Markets

• Price per Bitcoin BTC is at ~$3870 USD (-8% from last Monday)
• Price per Ether ETH is at ~$289 USD (-2% from last Monday)
• Price per Bitcoin Cash BCH is at ~$464 USD (-18% from last Monday)

Articles

• JPMorgan involved in bitcoin-related trading while boss calls it good for drug dealers & murderers by RT
• China orders Bitcoin exchanges in capital city to close by BBC
• Bitcoin’s Wild Ride Shows The Truth: It Is Probably Worth Zero (pay wall) by Wall Street Journal
• The Blockchain Is the Internet of Money (pay wall) by Wall Street Journal
• Bitcoin is fiat money, too by Economist
• ‘It’s war’ ... cryptocurrency advocate warns of looming conflict with sovereign governments by SCMP
• The world seems to think ‘bitcoin bad’ – but it’s not the only currency that needs to settle down by SCMP
• Ant Financial remains ‘optimistic’ on blockchain technology despite PBOC’s cryptocurrencies crackdown by SCMP
• Bitcoin Is Likely to Split Again in November, Say Major Players by Bloomberg
• Crypto-Mania Grips Hong Kong as City Looks for Life Beyond Banks by Bloomberg
• Ray Dalio, founder of the world's largest hedge fund, says 'bitcoin is a bubble' by CNBC
• All That's Needed To Hack Gmail And Rob Bitcoin: A Name And A Phone Number by Forbes
• Blockchain, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency And ICOs - All You Need To Know In 10 Minutes by Forbes
• Ethereum will match Visa in scale in a ‘couple of years’ says founder by Techcrunch
• YC wants to let people invest in its startups through the blockchain by Techcrunch
• China Bans Bitcoin Executives From Leaving the Country, Miners “Preparing for the Worst” by Trust Nodes
• 4.11% of Bitcoin addresses own 96.53% of BTC by HowMuch.net
• Ethereum Adoption of zk-SNARK Technology by ZCash

This week’s new initial coin offerings (ICOs)

• Aero is building a right-of-way airspace control system using smart contracts for commercial drones flights.
• This system is designed to address the regulation on low-altitude flights over private property in America.
• Aero will build a contract system for property owners to authorize drone operations over their property with a reward mechanism.
• This system will increase efficiency in drone delivery services as drones are now able to fly at a lower altitude within airspace of private properties.
• The AERO token is the utility and payment token on the Aero network.
• Drone service providers will pay for network access with AERO tokens; where temporary access of private airspace can be purchased.
• Property owners will earn income via AERO tokens for granting temporary right-of-way access on the network.
• AERO token is limited at a fixed supply of 1 Billion tokens.
• AERO is currently in its presale stage where 33% of the tokens is offered.
• Presale period starts 25 Sep 2017 and ends on 2 Oct 2017.

• PlusCoin (PLC) is a funding initiative of Metaps Plus Inc. to build a cryptocurrency exchange name Coinroom
• Metaps Plus is a subsidiary of Metaps Inc., a Japanese tech company listed on the Japanese exchange under code TSE: 6712.
• Metaps Plus owns a Korean mobile commerce company Smartcon.
• Owners of PLC will earn no more than 10% of potential future profits generated as exchange commissions on Coinroom.
• Coinroom is scheduled to go live in March 2018.
• Metaps Plus also plans to launch a mobile coupon ecosystem that will use PLC as the transaction currency. Increasing use cases of PLC token.
• The ICO is capped at 27 Million USD.
• The exchange rate of PLC during the ICO is 200 PLC/ETH.
• 70% of all PLC will be offered during the ICO. 20% PLC goes to the PlusCoin team and 10% are reserved for the CoinRoom.
• The ICO begins on 26 Sep 2017 and lasts till 10 Oct 2017.

• Doc.ai is building a decentralized market for proposing and obtaining machine learning problems and solutions.
• Users who own datasets and need help analysing them can propose a project on the network while offering a bounty for a solution.
• Other users who seek to solve the same problem can join in by contributing their own dataset plus a bounty.
• Projects are broadcast to Data Scientists along with the spec and bounty size.
• Data Scientist will then submit potential model solutions to the project.
• Solutions of several Data Scientists are ranked and the one with the highest score is selected, rewarding him the bounty.
• The token NEURON (NRN) will be the payment token on this network.
• A total of 860 Million NRN tokens will be created.
• The ICO begins on 28 September, the exchange rate will be $0.10 USD per NRN.