Новости выходят, двухнедельные обновления регулярны, от 15 июня:


Прогресс разработки и график релиза: Мы работаем по графику. Команда тестирования и разработки занимается делом. Система работает как ожидалось.

Наем персонала: Мы по прежнему агрессивно нанимает программных инженеров, это для нас высший приоритет. Интервью с кандидатами происходит каждую неделю, скоро представят новых членов команды.


Ребрендинг: Происходит процесс регистрации нашего нового маркетингового пакета на самых больших и целевых для нас мировых рынках. Скоро мы представим обновленный бренд.

Сегодня, 26 Июня в 15.00 по Берлинскому времени, CEO Marcus будет отвечать на вопросы сообщества в официальной телеграмм группе. Так же CPY добавили на сайт, хороший аналог coinmarketcup -  https://cryptorank.io/currencies/copytrack/price-chart

On June 25th, Datawallet's DXT was added to Exmo and is trading in DXT/BTC & DXT/USD pairs.

I believe in this solid project, and beta platform should be launched between July 1st — September 30th.

CNBC’s Brian Kelly believes that sentiment surrounding the cryptocurrency market has hit the bottom, along with adoption rates. But Peter Smith, CEO of Blockchain, believes that this should be of no worry as users should stay in the market “for the long haul.”


The last few months have been far from kind to the cryptocurrency market, with prices collectively declining by over 70% since the January highs. However, as Brian Kelly noted on CNBC, Bitcoin’s price is still up by over 125% compared to last June.

Despite growth over a longer timeframe, speculators in the market for the short-term have lost faith, taking a substantial amount of liquidity with them. However, an article from the Financial Times reminds us that true believers should hold their undying faith in the industry for years to come.

Peter Smith, co-founder, and CEO of well-known cryptocurrency infrastructure firm Blockchain acknowledged this faith in a recent tweet. Smith noted how the aforementioned FT article, which he wrote, is “still quite valid.” Further mentioning that the growth of this world-changing industry will “take a long time,” so users should “be prepared for the long haul.”

The Internet, despite its revolutionary capabilities, was expected to fail by many of its critics, as the Internet wasn’t widely adopted on its arrival. Looking back now, it is clear to see how mistaken these critics were. Some believe that users should take a similar perspective while looking at the cryptocurrency market, taking a longer-term optimistic approach while looking at the current state of the market. This belief is a direct contradiction with the short-term profits which speculators have focused on, nearly deifying 2017’s cryptocurrency bull run.

In the original article, Peter Smith wrote:

«It is easy to focus on the fluctuation of this or that crypto-asset and to miss the big picture. We are only beginning to grasp the seismic nature of the changes induced by ubiquitous, secure, decentralised ledgers and the quasi-instantaneous clearing they make possible.»

See More - https://www.newsbtc.com/2018/06/25/blockchain-ceo-supporters-should-be-prepared-for-the-long-haul/

Silicon Valley investment powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has launched a new $300 million fund focused on cryptocurrencies.

The fund, as explained in a blog post published Monday, will be named "a16z" and will notably feature former federal prosecutor and Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathryn Haun as one of its co-leads. Haun has also been named as the firm's latest general partner.

That the investment firm would move to vastly expand the scope of its activities in the industry is unsurprising, given the millions it has poured into projects and protocols built around a range of use cases. Andreessen Horowitz has also invested in a number of notable startups, including crypto exchange Coinbase.

General partner Chris Dixon indicated in the post that the crypto-fund would take a decidedly long-term tack in its investments.

"We've been investing in crypto assets for 5+ years," he wrote. "We've never sold any of those investments, and don't plan to any time soon. We structured the a16z crypto fund to be able to hold investments for 10+ years."

Dixon went on to add:

"We plan to invest consistently over time, regardless of market conditions. If there is another 'crypto winter,' we'll keep investing aggressively."

