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At a mind-boggling $307 per square foot, Hong Kong’s office occupancy costs are 30 percent higher than that of London West End’s, which takes the number 2 spot.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_36794\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"640\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-36794\" src=\"https://cryptoticker.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Hong-Kong.jpg\" alt=\"hong kong bitmex crypto news\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" /> Hong Kong's property prices are one of the highest in the world[/caption]\n\nDespite the drastic increase of Hong Kong’s rent price in the recent years, many crypto and blockchain investors are flocking to the tiny island just off the shores of mainland China to set up offices - thanks to the relatively lenient regulation by the Hong Kong government over cryptocurrencies. <a href=\"https://block.one/\">Block.One</a>, the company behind the 5th largest cryptocurrency, EOS, recently signed a lease to rent 16,600 square feet worth of office space in Hong Kong’s Central Plaza.\n\nThis also proves that despite the relatively poor performance of the cryptocurrency market in 2018, crypto exchanges all around the world are still making huge returns. Following the infamous <a href=\"https://cryptoticker.io/bitcoin-correction-crash/\">“Bitcoin crash”</a> back in December 2017, the cryptocurrency market has shed over 73% of its value from its all-time high of $830 billion. At the moment, the total market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies stands at $216 billion, having just <a href=\"https://cryptoticker.io/ethereum-price-crash/\">dipped below $200 billion</a> just 9 days ago.\n\nAmidst all the chaos in the cryptocurrency market, speculators are <a href=\"https://cryptoticker.io/invest-cryptocurrencies/\">positing</a> that Bitcoin and other altcoins will make gains similar to that of the 2017 bull run in the long term. Nevertheless, we can only be certain about one thing – that past performance does not guarantee future returns. Therefore, the only logical move in today’s bear market would be to never invest more than you can afford to lose.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>Follow us on </strong><a href=\"https://twitter.com/CryptotickerIo\"><strong>Twitter</strong></a><strong>, </strong><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/cryptoticker.io/\"><strong>Facebook</strong></a><strong>, </strong><a href=\"https://steemit.com/@cryptoticker/\"><strong>Steemit</strong></a><strong>, and join our </strong><a href=\"https://t.me/cryptotickernews\"><strong>Telegram</strong></a><strong> channel for the latest blockchain and cryptocurrency news.</strong>",
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      "body": "https://cryptoticker.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Featured-1.jpg\n\nAs cryptocurrencies gained worldwide recognition over the last couple of years, it also attracted the attention of criminals - hackers and thieves, to be specific. Today, Chinese police in Beijing <a href=\"https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/chinese-police-nab-suspects-after-us-87-million-cryptocurrency-10631064\">arrested</a> three suspects who allegedly stole 600 million yuan ($87 million) worth of cryptocurrencies via hacking, according to reports by state media.\n\nInvestigations were launched by local police when rumors got out about cybercriminals targeting holders of various major digital currencies. Five months ago, police from the Xi’an province were alerted of a suspected theft when a victim named Zhang reported that hackers managed to gain unauthorized access to his computer. According to the Shaanxi Daily, the hackers eventually got away with over 100 million yuan ($15 million) worth of cryptocurrencies.\n\nFurther insights about this discovery were provided by Xinhua, a state-owned news agency. According to their report, the $15 milion theft consisted of the top two cryptocurrencies - Bitcoin and Ethereum. Shaanxi Daily also revealed that in the midst of transporting their stolen goods, the cyber thieves left a trail, which eventually led to a suspect, Zhou, in the Hunan province.\n\nAs a result, Zhou’s capture led to his two other accomplices, which helped the police unveil this $600 million scheme. Authorities were led to believe that these 3 hackers have been stealing money from various individuals and businesses by hacking into their computers. Nonetheless, local police from the Hebei, Xi’an, and Hunan provinces are still in the midst of a series of investigations about this case.\n\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36633\" src=\"https://cryptoticker.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/hacker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"797\" />\n<h3><strong>The Prevalence of Theft in the Crypto World</strong></h3>\nThis incident is one of the many cases of theft that have happened in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. Back in <a href=\"https://cryptoticker.io/icelandic-thieves-steal-600-cryptocurrency-mining-equipments/\">March</a>, the shortage of mining equipment prompted a group of thieves in Iceland to go to extreme ends in order to obtain the required elements for their mining activities. This organized theft occurred over a two-month time span, and the combined value of all the stolen devices is allegedly worth over $2 million, according to an industry estimate.\n\nCoincidentally enough, two months later, Icelandic police discovered evidence suggesting that the stolen equipment might be in <a href=\"https://cryptoticker.io/icelands-stolen-bitcoin-mining-equipments-suspected-to-be-in-china/\">China</a>. According to a report by RUV, Icelandic police have launched an inquiry after receiving reports that the Chinese authorities recently confiscated 600 cryptocurrency mining computers. This incident happened in North China’s Tianjin Municipality where police raided the alleged thieves’ base and took the stolen goods after the local power grid reported abnormal electricity consumption.