The Gate.io Startup Special Offer with 20% Discount ETH Sale has been completed. In this sale, there were 2,335 participants, and a total of about 3.14 million USDT worth of orders were placed to purchase ETH with a 20% discount. The distribution ratio was about 7.6362%.
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According to Tokenview, 1.33 million BTC were traded on the BTC Network in the past 24 hours. The number of on-chain transactions marks 304,500. 140 blocks were generated; the average speed of generating block reads 617.1 seconds. Total on-chain transaction fees registered 27.82 BTC. Unconfirmed transactions reached 17,220.

The number of open BitMEX Bitcoin futures contracts (XBTUSD) tends to peak at around $1 billion, or 100,000 BTC. Having open interest heavily dependant on key psychological levels shows that the crypto derivatives market has matured, according to crypto analyst Priyeshu Garg.
Open interest, or the total number of unsettled options or futures contracts, is a measure of the flow of money into the derivatives market and often indicates market maturity.
The overwhelming sentiment of the maturing market seems to be bullish, as over 80 percent of XBTUSD positions are long on Bitcoin.

Monitored by CoinNess, from 00:00 to 02:00 (UTC) on Nov 19, XRP registered a net outflow of $4.38 million in the past two hours.
1. The Top 3 net cap inflows in the crypto market are: XRP (+$4.38 mln), HT (+$1.23 mln), LTC (+$1.06 mln);
2. The Top 3 net cap outflows in the crypto market are: NEO (-$874.6 k), SEELE (-$840.1 k), VET (-$740.9 k).
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Maksim Zaslavskiy, a computer programmer from Brooklyn and the first person in the United States to be convicted of running two fraudulent ICOs has been sentenced to a year and a half behind bars.
As Law360 reported on Nov. 18, both of Zaslavskiy’s ICOs were advertised as being backed by collateral, diamonds and real estate, respectively, which did not exist. Zaslavskiy pleaded guilty in Nov. 2018 to conspiracy to commit securities fraud.

Bytom’s team introduced a cross-chain stable coin: MOV. MOV aims at building a reliable financial infrastructure that truly aligns with the future of blockchain, while enables more use cases on blockchain.

Citing the official announcement, crypto exchange Boboo has seen its hashrate reach 7,157,904 from 00:00, Nov 18 to 00:00, Nov 19 (UTC), with a reward of 10,460 USDT and 1 ETH shared by miners. Boboo is the world's first "PoB (Proof of Behavior)" trading platform. Users can obtain hashrate through their behaviors and share the platform's 100% revenue. Boboo also gives away 1 BTC per week and 1 ETH per day.
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ZBX will list BTC/EUR and ETH/EUR trading pairs at 02:00 UTC on Nov 19.

An exhibition of Chinese traditional calligraphy artworks incorporating blockchain and Virtual Reality technology application opened at the Harvard Club of New York City on Monday, Nov 18.
The exhibit features dozens of calligraphy by renowned Chinese calligraphy artist Tao Fo, whose artworks are authenticated via the blockchain technology developed by UBI Blockchain Internet Ltd., said Tony Liu, founder of the company.
At the exhibit, visitors are able to scan a QR code with their smart phone and view the data of each piece of art, which had been recorded in the counterfeit-proof blockchain distributed database.

The volume ranking of crypto derivatives reported by CoinGecko, a major cryptocurrency data site, found that Huobi DM exceeded BitMEX on crypto derivatives volume with OKEx ranking the first place.

Crypto Millions Lotto has become the official online lottery partner of Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C., making it the first of its kind to sign an agreement with an English Premier League Club, the lottery firm announced.

