🗞 Daily Crypto News, January, 19th💰

• Ethereum Devs Propose Activating Constantinople Hard Fork in Late February ;
• Report: Bitcoin Use on Darknet Markets Doubled in 2018 ;
• Former Governor of French Central Bank Joins Board of Directors of Blockchain Firm Setl ;
• ICOs Raised $160 Million in First Half of January, Report Says ;
• Overstock’s Patrick Byrne Says tZERO Will Launch Next Week ;
• 📑 Daily Crypto Calendar, January, 19th💰
• STEEM Trading Update

Welcome to the Daily Crypto News: A complete Press Review, Coin Calendar and Trading Analysis. Enjoy!

🗞 Ethereum Devs Propose Activating Constantinople Hard Fork in Late February

Ethereum core developers have proposed activating Constantinople – a planned system-wide upgrade that was called off earlier this week – in late February.

Also called a hard fork, Constantinople is now estimated by developers to go live some time between Feb. 26 and Feb. 28, with a block number to be determined at a future date.

The proposal was made during a core developer phone call on Friday morning, and participants on the call included ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin and other developers, including Hudson Jameson, Lane Rettig, Afri Schoedon, Péter Szilágyi, Martin Holste Swende, Danny Ryan and Alexey Akhunov, among others.

🗞 Report: Bitcoin Use on Darknet Markets Doubled in 2018

Bitcoin use on darknet markets (DNMs) doubled in 2018, a study has shown, rising to an average of $2 million per day. Bitcoin has long been used to buy goods on the darknet due to its relative anonymity, and looks set to remain a favorite on DNMs, despite the existence of more privacy-focused cryptocurrencies.

“Darknet market activity has been remarkably resilient over the last few years, despite continued efforts by law enforcement to shut down illicit activities. When one darknet market closes, others pop up to take its place.”

🗞 Former Governor of French Central Bank Joins Board of Directors of Blockchain Firm Setl

British blockchain technology group Setl has hired former governor of the French central bank Christian Noyer as a member of its board of directors. The new appointment was confirmed in a blog post published on Jan. 17.

Founded in 2015, Setl is a financial company with a focus on blockchain technology. Setl has built a blockchain-based infrastructure for institutional payments and settlements, with a reported capacity of over 1 billion transactions per day.

🗞 ICOs Raised $160 Million in First Half of January, Report Says

Initial coin offerings (ICOs) completed in the first half of January have raised around $160 million. The figure was provided in a report by ICO rating service ICObench shared with Cointelegraph on Jan. 18.

ICOs completed by Jan. 15 have managed to raise about 33 percent of the combined amount raised in the previous month of December. Half of that sum was secured by just one project, the report notes.

🗞 Overstock’s Patrick Byrne Says tZERO Will Launch Next Week

Overstock.com’s long-awaited tZERO security token trading platform will go live by the end of next week, CEO Patrick Byrne said Friday.

Byrne told CoinDesk the company is “ready to hit the button and go live today,” but was waiting a few more days to process user signups.

“But by the end of the next week we will be turning the trading system live,” Byrne said, adding:

“It’s a big moment for us — four years in the making.”

📑 Daily Crypto Calendar, January, 19th💰

• Pundi X (NPXS), Pundi X NEM (NPXSXEM)

"...Details of f(x) blockchain tokenomics will be finalized.... The team will also host AMA session on Jan 19 to answer all the questions."

• Binance Coin (BNB)

Binance burns BNB around the week of Jan 15.

• Waves (WAVES)

"Announcement of $vst airdrop details to $waves holders," by end of week.

• Impleum (IMPL)

A minimalist UTXO tracker for HD Wallets. The goal is to have a flexible, .NET based UTXO tracker for HD wallets.

• Odyssey (OCN)

The next OCN buyback round performed using Q4 2018 revenue.

STEEM Trading Update by my friend @cryptopassion

Here is the chart of yesterday :

Here is the current chart :

Someone is buying STEEM quiet heavly these last days. I don't know who he is but thank you ! I cannot imagine what would be the UP if the BTC was increasing also. So as you can see, yesterday, we finished the Bull flag and we had an immediate UP break out at the apex of it. A consolidation should soon occured but we cannot complain about the last days and it is even needed if we want new UP !

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