\n\nBased on Chinese news network <a href=\"http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-04/25/c_137135051.htm\">XinHuaNet</a>, local police in Tianjin suspect that this was probably “the largest power theft case in recent years”. Further investigation shows that the junction box of the thieves’ electricity meter had been short-circuited – a common way to avoid paying for any electric bills that might arise.\n\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36634\" src=\"https://cryptoticker.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/electricity.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" />\n\nIn fact, this is not just any electric bill – the monstrous monthly electric bill for the running of 600 supercomputers is estimated to be hundreds of thousands of dollars.\n<h3><strong>Hackers Pose as a Threat to Major Exchanges</strong></h3>\nThe dangers of an organized group of highly-skilled hackers knows no bounds. Back in January, one of Japan’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Coincheck, suffered what is said to be <a href=\"https://cryptoticker.io/coincheck-suffers-crypto-hack-worse-mt-gox/\">the biggest cryptocurrency heist in history</a>. 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It was <a href=\"https://cryptoticker.io/petro-venezuelas-saving-grace/\">first unveiled</a> by Maduro earlier this year as an attempt to  to pull the country out of an economic tailspin by allowing the ailing OPEC member to skirt U.S. sanctions as the Bolivar currency plunges to record lows. <a href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currencies-venezuela/venezuela-says-launch-of-petro-cryptocurrency-raised-735-million-idUSKCN1G506F\">Sanctions</a> levied last year by Washington had blocked U.S. banks and investors from acquiring any newly-issued Venezuelan debt, effectively preventing the nation from borrowing abroad to bring in new hard currency or refinance existing debt.\n\nAs a result, hyperinflation swept the entire nation as the Bolivar became next to worthless. To put this into perspective, a Venezuelan <a href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/nanocurrency/comments/8wfl2r/venezuelan_user_i_bought_102_kg_of_food_today/\">Reddit</a> user was able to buy 102 kg worth of food - including cornmeal, meat rice, sugar and beans - to <a href=\"https://cryptoticker.io/cryptocurrency-provides-lifeline-to-starving-venezuelans/\">feed his local community</a>, thanks to a 29 NANO donation from fellow Reddit users. With NANO valued at just $2.41, this may not seem much, but due to Venezuela’s staggering hyperinflation the donation was worth more than a monthly salary.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_36395\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"1024\"]<img class=\"wp-image-36395 size-full\" src=\"https://cryptoticker.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/102kg.jpg\" alt=\"Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela has declared that the Petro currency is now officially the nation’s second accepted national currency.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" /> 102 kg of food[/caption]\n\nIn fact, the Bolivar currency is so devalued that if you exchange $50 for Bolivars, you would <a href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/05/28/479761002/in-venezuela-devalued-money-may-weigh-more-than-whatever-you-can-buy\">need a backpack</a> to carry the bricks of banknotes, as opposed to a wallet.\n\nTherefore, when the oil-backed Petro was introduced in January as a form of legal tender that can be used to pay taxes, fees, and other public needs, it was met with massive success - within 24 hours of the start of its pre-sale, the pre-mined cryptocurrency raised over $735 million. On the same day, the Venezuelan government released the white paper and buyers’ manual on its website. Although it is expected that more than 100 million Petros will be released, only 82.4 million of them will be distributed initially. According to the government’s website, the Petro’s price will depend on the price of a barrel of Venezuelan oil from the previous day.\n<h2><strong>Moving On: Petro VS Bolivar</strong></h2>\nIn about five days from now, on August 20, Venezuela will have two national currencies - the Petro and the Bolivar, with the latter being indexed to the former. In an attempt to quell the devastating hyperinflation, the sovereign Bolivar will shed 5 zeros off the current currency - the <em>Bolivar Fuerte</em> - in what is being called a monetary reconversion.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_36398\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"640\"]<img class=\"wp-image-36398 size-full\" src=\"https://cryptoticker.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/barrel-2852_640.jpg\" alt=\"Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela has declared that the Petro currency is now officially the nation’s second accepted national currency.\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" /> An abandoned oil barrel[/caption]\n\nAccording to the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV), the legislation will “begin to publish the official figures of the value of the sovereign Bolivar according to the Petro and the value of the Petro according to international currencies.\" In other words, the value of the Bolivar will depend on the value of the Petro, and in turn, the value of the Petro will be determined by the price of a barrel of Venezuelan oil from the previous day. 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      "body": "https://cryptoticker.