Market trends of blockchain and cryptocurrency are examined to make predictions. CoinNess.com will study market trends-related consumer behavior, employment, blockchain tech advancements, new product development, competition, government norms and other factors that impact the bull and bear of blockchain and crypto industry.
CoinNess.com Market Index:
BTC, $8,388.69;
BCH, $252.14.
Bull:
1) BTC
BTC Venture Lolli Makes CNBC's Top 100 Startups List
Recently, CNBC placed the company on its list of 2019 startups "to watch." The list is comprised of approximately 100 new ventures and Lolli is the only one that has to do with Bitcoin that seems to have made the cut.
2) BCH
Coinex Chain Launches Two Tokens Anchored To BTC And BCH
According to Bitcoin.com, the digital currency trading platform Coinex announced the launch of two Coinex Chain tokens that are anchored to BTC and BCH. The two collateralized coins will be used for trading on the Coinex Dex and will be traded in the name of the original assets respectively.

Monitored by CoinNess.com, as of 00:00, Nov 19 (UTC), 1) The number of Bitcoin active addresses is on a day-to-day increase of 8.02%, marking 538,600.
2) The number of Bitcoin on-chain transactions is 307,200 with a day-to-day increase of 12.76%.
3) The number of BTC whale transfers (over 100 BTC each) is 583 with a day-to-day increase of 109.71%.
4) Active addresses on Ethereum report 330,300 with a day-to-day increase of 14.61%.
Note: On-chain transactions and active addresses of a cryptocurrency have a positive correlation with its price.

According to Whale Alert, at 22:52 UTC on Nov 18, 5,004 BTC were transferred from an unknown address to the Xapo address starting with 3NwKL. The transaction hash is 18996f1bc8d4a0b39a495bff2cf4e7f8de95e2691dc362d35ef9d6fb13d64eef.

Stellar has just released Horizon v0.23.0. It includes bug fixes, as well as new features.

Following Grin and Litecoin creator Charlie Lee’s responses to MimbleWimble’s so-called “fatal flaw,” Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin tweeted: “If your privacy model has a medium anonymity set, it really has a small anonymity set. If your privacy model has a small anonymity set, it has an anonymity set of 1. Only global anonymity sets (eg. as done with ZK-SNARKs) are truly robustly secure.”
As previously reported by CoinNess, researcher Ivan Bogatyy claimed that the MimbleWimble privacy technology used by cryptocurrencies such as Beam and Grin is broken, and he was able to deanonymize 96% of all Grin transactions just by running a node at a cost of around $60.

An article titled "Breaking Mimblewimble's Privacy Model" has been making the rounds today (Nov 19), in which the author asserts that they have somehow ‘broken’ Mimblewimble and Grin’s privacy model. Grin Team responds by claiming numerous claims, including the title of the article itself, are factually inaccurate and listing their reasons as follows:
1.Mimblewimble doesn’t have addresses such as those that might be linked to a particular Bitcoin wallet;
2.It’s not possible to link addresses that do not exist. Grin Team has to assume that the author conveniently confused transaction outputs (TXOs) with addresses;
3.The author is able to collect 95.5% of transactions on the network in a particular time period. Other than that “Output A spends to Output B,” it’s less clear what exactly is being identified here or what else the author is able to accomplish with this information;
While it would be desirable to avoid leaking the transaction graph, the graph alone doesn’t necessarily reveal sender and receiver outputs. Without amounts, it’s difficult to distinguish between change outputs and recipient outputs.

Voyager, a crypto brokerage firm that provides retail and institutional investors with trading solutions, has partnered with RoundlyX, a crypto investing platform that allows users to invest their spare change in digital assets (think Acorns for crypto), to enable RoundlyX users to trade and store cryptocurrencies on Voyager’s platform.
According to the announcement, RoundlyX and Voyager aim to promote the mass adoption of crypto through easy-to-use investing tools.

Lebanon’s banking system has been in shambles for quite some time, with closures across the country, as CoinNess reported last month. Now, the banks are ready to reopen, but they have set a withdrawal limit of $1,000 a week for accounts denominated in foreign currency.
The move is intended to control the flow of new money coming in from abroad and clearly plays a harsh and restrictive role in allowing people access to funds from outside the country. And, while this sounds expressly like Capital Control, the banks are adamant that it is not and will be done in association with the central bank.
This ongoing financial crisis and limitation of power on one’s own finance again paints an expressly promising picture for Bitcoin as a decentralized and global system. Not only is Bitcoin not affected by banking shut down and closures, but it is also intended to be borderless with there being a minimal barrier to sending and receiving money from across the world.

