• Top 5 Cryptocurrency Rivalries;
• SWIFT’s Blockchain Pilot For Bank-To-Bank Transfers Went ‘Extremely Well’;
• Bots Blamed for Binance Bug That Leaves Traders Reeling;
• Mt. Gox Soap Opera Continues: Karpeles Released on Bail, Shadow Companies, and Whale Dumps
• 📑 Daily Crypto Calendar, March 8th 💰

🗞 Top 5 Cryptocurrency Rivalries

While there is weight to the argument that the success of one cryptocurrency promotes the success of all cryptocurrencies, there are certainly a number of coins whose communities and even development teams have adopted a position of spite and rivalry toward competing projects. Here are five of the best rivalries throughout cryptocurrency.

Read more & Source: https://themerkle.com/top-5-cryptocurrency-rivalries/

🗞 SWIFT’s Blockchain Pilot For Bank-To-Bank Transfers Went ‘Extremely Well’

A report by the financial messaging provider SWIFT and 34 global transaction banks that sought to answer the question of how distributed ledger technology (DLT) (Blockchain) Proof of Concept (PoC) can help Nostro account reconciliation has been published today, March 8, with positive results.

Read more & Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/swifts-blockchain-pilot-for-bank-to-bank-transfers-went-extremely-well

🗞 Bots Blamed for Binance Bug That Leaves Traders Reeling

Binance has found itself at the center of an unusual trading bug that has created big winners and losers. In a matter of minutes, viacoin pumped by 70x. Just to compound the drama, bitcoin experienced a massive sell-off shortly afterwards following bearish news from the SEC. Binance suspended withdrawals while it investigated the matter, but these have since been reactivated. Wednesday March 7 will go down as a memorable day in the exchange’s short history, but one with a happy ending.

Read more & Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/bots-blamed-for-binance-bug-that-leaves-traders-counting-reeling/

🗞 Mt. Gox Soap Opera Continues: Karpeles Released on Bail, Shadow Companies, and Whale Dumps

Mt. Gox Mark Karpeles’ release on bail has produced a new radio program examining the historic hack and heist, but is also raising questions about sister exchanges such as BTC-e and their role in laundering stolen bitcoin. If all that wasn’t enough, a Gox trustee decided to dump over 400 million USD in bitcoin core and bitcoin cash in an effort to make Gox creditors whole.

Read more & Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/mt-gox-soap-opera-continues-karpeles-released-on-bail-shadow-companies-and-whale-dumps/

Daily Crypto Calendar, March, 7th

• Ethereum (ETH)

EthCC (Ethereum Community Conference) is a conference that will take place in Paris at the Conservatoire Nationale des Arts et Métiers.

• Pura (PURA)

PURA Aurora Release with auto deploying masternodes and introducing common nodes

• Ripple (XRP)

Ripple CTO Stefan Thomas to Give Keynote Address at the Blockchain Africa 2018.

• Telcoin (TEL)

Telcoin will sponsor and attend the Blockchain Africa Conference 8-9 March 2018 in Johannesburg.

• VeChain (VEN)

Sunny Lu & Luca Crisciotti announce first application for food industry at Global Food Safety Conf. in Tokyo, 08:15 UTC+09:00 8th of March.