Monitored by Chains Guard Technology, new transfers appeared in the suspected Plus Token address 1Li4mUc3hCGMB6cgQiJCwTvLMYwkfKHZY8. Meanwhile, another address used the similar strategy to split the funds. On September 16, at 15:08 UTC, four whale transfers ranging from 3000 BTC to 3800 BTC happened on the same address. Operators used the same strategy: they divided every transfer into about 300 new addresses. Chains Guard Technology found that these four transfers’ source was the whale transfer happened at 10:15 UTC on Sept. 16. After several transfers, operators started to split the addresses. One of transfers was from the address 1Li4mUc3hCGMB6cgQiJCwTvLMYwkfKHZY8 with 424 BTC left after transfers. In addition, other three transfers pointed to the address 1H2zrVQxU3ymunr9CunjoActooLW2ryQK7. Tracing this address, Chains Guard Technology found the address 14BWH6GmVoL5nTwbVxQJKJDtzv4y5EbTVm, another address which was suspected to be the source of the Plus Token scam. In other words, after the address 1Li4mUc3hCGMB6cgQiJCwTvLMYwkfKHZY8 was liquidated, operators had enabled other procedures. Further moves will be seen in this week.

Monitored by CoinNess.com, as of 00:00, September 17 (UTC), 1) the number of Bitcoin active addresses is on a day-to-day increase of 33%, marking 680,900.
2) The number of Bitcoin on-chain transactions is 342,400 with a day-to-day increase of 14.24%.
3) The number of BTC whale transfers (over 100 BTC each) is 512 with a day-to-day increase of 59%.
4) Active addresses on Ethereum report 374,600 with a day-to-day increase of 12%.
Note: On-chain transactions and active addresses of a cryptocurrency have a positive correlation with its price.

According to an article by the Globe and Mail on Sept. 16, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is auditing the corporate tax returns from Oct. 1, 2015, to Sept. 30, 2018 filed by QuadrigaCX, the now-defunct Canadian cryptocurrency exchange.
The Canadian exchange has been generating headlines ever since its CEO, Gerald Cotten, was declared dead in India without ever revealing the passwords to access the company’s cryptocurrency reserves.
Bankruptcy trustee EY, which oversees the exchange’s insolvency proceedings, said that “the Trustee intends to discuss the request for information with CRA Audit and their counsel and will return to Court for further direction, if necessary.”

According to the data of OKEx's contract, as of 00:00, September 17 (UTC), among the rich accounts of OKEx Bitcoin quarterly contract, the proportion of long positions (26.50%) now exceeds that of short positions (20.98%), with a gap of 5.52%. Among the rich accounts of OKEx Ethereum quarterly contract, the proportion of short positions (27.63%) exceeds that of long positions (19.94%), with a gap of 7.69%. At present, the number of BTC contract positions is nearly 88,278 BTC, and the number of ETH contract positions is nearly 764,983 ETH.

Bittrex announced it would list Hedera Hashgraph (HBAR) shortly. Wallets are now enabled for deposits. Customers will soon be able to trade on the HBAR/BTC, HBAR/ETH, HBAR/USDT, and HBAR/USD markets.

Hedera Hashgraph has launched its long-awaited public network, backed by some of the world’s largest corporations and promising faster transactions and greater capacity to scale than any blockchain to date.
With the public network now live, the Hedera treasury is set to begin distributing the system’s HBAR tokens at around 01:00 UTC. The first tokens – more than 379 million – will go to investors who participated in a $124 million crowd sale that took place in three rounds from March 2018 to August 2018.
Another 1.95 million tokens will go to advisors, vendors, and other participants on day one. The balance of the 50 billion supply of HBARs is to be released over the next 15 years by the network’s governing council.

There are only seven days until the launch of Bakkt’s Bitcoin Futures Contract.
“One step closer to delivering on our mission: Expanding access to the global economy by building trust in and unlocking the value of digital assets,” Bakkt tweeted on Sept. 16.
As previously reported, on Sept. 6, Bakkt’s Warehouse opens for customer Bitcoin deposits and withdrawals as they prepare for the Bakkt Bitcoin Daily and Monthly Futures, launching September 23. The availability of physical delivery brings more flexibility in managing Bitcoin exposure, Bakkt said.

1. OKEx will open trading for Hedera Hashgraph (HBAR) at 02:00 UTC;
2. Binance Launchpad will start the Band Protocol (BAND) ticket claim at 06:00.

[Policy]
1. Switzerland will start operating two licensed banks for cryptocurrencies;
2. CVM says crypto platforms need authorization from municipalities;
3. BIS released working paper proposing DLT-based financial market monitoring.
[Cryptocurrency]
1. BNB was added as a native payment on Travala.com;
2. The proposal of decreasing DAI stability fee to 12.5% has been approved on September 15, and it has come into effect officially.
[Exchange & Wallet]
1. The South Korean branch of cryptocurrency exchange OKEx says it will delist five privacy coins as of October 2019.
[Others]
1. Dan Hedl mentioned that Bitcoin.com merged its orders with Bequant and HitBTC, thus presenting relatively high activity;
2. BitPay merchants will be able to accept Ether payments.

1. Dash will be listed on Coinbase Pro on Sept 16;
2. TOP will announce node recruitment program;
3. Shanghai Blockchain Week will take place from Sept 14-18.

In a recently released working paper, economist Raphael Auer made the case for so-called embedded supervision, which would automatically monitor tokenized markets. This would purportedly eliminate the need for the collection, verification and delivery of companies' related data.

According to CoinDesk, a blockchain startup for ethical supply chain management just raised $4 million in seed money.
OpenSC, a joint venture of the Boston Consulting Group and environmental protection group the World Wide Fund, announced on Sept 16 the $4 million in seed funding from investor Christian Wenger. OpenSC uses blockchain technology to track goods for ethical malpractice.

