Nassim Taleb: "The most potent case for cryptocurrencies: banks are never there when you need them. And they are trying to bully the public so they avoid accountability and profit disbursements.
Bankers are legal crooks."

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1187467132646199300

October 2019 MATIC token release:

✔️100% of unlocked Matic Treasury tokens (Foundation & Ecosystem) to be allocated to staking activities
✔️~40% of Investors are voluntarily not taking any unlocks
In all, ~80% of total unlocked tokens NOT to be released into the market
✔️Only ~20% of the unlocked tokens (248,446,690 tokens) to be released
✔️This was the first & last Investor token unlock (50% unlocked on listing & 50% unlocked now)

https://blog.matic.network/october-2019-token-unlock-100-foundation-tokens-to-be-used-for-staking-activities/
💧 icodrops.com/matic-network

"Bitfinex is the victim of a fraud and is making its position clear to the relevant authorities, including those in Poland and the United States. We cannot speak about Crypto Capital's other clients, but any suggestion that Crypto Capital laundered drug proceeds or any other illicit funds at the behest of Bitfinex or its customers is categorically false", Bitfinex said in a statement.

https://www.bitfinex.com/posts/426

The market is green again. BTC price has risen sharply in minutes and is now trading at ~$8400.

ETH - $178
BNB - $18.7
XRP - $0.294

The price of BTC broke the $10,000 mark, reaching $10,370. But now it is trading around $9,600.

The Standing Committee of the 13th National People’s Congress in China has passed the cryptography law on Saturday and it will be effective on January 1, 2020.

The new law aims to tackle emerging regulatory and legal challenges in commercial cryptography use-cases as they play an increasingly important role in developing the Chinese economy, according to the law’s latest draft proposal prior to approval.

https://www.coindesk.com/chinas-congress-passes-cryptography-law-effective-jan-1-2020

OKEx Announces New Partnership with Klaytn – Kakao Corporation’s Blockchain Project as Ecosystem Partner.

https://okexpressroom.prowly.com/76359-okex-announces-new-partnership-with-klaytn-kakao-corporations-blockchain-project-as-ecosystem-partner

KuCoin Will Launch Margin Trading Service on October 31.

https://www.kucoin.com/news/en-kucoin-will-launch-margin-trading-service

Justin Sun tweeted: "Top 4. At the end of this year. #TRON #TRX $TRX $BTT."

https://twitter.com/justinsuntron/status/1188510832042266624?s=21
💧 icodrops.com/tron

Following CZ's warning, Justin Sun deleted the prediction tweet.

Chinese projects show the best growth after the recent positive statement of China's President XI Jinping on blockchain.

“The People’s Bank of China has been studying DCEP (digital currency electronic payment) for five or six years, and I think the technology has matured. PBOC is probably the first central bank to introduce digital currency in the world,” said Huang Qifan, vice chairman of CCIEE (China Center for International Economic Exchanges).

https://pandaily.com/cciee-vice-chairman-says-pboc-will-be-first-to-roll-out-digital-currency/

Binance.US will list Waves (WAVES). Trading for the WAVES/USD trading pair will open on October 30, 2019, at 1:00 UTC.

https://support.binance.us/hc/en-us/articles/360035627431
💧 icodrops.com/waves

Bitmain competitor Canaan publicly files for $400M IPO on Nasdaq.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1780652/000119312519276263/d773846df1.htm
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/44963/bitmain-competitor-canaan-publicly-files-for-ipo-on-nasdaq

Binance Adds Margin Trading for IOST and VET.

https://www.binance.com/en/support/articles/360035635231

Samsung adds support for Tron to its Blockchain SDK.

https://developer.samsung.com/blockchain/keystore/release-note
https://developer.samsung.com/blockchain/keystore/sdk
💧 icodrops.com/tron

Cryptocurrency miner manufacturing giant Bitmain Technologies is said to have secretly filed an initial public offering (IPO) application in the U.S. with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/45129/bitmain-secretly-files-for-us-ipo-with-sec-deutsche-bank-is-the-sponsor-report

Binance opens RUB (Russian ruble) deposit and withdrawal through AdvCash.

https://binance.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360035324272-How-to-deposit-RUB-
https://binance.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360035324332-How-to-withdraw-RUB-

Binance.US will list NEO (NEO) and Cosmos (ATOM). Trading for the NEO/USD, NEO/USDT, ATOM/USD and ATOM/USDT trading pairs will open on November 1, 1:00 UTC.

https://support.binance.us/hc/en-us/articles/360035721391

Security token trading platform tZERO has partnered with UK-based real estate investment company Alliance Investments to tokenize part of a residential apartment complex.

Announced on Wednesday, the project aims to tokenize at least $25 million of the value of the residential apartments on the Tezos blockchain. The tokens will then be open to investors during a security token offering (STO) set to launch in Q1 2020.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/45228/tzero-tokenizes-25m-luxury-residential-complex-in-uk
💧 icodrops.com/tezos

CoinList announces the CoinList Trade cryptocurrency exchange and a $10MM fundraise led by Polychain Capital, with Jack Dorsey and others participating.

https://medium.com/@coinlist/helping-those-creating-the-crypto-future-799cabacd894