Hi traders, I'd like to share an important piece of news that came out recently regarding Hashgraph. Two days ago, the Hashgraph Consortium announced the launch of the Hedera Public Ledger at an event held in NYC.

The launch will not be an ICO as only accredited investors will be allowed to purchase the tokens that can run nodes on the network (sigh). No date were given for the launch but the announcement is starting to create ripples within the block-chain industry. For those unfamiliar with Hashgraph, it is: "the first asynchronouse byzantine fault tolerant (aBFT) consensus algorithm that results in fair ordering, fast finality, and secure propagation. It is the foundation of the next generation of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)". Hashgraph claims its ledger technology is superior to blockchain (the technology which powers Bitcoin, Ethereum, EOS, etc) in terms of throughput and security. Here's Dr. Leemon Baird, the CTO of Swirlds, the company that develops Hashgraph talking about the project: