Exscudo ICO Kicks Off!
The crowd sale of EON coins has started at 18:00 GMT on April 25. The price of 1 EON is fixed during the ICO and is equal to 0.0002 BTC. There is a one-time emission of EON coins in the amount of 240 000 000, 150 720 000 will be available for sale.Investors that buy non-reserved coins during the first 10 days of ICO are awarded 5% bonus coins.
During the second 10 days, the bonus is 2.5%. Everyone who participates in the ICO will get a zero commission for all operations on the Exscudo exchange for a daily trading-exchange volume equal to the amount invested. This lifetime privilege is assigned to the account of an investor.
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U.S. Regulators to Review Decision Denying Bitcoin ETF Filing
A more-than-three-year effort by investors Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss to convince the SEC to allow it to bring the Bitcoin ETF to market stalled when the agency's staff ruled against them in March. Now, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) plans to review its decision last month to block the listing of the first U.S. exchange-traded fund (ETF) tracking the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, a regulatory filing showed on Tuesday.
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Cryptocurrency Market Cap Reaches more than a $30 Billion, an All-Time High
The combined market value of all cryptocurrencies in circulation has pushed beyond the significant milestone of $30 billion for the first time ever, underlining the ever-expanding interest in digital currencies and blockchain technology. Valued at over $20 billion, Bitcoin covers more than two-thirds of the total cryptocurrency market cap.
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UASF Developer Revises Controversial Bitcoin Scaling Proposal
A controversial proposal for upgrading the bitcoin blockchain, the User Activated Soft Fork, saw a notable strategy shift this weekend. After the first general proposal for the UASF, Shaolinfry put forward a second proposal, BIP148, focused on putting the onus of supporting SegWit onto the 'economic majority', moving power out of the miners' hands. However, high-profile voices such as Bitcoin Core developer Gregory Maxwell and other bitcoin developers rejected the proposal on the basis it could undermine the stability of the bitcoin ecosystem. Maxwell wrote.:
"We should use the least disruptive mechanisms available and the BIP148 proposal does not meet that test,"
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