Coinbase Facilitates MicroStrategy Purchase of Bitcoin

PlusToken Scammers to Prison

Ethereum 2.0 Now Live

Links:

• Coinbase Brokered MicroStrategy's $425M Bitcoin Purchase, Exchange Says - CoinDesk
• Ringleaders of PlusToken Scam Jailed for Up to 11 Years - CoinDesk
• Ethereum 2.0 is go: Genesis block of beacon chain winks into existence

Bitcoin is down slightly at $17,054
Ethereum is up slightly at $513
and XRP is up 4% at 54 cents

Those are your leaders by market cap

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
SushiSwap up 19%
ABBC Coin up 18%
Stellar, up 16%

Coinbase released a blog post pre-empting a NYT article.

Swiss digital asset bank Sygnum has launched a blockchain alternative to stock exchanges.

The Libra association adds Saumya Bhavsar as a general counsel.

United Overseas Bank eyes crypto custody creation.

Chinese Police seized $4.2 billion in cryptos as part of the PlusToken ponzi scheme crackdown.

Links:

• VP, Crypto Security Administrator, Group Information Security
• An upcoming story about Coinbase. In the spirit of transparency, we’re… | by Coinbase | Nov, 2020 | The Coinbase Blog
• Sygnum: the world's first bank to offer end-to-end tokenization with launch of Desygnate solution
• Libra Association Taps Saumya Bhavsar as General Counsel for Payments Subsidiary - CoinDesk

Bitcoin is down 1% at $11,026
Ethereum is down 0.5% at $319
and XRP is up 2% at 24 cents

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
Aave up 25%
and Travala. com up 18%

Ledger updates from security breach

Chinese authorities arrest all 27 "major suspects" of the PlusToken fraud.

US Marines were notified this week that they are prohibited from using government issued mobile devices to mine cryptocurrency.