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📮 22-11-2019

📈 MarketCap:                  $212 B

📊 24h Mcap %:                 -5.61%

⚠️ Bitcoin Dom:                 65.4%

📌 Active Coins:                2,522

📍 24h Vol %:                  21.01%

💲 24h Vol:                     $66 B

1.  IOHK’s Charles Hoskinson revealed that soon after the Shelley incentivized testnet is rolled out, the community would get together at a Cardano workshop in Colorado to discuss Cardano’s 2020 roadmap. As the network approaches the Goguen era wherein Cardano would leap into smart contracts, Hoskinson highlighted that Basho isn’t very far off. This would be followed by Voltaire, which mostly focuses on governance, he said.

2.  Cypherpunk, a company investing in technologies and protocols that enhance privacy, announced today that it has completed an equity investment in zkSnacks, whose products include the bitcoin (BTC) based Wasabi Wallet. Wasabi Wallet is an open-source, non-custodial, privacy-focused bitcoin wallet for desktop use, that implements trustless coin shuffling with mathematically provable anonymity.

3.  Digital asset management firm CoinShares has released a report on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency market in 2019. On the whole, CoinShares states that Bitcoin is poised to do well in the future with macro trends relating to global debt and poorly performing asset classes making Bitcoin seem like an ideal hedge. Also worth mentioning is that millennials’ investment tendencies are most keen on the technology sector a theme in keeping with reports that millennials are more likely to invest in Bitcoin than any other traditional asset.

4.  Two massive stock brokerages look set to merge, as sources reveal Charles Schwab will buy TD Ameritrade for $26 billion. The deal may have an impact on the Bitcoin market, given that the TD Ameritrade currently offers BTC futures. Although the new merger may well provide more exposure to Bitcoin futures products, the jury is still out as to their impact on the market. However, many argue that Bitcoin futures can be used to suppress the price of Bitcoin.

5.  Argentina’s central bank had formally banned consumers from purchasing Bitcoin and other crypto using credit cards. What followed was the very opposite of what the Argentine government had anticipated — over the past two weeks, the country has traded the highest amount of Bitcoins on the peer-to-peer platform LocalBitcoins. Capital controls seem to have a direct correlation with getting people more interested in Bitcoin because it’s something the government can’t control.

6.  Bakkt, a provider of physically-settled bitcoin futures contracts, has announced the launch of cash-settled bitcoin futures. Bakkt will offer the new product via Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)’s Singapore unit and plans to list it on Dec. 9. ICE Futures Singapore, will list Bakkt Bitcoin (USD) Cash Settled Monthly Futures contract, while ICE Clear Singapore will clear it, both regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore(MAS). The move will offer investors in Asia a convenient way to gain or hedge exposure in bitcoin markets.”

7.  Yahoo Finance, the United States-based financial news giant, has integrated its website with cryptocurrency pricing by major crypto data supplier CoinMarketCap (CMC). The website now allows visitors to track prices for major cryptocurrencies, providing CMC-based data including market capitalization, trading volume, circulating supply. Yahoo Finance’s cryptocurrency screener page provides pricing for a total of 118 digital currencies, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), XRP, Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Tether (USDT) and others.

8.  Bitcoin startup Lolli has partnered with Nike, enabling people to earn up to 3% BTC back on every order when shopping through the former’s stores page. This service is currently limited to users in the United States. The company plans to provide more product variations for the year-end sales season such as Thanksgiving and Christmas in December. Lolli has already partnered with several major US companies. If you shop through Lolli, you can get BTC at a different return rate.