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/featured-2.jpg\n\nThe cryptocurrency market bloodbath that started in 2018 doesn’t seem to be slowing down. After losing over one-fifth of its market capitalization <a href=\"https://cryptoticker.io/crypto-market-loses-50-billion-in-a-week/\">last week</a>, the crypto market took another nosedive with Ethereum in the lead, this time dropping past the $200 billion mark. In less than 24 hours, the total market cap of all cryptocurrencies shed nearly $30 billion - or over 13% of its value, resulting in a sea of red in the streets of CryptoVille.\n\nEthereum, the second largest cryptocurrency by market cap, was the first to go down. Just when its price started showing signs of stabilizing yesterday, it started plunging this morning - going from $328 to $258 - a 21.3% fall. This drastic decline also means that Ethereum’s price is now lower than its valuation last year - which was nearly $300, as shown in the graph below.\n\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36359\" src=\"https://cryptoticker.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Ethereum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2298\" height=\"1022\" />\n\nThis is the first time that the price of one Ether has decreased over the last 12 months. In the last 7 days only, Ethereum’s market cap went from $41 billion to $25 billion - nearly a 40% decrease in price.\n<h2><strong>Altcoins Follow Ethereum</strong></h2>\nSince the Ethereum platform is the birthplace to various altcoins like EOS, Augur, and Binance Coin, its demise inadvertently led to the downfall of various other tokens as well. The top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap - spare Tether and Bitcoin - all suffered double-digit losses, with Cardano taking the brunt of the impact, losing nearly 20% of its valuation in the last 24 hours.\n\nAs various altcoins <a href=\"https://cryptoticker.io/cryptocurrency-markets-collapse/\">stumble</a>, Bitcoin’s dominance in the cryptocurrency market approached a 2018-high - at the time of writing, the valuation of Bitcoin alone is worth 54.5% of the entire cryptocurrency market. During last week’s crash, Bitcoin, the pioneer cryptocurrency that is also the biggest cryptocurrency by market cap, was one of the first coins to go down. Having just broken the $8,000 barrier in late-July, Bitcoin failed to sustain its upward momentum and began its descent on August 1 - dropping by almost $1,500 to hit a low of $6,242. At the time of writing, Bitcoin’s price is stabilizing at $6,055, not a very huge difference compared to its price last week.\n\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36360\" src=\"https://cryptoticker.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/markets.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2326\" height=\"1316\" />\n\nIt was speculated that the recent crypto market crash was instigated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s decision to delay their verdict on the approval of a Bitcoin-backed exchange-traded fund (ETF). This proposal was put forth by VanEck, a New York-based investment firm, who is partnering with Solid X, a financial service company. Earlier this year, the two companies attempted to launch an ETF that is backed by Bitcoins as opposed to futures\n\nHowever, Ethereum’s recent crash is much more complicated than that.\n<h2><strong>Reasons Behind Ethereum’s Demise</strong></h2>\nEver since its inception in late-2013 by Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum has always been regarded as a visionary, improved version of Bitcoin, as it gave developers the opportunity to build decentralized applications - or dApps for short - on its platform. However, there are several constraints to that.\n\nTo various Bitcoin supporters, Ethereum fails to provide true decentralization. In an email to <a href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/13/ethereums-falling-price-splits-the-crypto-community/\">TechCrunch</a>, a Bitcoin bull expressed his reasoning behind his preference of Bitcoin over Ethereum.\n<blockquote>“People are also beginning to understand the unique value of an immutable, decentralized ledger, and recognize that Ethereum is not that.”</blockquote>\nThe proliferation of cases of scam and fraud in the ICO community is also another reason behind Ethereum’s demise. Various Ethereum-based projects that raised billions of dollars often don’t have a working product to back its claims. Moreover, dApps like CryptoKitties are starting to lose their hype, thanks to the rise of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, which allows for the addition of nodes and apps — also known as LApps. These LApps essentially function in the same way as dApps, just that they are built on the Bitcoin ledger.\n\nFurthermore, the volatility of Ethereum’s price has always been its Achilles heel. The unstable price of Ether not only undermines its ability to perform as a currency, it also brings in the wrong group of people who invest in Ethereum or its projects simply because of the notion of “getting rich” and not because they believe in the project itself, per se.\n\nAmidst all the chaos in today’s crypto market, we can only be certain about one thing - that past performance does not guarantee future returns. Therefore, the only logical move in today’s bear market would be to never invest more than you can afford to lose.\n\n<strong>Follow us on </strong><a href=\"https://twitter.com/CryptotickerIo\"><strong>Twitter</strong></a><strong>, </strong><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/cryptoticker.io/\"><strong>Facebook</strong></a><strong>, </strong><a href=\"https://steemit.com/@cryptoticker/\"><strong>Steemit</strong></a><strong>, and join our </strong><a href=\"https://t.me/cryptotickernews\"><strong>Telegram</strong></a><strong> channel for the latest blockchain and cryptocurrency news.</strong>",
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      "body": "This seems like a strategical staunching of crypto-currencies.   its unfortunate, because I would assume as a nation you would want to embrace the technology in some of its forms at the very least.",
