The Week In Bitcoin - Issue #94: Tokens Sales Everywhere, Litecoin Added To Coinbase & Other News From The Week

Coinbase continues to add testnet coins. Sorry, I mean cryptocurrencies 🙊 to their app. 

I’ve also included two solid pieces on the rise of token sales - both worth a read. Find them HERE and HERE.

In other news, my alma mater is sticking things on a chain. Let’s see where that goes 🙄.

I also found an answer to why there isn’t a bitcoin emoji 🤔 👀👇

— Alan Tsen, @alantsen 👊💯

The most impactful technologies are polarizing and make people uncomfortable. The boom in blockchain-based tokens in the past year has certainly made a lot of people uncomfortable. On one side, you…

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We are pleased to announce that Coinbase is adding support for Litecoin. Customers can now easily buy, sell, send, and store Litecoin via the Coinbase website or mobile apps. This is part of our…

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According to the Litecoin website, “Litecoin is a peer-to-peer Internet currency that enables instant, near-zero cost payments to anyone in the world.” If you’re familiar with the digital currency Bitcoin, the above definition might sound similar.

In an Australian first, the University of Melbourne will soon test blockchain technology to record student credentials.

Cryptocurrencies are vulnerable to attacks targeting the network routing layer. In this guest post, Apostolaki, Zohar and Vanbever show that BGP attacks are back, and this time, they have a high value target.

The token world is getting crazy, but last week’s Gnosis ICO pushed us over the edge. Gnosis investors bought up approximately 4.2% of the total GNO token supply for $12.5 million (250,000 ETH)…