Cointelegraph

⁠A report accuses major crypto exchanges of wash trading, sources say that Facebook is developing their own crypto, and more in this week’s Hodler’s Digest

⁠Bitcoin is above the $4,000 price point again, and all of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are seeing moderate to high gains

⁠The scope of the pump-and-dump phenomenon in the crypto community is “widespread,” recent research argues — and regulators are starting to take notice

⁠A recent Twitter thread from Ethereum’s co-founder calls “the cryptobottom of 2018," defends ConsenSys layoffs

⁠The Bank of Israel has published a formal request for information on distributed ledger technology

⁠Bitcoin losses $4,000 support and most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are solidly in the red

⁠Depending on the outcome of an important bill, the U.S. government could make important changes to its crypto regulations and policies, which may have a big impact on the industry

⁠Decreased profitability in crypto mining has adversely affected GPU producer Nvidia, which is the worst performer in the S&P 500

⁠Hong Kong-based crypto exchange Bitfinex has introduced margin trading for its associated stablecoin Tether

⁠A bill in the House of Representatives calls to impose further sanctions on Iranian financial institutions and its national digital currency

⁠Comcast’s blockchain project Blockgraph will be commercially available in 2019 after partnering with Viacom and Spectrum Reach

​​⁠In China’s Guangdong province, a fintech incubation zone has officially started its operations

​​⁠Russia’s Ministry of Finance believes that creation of a single digital currency backed by Eurasian Union is inevitable due to U.S. sanctions

​​Сrypto markets have broken their five-day streak of green, with many of the major crypto assets seeing mild corrections at press time

​​⁠German railway operator Deutsche Bahn AG eyes tokenizing its assets, making a blockchain ecosystem to interact with other travel companies

​​⁠As many analysts appear to have been off in their overly bullish market predictions for 2018, let’s see what traders should do now

​​⁠Ebang, a cryptocurrency mining producer, reportedly suffered “significant decreases” in revenue from July to September

​​⁠In the first half of the next year, ICO regulation will be introduced by the Securities and Commodities Authority of the United Arab Emirates

​​⁠Bermuda’s financial watchdog BMA has released a draft code of practice for crypto custodial services

​​Crypto artist “cryptograffiti” has sold a tiny artwork in a “micro auction” in a bid to promote Bitcoin Lightning Network micropayments

​​Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has become the first crypto entrepreneur to join billionaire-backed charity program The Giving Pledge

​​An article published by The Wall Street Journal has suggested investors should sell and then repurchase their Bitcoin as a strategy to save on taxes

​​Two major Chilean banks have urged the country’s anti-monopoly court to revoke its decision that prevents the closure of local crypto exchanges’ banking accounts

​​South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Upbit has denied accusations it had manipulated its order book after regulators indicted three of its staff

​​Wyoming has continued its blockchain integration via a new partnership with online retailer Overstock targeting land records

​​A Dublin-headquartered startup has teamed up with the Irish Red Cross to use blockchain technology in a new app that improves transparency for charitable donations

⁠Blockchain infrastructure provider Parity launches beta version of Substrate — a tool that allows users to create customized blockchains

⁠Facebook is reportedly developing a cryptocurrency for transfers in WhatsApp, targeting the remittances market in India

⁠Blockchain tech company ConsenSys is reportedly spinning out startups it previously supported, and could cut up to 60 percent of its staff

⁠San Francisco-based crypto investment platform Layer1 completes seed funding round with investments from Peter Thiel and Digital Currency Group