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Hello again. It has been a while.


Cryptocurrencies dealt blow with Ban in China in September sparking a sell off. However, Bitcoin quickly rebounded from a low of ~2,800 shortly after.

Ethereum undergoes Byzantium hard fork, but struggles to advance against USD. Continues to trade ~$300.

Bitcoin owners received a nice forking dividend from Bitcoin Cash (BCC) (soon to have Bitcoin Gold and two others coming later this year). Don't worry about BTC Forks, just sit back and enjoy the dividend, but not with Coinbase.  It is true that Coinbase simplifies owning digital currencies, but Bitcoin forks, they hold the forking Currency. If you have any questions about BTC Forks, you may tweet me @bitfuturist

IBM teams up with Stellar.

AMD crushes Q2 ER (earnings report), continues to stay humble on its GPU sales (despite the cryptocurrency mining boom), and moderately lowers guidance. When asked about AMD's reasoning behind lowing guidance, AMD's response was that seasonality points to a lower Q3. 

Overstock gets into digital currencies with its own called tØ and plans its ICO for November 2017 (November 15 - December 15). $OSTK has launched. 52 week range: $13 - $43

Check back tomorrow, hopefully I will have a better one up haha.

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