Latest developments I'm scoring
30 June 2018
Scoring according to potential: 5% for a definite action (positive or negative) — not many of those, 3%: probable, 1%: possible (changes in the probability of success or failure). Scoring for individual projects may be different from possible general effect on prices. Generallly 2% suggests cautious investors will react with buys or sells, while 5% suggests I think most investors would react either way.
SUMMARY
Prices continued their downward trend despite an avalanche of news for crypto investors. Though bitcoinwas 13.57 % down on the month, on my count the market should have gone up b 76%. So much for fundamentals.
Global
People Know About Crypto, But Are Not Buying Into It, ING Report Finds 27 June -1%__
Facebook Reverses Ban On Cryptocurrency Ads 27 June +1%
Facebook Reverses Ban on Cryptocurrency Ads, Maintains Ban on ICOs 26 June
Bank of International Settlements to Publish New Crypto Research 15 June +2%
Police Tracks Down Drug Dealer Through Bitcoin Transactions History 15 June +3%
Should Schools Offer Bitcoin Education? 17 June +2%
UN Trade Body Examines Blockchain's Potential in Supply Chains 12 June +3%
Data Shows Switch From ‘Hodlers’ to Speculators in Bitcoin in Last 6 Months 8 June -2%
Thomson Reuters Begins Sentiment Tracking of Top 100 Cryptocurrencies 13 June +2%
National
Does Ross Ulbricht Deserve a Presidential Pardon? 29 June
Cryptos on the Verge of Crossing the Tipping Point as 9%__ of Europeans Say They Hold Digital Currencies 27 June +2%
Korean Watchdog Tightens Rules on Crypto Exchange Bank Accounts 27 June +2%
Feds Seize Crypto Worth $20 Million From Darknet Vendors 27 June +2%
Cryptocurrency Firm Circle Sees Institutional Interest Spike 30%__ 27 June +2%
Maltese Government Approve Three DLT / Crypto Bills in Parliament 27 June +3%
Central Bank of The Bahamas to Introduce Cryptocurrency 25 June +2%
First cryptocurrency mobile phone network YOVO chooses Malta as its home +2%
Bahamas Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Conference on Grand Bahama, June 2018 +1%
Blockchain Answers Kenyan Entrepreneurs’ Prayers 16 June +3%
Bitcoin Is Now Accepted at a 550-Year-Old Istanbul Market 15 June +1%
S. Korean Coinrail Exchange Hacked With $40 Million in Crypto Stolen, BTC Plummets 10 June -3%
South Korea’s Bithumb reduces crypto hack losses to $17M 29 June +2%
Abu Dhabi Authorities Introduce Cryptocurrency Regulations in Special Economic Zone 30 June +2%
Binance Expands into Uganda Opening Its First Crypto-Fiat Exchange 29 June +2%
Marine Exploration in the Bahamas to be Funded by Blockchain 13 June +2%
Binance, Digital Jersey Sign MoU to Establish Crypto Exchange In Jersey 13 June +2%
500,000 German Homes to be Powered by Renewable Energy in Blockchain Pilot 12 June +3%
Banks spend $1.7bn a year on blockchain 13 June +3%
Businesses
Mastercard Earns Patent for Anonymous Blockchain Transactions 29 June +2%
Gamble at Bitcoin Lightning Speed 29 June +1%
IBM Announces Blockchain Starter Plan For Enterprises 29 June +2%
[Volkswagen, Audi Employees Being Coached on IOTA (MIOTA)] 27 June +1%
Walmart, Nestlé, 8 Other Companies Launch Food Trust to Leverage Blockchain 27 June +2%
Pharmaceutical Merck & Co is Looking to Use Blockchain Tech Against Counterfeit Products 25 June +3%
Akropolis building a new smart contract-based pensions infrastructure 16 June +1%
CREMIT- FIRST EVER ALTCOIN INSURANCE 16 June +2%
No More LSD or Crypto, European Authorities Seize Both in Huge Drug Raid 29 June +1%
Blockchain Startup VeChain and Deutsche Bahn Develop DApp for China’s Logistics Industry 12 June +2%
Cryptos
April Saw Coinbase Customers Taking Out 37%__ More Money Than They Put In 29 June -3%
Report: 2018 Token Sales Almost Double Last Year’s Results 29 June +2%
ICOs Have Generated $13.7 Billion in 2018 So Far, Nearly Doubling 2017 Numbers 29 June +2%
Less than 4%__ of Crypto Coins are Successful 29 June -2%