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      "body": "https://cryptoticker.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/featured-1.jpg\n\nAfter <a href=\"https://cryptoticker.io/vietnam-to-ban-import-of-cryptocurrency-mining-equipment/\">announcing</a> its proposal to “apply suspension measures toward the importing of mining equipment” two months ago, the government of Vietnam has finally decided to make this official, according to a customs department in the country.\n\nEarlier in June, the South East Asian country joined the league of nations that restrict the operations of digital currencies due to cases of fraud and scams running rampant in the nation’s cryptocurrency market. This move was led by the Vietnam Ministry of Finance (MoF), who issued a temporary but blanket ban on the imports of cryptocurrency mining equipment - or application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), to be more specific.\n\nEver since then, the crypto mining scene in Vietnam has never been the same. Starting July, the import of crypto mining equipment by various domestic businesses in Vietnam gradually came to a complete halt, according to the Ho Chi Minh City (HCM) Customs Department.\n\n<img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-36330\" src=\"https://cryptoticker.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/import.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1093\" height=\"729\" />\n\nThis piece of news was reported by local news website <a href=\"https://vietnamnews.vn/economy/463671/viet-nam-stops-bitcoin-mining-imports.html#4hPRyAU8Gw42eUwJ.97\">Viet Nam News</a>, who also pointed out that Vietnam has imported more than 3,664 cryptocurrency mining rigs in the first six months of 2018, and 9,300 more in the previous year. Out of these devices, 3,000 of them were purchased by four of the biggest enterprises in Vietnam, while the remaining were imported by individuals and organizations - who do not have import tax codes. Furthermore, according to the report, a majority of that equipment was ‘Antminer’ branded models developed by Beijing-based manufacturer <a href=\"https://cryptoticker.io/bitcoin-mining-company-bitmain-hit-1-1-billion-in-profits-in-q1-2018/\">Bitmain</a>.\n<h3><strong>Crypto Mining Ban in Vietnam - As It Happened</strong></h3>\nThe cryptocurrency scene in Vietnam came under the government’s scrutiny at the beginning of the year, after a series of devastating scams shook the crypto space, according to the <a href=\"http://www.hanoitimes.vn/science-tech/2018/06/81e0c7f6/vietnam-to-suspend-importing-cryptocurrency-mining-rigs/\">Hanoi Times</a>. These cases of fraud resulted in over 32,000 investors losing a whopping total of $658 million. The fraudulent Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) were perpetrated by the Ifan and Pincoin cryptocurrencies in April, and were dubbed the “Vietnam’s largest cryptocurrency fraud”.\n\nDue to the devastating frauds, Vietnam’s Prime Minister’s office decided to order various government authorities – including the central bank and several ministries – to increase the amount of supervision over “activities related to bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies” starting April 2018.\n\nAs the Vietnamese government tightened their supervision over cryptocurrencies, it was only a matter of time before they started regulating crypto mining as well. The decision to issue this interim restriction was made by the finance ministry on the basis that cryptocurrencies are “difficult to regulate” the new cryptocurrencies and forms of payments in tokens created by mining hardware.\n\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36327\" src=\"https://cryptoticker.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/mining.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" />\n\nThe Vietnamese government has always had a rough relationship with cryptocurrencies. Back in mid-2017, the Vietnamese government <a href=\"https://www.ccn.com/vietnam-preparing-to-legalize-bitcoin/\">suggested</a> that they might legalize cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. However, this decision was eventually rendered null and void when the central bank refused to consider Bitcoin as a recognized non-cash payment method, effectively prohibiting the use of cryptocurrencies in the process.\n<blockquote>“According to the provisions of the law, Bitcoin and other virtual currencies are not lawful means of payment in Vietnam,” read a statement by the central bank of Vietnam. “The issuance, supply, use of bitcoin and other similar virtual currency as a means of payment is prohibited in Vietnam.”</blockquote>\n<h3><strong>Vietnam Not The Only Country To Ban Crypto</strong></h3>\nThe Vietnamese government’s hostile attitude towards cryptocurrencies is not unprecedented, especially in the Asian region. In September 2017, China announced its clampdown on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, causing the price of Bitcoin plummeted from a high of $4,857 to $3,260 – a 32.8% drop in value.\n\nThen, in January 2018, South Korea’s justice minister Park Sang-ki <a href=\"https://cryptoticker.io/cryptocurrency-market-takes-plunge-following-reports-south-korean-crackdown/\">announced</a> that the ministry is preparing a bill to ban cryptocurrency trading through its exchanges, according to Reuters. This event was one of the main precursors of the 2018 crypto market meltdown, and truth be told, the market has never been able to fully recover since.\n\n<strong>Follow us on </strong><a href=\"https://twitter.com/CryptotickerIo\"><strong>Twitter</strong></a><strong>, </strong><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/cryptoticker.io/\"><strong>Facebook</strong></a><strong>, </strong><a href=\"https://steemit.com/@cryptoticker/\"><strong>Steemit</strong></a><strong>, and join our </strong><a href=\"https://t.me/cryptotickernews\"><strong>Telegram</strong></a><strong> channel for the latest blockchain and cryptocurrency news.</strong>",
