General Market
Outlook
A clear market correction took
place over the past 24 hours. Consolidation phase seems to be
underway. Bitcoin (BTC) is
still right around $9,000 and Ethereum (ETH) has
dipped to around $650. Most coins in the top 100 are in the red,
but Basic Attention Token (BAT)
sticks out as one that has been climbing all month, and sits up
around 6% for the past 24 hours right now.
Major
Headlines
Mastercard Patents Faster Blockchain
Transactions
Mastercard has been hard at work
developing ways to keep up with cryptocurrencies. More
Americans prefer credit
cards to using cash, but this is probably just the
last step to fully digital. The technology already exists to pay
wirelessly with our cellphones, and the technology is already in
place on many POS systems. To many people this is still all very
new. Bitcoin is the extent of their knowledge. But all the
interest, ICOs and institutional interest has been a long time
coming. This patent was filed in October
2016. We can’t know exactly how long it took for employees at
Mastercard to actually develop the technology.
UNICEF Crypto-Mining for
Charity
The United Nations Children’s
Fund’s initiative (UNICEF) created the HopePage to “allow
Australians to provide help and hope to vulnerable children by
simply opening the page while they are online.” Users dictate how
much computer power they want to allot to mining cryptocurrencies
for the project. Then just by staying on the webpage for the
project, the computational donation happens continually. The system
uses AuthedMine. It was created to
provide browser based mining as a viable alternative for intrusive
and annoying ads.
Power Ledger and
Northwestern Deploy Clean Energy Blockchain
Power Ledger (POWR)
has partnered with Northwestern University (NU), located in
Evanston Illinois, to deploy the first
commercial clean energy blockchain project in the
United States. It’s being developed with the university’s Masters
in Engineering program. Students have built commercial,
utility-grade deployment to run across four of the University’s
Master of Engineering Management Program buildings. Fully
integration with Power Ledger’s software will be ready to launch
within a couple months. The goal is to develop on-campus P2P
trading and connection to external peers across multi-campus
universities, museums, laboratories and more.
Top 5
Gainers
Network Token (NTWK)
+81.11% at $0.019968
Ignis (IGNIS)
+46.61% at $0.161791
DraftCoin (DFT)
+38.42% at $0.216262
Bitair (BTCA)
+38.23% at $0.000744
EDUCare (EKT)
+37.48% at $0.105241
Top 5
Losers
Internet of Things (XOT) -60.88% at
$485.44
Linx (LINX)
-38.46% at $0.093238
HomeBlockCoin (HBC)
-37.39% at $0.085899
VapersCoin (VPRC)
-37.28% at $0.000240
BelugaPay (BBI) -32.69% at
$0.359153
New Coins
Listed
ConnectJob (CJT) listed to
Yobit
DAO PlayMarket (PMT) listed to
Yobit
Forty Seven Bank Token (FSBT)
listed to IDEX
iBuildApp Network (IBA) listed to
IDEX
Nebula AI (NBAI) listed to
IDEX
Nexo (NEXO) listed to
IDEX
Stellar Lumens (XLM) listed to Bitfinex
Verge (XVG) listed to Bitfinex
By: BGN Editorial Staff
