Last Crypto Week In Review

in news •  7 years ago 

Here we go again, with the most important (in my opinion, at last) news from last week in crypto.

Monday- BTCC To Sell 49% Of Its Mining Operation

According to a report by Coindesk, the mining operation of the BTCC exchange is looking to sell 49% of its stake to a Hong Kong based fund:

According to a memorandum of understanding (MOU) published on Monday by BTCC Pool and its potential buyer, Value Convergence (VC) Holdings Limited – a Hong Kong-based financial service firm – the deal would raise 147 million Hong Kong dollars (US$17 million) if finalized.

The news comes soon after BTCC itself was acquired by a Hong Kong-based blockchain investment fund in January of this year.

Tuesday: TRON’s ‘Independence Day’

The tenth crypto asset at the moment, TRON, activated its public mainnet, allowing investors to move their ERC20 tokens to TRON's own blockchain.

According to TRON developers, internal tests had shown that their network is “400 times faster” than Ethereum’s.

Wednesday: Facebook Relaxed Its Ban On Crypto Ads

Following an announcement on the official Product Management Page, Facebook relaxed their strict ban policy against crypto related products.

The new policy states that:

[...] starting June 26, we’ll be updating our policy to allow ads that promote cryptocurrency and related content from pre-approved advertisers. But we’ll continue to prohibit ads that promote binary options and initial coin offerings.

Thursday: Facebook Rumored To Buy Coinbase

New rumors surfaced on Thursday about a potential acquisition of Coinbase by Facebook.

According to an article published on The Independent:

Experts say that not only could the acquisition boost Facebook’s value and utility, the involvement of the technology giant would add legitimacy to cryptocurrency markets.

"It wouldn't surprise me if Facebook made an attempt to acquire Coinbase," tech entrepreneur Oliver Isaacs told The Independent. "Whether [Coinbase CEO] Brian Armstrong and the team would agree is another question."

Friday: 3 Short Stories About Crypto Exchanges - All Good

Last day of the week seemed to be busy for crypto exchanges:

  • Binance to open operations in Uganda
  • Bithumb readjusts the hack loss to $17 million (from $31 million)
  • Huobi opened a London office

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I appreciate your efforts in making this post and making us aware of the news from past week, that is great,
Thankyou.

Great review this is informative for me
just perfect

Facebook lifting ban on crypto ads is really a positive developments in crypto space.

Awesome week and nice updates you covered over this week thanks for updating us time to time : )

There's also yesterday's spike of SBD/STEEM price, wonder what's the reason behind that.

Great resume, i think the news that facebook might be interested to buy coinbase are very relevant to the market in general and it that does happen we can see a huge increase that perhaps will be temporarily but a great opportunity to trade.

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

News regarding BTCC and Facebook are most significant ones...
Inherent weakness of etherium network i.e. 13tps coming into play...

Hadn't heard about Facebook wanting to buy Coinbase yet. It would make sense for them to cooperate, but Coinbase doesn't need to cash out, they could fund anything they want from their profits.

Really love the highlighted activities in the post for the past week hope this week as well speaks of itself .....well analyzed........ And also a good news on the progress of steem over the week it a great news as well 😂

I think crypto is going to sky after few month . This review is very informtive

Some cool and attractive news about crypto, I really like the one in which facebook remove the ban on Crypto related ads. Good step by facebook.

Some great news about cryptos which give more belief to user on cryptos. Moreover steem is going great in these days. Keep sharing @dragosroua

Good inform , thanks for your update information .
Keep good work of every time .

Thanks for sharing @dragosroua
Upvote you .

Thank You so much for provide great review,Really you have great knowledge in crypto market.

amazing dear @dragosroua you have great knowledge in crypto market ....!

Great news about crypto, especially trons.. do you have an discord account???