News Roundup for November 2nd

Hello again, fellow travellers! We're excited this week to be celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Satoshi Nakamoto's publication of the Bitcoin whitepaper. This special occasion arrives as Bitcoin's price is at it's most stable in 17 months. Enjoy!

In the News

Bitcoin Whitepaper – 10 Years Since Satoshi’s Vision Was Brought to Life

An analysis of Bitcoin's past, present, and future over the past decade just in time for the ten year anniversary of the release of the Bitcoin whitepaper on October 31. Read more...

Where Did the Money Go? Inside the Big Crypto ICOs of 2017

An in-depth analysis of the market performance and strategies of the ten largest ICO projects that, as of the beginning of September 2018, raised the most money and were at least a year old. Read more...

A Brief History of Bitcoin:

10 Years of Highs and Lows

Bitcoin has come incredibly far from its humble beginnings as a computer science paper outlining a vision for an online currency. CoinTelegraph presents a straight forward timeline of the major developments that have gotten us to where we are now. Read more...

Coinbase announces the launch of USDC Stablecoin

Amidst the controversary surrounding Tether, Coinbase announces the launch of its own stable coin, built in collaboration with blockchain-powered payments company Circle. Coinbase aims to be more transparent with regular audits of the currency. Read more...

Police raid Indian call centres linked to 'CRA phone scam' that have victimized Canadians

Have you received a CRA scam call alleging you owe money and could be jailed for it? These types of calls have become all too prevalent this year, but the first good bit of news may have finally come. Through the insistence of the RCMP, Indian police have raided several suspected illegal call centres. Read more...

ERC-20 Co-Author Proposes New ICO Model to Protect Investors from Fraudulent Token Sales

At Ethereum’s annual Devcon conference in Prague Oct. 30, Fabian Vogelsteller, the main developer of decentralized application (DApp) browser Mist, proposed a new approach for running ICOs that will better protect investors. A “reversible ICO” (RICO), as a fundraising model that allows investors to return their tokens – and be reimbursed – at any stage of the project, via a special-purpose smart contract. Read more...

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