In another hint at the fund's overall thesis, Dixon said that a16z would focus its efforts on projects with a "non-speculative use case."

"We want services powered by crypto protocols to be used by hundreds of millions and eventually billions of people," Dixon wrote. "Crypto tokens are the native asset class of digital networks, but their value is driven by the underlying, practical uses cases."

https://www.coindesk.com/andreessen-horowitz-launched-300-million-crypto-fund/

Meanwhile, Gatcoin released their bi-weekly update: 1 June 2018

Key points:

Just a few months away from Alpha release.  Alpha and Closed Beta products coming in 2018 and first Public Open Beta launching in Q2 2019.

• Merchant Interface — functionally complete
• Systems Back-end — functionally complete
• Testing on staging platform — in progress

The main infrastructure of the GAT system is now built and in the testing phase.

«The tokens will constantly grow in value as the volume of NVB inventory increased.  All the transactions among NVB system participantsare conducted solely in tokens.  NVB network is monetizing with in-stream ad loads. To acquire ad impressions, advertiser needs to purchase NVB tokens.»

Video ADV marketplace is growing from year to year. I hope projects like NVB, build on transparent gain allocation model, will form the basis of this market.

Copytrack Business Updates from Marcus Schmitt on June 7th:

- Team are finalizing the design & logo this and next week, they will make it public. They are also about to finalize the structure of the application layer.  Next week managers will be in their development center in Portugal & work on the Blockchain related topics.

- Copytrack has no plans for Binance listing in the nearest future.

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A major shopping center based in Slovenia is widening a cryptocurrency payments pilot.

BTC City Ljubljana, located in Slovenia's capital of Ljubljana, will allow a group of 150 people to use cryptocurrencies at 24 businesses located in the sprawling complex, which according to online materials boasts over 500 storefronts. Those include services for clothing and electronics as well as restaurants, Slovenian TV channel "24 Ur" reported on Monday.

Despite the seemingly relevant name, there's no relationship between bitcoin and the popular shopping complex, which has been called one of Europe's largest. It first opened in the 1950s before being renamed as the Blagovno Transportni Center – or BTC – Ljubljana.

Earlier this year, the shopping center co-developed the project with startup Eligma, which offers a payment system dubbed Elipay that facilitates transactions in cryptocurrencies by way of a mobile app.

With more than 500 stores on its territory, the shopping center aims to become the first retail hub in the world to accept cryptocurrencies.

The goal to establish a "Bitcoin City" in Slovenia as suggested by local reports was supported by the country's leadership when Prime Minister Miro Cerar and the secretary of state Tadej Slapnik visited the center earlier this month, during which Cerar had a cup of coffee bought by Slapnik using cryptocurrency.

Cerar also talked up blockchain last year during a conference appearance. As previously reported, the prime minister pointed to the use of blockchain within public services – a goal his administration was said to be seeking at the time.

"We are also already laying the foundations for the initial pilot testing of the technology in the state administration," he said at the launch of a new think tank dedicated to the tech.

https://www.coindesk.com/a-crypto-shopping-mall-is-being-tested-in-slovenia/

Perfect news Martin, so this project is alive. Martin, any news about new exchange listings? Is HitBTC the only exchange where one can buy ERT tokens at the moment? Try to add ERT on coinmarketcap at least.

Оказывается Crypterium объявляли конкурс влогов на лучшую песню. Про призы информации не нашел, но их разделили  Emily Kraudel, Andy Blatt and Brad Hodge. Слова примерно такие:


"Блокчейн изменит мир, Crypterium - мой опиум)"

https://youtu.be/A6V59rNf3tw

Вообще активность в блоге у них очень хорошая, почти каждый день что нибудь постят. Смогут ли они удержать текущий курс или даже расти во время падения битка? Некоторым альтам это удается.



Сегодня Crypterium выходит на QRYPTOS обменник.

