Markets

• Bitcoin BTC is at ~$16500 USD (+45.61% from last Monday)
• Ether ETH is at ~$471 USD (-1.27% from last Monday)
• Bitcoin Cash BCH is at ~$1576 USD (-8.62% from last Monday)

Articles

• Bitcoin Billionaire Winklevoss Sees Surge of as Much as 20 Fold by Bloomberg
• You Can Trade Bitcoin Futures. But Should You? by Bloomberg
• The Bitcoin Whales: 1,000 People Who Own 40 Percent of the Market by Bloomberg
• What are CryptoKitties? Latest craze involves virtual cats selling for $100,000 on Ethereum Blockchain by Newsweek
• Craigslist Sellers Can Now Request Cryptocurrency Payments by CoinDesk
• Zcash Sets Roadmap for Blockchain Upgrades in 2018 by CoinDesk
• Bulgarian Exchange Crypto.bg to Resume Trading on Monday by Bitcoin News
• Deutsche Bank: Bitcoin is One of the Greatest Market Threats in 2018 by Bitcoin News
• 50 Shades Of Grey: What Bitcoiners Should Know About S.1241 by Hackernoon
• CBOE Launches Bitcoin Futures, Site Immediately Crashes by Coin Telegraph
• Bitcoin Plunges $2,000 on Eve of Futures Contract by Hacked
• Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin by Steam
• Hackers steal $70 million in bitcoin, prompt shutdown of cryptominer NiceHash by MarketWatch
• What’s happening with Bitcoin Prices by C. McKenzie (Medium)

This week’s new initial coin offerings (ICOs)

• Decentralized Marketplace connecting social media bloggers and advertisers
• Create a global marketplace for Advertisers and Influencers among every major social network
• Maintain commercial relationships between participants; SocialMedia.Market will use Blockchain technology to simplify integration, reduce fraud and costs for all market participants
• Create a common platform to edify and verify interactions between bloggers (influencers) and brands
• 49% of them rely on influencers’ recommendations when making a buying decision
• SocialMedia.Market will trigger an introduction of a new digital marketing ecosystem comprising of advertising campaigns accessible to millions of novice and growing influencers, startups, small and medium businesses
• Token: Social Media Tokens (SMTs)
• Built on the Ethereum network
• 1 ETH (Ether) = ~750 SMTs
• Phase 1
• Hard Cap: 10m SMTs
• Exchange rate: 1 ETH = 800 SMTs
• Start Date: 7 December 2017 12:00 PM GMT
• End Date: 14 December 2017 12:00 PM GMT
• Phase 2
• Hard Cap: 30m SMTs
• Exchange rate: 1 ETH = 700 SMTs
• Start Date: 9 February 2018 12:00 PM GMT
• End Date: 23 February 2018 12:00 PM GMT
• Token Distribution :
• 20% - Phase 1 distribution to investors
• 60% - Phase 2 distribution to investors
• 15% - Reserve for Platform Core Functionality
• 5% - Reserve for Partners, Bounty and advisory board

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