Researcher Ivan Bogatyy claimed that the Mimblewimble privacy technology used by cryptocurrencies such as Beam and Grin is broken, and he was able to deanonymize 96% of all Grin transactions just by running a node at a cost of around $60. Bogatyy asserts that the flaw is fatal, effectively breaking Mimblewimble, CoinNess reported on Nov 18.
According to Charlie Lee, the Litecoin creator, this limitation of MimbleWimble protocol is “well-known.”
“MW is basically confidential transactions with scaling benefits and slight unlinkability. To get much better privacy, you can still use CoinJoin before broadcasting and CJ works really well with MW due to CT and aggregation. CJ on MW is a lot simpler and easier to use than it is on BTC/LTC. 1) MW has CT, so all amounts are hidden and there’s no need to decide on a uniform output size. 2) With aggregation in MW, there’s no need to sign the final CJ transaction. So one can't DoS by not to signing,” he said.

According to Whale Alert, 1,000 BTC ($8.20 million) were transferred from an unknown wallet to the OKEx Exchange at 23:42 UTC on Nov 18. The transaction hash is 346594eb6410471a7c9d43b753ca8bff83e1d215eb796d29eaa36c79fe81a0b3.

Unnamed sources close to the central bank’s Shanghai headquarters confirmed the authenticity of the document to Chinese publication Caixin. The memo pointed out that in order to prevent the “resurgence of virtual currency speculation,” district administrative offices in Shanghai were ordered to investigate crypto-related activities within their jurisdictions. They were given a deadline on November 22 to report on their findings to the two agencies.
The local officials will be also tasked with ceasing operations of any identified cryptocurrency exchanges, along with any fundraising business through initial coin offerings or token sales, which is a criminal offence in China.

According to CoinNess, BTC experienced fluctuations for the moment, dipping below $8,200 again. Currently, BTC reads $8,196.34, down 3.45% in the past 24 hours.

Northern Bitcoin AG and Whinstone US, Inc. has partnered to hopefully build the world's biggest Bitcoin mining facility in Texas on over 100 acres with a capacity of one gigawatt of power.
The first construction phase of the new facility is scheduled for the first quarter of next year. Two stock-listed corporations are the first customers of this site, which will use much of the 300 megawatts of capacity that will be available at the time.

A citizen of Sweden has been extradited from Thailand to the United States today to stand trial for alleged cryptocurrency fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering, according to the United States Department of Justice.
The citizen, named Roger Nils-Jonas Karlsson, opened an investment website, Eastern Metal Securities, with 12 other people back in 2013. He falsely directed his victims to make investments using virtual currencies, such as Bitcoin. Karlsson allegedly defrauded no less than 3,575 victims of more than $11 million.

Chinese state media has reported that local companies seem to be claiming to be using blockchain technology to boost their stock prices. Multiple firms have made statements saying that they are exploring blockchain technology. However, only a handful can prove it.
The report is reminiscent of previous incidents outside of China. During the culmination of the 2017 bull run, companies enjoyed spectacular stock increases off the back of a supposed interest in blockchain technology.

Binance has completed the distribution of the second batch of October 2019 staking rewards, including ERD, ONE, FET and BTT.

After another sell-off on Nov 18, crypto markets have continued to fall, with Bitcoin (BTC) briefly dropping below the $8,200 threshold. After Bitcoin failed to reclaim $8,500 earlier today (Nov 18), its price has only continued to fall, dropping to as low as $8,104 per coin earlier on the day. At press time, Bitcoin has attempted a modest recovery and is trading at $8,215, down 4% over the past 24 hours.
In contrast, other analysts suggested that Bitcoin's recent trading into a falling wedge is typically a bullish pattern that has a success rate of breaking to the upside in around 68% of cases.