View in Browser | Forward to a Friend Coinbase announces plans to add support for Ethereum-based tokens; the cryptocurrency exchange’s also announced that ERC20 tokens will not work with their payment processing product Coinbase Commerce; Coinbase will only add coins to Coinbase after they have been listed on GDAX, Coinbase’s digital asset trading platform, to prevent fraud and price pumps - Link Linux flaw causes $75K worth of Monero cryptojack; Bitcoinist reports that an ongoing new hack has already lead to around $75K being mined remotely from Linux servers, without the owners’ knowledge; the malicious code is targeting servers in the US, Japan, Taiwan, China and India; this comes as the total Monero market cap hovers around $3B - Link ICO advisory group categorizes ICOs by quality; in a medium review found that approximately 81% of ICOs can be described as ”scams”, whilst around 6% of them failed, 5% died off, and 8% went on to trade on an exchange; it should be noted, however, that the survey found that the majority of the ICOs that went on to trade on an exchange are either deemed ”successful” or ”promising” - Link New bill to allow crypto payments in Russia; the bill serves to define terms such as ”digital money”, ”digital rights”, and allows authorities to subject cryptocurrencies to taxation; it will amend Russia’s Civil Code to create ”legal relations in the digital economy” and protect the rights of cryptocurrency owners; the changes are expected to be implemented in May - Link Paxful trading volume reveals growing African popularity of cryptocurrency; Paxful, a p2p cryptocurrency marketplace, offers Africans hundreds of different options to trade digital currency; the Paxful exchange sees a whopping $40M of just Bitcoin trading in Africa each month; the popularity of Paxful in Africa is mainly due to that few other services are even available in the continent - Link Litecoin payment startup LitePay abruptly terminates its operations; the news came this Monday, conveyed by the Litecoin Foundation; LitePay was intended to act as a merchant processor, offering a crypto wallet and ”LitePay debit card”; according to the post by the Litecoin Foundation, LitePay’s CEO requested additional funds from the Foundation following concerns regarding LitePay’s transparency; the Litecoin Foundation refused, after which LitePay halted their operations - Link Coingate and Prestashop join forces, giving 80,000 new European merchants option to accept crypto; Coingate, a Lithuanian cryptocurrency payment gateway for European merchants, is teaming up with Prestashop, a French open source e-commerce solution; the partnership between the two firms is believed to reach around 80K merchants in Europe; the long-term plan is to integrate Coingate into Prestashop’s backend - Link Twitter officially announces their ban on cryptocurrency ads; this follows similar measures from both Google and Facebook; the news have been swirling around for several weeks, but this is the first time Twitter officially confirms their legitimacy; the social media platform will implement the measures to reduce fraud and protect users; the ban entails that all cryptocurrencies and ICOs that are not publicly listed on major stock markets will be barred from advertising their services on Twitter - Link Tradewind launches blockchain platform for gold trading; the launch of the blockchain-powered gold trading platform comes as Tradewind is already cooperating with the Royal Canadian Mint and gold behemoth Sprott; the effort is meant to create the technological foundation necessary for cryptocurrencies in the gold-trading environment; Tradewind’s president Matt Trudeau believes that both ownership and trading of precious metals will become digitized, a transition Tradewind will facilitate - Link Forward this to your friend Did we miss anything or do you have any suggestions? We know that many of our readers are smarter and more informed than we are – so please reply and let us know when we miss something! Copyright cryptotickerr © 2018. All rights reserved



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