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      "title": "Here’s How Much You Should Invest in Cryptocurrencies",
      "body": "https://cryptoticker.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/featured.jpg\n\nIn late 2017, the cryptocurrency market exploded, causing the market valuation of various cryptocurrencies to experience an exponential growth over a short period of time. As a result, millions of investors flooded the space, which in turn caused the number of blockchain-related jobs to skyrocket as well.\n\nThen came what is being dubbed the ‘Great Depression’ of the crypto world, which started in early 2018, with the fall of Bitcoin being the precursor of the event. Panic sellers, unsettled by the amount of FUD that was circulating the market, began liquidating their assets. The entire market was thrown into disarray, and the market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies shed three-quarters of its value ever since it hit its all-time high in January.\n<h3><strong>Billionaire Investors Unfazed By Crypto Bear Market</strong></h3>\nNonetheless, various huge investors - or ‘whales’ - don’t seem to be perturbed by the dismal performance of the crypto market. <a href=\"https://cryptoticker.io/bear-market-huge-buying-opportunity-for-chinese-angel-investor/\">Billionaire Chinese angel investor </a>Cai Wensheng took advantage of the bear market in Q1 2018 and managed to accrue 10,000 Bitcoins by purchasing more and more Bitcoin, reducing his dollar cost average along the way. PayPal co-founder <a href=\"https://cryptoticker.io/31286-2/\">Peter Thiel</a> is also a vocal supporter of the virtual currency - his venture capital firm, the Peter Thiel Founder’s Fund, is rumored to have purchased about $15 million to $20 million worth of Bitcoin.\n\nThree months ago, Galaxy Digital’s Michael Novogratz, the billionaire who has always been a huge advocate for Bitcoin, <a href=\"https://cryptoticker.io/mike-novogratz-not-investing-in-bitcoin-is-almost-irresponsible/\">suggested</a> that all investors should allocate at least 1% – 2% of their portfolio in cryptocurrencies, and those who don’t are deemed “almost irresponsible” for not doing so. During his <a href=\"http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/09/investing/markets-now-michael-novogratz/index.html\">interview</a> with CNN, he claimed that we should invest in cryptocurrency “not necessarily because of all the gains they’re going to make,” but because “these [blockchain] technologies in two to four years are going to give every vertical a challenge.”\n\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36292\" src=\"https://cryptoticker.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/investment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1042\" height=\"600\" />\n\nThe recent bear market doesn’t seem to worry several institutional investors either. During an <a href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/18/marc-lasry-bitcoin-to-hit-40000-dollars-as-it-becomes-more-mainstream.html\">interview</a> with CNBC last month, billionaire Marc Lesry - who is also the co-founder of Avenue Capital Group, the debt investment firm which has about $9.6 billion in assets under management - revealed that he has invested over 1% of his personal funds in cryptocurrencies. Since his net worth is estimated to be around $1.68 billion, that means that Lesry has put in over $16.8 million in various cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum.\n\nWhen asked about the percentage of the Lesry family fortune that is invested in crypto, Lesry responded: “...it is around 1 percent, and [I invested in bitcoin] a few years ago. I bought a lot more in the last year, when probably the average price of bitcoin was $5,000 to $7,500.”\n<h3><strong>Yale Economist Concurs</strong></h3>\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36293\" src=\"https://cryptoticker.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/yale-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" />\n\nAleh Tsyvinski, a seasoned professor of Economics at Yale University, also agrees that investors who believe that Bitcoin will perform as well as it has historically should delegate at least 6% of their portfolios to the digital currency.\n\n“If you as an investor believe that Bitcoin will perform as well as it has historically, then you should hold 6% of your portfolio in Bitcoin. If you believe that it will do half as well, you should hold 4%. In all other circumstances, if you think it will do much worse, then you should still hold 1%.”\n\nThis <a href=\"https://news.yale.edu/2018/08/06/assessing-cryptocurrency-yale-economist-aleh-tsyvinski\">report</a> was published by Tsyvinski along with co-author Yukun Liu, who is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Economics at Yale.\n<h3><strong>Past Performance Does Not Dictate Future Behavior</strong></h3>\nTsyvinski also assures investors who believe in Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency as an asset class will have nothing to worry about and that they stand a chance to record similar gains in the long-term. However, he also emphasizes the golden rule of trading or any other form of investments in his interview:\n<blockquote>“Of course, one has to remember that, as with any other assets, past performance is not a guarantee of future returns. Maybe cryptocurrency will completely change its behavior, but currently the market does not think it will.”</blockquote>\nTherefore, it would be unwise to predict with absolute certainty that since a certain cryptocurrency recorded an all-time high value in the beginning of 2018, it will repeat its unprecedented run again any time soon. The only logical move in today’s bear market would be to never invest more than you can afford to lose.\n\n<strong>Follow us on </strong><a href=\"https://twitter.com/CryptotickerIo\"><strong>Twitter</strong></a><strong>, </strong><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/cryptoticker.io/\"><strong>Facebook</strong></a><strong>, </strong><a href=\"https://steemit.com/@cryptoticker/\"><strong>Steemit</strong></a><strong>, and join our </strong><a href=\"https://t.me/cryptotickernews\"><strong>Telegram</strong></a><strong> channel for the latest blockchain and cryptocurrency news</strong>",
