General Market
Outlook
The market has turned upward again,
but to a much lesser extent that earlier this week. Most of the top
100 coins are in the green and trading volume has risen $1 billion
to around $12 billion in 24 hours. Cortex (CTXC) is the major stand
out of the top 100 coins by market cap - up over 35% in the past 24
hours, but WTC, PIVX, AOA, and CMT are all up 12% or more.
Bitcoin (BTC) is right around $6,650 for +3.5% and a total
market dominance of about 53.1%, and Ethereum (ETH) is right at
$285 for +3% change in the past 24 hours. Market cap for the
overall cryptocurrency market gain over $7 billion, now sitting at
just over $216 billion total.
Major
Headlines
Australians Can Pay Most
Bills In Crypto
A new partnership between a
licensed cryptocurrency exchange and an automated billing platform
in Australia is facilitating cryptocurrency payments for anything
from electricity to speeding tickets. The Cointree Exchange is one
of four officially registered in Australia, along with BTC Markets,
Independent Reserve, and Blockbid. Cointree currently lists 27
coins, but will launch support for 10 more this month. Gobill hopes
to eventually offer support for as many as 50. Gobill was funded by
Microsoft with their launch in 2015. The platform allows payment to
any Australian provider including utilities, telecommunications,
council rates, insurance and more. They are a partner of the
Australian Government’s cyber safety initiative as well.
Steve Wozniak’s First
Blockchain Project
Last week at the ChainXchange
Conference in LA, Steve Wozniak (co-founder of Apple) mentioned he
is involved with a blockchain project for the first time. The
organization is still in the early funding stages. This isn’t going
to be like other coin launches, and there won’t be an ICO.
Wozniak’s project is working with big investors, and providing
actual shares of a company. “This company is doing investment by
investors with huge track records in good investments in things
like apartment buildings in Dubai.” He has compared Ethereum to the
Apple Store before, and considers Bitcoin the only “digital
gold.”
Chinese Bus System Overhaul
Funded By Blockchain Assets
The largest bus operator in the
country has signed a deal for funding through a U.S. digital asset
services platform. China has been planning to overhaul their entire
bus system to electric powered vehicles by 2021. NTS is the largest
full-service operator for electric buses, with sales, lease
financing, a charging station network, and real-time data services
including media, payments, maps, and facial recognition. Seven
Stars Cloud Group (SSC) has developed an automated infrastructure
that issues, trades, and settles digital asset transactions using
machine learning and AI, which can be tailored to the needs of each
customer. They will provide “fixed income lease financing-based
products” for sale totaling $8.75 billion in China markets, and $15
billion to global markets over three years. This one of the biggest
deals utilizing blockchain technology for digital assets. The deal
will is for $24 billion over three years. The entire replacement
project will cost $45 billion.
Top 5
Gainers
AC3 (AC3) +56.04% at
$0.47160
Super Bitcoin (SBTC) +50.32% at
$4.13
Webcoin (WEB) +49.27% at
$0.008836
OptiToken (OPTI) +47.48% at
$0.213632
XcelToken (XCEL) +42.55% at
$0.069290
Top 5
Losers
Namecoin (NMC) -47.42% at
$1.01
Cashcoin (CASH) -32.63% at
$0.006387
DigiFinexToken (DFT) -30.68% at
$0.298765
Soma (SCT) -28.97% at
$0.043536
IHT Real Estate Protocol (IHT)
-27.73% at $0.015932
New Coins
Listed
BnkToTheFuture (BFT) listed to
Bittrex
Binance Coin (BNB) listed to
HitBTC
By: BGN Editorial Staff
News:
Cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin
(BTC)
Ethereum
(ETH)
Cortex
(CTXC)
Blockchain
AC3 (AC3)
Super Bitcoin
(SBTC)
Webcoin
(WEB)
OptiToken
(OPTI)
XcelToken
(XCEL)
Namecoin
(NMC)
Cashcoin
(CASH)
DigiFinexToken
(DFT)
Soma (SCT)
IHT Real Estate Protocol
(IHT)