On Sept. 16, Augusto Remillano II and Jakub Urbanec revealed in a post on Trend Micro, a security intelligence blog, that they found new Linux malware. According to the analysts, this malware is particularly notable because of the way it loads malicious kernel modules to hide its cryptocurrency mining operations.
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As reported by Miner Update, BTC.com and Poolin have been competing for the first position with an approximate total hash rate of 13.5 EH/s. Additionally, the hash rate hit an ATH on 11 September of 98.52 TH/s and the difficulty level of Bitcoin is seen at its highest of 11.89 trillion.
BTC.com was the largest mining pool with the highest share of hash rate of 17.26% while Poolin was standing second with a 15.97% share of hash rate.

The Ripple-backed startup Coil is partnering with Mozilla and Creative Commons to launch a $100-million grant for content creators and developers. The new grant program is designed to boost coders and creators who support and promote web monetization.

Announced with a Finance Magnates report on Sept 16, Genesis ‎Vision has partnered with B2Broker, which provides liquidity and technology for the forex and cryptocurrency industries. The deal marks the first collaboration with a Prime Broker to provide Genesis’ clients with aggregated liquidity on cryptocurrencies through its B2BX MarksMan aggregator.

Announced at its official website, Gate.io has announced The ETH Lock-up & Earn for 30 Days at 4:00 UTC on Sept 17. User will also receive interests in ETH and expect to receive an annual interest rate of 15%.

Citing data from BTC.com, as of 22:15 UTC on September 16, the number of unconfirmed transactions on the BTC network currently marks 3,021. The 24-hour transaction rate marks 3.56 txs/s, with the network hashrate reporting 91.3 EH/s. In addition, Bitcoin's mining difficulty now reads 11.89 T and is estimated to increase by 11.25% to 13.23 T.

In a Q&A session on Sept 16, a spokesperson from Chinese listed company Yuxin Technology (SZ.330674) said that the company has always been paying attention to blockchain and the cutting edge applications in the financial industry. Yuxin Tech is currently exploring the applications on assets tokenization and supply chain using the blockchain, decentralized distributed ledger technologies.

According to The Daily Hodl, the UK law firm Michelmores and research consultancy ComRes interviewed 501 people in the UK who were born from 1981 to 1996. All participants had to have investable assets of £25,000 or more. According to the results, a full 20% say they have already invested in cryptocurrency – a number that far outpaces estimate on the general population, which typically fall in the range of 1-3%.

In the recent Baltic Honeybadger conference in Riga, Latvia, Murad Mahmudov, head of investments at Adaptive Capital stated that "If the trust in institutions is slowly dwindling, I believe people will slowly but gradually lookout for various alternatives. If inflation, state surveillance, geopolitical tensions, commercial banks and negative interest rates make fiat currency holders suffer, there will likely be an increasing incentive towards buying and holding Bitcoin."

Benoit Coeure, board member of the European Central Bank (ECB) told central bank officials from around the world that the new breed of virtual currencies were largely untested and pledged a tough regulatory approach, adding to warnings from authorities elsewhere, according to Reuters report on Sept 15.
"Stablecoins are largely untested, especially on the scale required to run a global payment system," said the European Central Bank executive board member, who chairs the BIS-hosted Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures. "They give rise to a number of serious risks related to public policy priorities. The bar for regulatory approval will be high."

Report released by Live Bitcoin News shows that a new blockchain phone is being released by HTC and Bitcoin.com. The phone has a Bitcoin Cash wallet and not one designed for its parent currency Bitcoin.

A recent technical report published on 13th September revealed that Cardano team will work on newer features on the application platform, Daedalus starting from this week. The devs will be working on "specific implementations" in order to connect API with the incentivized testnet node. This will result in formation of the primary interface for Daedalus and the new Cardano Explorer.

In a recent interview with BLOCKTV, Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin talked about the future prospect of Facebook's Libra. Buterin conceded that Libra's access to 2.5 billion users was a major advantage which none of the other cryptosystems had, but Libra failed to receive commercial credibility and did not have any 'political neutrality' yet. Additionally, he added that such political validity will never be fundamentally given to a centralized institution, which other crypto projects had a 'chance' of providing.

CoinNess.com now delivers a special report featuring the closing prices of the U.S. blockchain stocks at the end of the day.
NYSE Bundle: Eastman Kodak Company (KODK): $2.77, -1.47%;
IBM Common Stock (IBM): $142.48, +0.83%;
Accenture Plc (ACN): $194.16, -0.24%;
Square Inc (SQ): $59.25, +1.65%;
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM): $119.16, -0.89%.
NASDAQ Bundle: Overstock.com (OSTK): $19.75, -20.78%; Marathon Patent Group Inc (MARA): $1.84, -2.65%;
RIOT Blockchain Inc (RIOT): $2.12, 0%.

Bitcoin payments leveraging SegWit hit an all-time high of 50.47% on September 15th, according to AMBCrypto. Citing data on transaction fee's website, Bitcoin transactions using the protocol, on 1st January 2019, accounted for only 40.55%. Notably, an increase of 24.46% was noted in the last nine months.
Despite receiving a warm welcome from major wallet providers, the upgrade failed to attract leading crypto exchanges to switch to SegWit as they already had a huge customer base and did not mind paying high fees. The leading crypto platforms, like Binance, Blockchain.com, BitMEX, and Bittrex are yet to implement SegWit.
Recently, OKEx, the Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange, announced support for SegWit addresses of Bitcoin as well as Litecoin on its platform. Gemini was the first major exchange to roll out support for the protocol.