain-powered marketplace and a knowledge-sharing platform
• Every service provider who offers a service at the Opporty marketplace can be paid in OPP tokens, and then exchange them into any other cryptocurrency.
• Offer decentralized Escrow provided by real experts, and legally enforceable electronic agreements that can be executed automatically using Oracles
• With the help of Proof-of-Expertise, Opporty's ecosystem is able to distinguish the real gurus of any niche
• Token Name: OPP
• Built on the Ethereum network
• 1 OPP = 0.0002 ETH
• Hard Cap: 50,000 ETH
• Token Distribution
• 40% in Phase 1
• 30% in Company long term incentive alignment
• 25% in Locked in 1-year contract for Phase 2
• 5% in Bounties and community rewards

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