Recap
Last weekly of 2018, time to look back and take stock of what happened in the last 12 months. Despite the obvious price downfall in prices, more and more people are learning about and using cryptocurrencies. This year has set a record for adoption, but also for exchange hacks, both in number and scale.
Speaking of hacking, a group called wallet.fail outlined a way to attack hardware wallets from Trezor and Ledger. The vulnerability should be patched in a firmware update coming in January.
Japanese internet giant GMO Internet Group is quitting the Bitcoin mining hardware sector due to a significant loss in Q4 of this year. This is another consequence of the falling mining profitability brought about by the drop in prices.
The end of 2018 also marks the 10th anniversary from the beginning of the Great Financial Crisis, one of the supposed reasons behind the creation of Bitcoin. Since then, crypto has made great strides, but it still has a long way to go.
News
Despite Slump in Crypto Prices, Bitcoin ATMs More Than Doubled in 2018
2018: A Record-Breaking Year for Crypto Exchange Hacks
Hardware Hacking: How To Secure Your Trezor Wallet With Passphrase
GMO Internet Exits Bitcoin Miner Production After Recording ‘Extraordinary Loss’ in Q4
The End of the First Crypto Decade
Mapping out the major crypto infrastructure launches of 2018
Bitmain Reportedly Will Sack More Than Half of Workforce
Bitcoin Miner Raked in $14.5 Million in Crypto Using $3 Million in Stolen Electricity
Coinbase to relaunch Earn.com as Coinbase Earn, the latest iteration of a product with many former identities
Trading Ideas
BTC
XRP
Podcast of the week
Marty Bent on What Bitcoin Did in 2018