Sharp Increase in Misinformation Puts Cryptocurrency in a Negative Spotlight 29 June +2%
Tether Code 'Flaw' Was Actually an Exchange Integration Error 28 June +2%
Motley Fool: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin and Ethereum Could Change Your Life 28 June +3%
Lightning Network Shows 99 Percent Failure Rate on Large Bitcoin Transactions 28 June
Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Still Unsuitable for Large Payments, Research Suggests 28 June -2%
Callisto Offers Free Audits of Smart Contracts to Prevent a DAO Hack Repeat 29 June +2%
Travel Booking Expedia No Longer Accept Bitcoin (BTC) 28 June -2%
China Ranked EOS As #1 Blockchain: No Sight Of Bitcoin In The Top 10 25 June +2%
Bloomberg Research: Tether (USDT) Could Be Used for Price Manipulation on Kraken 29 Jue -2%
EOS Price Bounces as Creator Proposes Scrapping Constitution 27 June +3%
Breaking: EOS Mainnet Comes to a Halt as Bug Freezes Transactions 16 June -5%
Pornhub Now Accepts TRX and ZEN 27 June +3%
Blockchain patents spell an ominous sign for the crypto space 27 June -3%__
Ontology [ONT] Announces Partnership with [DAD] “Digital Advertising Platform” 26 June +3%
Alibaba Offshoot Trials First Blockchain Remittance to Philippines, Plans Global Expansion 25 June +3%
Enjin Coin CTO Creates ERC-1155, a New Token Standard for Ethereum 26 June +3%
Ethereum (ETH): Losing 50%__ Against Bitcoin Since Last Summer 26 June -2%
Commerzbank joins Enterprise Ethereum Alliance 20 June +2%
Ethereum Launches First Release of Casper, Client Testing Begins 19 June +3%
The World's Largest Brewer Is Using Ethereum to Track Ad Data 19 June +2%
ICON [ICX] Smart Contract Reports Fatal Bug, Team Working on Permanent Solution 17 June -5%
Price manipulation: Are Bitcoin and Ethereum Playing You Dirty? 15 June -5%
Malicious Monero Miners Made Off with 5%__ of Coins in Circulation, Over $175 Million – Bitcoin inside 16 June -3%
Over $20M Worth of ETH Stolen from Misconfigured Wallets 15 June -5%
Microsoft Researcher Creates Blockchain-based Voting System; Ethereum Looks to Implement Similar System 15 June +1%
Investment in Blockchain by Financial Services Industry Grew Strongly in 2017 14 June +2%
Ontology [ONT] Collaborates with Carblock , Marks Entry in Automobile Sector 13 June +2%
Essentia.One to Release World’s First Interoperable Multi-Chain Dapp 11 June +2%
Coinbase to add support for Ethereum Classic (ETC) 11 June +2%
IOTA Unveils Qubic: The Key to an “IOTA-based World Supercomputer?” 4 June +3%
Brave Browser Integrates Privacy Service Tor 29 June +1%
TRON Founder Allegedly Completes Acquisition of BitTorrent 13 June +1%
Quantstamp Under Fire: Buyers Say Faith Shaken In $65 Million Token 20 June S-3%
At issue is Quantstamp's acceptance of U.S. dollars and ether, rather than its token, QSP – which it used to raise a little over $30 million in an initial coin offering (ICO) last November – as payment for smart contract audits it has performed.
Essentia.One to Release World’s First Interoperable Multi-Chain dApp 11 June +3%
Predictions
Don't expect scoring here
3 Signals Suggest A Bull Crypto Market Is Around The Corner
Big Bounce as $20 Billion Pours Back into Crypto Markets 30 June
Crypto Sector Too Small to Affect German Financial Stability, Says Gov’t Committee 29 June +2%
Phillip Nunn Predicts Bitcoin at 60k by 2018
Binance Coin (BNB) Keeps Bucking the Bearish Trend, Here’s Why
Geopolitical Analyst Believes Blockchain Will Become ‘Obsolete’ 16 June
Tom Lee: Bitcoin Sell-Off Caused by Futures Expiring 15 June
Billionaire Investor Explains How Bitcoin Will Reach $250,000 15 June
Half of Top 10 Cryptocurrencies May Be Securities: Crypto Hedge Fund Executive 15 June
At UN BFI Summit, CFTC’s Benham Suggests Crypto is “Modern Miracle” 10 June
Cryptocurrency Market Will Be Worth $20 Trillion, Says Billionaire Investor Mike Novogratz 8 June