NEM, Augur and District0x price push higher while Bitcoin trades below $32K
Massive spikes in trading volume sent the price of XEM, REP and DNT higher even as Bitcoin price hit a weekly low at $31,000. Bitcoin (BTC) is on the verge of closing another week that saw the price dip closer to $30,000 but the same bearish observation cannot be made for all altcoins. On Friday, several smaller-cap altcoins managed to shake off the bearish assault and post-double-digit gains before traditional markets closed for the weekend. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that the top movers over the past 24 hours were NEM (XEM), Augur (REP) and district0x....
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An account belonging to Bo Shen, one of the early investors in Ethereum and Augur, was reportedly hacked on Tuesday causing funds from both networks to be drained. The hacked wallet was a top 20 wallet by size in Augur and constituted a significant percent of the total token supply. It was big enough to fill practically all the orders in the Poloniex buy side order book. The Poloniex Augur market has bottomed at the price level of 0.0001 BTC for one REP despite the average price of 0.0035 in the previous period. Poloniex tweeted that they have been investigating the Augur matter but have....
A third of the stolen REP from the account of Bo Shen has been recovered according to Augur Co-Founder Jack Peterson, and he thinks more of the stolen tokens could still be retrieved as they continue to work with exchanges. An account belonging to Shen, one of the early investors in Ethereum and Augur, was reportedly hacked last Tuesday causing the Poloniex Augur market to bottom at the price level of 0.0001 BTC for one REP, despite the average price of 0.0035 in the previous period. The hacked wallet was a top 20 wallet by size in Augur and constituted a significant percent of the total....
It's been a wild couple of days for the team at Augur. Just 48 hours into their crowdsale, which launched at noon EST on August 17, they have raised in excess of 4200 BTC and 549000 ETH. "Unfortunately, the ether and BTC price keep falling, so the buys can't keep up with the (USD) price," said Augur's marketing director, Tony Sakich. Bitcoin has dropped from $253 USD to around the $232 mark since the Augur sale began. It's a remarkable feat for a company that has a somewhat esoteric product, built on Ethereum, arguably an as-yet unproven blockchain platform. Ethereum's Frontier stage was....
There is even more positive news for Augur, as the team will be attending the CNBC & Singularity U’s Exponential Finance Innovation Lab on June 7-8. Airbitz and Augur are partnering up to deploy the Airbitz Edge Security Platform. What makes this new service so valuable is how it offers a secure account creation process for end-users. Additionally, encryption, backups, and synchronization across all devices will be part of this solution as well. A Mainstream Audience for Augur. But there’s more to the Airbitz Edge Security Platform, as it will allow users to use decentralized....
Augur, the Ethereum-based prediction market platform, has selected Airbitz for accounts services, bringing Edge Security to Ethereum. It will enable a highly secure and user-friendly account creation process, along with automatic encryption, backup and synchronization that will make Augur feel like a traditional website for the end-user. This solution could be the world’s first for interacting with blockchains. Joey Krug, Core Developer at Augur, says: "One of the biggest usability issues with decentralized apps at the moment is that there's no good way to store private keys and....