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🔹The launch of the Bakkt cryptocurrency platform from the New York Stock Exchange is postponed until January 30 due to a delay in issuing a permit by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
🔹The Coinhills service called the Japanese yen the most popular fiat currency for Bitcoin trading. Behind it there are the dollar, the Korean won, the euro, the Polish zloty and the ruble.
🔹Comcast, the telecommunications association, plans to launch its blockchain project Blockgraph in commercial use in 2019, which will protect personal data and information, exchange unidentifiable data and increase the effectiveness of advertising.
🔹The number of payment channels of the Lightning Network (LN) over the last month increased by about 25% and reached 15378. The network capacity is 500 BTC, that is $2.12 million at the current rate.
🔹The collapse in market prices and the decline in investor interest forced Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and Barclays to abandon their bitcoin products.
🔹The eighth Chinese rating of cryptocurrency released by the Center for the Development of the Information Technology Industry. EOS occupies the first place, Ethereum and GXChain occupy the 2nd and 3rd places, and the recently launched Ontology project unexpectedly hit the fifth. Bitcoin dropped to 18th place.