NYSE Operator Announces New Global Digital Assets Platform, Plans Bitcoin Futures Launch

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the operator of 23 leading global exchanges including the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), has announced plans to create a Microsoft cloud-powered “open and regulated, global ecosystem for digital assets,” according to a press release published August 3.

The operator of NYSE is forming a new company, dubbed “Bakkt,” and will work alongside a marquee group of enterprises that includes BCG, Microsoft, Starbucks, and others, to create the new ecosystem.

The intention is to create an integrated platform that enables consumers, merchants, and institutional clients to buy, sell, store, and spend digital assets on a “seamless global network,” the press release notes.

First use cases will be for trading and conversion of Bitcoin (BTC) against fiat currencies, which ICE notes is currently “the most liquid cryptocurrency.” This conversion into fiat will enable consumers to purchase any item at their local Starbucks, in what will be crypto’s debut with the popular chain.

The ecosystem is expected to include “federally regulated markets and warehousing” alongside “merchant and consumer applications”:

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/nyse-operator-announces-new-global-digital-assets-platform-plans-bitcoin-futures-launch

Ahmm. .I don't think crypto will replace cash, and I'm sure that the governments will never allowed this to be happen in the future, because they afraid of losing control of money since crypto is very difficult to collect taxes and it may used for illegal transactions.

Grabe ang dami na palang mga bagong scam investment site dito sa atin, Pati din pala ang Plantrometrix scam din, marami pa naman akong kakilala na pumasok sa site na yan at may 600 pa for registration fees.

There's only 20% legit Bounty on the bounty section and in order to find a good bounty you must to read their white paper on the project and understand it, if you found a mistakes on their white paper then there's a possibility that the project will fail or scam .

Because of the huge increase in value, that's why people are getting crazy when they heard about bitcoin, Even me I almost regret when I knew the price of bitcoin in 2017.

[/size]

The top cryptocurrency is currently trading at $7,426 at press time, up just under 1 percent on the day. Bitcoin saw an intraday low of $7,246.
Top altcoin Ethereum (ETH) has seen more significant growth over the past 24 hours, up almost 5 percent and trading at $466 at press time. The altcoin is holding weekly gains of almost 8 percent, peaking at over $500 on July 18.
Total market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies is hovering around $282-283 bln, currently at $282.7, up about 2 percent over the past 24 hours to press time. Total market cap is down from this week’s peak of almost $300 bln.
Among the top ten cryptocurrencies on CoinMarketCap, Stellar (XLM) and IOTA (MIOTA) are up the most on the day, seeing over 7 and almost 5 percent growth respectively.

Other than stablecoin Tether, Cardano (ADA) is seeing the least 24-hour growth of the top ten coins, up only 1.53 percent. Cardona is however seeing major growth on the week, boasting a whopping 23 percent price increase.

Yesterday, July 20, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) reported that BTC futures daily average volume has increased by 93 percent in Q2 over Q1. The number of open contracts on Bitcoin futures also increased by 58 percent.

This week’s crypto market growth got further encouragement yesterday, July 20, when the CEO of crypto trading platform BitMEX suggested Bitcoin’s current bull run may give way to a price point of $5,000 before heading to $50,000 in 2018.

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-markets-see-solid-upswing-bitcoin-pushes-7-500

Boeing is partnering with an artificial intelligence (AI) company to develop pilotless vehicles and other products using blockchain, it announced in a press release July 17.

Texas-based SparkCognition, a company which Boeing invested in in a $32 million funding round last month, will work with the aviation giant on a platform which will track unmanned air vehicles and allocate flight corridors.

As a byproduct of this development, the partnership “will also provide a standardized programming interface to support package delivery, industrial inspection and other commercial applications,” the press release explains.

A buoyant SparkCognition CEO Amir Husain said the aerospace industry will go towards the creation of a giant new market worth upwards of $3 trillion.

“[...] The urban aerial mobility opportunity will lead to the creation of the largest new market in our (lifetimes),” he added.

Coming just days before the UK’s annual Farnborough Airshow, Boeing’s is not the only plan to receive a timely announcement.

On Monday, Accenture announced it would use the event to debut a blockchain-based platform specifically targeting aircraft supply chains.

“We're at a point in history where technological advances and societal trends are converging to demand bold solutions and a different way to travel,” Boeing’s CTO Greg Hyslop continued.

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/boeing-to-develop-blockchain-enabled-unmanned-vehicles-in-new-partnership

There are some methods how to choose a good bounty, Make sure that their white paper is written carefully, and the partnership of the company if its big company or small, and make sure the team members have a high experience in this field and community of project because this will help to the project to attract more investor and the last choose a good bounty manager.

it's very difficult to find which ICO is legit but there's some method to find which is good ones, First, you have to check the team if they are well known in the industry and if they have a lot of partnership, Big community and how they communicate to the social media.

Saturday, July 7: there is little action on the crypto markets today, with most coins either up or down by small percentages over the last 24 hours, according to Coinmarketcap. The total market capitalization is up by a little under $1 billion since the same time yesterday.
Bitcoin (BTC) is hovering around $6,635 as of press time. While it is experiencing almost no movement either up or down, it has still managed to keep this week’s gains, as it is up around 4 percent since last Saturday.
Similarly, Ethereum (ETH) is standing its ground, at around $467, up a little under 1 percent in 24 hours to press time and about 5.5 percent over the past seven days.

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-markets-hold-weekly-gains-amidst-little-action

Dapat lang talaga pag aralan muna bago pasukin ang pag iinvest sa crypto kasi napaka risky ng pag invest sa crypto walang kasigurodohan kung maibabalik pa ba ang pera na pinag investsan mo, kaya naging charge experience narin yan sa akin, mas mabuti mag bounty nalang.

of course, security of our wallet is very important and necessary even though in fiat money or whatever, Since we store our money there and we have to be vigilance in our hard working money so that we can avoid any problems.