Даже во время относительной стабильности рынка несколько дней назад монета Omix не росла а падала , не смотря на то что они запустили рекламную кампанию, на Coinmarketcup был размещен немаленький баннер о торговле на Kucoin, проплачена реклама в интернет издании financialcontent. И эти монеты разбирали как горячие пирожки на ico. Видно интерес у толпы падает, еще бы, почти каждое последнее вложение в ico не приносит дивидентов.

http://markets.financialcontent.com/stocks/news/read/36439388/SHIVOM_Gets_Listed_On_Kucoin

Тут люди спрашивали за бонус пресейла: 15% встречал цифру.

Mass media and data giant Thomson Reuters is expanding its cryptocurrency sentiment data toolkit to cover 100 different coins, the company announced Wednesday.

Initially launched back in March, the bitcoin data feed was created in partnership with MarketPsych Data LLC. The Thomson Reuters MarketPsych Indices Cryptocurrency Sentiment (TRMI 3.1) package monitors more than 2,000 global news and 800 social media sites in real-time.

It gauges sentiments such as "excitement" or "hope" to provide insight on investment and reveal market patterns using natural language processing combined with machine learning.

"Adding a cryptocurrency-focused sentiment feed to our suite of cross-asset solutions has...enabled us to provide our customers with invaluable insights that may help them make strategic investment decisions," said Pradeep Menon, Thomas Reuters' global head of investing and advisory.

Supplemented by quantitative analysis, TRMI 3.1 uses a host of additional tools developed by the behavioral economists at MarketPsych to "identify influential themes and more rapidly develop actionable strategies", according to the firm.

This expansion in the capabilities of TRMI is part of a growing use case for artificial intelligence technology among investment insights products.

CEO of MarketPsyche, Richard Peterson, explained in a past interview that trends in digital conversation can be identified as leading or lagging investment indicators.

With a class of assets like cryptocurrencies that are by nature digital – and the information flow around them highly sourced from online forums – sentiment data may prove to be a particularly poignant indicator of where the crypto markets are heading.

https://www.coindesk.com/beyond-bitcoin-reuters-expands-data-service-top-100-cryptos/

Crypto exchange Binance announced plans to allow fiat-crypto trading this year through a separate Malta-based exchange, a Binance representative told Cointelegraph today, June 11. 

Binance is currently the second largest cryptocurrency exchange by 24-hour trading volume, seeing about $1.5 bln in trades on the day to press time.

While Bloomberg reported today that Binance will “soon allow customers to convert digital tokens into fiat currencies”, a Binance representative clarified to Cointelegraph that “Binance.com is a pure crypto-to-crypto exchange.” They confirmed that crypto-fiat trading will only be offered through a separate local exchange the company is opening in Malta. Binance Malta will most likely begin fiat trading with a euro-Bitcoin (BTC) pair, the representative told Cointelegraph.

Binance had announced the opening of an office in Malta at the end of March after receiving a warning letter from Japanese financial authorities about its unregistered status.

Last week, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao told Cointelegraph in an exclusive interview that the exchange has already opened a bank account in Malta, leading the way for the introduction of fiat-crypto pairs. During the interview, Zhao mentioned plans to offer fiat-crypto trading in Uganda and Asia in the future as well.

Zhao told Bloomberg today that Binance will also be opening a crypto exchange in Jersey in the Channel Islands with an office staff of around 100, signing a memorandum of understanding with authorities in Jersey today.

At the beginning of June, Binance had announced the establishment of a $1 bln cryptocurrency-based fund, seeking 20 partners with at least $100 mln in assets under management.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-exchange-binance-to-offer-fiat-crypto-trading-via-malta-based-platform

The Korea Financial Intelligence Unit (KFIU) and other local financial agencies will regulate cryptocurrency exchanges like banks, imposing strict anti-money laundering (AML) policies to ensure criminals do not utilize cryptocurrencies to finance illicit operations.

