The big boys are entering the market. According to NYTimes the New York Stock Exchange has been working on an online trading platform.
This follows Goldman Sachs entering the crypto-market with a futures market and the CEO of Nasdaq, was quoted that his exchange would be also open to trading crypto-currencies too.
The price of BTC in the last 24 hours has dropped from $9471 to a low of $9045. A 4.49% drop. But markets appear to be bullish, with 98% buying sentiment according to eToro (Contracts of difference platform).
ICON announced a strategic partnership with Japan’s first crypto fund, B Cryptos (representative Hiroyuki Motoyoshi) to revitalise the block-chain ecosystem in Japan and abroad.
Monero Last week with rumours of Japan pressuring exchanges to remove privacy orientated cryptocurrencies, it seemed that it was almost doomed. But with the announcement of Goldman Sachs backed platform, Circle adding Monero as their 7th cryptocurrency, things are looking brighter for this particular token. Monero being the second privacy orientated token, along with ZCash.
And in Russia, as part of an appeal by a bankruptcy trustee, a court indirectly overturned a previous ruling, recognising cryptocurrency as a property with value.