The FedEx Institute of Technology has announced its partnership with pharmacy services company Good Shepherd Pharmacy to develop new blockchain-based infrastructure to help cancer patients get medications, news outlet Commercial Appeal reported July 6.

The FedEx Institute of Technology is an organization that serves as a promoter of interdisciplinary research in emerging technologies that operates in tandem with the research infrastructure of the University of Memphis. The institutions launched the Institute in February of this year in order to make University of Memphis a center of technology and research.

Memphis-based Good Shepherd Pharmacy reportedly recognized blockchain as a means to retrieve unused medications from cancer patients and pass them on to economically disadvantaged patients who would not be able to regularly afford them. A secure and immutable ledger would allow for a safe and confidential distribution of medical information. Good Shepherd Pharmacy's CEO Phil Baker said:

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/fedex-institute-partners-with-pharmacy-to-use-blockchain-for-cancer-medicine-distribution

According to court documents filed July 3, YouTube has been added as a defendant in a class action lawsuit against BitConnect.

The lawsuit was initially filed on January, 24 by six individuals represent by law firm Silver Miller. The claimants state that crypto investment platform BitConnect issued crypto tokens that were unregistered securities, and obtained additional funds through a “wide-ranging Ponzi scheme.” The plaintiffs stated that their personal losses totalled $771,000. BitConnect allegedly used the funds received from new investors to meet the expectations of the existing ones.

Per court documents acquired by Cointelegraph, BitConnect and its affiliated parties posted a number of promotional videos on YouTube, which were deemed inappropriate as the material allegedly lured potential investors to a fraudulent investment scheme. YouTube is said to have failed to delist and demonetize the published videos, which exposed “countless” YouTube users to injurious videos and illegally-promoted investments.

The top ten BitConnect affiliates on YouTube reportedly posted more than 70,000 hours of unedited content, which generated 58,000,000 views. The document says that the number of views of several of the affiliate promoters’ videos greatly exceeded the threshold numbers for the “enhanced” eligibility standards. Notably, a fair number of users notified YouTube of fraudulent activity by BitConnect, posting videos with titles such as “How bitconnect scam works in great detail,” “Craig Grant Explains the Bitconnect scam,” and others. In an email to Cointelegraph, David Silver of Silver Miller said:

Readmore: https://cointelegraph.com/news/youtube-added-as-defendant-in-class-action-lawsuit-against-bitconnect

The CEO of Russia’s largest state bank Sberbank, Herman Gref said he could not yet foresee governments “yielding their centralized role” in fiat currency creation as part of his comments on cryptocurrency.

Speaking to reporters during the Astana Finance Days international conference in the Kazakhstan capital July 4, Sberbank’s Herman Gref repeated the comments he has made “many times” about cryptoassets’ future role in the economy.

“Do I see a prospect of global use of cryptocurrencies as an alternative to fiat money? I don’t see it and I said it many times,” he said.

Gref’s words broadly reflect the ongoing metamorphosis of cryptocurrency’s regulatory status within Russia. This week sees the deadline for new legislation becoming law which cements cryptocurrency as a separate class of asset devoid of the status of legal tender.

Sberbank has nonetheless begun increasing its crypto interaction in the run-up to the new regulated era, revealing its plans to launch a crypto-based investment fund last month.

A week prior, Gref had nonetheless come out bearish, telling local news outlet Kommersant he “wouldn’t recommend [buying cryptocurrency] to anyone who does not like playing at a casino.”

Readmore: https://cointelegraph.com/news/head-of-russia-s-top-bank-the-state-will-keep-centralized-role-in-money-emission

Crypto markets are relatively stable today, July 4, as data from Coin360 shows, with Bitcoin (BTC) holding above the $6,500 price point. Most of the top coins by market cap are seeing minor gains and losses on the day to pres time.

Bitcoin is trading around $6,752 to press time, up almost 3 percent over the 24-hour period. After a significant uptick starting June 30, the leading cryptocurrency continues to hold comfortably above the $6,300 resistance level, which Fundstrat’s Robert Sluymer earlier this week highlighted as crucial for reversing spring’s downtrend.

Top altcoin Ethereum (ETH) is trading around $477 to press time, up around 2 percent over the past 24 hours. The coin’s weekly high saw it trading at $483, and its gains on the week are now at 8 percent to press time.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-markets-holding-gains-with-bitcoin-above-6-500

The intersection of cryptocurrency and Wall Street has been welcomed by those who also see a potential influx in capital. In mid-May, cryptocurrency wallet and exchange Coinbase released a new suite of products designed to attract institutional investors by relieving security and regulatory compliance concerns. Speaking about the product release, the VP of Coinbase referred to “$10 billion” of Wall Street money that now had the potential to enter the market.

The “trillion” value has also been bandied around before, as Dan Morehead, CEO of $1 billion crypto hedge fund Pantera Capital said in April that a $40 trillion crypto market is possible, in part due to Wall Street’s increasing interest in clearing crypto trades.
Readmore: https://cointelegraph.com/news/cardano-co-founder-wall-street-will-bring-tens-of-trillions-of-dollars-to-crypto

Yeah, you're right crypto can easily be manipulated by people specially those have big influence in crypto, however, you have you're own decision if you want to sell everything, so next if you want to buy coins just make a research first.

Investing in bitcoin is much more risky than investing in bank, bitcoin is very volatile and easy to manipulate by media, even though bitcoin can generate big profits than banks it is still risky and dangerous specially to those newbie in this kind of currency.

people who says that bitcoin is a bubble they doesn't know anything about bitcoin, they only create FUD and due this people are well-known in investment we cannot avoid that many will believe in them.