Tezos' big day as crypto treads water while Mt.Gox wallet fears resurface

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Bitcoin and the wider market is treading water this morning, which has got to be better than nursing more loses.

BTC is at $6,448 and Tezos (XTZ), whose mainnet launches today, is unchanged at $1.58. Crypto market cap stands at $202.5 billion and BTC dominance at 55.3%. Bitcoin trading 24-hour volume is low, even by recent standards, at just $3.3 billion.

Europe to wait on crypto rules


EU finance ministers met in Vienna on Saturday and decided to wait on reports from the bloc's financial authorities and others before deciding how to proceed. They also that crypto does not represent a threat to the financial system, so the pace of progress with a regulatory framework is slow.

That's probably music to the ears of the Maltese government. It has been fostering the country as a hub for crypto, although as Bloomberg noted in a major report on the island's economy and burgeoning financial sector, lack of transparency in its governance, both corporate and public, is an issue that is rising up the agenda for Europe.

Mt.Gox fears return


There is more fretting today about the Mt.Gox bankruptcy trustee, Nobuaki Kobayashi, asking creditors to file their claims before 22 October. Market participants fear a big dump of coins could be coming down the line as a result.

That story is being linked again to the mystery wallet with BTC valued at around $800 million. It's an old story we have already covered but we'll be keeping an eye out for developments.

The latest evidence of the success of the Maltese government in attracting crypto companies comes in the tie up between crypto exchange Binance and the Malta Stock Exchange to set up a digital asset marketplace.

Zimbabwe finance minister loves crypto


In Zimbabwe the new finance minister, Mthuli Ncube, is a fan of crypto, which probably won't go down very well with the central bank. “One can pay for travel using bitcoin in Switzerland. So, if these countries can see value in this and where it’s headed, we should also pay attention,” Ncube said.

He sees crypto as a way of solving Zimbabwe's cash crisis which saw the dollarization of the currency and strict limits on dollar withdrawals.

Tezos's big day


Those of you more interested in fundamentals than where the price of a coin might be today, will be closely following the launch of the Tezos mainnet.

The $1 billion project has been plagued by controversy, but that has subsided after validators were opened up to third parties in June, a new head of Foundation was appointed and PwC were appointed as auditors. Tezos is 30% higher on the week making it the third best performer among top alts this week.

Biggest risers among top 100 crypto by market cap over 7 days, as at 17 September 11:57 GMT

Name Symbol Price $ % ch 7d
Aurora AOA 0.033 158.92
MOAC MOAC 1.915 45.07
Tezos XTZ 1.567 29.93
Maker MKR 414.133 22.42
Nano NANO 2.438 22.21
Ark ARK 0.740 18.16
Dragonchain DRGN 0.235 18.15
Bancor BNT 1.421 16.80
BitShares BTS 0.117 16.72
Decentraland MANA 0.073 15.32
Nexus NXS 0.951 13.66
FunFair FUN 0.016 12.54
Ardor ARDR 0.108 12.35
Chainlink LINK 0.279 12.12
Ethereum ETH 219.726 11.84
MaidSafeCoin MAID 0.247 10.70
Monero XMR 118.352 10.63
ReddCoin RDD 0.004 9.65
Dropil DROP 0.004 9.61
Bitcoin Gold BTG 21.095 8.78
RChain RHOC 0.263 8.41
TenX PAY 0.666 8.21
Stellar XLM 0.208 8.16
Elastos ELA 8.155 8.11
Aeternity AE 0.977 7.61
DigiByte DGB 0.025 7.04
EOS EOS 5.374 6.71
Verge XVG 0.014 6.66
Wanchain WAN 0.978 6.28
Power Ledger POWR 0.157 6.11
Huobi Token HT 1.741 5.27
Basic Attention Token BAT 0.161 4.50
Binance Coin BNB 9.915 3.79
IOST IOST 0.012 3.73
Aion AION 0.447 3.44
Decred DCR 37.392 3.24
Lisk LSK 3.760 3.16
Litecoin LTC 56.172 2.97
Bytom BTM 0.171 2.96
Metaverse ETP ETP 3.182 2.77
XRP XRP 0.281 2.75
Bitcoin BTC 6487.837 2.54
Kyber Network KNC 0.395 2.48
Golem GNT 0.136 1.92
Waves WAVES 2.229 1.87
TRON TRX 0.020 1.29
Cryptonex CNX 2.064 1.28
Siacoin SC 0.005 1.12
Horizen ZEN 15.995 0.62
Theta Token THETA 0.086 0.61
Stratis STRAT 1.428 0.57
IOTA MIOTA 0.575 0.54
ICON ICX 0.635 0.33
Waltonchain WTC 3.465 0.33
Status SNT 0.034 0.28
Nxt NXT 0.065 0.28
Dogecoin DOGE 0.006 0.07
Tether USDT 1.002 -0.08
TrueUSD TUSD 1.003 -0.08
QASH QASH 0.210 -0.50
Dai DAI 1.002 -0.67
Komodo KMD 1.071 -0.81
Bitcoin Private BTCP 3.016 -0.87
Ethereum Classic ETC 11.118 -0.98
0x ZRX 0.564 -1.31
aelf ELF 0.336 -1.90
Zcash ZEC 116.830 -2.14
Loopring LRC 0.091 -2.53
Ontology ONT 1.813 -2.80
MCO MCO 4.255 -2.98
OmiseGO OMG 3.363 -3.06
Qtum QTUM 3.414 -3.14
Dash DASH 195.961 -3.30
PIVX PIVX 0.928 -3.42
MonaCoin MONA 0.988 -3.45
Zilliqa ZIL 0.034 -3.47
Dentacoin DCN 0.000 -3.48
Mithril MITH 0.271 -3.68
CyberMiles CMT 0.082 -3.70
Bytecoin BCN 0.002 -3.92
Steem STEEM 0.747 -4.18
VeChain VET 0.014 -4.20
NEO NEO 17.834 -4.26
DigixDAO DGD 36.235 -4.76
Pundi X NPXS 0.001 -5.43
Augur REP 13.652 -5.46
GXChain GXS 1.053 -5.87
KuCoin Shares KCS 1.107 -6.14
WAX WAX 0.061 -6.28
Populous PPT 3.427 -6.38
Bitcoin Cash BCH 447.028 -6.58
NEM XEM 0.091 -6.81
Nebulas NAS 1.377 -7.35
ZCoin XZC 9.501 -7.65
Bitcoin Diamond BCD 1.870 -7.81
Cardano ADA 0.069 -8.61
Holo HOT 0.001 -12.29
Hshare HSR 2.160 -12.32
Gas GAS 5.224 -13.96
Mixin XIN 142.303 -16.13
 

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