Brian Kelly: ‘No Shot’ for BTC ETF in 2019, Binance Enters European Markets, and Other News

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Don't Miss The Top Five Stories From The Last Week Crypto Exchange Binance Enters European Markets, Launches Binance Jersey What is this all about? Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance is launching a new trading platform, dubbed Binance Jersey, designed for fiat-to-crypto trading of EUR and British pound, with Bitcoin and Ethereum, within Europe and the United Kingdom What is the purpose of this? Binance highlighted that an expansion into the European markets could provide "freedom from looming Brexit uncertainty where the pound and euro are also in concern" Read more here Ethereum Team Lead: Constantinople Hard Fork to Activate in Late February What happened? Ethereum's Constantinople hard fork has been delayed until late February after smart contract audit firm ChainSecurity found a security vulnerability allowing a reentrancy attack What does this mean? In the aftermath of the discovery, Ethereum developers said that the activation would instead take place at block number 7,280.000, which is expected to be mined on Feb. 27, 2019, instead of in January  Read more here BitTorrent Tron-Based BTT Token Integration Will Launch by Summer What is this all about? BitTorrent's system, dubbed BitTorrent Speed, which will integrate the Tron-based BTT token into the popular µTorrent Windows client, will launch by summer How would it work? BitTorrent Speed will issue cryptocurrency token rewards to users that serve content to others via the µTorrent network. The client's users will also be able to pay for faster downloads with the same tokens Read more here Crypto Analyst Brian Kelly Believes Bitcoin ETF Won't Be Approved in 2019 What is this all about? Brian Kelly, a crypto analyst that regularly contributes to CNBC, said that there is no real chance for a Bitcoin ETF to be approved in 2019, even though he believes that BTC will become a more accepted asset among mainstream investors What did he say? "Probably in 2019 the focus will be on currencies — Bitcoin, Litecoin, some of those — because we have quite a bit of geopolitical tension in the world. We are starting to see some global macro players use Bitcoin as alternative to their gold position, or as a way to hedge against fiat currency fluctuations and volatility" Details here What We Know About Google Ads Allegedly Blacklisting 'Ethereum' as a Keyword What is this all about? Google confirmed to Decenter that "Ethereum" has been blacklisted as a keyword "regardless of the nature of the service that is being promoted," as the startup's CEO Andrej Cvoro told Cointelegraph over email Why did this happen? After the confirmation, a Cointelegraph follow-up looked into whether the rumors are true. Hint? They are. To get to know more read our analysis        Prefer video instead of text? Check out our latest Hodler's Digest   Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. COINTELEGRAPH LIMITED · Shelton Street, Covent Garden · London