Fortnite Store Begins Accepting Monero, Stellar Co-founder Brands 90% of Crypto Projects ‘B.S.’ and Other News

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Don't Miss The Top Five Stories From The Last Week The Media Reported Bitcoin's Death 90 Times in 2018, While There are 1,000 Dead Altcoins What is this all about? According to data from 99bitcoins, the coin's death has been reported by world media almost 100 times from December 2017 to December 2018 What about altcoins? In contrast, a site that tracks the "death" of altcoins contained around 1,000 entries at the end of the year. The database distinguishes assets that failed due to hacks, scams, or were parody coins without a sincere purpose Read more here Fortnite Merchandise Store Begins Accepting Monero as Exclusive Crypto Payment Method What happened? The merchandise store for the online video game Fortnite, Retail Row, has started exclusively accepting Monero as a cryptocurrency payment option How would it work? Specifically, Retail Row supports crypto payments service GloBee, which includes Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ripple support, as well as Monero, even if the Fortnite store will only support Monero Read more here BitTorrent Launches Native TRON-Based Token What is this all about? Peer-to-peer torrent client, BitTorrent, has launched a native token, BTT, based on the TRON protocol What is this for? The token can be exchanged between users to optimize their network speed and attain faster downloads, according to the press release Read more here Iran Declares Telegram Cryptocurrency Plans a Threat to National Security What happened? Javad Javidnia, the secretary of the Iranian Criminal Content Definition Task Force, said that any cooperation with the app's plans to launch its Gram token, Telegram's cryptocurrency, will be considered an act against national security and a disruption to the national economy How did he argue this? "One of the most important factors in banning Telegram was a sense of serious economic threat from its activities, which was unfortunately marginalized and neglected due to the fuss in the political atmosphere of the country," Javidnia stated Details here             Stellar Co-founder Brands 90% of Crypto Projects 'B.S.' What did he say? Most financial institutions will not use Bitcoin, payment network Stellar's co-founder and CTO Jed McCaleb stated in an interview What is he basing this on? "Ninety percent of these projects are B.S. I'm looking forward to that changing," he said when asked about the outlook for the cryptocurrency industry in 2019 Read more here 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