Market Update 3.21.19 – N. Korean Dissidents Selling ETH-Based Visas
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N. Korean Dissidents Selling ETH-Based Visas
The CCD (Cheollima Civil Defence), a political dissident group in North Korea, is selling ETH (Ethereum) based visas to enter the country after it is liberated. According to the group’s website, CCD has 200,000 anonymous Blockchain based visas which will be issued to people who wish to visit Free Joseon once it is liberated.
The name Joseon refers to the dynasty that ruled the region before the Korean Empire came to power. Now, the group is using that old name to refer to a liberated North Korea. These new visas – called G-VISAs – will be issued in the form of ERC-21 tokens that are non-fungible.
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Tezos Completes First Round of Voting
Tezos, the multi-million-dollar Blockchain has officially brought its first round of voting for a system-wide upgrade from two competing proposal to an end. The two proposals, called Athens A and Athens B, are the first of their kind to be a part of the hard fork process.
Through the voting process Athens A won 18,181 votes from a community of 25,885 Tezos bakers – the equivalent of miners in a traditional proof-of-work Blockchain. However, not all of the bakers in the community voted. More than 50% of the bakers abstained from the voting process.
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Square Hiring Crypto Engineers
The US-based payment services provider Square is looking to hire cryptocurrency engineers and is offering them salaries in cryptos. This news was published by the CEO of Twitter and Square, Jack Dorsey on March 21. According to the Tweet, the company is looking to hire 3 to 4 crypto engineers to work from anywhere and report directly to Dorsey. He stated that they company could even pay them in BTC (Bitcoin) if they so desired.
Dorsey said that the idea of paying the engineers in BTC was to help improve the broader cryptocurrency ecosystem and contribute to the Bitcoin community. The CEO also stated that this would be the first open-source project that would be independent of Square’s business objectives.
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Total Market Cap: Mar 21
The capitalization of the crypto market is now $141.64 billion and trading volumes are at $33.90 billion.
Bitcoin Price Analysis: Mar 21
Bitcoin’s price is up 0.95% to trade at $4084.69 per token. Capitalization is at $71.89 billion and trading volumes are $10.09 billion.
Ethereum Price Analysis: Mar 21
Since yesterday, Ether is up 1.15% to trade at a price of $140.61. Trading volumes are at $4.73 billion and its capitalization is at $14.80 billion.
State of the Top 10 Cryptocurrencies: Mar 21
In the last 24 hours, most of the cryptos in the top ten list have gained in their token prices. Stellar is the only exception and has lost 1.44% in its price. Binance Coin is trading flat and the rest of the cryptos are trading up. Of the gainers, Litecoin is experiencing the biggest gains with a 1.68% increase in its token price. Bitcoin Cash is next with a 1.48% increase and Ether has gained 1.15%.
- Bitcoin’s trading at $4084.69, gaining by 0.95%. At the moment, this token is worth $71.89 billion.
- Ethereum’s trading at $140.61, gaining by 1.15%. At the moment, this token is worth $14.80 billion.
- Ripple’s trading at $0.318290, gaining by 0.86%. At the moment, this token is worth $13.26 billion.
- Litecoin’s trading at $60.55, gaining by 1.68%. At the moment, this token is worth $3.69 billion.
- EOS’s trading at $3.74, gaining by 0.59%. At the moment, this token is worth $3.39 billion.
- Bitcoin Cash’s trading at $160.50, gaining by 1.48%. At the moment, this token is worth $2.83 billion.
- Binance Coin’s trading flat at $15.25. At the moment, this token is worth $2.15 billion.
- Stellar’s trading at $0.0111329, losing by 1.44%. At the moment, this token is worth $2.14 billion.
- Tether’s trading at $1.01, gaining by 0.22%. At the moment, this token is worth $2.03 billion.
- TRON’s trading at $0.022977, gaining by 0.34%. At the moment, this token is worth $1.53 billion.