Today's blockchain and cryptocurrency news

Bitcoin is up .5% at $10,020

XRP is down 3% at 27 cents

and Ethereum is down 2% at $210

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:

Ripio Credit Network up 30%

Puma Pay up 22%

and Ambrosus, up 20%

Todays headlines:

Venezuela’s president nicolas madura has mandated that the petro must be used in funding an ongoing social housing initative.

JP Morgan’s IIN has onboarded its first singapore based bank—the OCBC.

Patrick Byrne, the former CEO of overstock.com has put 90 million into gold, silver and "two flavors of crypto".

The US House financial services committee is set to question the SEC about crypto and Facebook’s Libra this week.

the US attorney’s office has indicted two men for hacking Ether Delta in late 2017.

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