Today’s top stories in the Crypto Roundup: Private sale of Polkadot (DOT) upholds $1.2 billion valuation, Edward Snowden reveals he used Bitcoin to leak information and Ampleforth (AMPL) listed on Bitfinex and Ethfinex.

After continuing its fall from its highs on Wednesday, bitcoin reached a low around the $10,700 mark before recovering a little to move back above $11,000. It is currently trading at $11,320.17 (-8.42%) with a daily volume of $11.20bn. Ether (ETH) is trading at $298.96 (-7.30%) with a daily volume of $4.37bn, while the MVIS CryptoCompare Digital Assets 10 Index is currently tracking at 4,578.39 (+2.40%).

Private Sale of Polkadot’s DOT Token Upholds $1.2 Billion Valuation

Polkadot, a protocol allowing independent blockchains to exchange information, has successfully concluded a private sale of 500,000 DOT tokens. The news was revealed by TheBlock, citing a managing partner of the Web3 Foundation’s (W3F’s) – the Swiss not-for-profit entity responsible for the development of Polkadot.

Although the W3F did not specify the exact amount raised, the sale is reportedly in line with the $1.2 billion valuation claimed by The Wall Street Journal earlier in the year. If this is the case, this would put the raise from the W3F at a value of $60 million.

Edward Snowden Reveals He Used Bitcoin to Leak Government Information

US whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed yesterday that used Bitcoin to avoid detection when he leaked government information to media in 2013. 

Speaking from a secret location in Moscow to the Bitcoin 2019 Conference in San Francisco, he explained that the veiled nature of Bitcoin’s transactions helped him pay for the servers he used to leak information on a number of global surveillance operations run by the National Security Agency (NSA) and by multilateral security group the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance.

Praising the decentralized nature of Bitcoin's blockchain, he added:

“And when I think about privacy, that’s what it’s all about. What does liberty mean? It’s freedom from permission.”

Ampleforth (AMPL) Listed on Bitfinex and Ethfinex

Ampleforth,  a digital-asset-protocol for “smart commodity-money,” was yesterday listed on Bitfinex and Ethfinex. After the initial IEO, a last-chance IEO was held on Tokinex (Bitfinex and Ethfinex’s IEO platform), as a result of “incredibly high” demand, according to Bitfinex and Ethfinex CEO Louis van Der Velde.

Ampleforth CEO Evan Kuo, remarked on the results of the sale: 

“The success of this raise is a strong indicator of the market needing more diversified assets other than what currently exists.”

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