Blue Alpine Cast - Cryptocurrency News and Research (Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and more)

- FBI has 130 cases that involve cryptocurrencies in different aspects (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-27/fbi-has-130-cryptocurrency-related-investigations-agent-says?srnd=cryptocurriences)

- Silk Road's Ross Ulbricht has been denied a life sentence review from the SCOTUS (https://cointelegraph.com/news/silk-road-s-ross-ulbricht-denied-review-of-prison-life-sentence-by-supreme-court)

- Binance will launch Binance Uganda, a fiat to crypto exchange that will accept the Ugandan Shilling (https://cointelegraph.com/news/exclusive-binance-set-to-launch-its-first-crypto-fiat-exchange-in-uganda)

- PBoC planning to launch a crypto/digital currency, by filing for patents (https://www.coindesk.com/pboc-filings-reveal-big-picture-for-planned-digital-currency/)

- Facebook reverses cryptocurrency ads ban (https://cointelegraph.com/news/facebook-s-crypto-ad-ban-reversal-power-play-gets-their-own-news-stuck)

- Tether printing another 250 Mio USDT Tokens, are they backed? (https://bitrazzi.com/tethers-controversial-rally-continues-as-it-releases-250-million-tokens-amid-criticism/)

- Binance doing an upgrade to their system but are confronted with issues and halted trading (https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-crypto-exchange-issues-risk-warning-keeps-trading-withdrawals-suspended)

- A16Z (Andreessen Horowitz) creating a new fund focused on crypto, called a16z crypto (https://a16zcrypto.com/2018/06/introducing-a16z-crypto/)

- Live view to the Bitcoin (BTC) price action and a discussion of what's going on and what's next

- Mt. Gox will stop selling for now (https://www.coindesk.com/mt-gox-crypto-bitcoin-exchange-creditors-win/)

- the Bithumb hack and their efforts to return the money to the people who have had money stolen (https://www.coindesk.com/bithumb-working-with-other-crypto-exchanges-to-recover-hacked-funds/)

- Thoughts on crypto valuations and why they are not normal (https://twitter.com/nlw/status/1009596005606715392)

In today's episode we'll talk about the Tether (USDT) controversy and a new report saying that Tether is actually backed by the USD

Report: https://tether.to/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/FSS1JUN18-Account-Snapshot-Statement-final-15JUN18.pdf

Study: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3195066

Article: https://www.ccn.com/tether-releases-transparency-update-vetted-by-former-fbi-directors-law-firm/

- EOS block producers making a wrong call on freezing accounts and why this might mean EOS is too centralized (https://www.ccn.com/eos-faces-constitutional-crisis-over-frozen-accounts/)

- Tweet: https://twitter.com/whalepool/status/1008598454317305856

- Statement by EOS: https://steemit.com/eosio/@eos42/eos42-statement-on-block-producer-decision-to-freeze-7-eos-accounts

- How to value the Binance Token (BNB): https://blog.coinfi.com/valuing-bnb-token-how-binance-could-2x-bnb-coin-value-overnight/

- Japan's self-regulatory body will present rules on 27th June regarding regulating cryptos, one of the suggestions might be the ban of Monero (XMR) and ZCash (ZEC) (https://cointelegraph.com/news/japan-s-self-regulatory-crypto-exchange-body-to-release-voluntary-rules-report-says)

- Crypto Custodianship might bring the big money (https://www.ccn.com/regulated-cryptocurrency-custody-will-bring-in-big-money-hedge-fund-manager/)

- Crypto Funds by VCs and Crypto companies: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DeScIzFW4AM2Uvn.jpg:large -- Google Sheet coming soon

- a bug in EOS' mainnet and what went wrong there (https://www.ccn.com/eos-blockchain-grinds-to-halt-as-software-bug-freezes-transactions/)

- Binance Token (BNB) discussions from whitepaper to % gains (file:///Users/feyyaz/Downloads/1516332231061.pdf)

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- The SEC officially saying that Ethereum (ETH) is not a security and what that means for you! (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sec-announces-ether-not-security-162658147.html)

- Overstock making 120k/week in crypto revenue (https://www.ccn.com/overstock-sees-120000-week-in-cryptocurrency-revenue-as-stock-surges-11/)