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      "body": "https://cryptoticker.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/featured-image-1.jpg\n\nFour months ago, German ICO <a href=\"https://cryptoticker.io/savedroid-exit-scam-headquarters-empty/\">SaveDroid</a> shocked the crypto world with their infamous PR stunt of faking an exit scam to present a “very important, very serious message” - that there are a lot of exit scams in the ICO space. Today, they released yet another perturbing message on their website:\n\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36236\" src=\"https://cryptoticker.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/announcement.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1178\" height=\"760\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThis message, titled “Important Listing Announcement”, was posted by CEO Yassin Hankir and the SaveDroid team on their website, their Twitter, as well as their <a href=\"https://t.me/savedroid\">official Telegram group</a>. Apparently, there was a technical problem with SaveDroid’s listing on HitBTC, which forced the team to put their smart contract on hold “to ensure the best liquidity for SVD at listing start.”\n\nHankir and his team assured their investors that at the meantime, they are doing their best to resolve the situation by “talking to HitBTC”. They also promised that they will inform their investors “immediately” once they figure out what happened.\n<h3><strong>Outrage in the SaveDroid Community</strong></h3>\nNonetheless, the SaveDroid community didn’t take this news very well. Cries of outrage and disbelief shook the Telegram channel at a level reminiscent of the time when Hankir and his team pulled a ‘fake’ exit scam back in April.\n\nA user that goes by the name Kam expressed his disappointment in the SaveDroid team, accusing them of fraud:\n<blockquote>“Yassin, what was your team doing last 6 months man? We did pay money for this and we are suffering for 6 months. Even after  180 days, there is no sign of tokens in my wallet. Can you guys at least transfer the tokens to the people who did invest money into this???? I can not believe that this all is happening.”</blockquote>\nAnother user, Marc Van Benthum, described SaveDroid as the “absolute worst crypto company in Europe”:\n\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36237\" src=\"https://cryptoticker.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Critic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1296\" height=\"102\" />\n\nOther users simply portrayed their dismay in the form of memes:\n\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36238\" src=\"https://cryptoticker.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/meme.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"826\" height=\"562\" />\n\nIt seems like a huge majority of the SaveDroid community doesn’t seem to be very happy with the fact that their tokens have been locked up for a prolonged period of time after the end of the ICO, not to mention that the HitBTC listing has been confirmed all the way since February 7 - over half a year ago:\n\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36239\" src=\"https://cryptoticker.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/HitBTC-listing.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1898\" height=\"158\" />\n<h3><strong>SaveDroid’s Exit Scam - As It Happened</strong></h3>\nThis wasn’t the first time SaveDroid has pulled something as unsettling as the current listing hiccup. Four months ago, the Frankfurt-based ICO company sent the crypto world into disarray when they <a href=\"https://cryptoticker.io/savedroid-exit-scam-headquarters-empty/\">vacated their offices</a> and deleted everything on their website, leaving behind this South Park-inspired meme:\n\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36240\" src=\"https://cryptoticker.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/southpark.jpg\" alt=\"Savedroid Exit Scam: Headquarters Empty Earlier this morning, investors were befuddled as they were confronted with a single image when they tried to access savedroid’s official website. Everything was gone – there was no countdown clock, no “Tokens Sold” counter, even the familiar face of the CEO Yassin Hankir has disappeared. All that was left was a meme from South Park:\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" />\n\nIt didn’t take long before netizens, both investors and non-investors alike, began connecting the dots on Twitter and realizing what savedroid was attempting to do. 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Earlier this year, VanEck suggested this idea again, but were asked to withdraw their applications in January at SEC’s request.\n\nJan van Eck, chief executive officer of VanEck, also explained the reason behind their decision to launch a Bitcoin-based ETF fund in a statement as reported by <a href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/06/vaneck-tries-a-third-time-for-a-bitcoin-etf.html\">CNBC</a>.\n<blockquote>\"I believe that bitcoin has emerged as a legitimate investment option, as a type of 'digital gold' that may make sense for investors' portfolios.A properly constructed physically-backed bitcoin ETF will be designed to provide exposure to the price of bitcoin, and an insurance component will help protect shareholders against the operational risks of sourcing and holding bitcoin.”</blockquote>\nSEC’s decision has also sparked responses from other experts in the field. 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      "body": "https://cryptoticker.