Bitcoin is up slightly at $60,378
Ethereum is up slightly at $4,203
and Binance Coin down slightly at $512

Zillqua up 17%
Decentraland up 16%
ARweave up 15%

Today’s the 13th anniversary of the publishing of the Bitcoin white paper

Justin Sun has withdrawn billions of dollars of crypto from AAVE’s lending pools.

Cardano-based DeFi protocol Ardana raises $10M in strategic funding.

AWS seeks specialist to build digital asset underwriting, transaction, and custody in the cloud.

Bitcoin is down slightly at $11,558
Ethereum is down 2% at $385
and XRP is down 0.5% at 28 cents

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
Aragon network up 18%
Cosmos up 17%
and Ocean Protocol up 15%

Researchers at cybersecurity firm Mitiga identified a Monero mining script in a community AWS AMI.

Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory say they’ve designed an AI for detecting would-be cryptojackers.

The CFTC is going after the owner of the fraudulent bitcoin trading scheme Control-Finance.

Links:

• An AWS Virtual Machine Is Infected With Mining Malware. There Could Be Others - CoinDesk
• CFTC seeks $572 million in penalty and restitution from the owner of 'fraudulent' bitcoin scheme Control-Finance - The Block
• Los Alamos Scientists Develop AI to Fight Cryptojacking - CoinDesk

Bank of England Attends CBDC Meeting Tomorrow

Hackers Mining Crypto Attack AWS Credentials

Congratulations Hester!

Links:

• Bank of England Joins Key Roundtable on Central Bank Digital Currency Design
• Researchers Detect Crypto-Mining Worm to Steal AWS Credentials — X BTC $12,184 +2.25% ETH $428 -0.21% LTC $64.77 +0.36% XRP $0.31 +0.85% BCH $312 -1.14% EOS $3.65 -5.32% ENGLISH ADVERTISE
• Starting Second Term Today, SEC Commissioner Peirce Tells Cointelegraph Her Crypto Priorities

China CBDC No Time Soon

AWS Employee Hacked Capital One

PNC Bank Using RippleNet

Links:

• Alleged Capital One Hacker Accused of Secretly Mining Cryptocurrency
• Chinese Central Bank ‘Crypto’ Not Launching in November: State Media
• US Banking Giant PNC Starts Using RippleNet for Cross-Border Payments

Bitcoin is up 1% at $10,122
XRP is even at 27 cents
and Ethereum is up 1% at $189

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
WanChain up 35%
and Dent up 22%

Patrick Byrne has stepped down from his position as CEO of Overstock

Several proposed members of Libra’s governance program are considering washing their hands of the Facebook-backed fiasco.

Several exchanges have been affected by an issue with Amazon Web Service in the AP region.

Bitmain is bulking up with over half a million more crypto mining chips.

Links:

• Binance suspends deposits and withdrawals due to issues with AWS - The Block
• Libra | Financial Times
• Bitmain buying 600K more crypto mining chips that could bring $1.2 billion in profit - Report - The Block
• Patrick Byrne, Cryptocurrency Champion, Resigns as Overstock CEO - CoinDesk

Bitcoin is up 2.4% at $10,767
XRP is down slightly at 31 cents
Ethereum is up 1% at $222

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
Hydro up 36%
RChain up 26%
Chainlink up 18%

The Goldman Sachs backed Apple card will not allow the purchase of cryptocurrencies.

China has announced that it is planning to accelerate the research and development of its “legal digital currency”.

AWS has launched a competition with several partners with a 100,000 grand prize.

MIT & Elliptic are using machine learning to examine bitcoin transactions that may be associated with illicit activity.

Links:

• China's central bank seeks to accelerate the development of its 'legal digital currency' - The Block
• The Apple Card, issued by Goldman Sachs, will not allow purchase of cryptocurrencies - The Block
• Time, Randomness, and a $100,000 Prize to Forever Change Blockchain | AWS Startups Blog
• MIT's AI Lab Analyzed 200,000 Bitcoin Transactions. Only 2% Were 'Illicit' - CoinDesk