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Play2Live: Turning the Passive Gaming Viewer into an Active Contributor
Current streaming models for gaming like twitch.tv, boom.tv, and Youtube Gaming fall short in monetizing their viewers participation. With swaths of entrants to the esports market, topping $105 billion in 2017, these platforms are thus missing out on the curve of innovation. While similar, the Play2Live platform provides a solution to a handful of newly discovered obstacles in this nascent sector.
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Venezuela: Petro Cryptocurrency Reaps US$5B in Pre-Sales

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said the Petro had strengthened the country's international reserves.

The Petro, the world's first national cryptocurrency based on natural resources, has generated sales over five billion dollars during its pre-sale period and has recorded over 186,000 certified purchases. The sale of the Petro has also significantly strengthened the country's foreign reserves amid increased international aggression.
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Gemini Exchange May Soon Offer Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash

The Winklevoss brothers are looking to add additional cryptocurrencies to the Gemini Exchange, while also praising the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s recent statements.
Expanding Gemini

The Winklevoss twins’ cryptocurrency exchange Gemini Exchange is looking to expand with the addition of Litecoin (LTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH). Currently, Gemini Exchange only offers Bitcoin and Ethereum trades.
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What’s next for blockchain?

Chris Skinner is Chair of the European networking forum: the Financial Services Club. He is best known as an independent commentator on Fintech through his blog, and as author of the best selling book Digital Bank and its new sequel ValueWeb.

Everyone got very excited a few years ago about blockchain technologies, the ledger system that was spawned by the arrival of bitcoin in 2009. It allows the recording of transactions to be automated and completely trusted, as the ledger system is tamperproof. The resulting excitement was that this could therefore replace many systems of contracts that are paper-based with smart, digital contracts. This would be transformational as it would allow us to replace everything from clearing and settlement systems to passports to land deeds registries to supply chains that are paper-based, with a new software structure that would reconcile and manage everything without a human hand involved. Just in clearing and settlement, this was estimated to deliver savings of over $20 billion a year, due to the inefficiencies of the current systems.
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How Much Are the Ultra Rich Investing in Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies?

Despite the turbulence in the cryptocurrency markets since the turn of 2018, many of the ultra-rich still see this as an opportunity to further their holdings. The significant dips were thus welcomed by many as it provided a discounted price for them to load up on their positions further.
Survey on Crypto Bag Holders

Many people are interested to hear the ultra-rich are putting their money and how much of it is going towards cryptocurrencies. An annual survey of private bankers and wealth advisers provides a glimpse into which areas these investments are being made.

One of the key statistics coming out of this survey is that 21 percent of respondents confirmed that their clients invested further in cryptocurrencies during 2017.

The team that generated this survey are from Knight Frank, and it is called The Wealth Report.

There were responses from over 500 wealth advisers and private bankers who in total represent approximately 50,000 clients that have a cumulative wealth that amounts to over $3 trillion.
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