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/featured-3.jpg\n\n<center><i>This post was originally published on <a href=\"https://cryptoticker.io/envion-ag-founders-win-court-injunction-against-illegal-ceo-takeover-scheme/\">CryptoTicker</a></i></center>\n\nJune 25th, 2018. BERLIN — Swiss cryptocurrency mining company Envion AG’s tens of thousands of investors can rejoice after a Berlin court ruled in favor of Envion’s founders’ interests and <a href=\"https://cryptoticker.io/envion-founders-win-court-case-against-ceo/\">passed an injunction</a> on behalf of Trado GmbH against the Quadrat Capital GmbH and Sycamore GmbH. The court ruled last Thursday that CEO Matthias Woestmann’s capital increase and resulting dilution of the founders’ shares and loss of majority ownership to be an illegal breach of contract. The decision protects the interests of Envion’s 30,000-plus investors by penalizing Quadrat CEO Woestmann and Sycamore co-CEOs Thomas van Aubel and Jutta von Falkenhausen for any sale of equity or use of company funds with a maximum 6-month prison term for each violation.\n\nEnvion’s founders’ allegations that CEO Woestmann broke his contract with Trado and illegally took control of Envion in the days after the company’s blockbuster $100-million-dollar Initial Coin Offering (ICO) were confirmed by the court. Woestmann subsequently stopped all company operations resulting in months of lost revenue for the company and lost dividends for investors.\n\nDuring the trial, the judges referred to the illegal capital raise and transfer of newly-generated equity shares to Sycamore GmbH as “collusion behavior by the two managing directors [Woestmann and van Aubel]” with intentional injury, a violation of the German Civil Code (§ 826 Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, BGB). The contract between Quadrat Capital and the founders’ Trado GmbH specifically forbidding any actions compromising the founders’ majority ownership was upheld by the court’s decision.\n\nWoestmann published a press release a day prior to the court hearing in which he inadvertently admitted that the move to take control of the company was based on a fabricated legal construct, attempting to justify the illegal takeover because of suspicions which arose in February 2018 that the founders generated unauthorized tokens. Publicly-available records show that the takeover took place on January 21st.\n\nThe 3-judge panel of Berlin’s civil court handed down a sweeping rebuke of the losing side’s defense, including the false accusations against Trado’s Michael Luckow and Envion’s other founders. Changing claims by Woestmann—starting only after charges were filed in May—about the illegitimately generated tokens were summarily dismissed by the court. Instead, the judges awarded damages to the plaintiff, making Sycamore and Quadrat Capital liable for legal and court fees incurred by Trado.\n\nThe ruling protects investor funds by preventing Quadrat Capital and Sycamore from distributing Envion funds to shareholders or otherwise transferring or encumbering corporate assets. Woestmann’s efforts to sell Envion have also been blocked as the ruling bars any transfer of equity shares.\n\nTrado’s Michael Luckow explained the importance of the decision:\n\n“Further lawsuits are necessary to force a return of shares to the founders. Thursday’s ruling confirms the legal basis for a series of more comprehensive cases, including restoring our rightful majority ownership. We are very satisfied that our arguments were fully accepted by the court while Woestmann’s fictitious accusations were thrown out.”\n\nThe defendants have the opportunity to appeal the decision which judges twice decided in Trado’s favor—in Thursday’s ruling and in a preliminary injunction decided earlier in the month. The court loss and confirmation that Woestmann acted illegally to take control of Envion now force him, van Aubel, and von Falkenhausen to self-finance the legal defense for holding on to their illegally acquired shares. Trado and Envion’s founders have vowed to continue the fight for a return of ownership in order to operate the company in accordance with agreements made with investors during the ICO.\nAbout Trado GmbH\n\nTrado GmbH holds the founders’ shares in Envion AG, a German-Swiss company that has developed a disruptive data center concept for crypto mining: a system of container-based mobile units that can be deployed right at the source of energy, either at the solar photovoltaic (PV) park or the power plant, providing the required flexibility for today’s energy markets.\n\nInformation about Trado and Envion’s founders can be found at www.envion-founders.org.",
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      "body": "https://cryptoticker.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Featured-2.jpg\n\nBithumb, the world’s sixth-largest cryptocurrency exchange, suffered a devastating hack this morning, with thieves stealing over $30 million worth of cryptocurrencies from its platform.\n\nThe heist took place this morning at approximately 00:53 UTC, when the Seoul-based exchange froze all transactions - deposits and withdrawals included - and began transferring funds to cold wallets to prevent further losses.\n\nhttps://twitter.com/BithumbOfficial/status/1009240525159858177\n\nThe news was first released on Bithumb’s <a href=\"https://twitter.com/BithumbOfficial\">official Twitter account</a>, where they also promised to <strong>compensate all users of their stolen funds.</strong>\n<blockquote>“[Notice for the temporary suspension of the deposits]\n\nDue to the increasing safety issues, we are changing our wallet system. Please do not deposit until we notify. All deposits are not deposited into your wallet until all changes are completed.”</blockquote>\n<h3><strong>Hacked Amount Relatively Small Compared to Previous Incidents </strong></h3>\nAlthough there has been no official confirmation by the exchange, it is suspected that this theft was caused by a hack. Nonetheless, the $30 million that was stolen from Bithumb is relatively small compared to other hacks in the past.