Bitcoin is down 1.5% at $11,580
Ethereum is down 4% at $390
and XRP is down 2.5% at 28 cents

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
Augur up 39%
and Decentraland up 26%

Former UBER CSO faces felony charges for a 2016 attempt to quash security breach with six-figure Bitcoin hush money.

A new bitcoin mining facility with 50-thousand rigs is readying for a september debut.

Polychain capital’s cryptocurrency hedge fund has added 19.5 million in investments

A Tokyo court has granted a protective order that will aid in the recovery of funds lost in a 2018 Coincheck hack

Links:

• Polychain Capital's Original Crypto Fund Raises an Additional $19.5M - CoinDesk
• Bitcoin Mining Facility With Room for 50,000 Rigs Set to Launch in Kazakhstan - CoinDesk
• Tokyo court grants protective order to recover some funds lost in the 2018 Coincheck hack - The Block

Bitcoin is up slightly at $9,617
Ethereum is up 2% at $242
and XRP is up .05% at 20 cents

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
HedgeTrade up 32%
Loopring up 15%

US Securities and Exchange Commissioner Hester Peirce has been nominated for another term by the White House

Coinbase has cut rewards for holding the USDC stable coin by 90%.

Coincheck, the Japanese exchange has fallen victim to a data breach.

The OOC, a nonprofit working on offshore energy, has found a blockchain management system that reduces costs and time for transporting wastewater.

MicroBT Founder Arrested

Coincheck Halts Leveraged Trades

TaTa Announces QuartzDevKit

Links:

• Founder of Bitmain Rival MicroBT Arrested for Alleged Embezzlement - CoinDesk
• Cryptocurrency Exchange Coincheck to Halt Leveraged Trading in Q1 2020
• Tata Consultancy Services Launches Blockchain App Deployment Kit