During the Policy Advisory Council meeting held on June 8, KFIU director Kim Geun-ik led an extensive discussion on existing money laundering and terrorist financing prevention regulations and proposed stricter policies for both commercial banks and independent financial service providers.

At the time, the KFIU stated that it will follow the movement of leading economies such as the US to prevent money laundering and terrorism financing with more rigorous verification processes for large transactions and monitoring of users.

Initially, the KFIU planned to impose new policies on large-scale financial institutions, retail investors, and traders in the public stock market and other sectors that currently have lenient AML and Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations.

But, in later discussions, the KFIU decided to include the cryptocurrency sector in its AML and KYC initiative. The KFIU stated that the agency will coordinate with the Congress to pass a bill that would allow local financial authorities to monitor traditional bank account and cryptocurrency users extensively with transparency.

At the moment, cryptocurrency exchanges in South Korea can operate as a communication vendor, with a $40 license. As such, even the Free Trade Commission, the country’s regulatory authority for economic competition, does not have the authority to monitor and oversee crypto exchanges.

However, to prevent the utilization of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum in underground economies and suspicious activities, the KFIU came to a consensus to recognize cryptocurrency exchanges as proper financial institutions and regulate them accordingly.

“Under current regulations, there are clear limitations in preventing money laundering on crypto exchanges because the only way authorities can spot suspicious transactions is through banks. If the bill of lawmaker Jae Yoon-kyung from the Democratic Party of Korea passes, local authorities will be able to impose identical regulations on crypto exchanges that are implemented on commercial banks,” a KFIU spokesperson said.


Essentially, if the bill of lawmaker Jae passes, cryptocurrency exchanges will be regulated as commercial banks and proper financial institutions. While stricken Anti-Money Laundering and Know Your Customer policies could create an uncomfortable ecosystem for users at first, it will add legitimacy to the rapidly growing cryptocurrency and blockchain sector.

A significant sum of capital from retail investors or individual traders has been injected into the cryptocurrency market since early 2017, allowing the market to evolve into an emerging asset class and convincing major banks such as $378 billion JPMorgan Chase and $88.5 billion Goldman Sachs to enter the cryptocurrency sector with custodian solutions.

The acknowledgement of the cryptocurrency industry as a properly regulated financial market will be beneficial for the global cryptocurrency market in the long-term, and will improve the mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies significantly.

https://www.ccn.com/korea-will-regulate-cryptocurrency-exchanges-like-commercial-banks-legitimizing-industry/

A lot of new updates came from Debitum today. I was afraid about possible extended Debitum dump, but team have chosen the right strategy: provide small milestones execution till the platform release. That`s good for the market price.

Обновление от 11 июня.

Платформа получила обновление "Industries". Иконки, фильтры, многое для улучшения UI. Детальный пост в блоге Debitum.

Обновили Дорожную Карту. Скоро разместят на сайте и в соц. сетях. Вебсайт тоже получит обновление.

На официальном сайте доступна отдельная страница о Debitum токене.

и другое.

MWAT токены вышли на биржу Sistemkoin, в связи с этим происходит конкурс до 11 Июля 2018. Для участия в конкурсе нужно создать аккаунт на Sistemkoin, создать кошелек MWAT в системе. В конце конкурса 200 рандомных участников получат по 1,000 MWAT

Нужно выложить скриншот созданного кошелька в отдельной telegram группе, подробности на офиц. teleg. канале.

John Hyland, the global head of exchange-traded products for Bitwise Asset Management, told ETF.com he believes the Securities and Exchange Commission could soon approve a cryptocurrency ETF.

Hyland, who played a key role in developing the first commodity and oil ETFs in his role as CIO at United States Commodity Funds, hopes to introduce some of the first crypto ETFs. Last year, Bitwise opened a private cryptocurrency fund.


Hyland thinks the SEC’s concerns about a crypto ETF have largely been addressed. Bitwise has kept its private fund’s crypto assets in a regulated custodian, a service the five large ETF custodial companies are considering offering.

