✅ Bitcoin continues to trade sideways, the price dropped below $ 8,000. And the miners mined an 18 millionth BTC coin.

The situation with the launch of TON is still tense, the next hearing is scheduled for February 18, 2020, until that date any operations with the Gram cryptocurrency are prohibited 🤨

Weekly Digest:

🔸 Financial Times: Fidelity Investments financial holding company launched the launch of its custodial service for storing bitcoin

🔸 Binance: daily futures trading volume exceeded $ 500 million, and ETP trading based on BNB launched on SIX Swiss stock exchange

🔸 Libra Association, now already among 21 companies, signed the charter of the organization and announced the presence of 180 companies that are candidates for joining the crypto project Libra

🔸 Media: The CIX100 index has appeared on the Nasdaq stock exchange, the price of which is based on 100 cryptocurrencies

🔸 Research: from January 2017 to October 2019, Russia became the largest LocalBitcoins market with a result of 24.3% of all transactions. Second and third place: USA (17.8%) and China (13.1%)

🔸 Bermuda Authorities Allowed to Pay Taxes on Circle USDC stablecoin

🔸 According to the report of the crypto fund Grayscale Investments, in the III quarter of 2019, they raised $ 254.9 million. Of this amount, 84% comes from institutional investors 💰

🔸 Binance exchange burned BNB tokens for $ 36.7 million, that is, in the III quarter of 2019, the platform’s revenues amounted to about $ 186 million

🔸 International audit company Ernst & Young introduced a blockchain solution to fight corruption

🔸 ACINQ developers introduced a crypto wallet for mobile devices with Lightning Network support

🔸 The popular cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex detaches from Circle and becomes Polo Digital Assets. The site will refuse to work in the USA

The rate of major currencies:

Bitcoin $ 8,242 (↑ 3.44%)
Ethereum 175 $ (↑ 1.82%)
Ripple $ 0.290 (↑ 0.60%)
Bitcoin Cash 225 $ (↑ 5.56%)
Litecoin 54 $ (↑ 1.48%)
Binance Coin $ 18 (↑ 0.40%)
EOS 2.92 $ (↑ 1.64%)

Capitalization of all cryptocurrencies: $ 223 billion