Coinbase SegWit & Lightning Network Support - Binance to Reopen + Offer 70% Discount on Trading Fees

Coinbase Coinbase announced this week that it would officially complete the process of integrating Segregated Witness (SegWit) by the end of February.

The implementation of the SegWit protocol is expected to decrease congestion in the cryptocurrency network. The result is that transaction times could be faster, and users may see a substantial reduction in transaction fees as well.

Coinbase posted on Twitter that they are looking for senior software engineers to do open source work on core protocols: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Lightning Network https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/961720708542812160

Binance
Binance has been going through system updates and has been down. However, there was a lot of FUD spreading saying they were hacked. This of course was a lie, Binance confront John Mcafee who help in spreading this lie on Twitter. https://twitter.com/binance_2017/status/961635473591435265

Binance handled this situation very well and also offering 70% reduction on trading fees per transaction until 2/24. https://twitter.com/binance_2017

“To show our gratitude for your unwavering support throughout the upgrade process, Binance will provide all users with a 70% discount on trading fees (0.03% per transaction, 0.015% with BNB) until 2018/02/24 00:00 AM (UTC).”