An ETF does not hold the coins, he said, but swaps or futures on the coins. An ETF holding swaps or futures could be custodized by an ETF custodian that manages futures based currency or commodity ETFs.

Another SEC concern is enhanced regulated trades. Some of the big ETF shops are establishing cryptocurrency trading desks, he noted, meaning a cryptocurrency ETF could transact on platforms with a regulatory status similar to what they already do with equities.

The SEC’s concern about how crypto ETFs will perform in real life can be addressed by what is happening in Europe, he said, where four crypto ETFs, with $600 million in AUM, have existed on regulated exchanges since 2015.


Hyland thinks the SEC will approve a crypto ETF in 2019 if doesn’t do so in the next couple of months. He doesn’t see action near the midterm election. He pegs the chance for action in 2018 at 20%, in 2019 at 60% and after 2019 at 20%.

Asked about physical versus futures bitcoin ETFs, Hyland said that because between $6 billion and $7 billion in bitcoin is traded daily while only $40 million to $50 million is traded in bitcoin futures daily, physical makes more sense. With physical bitcoin, it is not necessary to buy futures or deal with all the fees.

Regulators, he acknowledges, will find it easier to approve of a product connected to futures since bitcoin futures, currently traded on Chicago-based exchanges CME and CBOE, are regulated in the US. While he envisions regulators allowing futures-based products, he nevertheless sees owning the underlying assets as a better long-term prospect.


Once the SEC approves the first crypto ETF, Hyland said more such products will come to market since there will be no grounds for not approving similar products. Those with similar products will be approved in a similar time frame.

Leveraged products could be different, he said, as the depth of the market becomes an issue and price volatility times leverage becomes even more of an issue.

Asked what types of crypto ETPs he will bring to the market, Hyland said he will offer diverse coin groupings by means of a passive index, similar to the company’s existing private fund. The company is currently examining products filed with the SEC and has found products that offer long and short positions, as opposed to his company’s point of distinction, a basket offering.

Hyland’s firm currently produces a market cap weighted index consisting of the top 10 cryptocurrencies. The company will provide additional indices based on attributes besides liquidity and size.

The company will also file for offerings outside the US, he said, noting that bitcoin ETPs exist in Europe. The first filing likely will be an index basket, but should the incremental cost be low for a single coin ETP, he might consider it.

https://www.ccn.com/bitcoin-etf-coming-soon-crypto-fund-manager/

The current cryptocurrency momentum is anything but positive. To novice users, it seems as if this is the beginning of the end and a bubble waiting to burst. Veterans know all too well this is just a blip on the radar. Dips and peaks occur quite regularly in the Bitcoin world, after all.


Hindsight is always 20/20, yet it is quite valuable in the cryptocurrency world. With so many people focused on short-term Bitcoin momentum, they tend to lose track of the bigger picture. There have been numerous peaks and lows for Bitcoin over the years. That situation will not change anytime soon, for rather obvious reasons. Binance CEO Zhao Chengpeng took the time to remind users as to how this volatility isn’t much to be concerned about.

More specifically, ZhengPeng confirms there hasn’t been a “flat” Bitcoin price chart to speak of. Again, this is only normal, as all financial markets are subject to volatility in their own way. Bitcoin is no exception, even though things have remained at a status quo until May of 2011. Ever since, there has been highs and lows virtually every other week, which is part of what makes the market so appealing.

There are specific patterns which occur in the Bitcoin world every year. This is especially true when it comes to extended bearish pressure. The year 2017 wasn’t exactly different in this regard. Even so, it resulted in a new all-time high of nearly $20,000 when everything was said and done. History repeats itself in the Bitcoin world quite regularly, thus a new all-time high may be reached this year as well.

See More - https://www.newsbtc.com/2018/06/10/binance-ceo-says-bitcoin-price-correction-2018-similar-2014-occurs-every-year/