Don't Miss The Top Five Stories From The Last Week Winklevoss Twins Bitcoin ETF Application Rejected by SEC What actually happened? The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has rejected the application for a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund by brothers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss. Did anything happen after that? U.S. SEC Commissioner Hester M. Peirce has published a statement of official dissent from the agency's second disapproval of the Winklevoss brothers' application for a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund. Read the full article here. Top 10 Crypto Deals in 2017 Returned Over 136,000% on Average What is it all about? Crypto finance conference research on the top 10 crypto deals in 2017 based on their investment returns has revealed that each returned over 136,000 percent on average. Is there a top asset among the others? Out of all the crypto projects that raised a minimum of $1 million in 2017, IOTA clinched a staggering 614,934 percent return for investors, sealing the top spot in the researchers' rankings. Learn more here. An Interview With Ethereum's Joseph Lubin Who is this guy? This 53-year-old Canadian-born entrepreneur is one of the most prominent figures in the blockchain space. He co-founded Ethereum and later founded ConsenSys. He is probably a really good trader, right? Here's what he says: "I work from 16 to 20 hours a day, and I have no time to day trade. But I do know how to move tokens around; I've done that before." Read more in the full interview. Ex-J.P. Morgan Exec: Blockchain May Be Key to Avoiding Next Global Financial Crisis What happened? Pang Huadong, the former vice president of North American investment banking at J.P. Morgan Chase, has said that blockchain "may be the key to avoiding the next global financial crisis." Did he say anything else? Huadong added that while the technology is still "at a very early stage," its development prospects are "limitless." Read full article here. Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Upholds Serious Predictions of BTC & ETH How much exactly? Alexis Ohanian, a co-founder of both Reddit and VC firm Initialized Capital, reaffirmed his $20,000 Bitcoin and $1,500 Ethereum forecasts for 2018. What does he think of decentralized cryptocurrencies? Ohanian also characterized them as a "changing sign of the times," while tempering his stance to emphasize that he "is not calling for the end of fiat or anything like that." Learn more here. |