\n\nFor instance, CoinCheck, one of Japan’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, was <a href=\"https://cryptoticker.io/coincheck-suffers-crypto-hack-worse-mt-gox/\">hacked for $533 million</a> in what is said to be the biggest digital currency heist in history. Earlier this month, another South Korean exchange, <a href=\"https://cryptoticker.io/south-korean-cryptocurrency-exchange-coinrail-hacked/\">CoinRail, was hacked</a> for around $50 million. And of course, we have the infamous Mt. Gox Bitcoin hack, which saw the exchange lose $340 million when they were attacked four years ago. As a result, the Japanese exchange was forced to shut down all operations because of the hack.\n\nRelative to its predecessors, Bithumb - which used to be the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange - got away rather lightly with this hack. According to <a href=\"https://www.ccn.com/breaking-south-korean-crypto-exchange-bithumb-hacked-thieves-steal-30-million/\">CCN</a>, the hacker might have gotten access to an internet-connected “hot wallet” for one of the more thinly-traded assets listed on the platform, resulting in the hack.\n\nAccording to reports by the <a href=\"https://sentinelprotocol.io/\">Sentinel Protocol</a>, a program dedicated to scam, fraud and hack detection, the hot wallets were hacked on the night of June 19, with rumors of Ripple being one of the stolen cryptocurrencies.\n\nAs a result of the hack, the price of Bitcoin also dropped by over 3%, dipping past its $6,600 support level, but has recovered slightly to trade just above $6,600 at press time.",
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      "body": "https://cryptoticker.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Featured-1.jpg\n\nVeChain, the blockchain-based platform that focuses primarily on inventory and supply chain tracking, recently announced that they will be partnering with OceanEx - the cryptocurrency exchange and asset management platform by BitOcean Global.\n\nhttps://twitter.com/vechainofficial/status/1007641424454549504\n\nThe Singapore-based blockchain startup announced the partnership in an “<a href=\"https://ambcrypto.com/vechains-ceo-writes-emotional-open-letter-ceo-oceanex/\">emotional</a>” open letter on <a href=\"https://medium.com/@vechainofficial/an-open-letter-from-sunny-lu-oceanex-powered-by-xiaoning-nan-45ae84a554ab\">Medium</a>, in which the CEO of VeChain, Sunny Lu explained the reason behind the partnership. He also commended Xiaoning Nan - the CEO of OceanEx - for being incredibly \"driven\" in his ventures.\n<blockquote>“I didn’t ask Nanning to be our lead advisor because he was connected, I asked him because above all else, I knew he cared. He didn’t care about the money, he didn’t care for the fame, and in a lot of ways, he doesn’t even care for this ICO. All I have known Nanning to be is a man who cares about the future of blockchain technology...”</blockquote>\nThrough this partnership, OceanEx will effectively serve as an exchange, trading platform and asset management platform within the VeChainThor Ecosystem. By implementing OceanEx’s proprietary Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms, VeChain will be able to track the various transactions within the VeChainThor Ecosystem and isolate any anomalies that might arise.\n<h3><strong>VeChain Seeks Mainstream Adoption With Public Blockchain Platform</strong></h3>\nBy partnering with OceanEx, VeChain is essentially expanding its diverse list of use cases to include cryptocurrency trading and asset management. In the past, VeChain has been the pioneer in the exploration of various real-world use cases of blockchain technology.\n\nLast month, VeChain received a minority stake acquisition from <a href=\"https://www.dnvgl.com/news/dnv-gl-buys-stake-in-leading-public-blockchain-service-provider-vechain-as-it-strengthens-commitment-to-raising-trust-and-transparency-through-digital-solutions-119749\">DNV GL</a>, the risk management and quality assurance company - a deal that marked the company’s move into the ISO registry and digital assurance market. Furthermore, VeChain has partnered with Givenchy in the past to develop blockchain-based solutions for the tracking of luxury goods. This partnership was announced by Sunny Lu, who was the CIO of the Louis Vuitton group - which Givenchy is a part of.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_34322\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"786\"]<img class=\"wp-image-34322 size-full\" src=\"https://cryptoticker.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Sunny-Lu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"786\" height=\"786\" /> Sunny Lu during an AMA interview session[/caption]\n\nVeChain has also collaborated with a couple of other corporations such as <a href=\"https://cryptoticker.io/pwc-vechain-blockchain-survey/\">PWC</a>, BMW and Renault. Just two weeks ago, VeChain <a href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/Vechain/comments/8nx2di/oversea_liquor_tracking_platform_for_dig/\">announced on Reddit</a> that they will be building the Oversea Liquor tracking platform for D.I.G in an effort to ensure the authenticity of alcoholic beverages. D.I.G. is a subsidiary company of the WaiGaoQiao group - a state-owned company that manages 30% of the imported wine market in China.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34323\" src=\"https://cryptoticker.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/VeChain-Price.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2370\" height=\"722\" />\n\nSource: <a href=\"https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/vechain/\">CoinMarketCap</a>\n\nAt the time of writing, VeChain, the 17th largest cryptocurrency by market cap, is priced at $3.22 - up by 3.22% in the last 24 hours. Nevertheless, it is still down by 66% from its all-time high of $9.45 in January.",
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