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News

World news

• The Richest People In Cryptocurrency - Forbes Story
• Virtual Currencies: The Oversight Role of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Video. Major Takeaways From The SEC And CFTC’s Testimony On Virtual Currency
• Australia’s Major Banks Confirm that they Won’t Ban Buying Bitcoin
• UK’s Lloyds Bank BAN Bitcoin’s Payment through Credit Cards
• European Banks Could Soon Hold Bitcoin, Admits ECB President. European Parliament plenary debate on the ECB
• Toronto Councillor: City Should “Be Ahead of the Wave” of Blockchain Tech

Ethereum News

• Proposed EIP could allow tokens to pay transactions in tokens, contracts to pay own gas and can even gamers pay their transactions in xbox credits. Reddit
• Parity Technologies enlists Trail of Bits to lead security review
• Truebit lite is live on Rinkeby running verification for the DOGE-ETH bRIDGE
• Metamask - ONE MILLION installs
• In 2017, Infura relayed over 7 million ETH — over $8 billion at today’s prices
• MyCrypto.com - Official MyEtherWallet Statement Reddit
• A New Beginning: MyCrypto.com
• MyCrypto hostile takeover of MyEtherwallet twitter handle

Technology

Developer's Update

• Ethereum Core Devs Meeting #33 [02/09/18]
• Video
• Agenda
• What Are Dapps and Which Are The Best Ones to Use in 2018?
• Breaking Down Vlad's Talk on CBC Consensus and Safety Proofs
• Zilliqa: A novel approach to Sharding
• Standardized Ethereum Recovery Proposals (ERPs) #867
• ERC-721 Solidity Library - Non Fungible Token

Good Reads on Blockchain

• STARKs: Verifying Computations Faster than Re-Executing Them - Christian Reitwiessner Video, Slides

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

• Ethereum Berlin Meetup Complete video playlist
• µRaiden: Unidirectional Off-Chain Payment Framework - Loredana Cirstea
• Yan Michalevsky on "Ethereum Bugs Through the Lens of Formal Verification".
• Dan Larimer (of EOS) speaks on Ethereum's "sharding" concept.

Projects

New Projects and White Paper

• Auctus - SMART CONTRACT POWERED RETIREMENT PLANS. Technical Paper
• Hypernet- Distributed High Performance Computing
• Dock - Powering Data for the Professional World. Decentralized data exchange powered by Ethereum. White Paper.
• Hub - Human Trust Protocol
• Harbor — Global Standard for Issuing and Trading Crypto-Securities

Project updates and Press Release

• The First-Ever Securities Token Launch Pad, Polymath, is Now Live (Press Release)
• KickCity Air Drop is Live
• KickCity Moves Crowdsale Date to March 1st 2018 (Press Release)
• Etherparty built to scale
• OpenLaw Development Update
• Rigoblock - a Protocol for Decentralized Fund Infrastructure
• ChronoBank Community Update: January 2018
• Announcing Aragon Labs
• Bloom - Check Out New Polls + Airdrop Details
• Augur Weekly Development Update
• 0x Protocol - Front-running, Griefing and the Perils of Virtual Settlement (Part 2)
• AdEx Releases Official Merchandise Line
• The AKASHA Emergence: Decentralized Social Network on Ethereum & IPFS Enters Public Beta
• Open-sourcing the Colony Network
• Gnosis Portraits
• Litecoin Core v0.15.1 released. State of Litecoin 2017- Transaction Fees drop to 0.1lites (0.0001LTC) per kB. With most transactions being 300 bytes, you are looking at fess of 0.003USD or one third $cent. Launch of Litepay is expected to be Feb 26, 2018. Reddit
• Litecoin Emerges as the Next Dominant Dark Web Currency
• Sia Community Update — January 2018
• NEO and Blockchains Across China

Trading

• Coinbase will implement SegWit soon
• Improving identity verification on Coinbase
• Launching the Ethfinex Nectar token
• Italian crypto exchange BitGrail hacked, $170 million worth of nano missing
• TREZOR Model T February 2018 Updates
• Bitfinex and Tether is unauditable: Why they will never do a real audit.
• Bancor (BNT) Now Listed on 3 More Exchanges - OKex, Upbit, Lykke

Miscellaneous

Out of the league

• A redditor's new license plate.

Bounty and Hackathon

• Bancor HACK ME Bounty Challenge ends February 18, 2018
• Bancor Women's Day Bounty Contest - (March 8)
• DNN Bounty Program Still Open

Hiring

• Consensys

Events

• Feb 16 - 18, 2018: ETHDenver (Hackathon + Workshop)
• Feb 27, 2018 - ConsenSys Ethereum Meetup San Francisco  - Blockchain 101
• Feb 27, 2018 - Blockchain Xplore
• Feb 28, 2018: IFZ FinTech Conference - Zug, Switzerland,
• Mar 1-4, 2018:Crypto Virtual Summit - Online
• Mar 8-10, 2018: Ethereum Community Conference - Paris
• Mar 10, 2018: Crypto Investor Show - London, UK
• Mar 15, 2018: Token Fest Conference, San Francisco, US
• May 11-12, 2018: Ethereal Summit at the Knockdown Center in NYC.

ICO

• ICOs raise more than $1.3 billion dollars in the first month of 2018
• ICO or Token Sale Calendar
  

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