It’s Friday, and boy what a week it’s been! Just in case you missed the news, two extremely important things happened this week you should be aware of: The war is on! Bitcoin Cash hard forks and Bitcoin breaks down and hits a one-year low. November remains the heavyweight champion of volatility, chaos, and disruption in the world of cryptocurrency. So, there’s that. Here are the top articles from this past week on Newconomy.media–enjoy!

History was made on October 20th at The Greek Theater in Berkeley when crypto currency’s first ever music festival – Our Music Festival (OMF) came a resounding end. OMF tokens were the force behind the spectacular event, even as music by celebrity DJ and producers took the backseat. Crypto celebrities Daniel Gross of Ycombinator, Chain’s Adam Ludwin and Coinbase founder Fred Ehrsam attended the event, endorsing the communities’ efforts. Read More…

Bitcoin (BTC) has lost more than 14% of its value in today’s trading session as the entire cryptocurrency market crashes. The biggest cryptocurrency has gone as low as $5,375, which is a decrease of almost $900 in a matter of just the last couple of hours. A breach of the crucial support around the $6,000 zone has caused many stops to be triggered, and the price quickly slid way below the support (Graph 1). It is obvious now that the huge amount of stop-loss orders have been placed below the support as Bitcoin lost as much as $400 in less than one hour of trading. Read More…

Ethereum-developers in the course of the next videoconference decided on the approximate date of the hard forks Constantinople in the main network of the second by the capitalization of cryptocurrency. Read More…

Part 6 in our ‘How To Make Money in Cryptocurrency’ series. We’ve covered speculation, freelance and formal employment, security token offerings for cryptocurrency startups, online education courses and even referrals. Today we’re going to take a look at advisory rolls in cryptocurrency startups, and how that can become a tidy bonus income. Read More…

Recently, Newconomy explored the advantages and disadvantages of cloud mining Bitcoin. Today we will take a look at the best practices for cloud mining altcoins. As with Bitcoin cloud mining, users are able to ‘rent’ out hardware power in order to contribute to the mining process and receive their selected altcoin as compensation. We’ll briefly examine why someone would choose not to mine Bitcoin, before examining the practical steps of how to go about getting involved in obtaining those cryptocurrencies! Read More…

Go git ’em, tiger!