"Valueless exchanges and wash trading" June 14th, 2020

Today's blockchain and cryptocurrency headlines

Bitcoin is up slightly at $9,431
Ethereum is even at $236
and XRP is down slightly at 19 cents

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
QuantStamp up 47%
and Reddcoin up 15%

Bitcoin IRA is branching out to smaller accounts and decreasing minimum thresholds

Researchers examine the importance of transaction fees in "Revisiting Transactional Statistics of High-scalability Blockchain"

Vice reports on wash trading at Coinsquare

• Free Transactions Invite Systemic Attacks on Blockchains, Researchers Find - CoinDesk
• Cryptocurrency Exchange CEO Ordered Employees to Make Fake Trades, Leaked Documents Show - VICE