DAILY CRYPTO NEWS AND TOP CRYPTO EVENTS for 19th AUG

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Top Crypto Events Planned for Tomorrow

1 - Bittrex XRP/USD, ETC/USD Listing

Now, it’s time to roll out the latest fiat trading update for our customers. On August 20, we’re launching US dollar (USD) markets for Ethereum Classic (ETC) and XRP.
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2 - Red Pulse (RPX): Staking Launch

With the PHX token swap well under way, we’re now ready to unveil staking. Staking is set to launch for everyone on August 20, at which point you’ll be able to deposit PHX into your platform wallets and earn staking rewards!
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3 - LoMoCoin (LMC): MUXE Airdrop in LoMoStar

45,000,000 MUXE tokens Airdrop in the LoMoStar app between August 20-22.
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Some World Crypto News

1- It's not Pornhub but actually it's Tube8 - partner of Pornhub which will pay in VIce tokens for watching movies on their site.

Adult entertainment streaming service Tube8 – a Pornhub subsidiary with over 150 million page visits each month – wants to reward your porn-watching habits with cryptocurrency… so it is putting its entire platform on the blockchain.

In a note exclusively shared with Hard Fork, the company revealed it has entered an agreement with Vice Industry Token (VIT) that will see its platform entirely tokenized. The collaboration will enable users to earn VIT tokens for streaming and interacting with Tube8 videos.

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2 - The management of Cobinhood Exchange are commissioning the development of a new blockchain capable of processing 1 million transactions per second

DEXON reports that the new blockchain technology uses a blocklattice structure that meshes multiple chains together to form what the company claims to be an infinitely scalable, low-latency decentralized transaction processing engine. The company was launched by the executive team of the zero-fee crypto exchange Cobinhood, and the $20 million funding round that just closed was led by IDG Capital, a venture capital firm which manages over $20 billion in assets. The funding round also drew investments from various angel investors.

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3 - IBM, UPS Applied for Blockchain-Related Patents, Blockchain is going to change the world. The next revolution would be based on the blockchain. The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) awarded several blockchain-related patents to companies including IBM and United Parcel Service (UPS).

US tech giant IBM, which is present in USPTO’s filings on a regular basis, filed on February 13, 2017, an application for its invention called “node characterization in blockchain.” The new system would allow a distributed ledger to have a node or a series of nodes characterized for different functions, which would bring new insights to the network.

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