Hodler’s Digest

Bitcoin is reportedly producing as much carbon emissions as Kansas City, while Facebook gets some new backers for its crypto project.

Tron CEO Justin Sun gets to lunch with Warren Buffett for $4.5 million, while Facebook’s coin may come out this month.

Kik has launched a Defend Crypto campaign, while Facebook’s crypto coin could face some demographic challenges.

Craig Wright again makes claims about his true identity as Satoshi Nakamoto, while the SEC delays a BTC ETF decision, again.

Bitstamp processed a very large sell order, while Bakkt’s bitcoin futures should be tested in July.

Fidelity may soon offer crypto trading, Facebook Coin may be launched in Q3 2019, and more.

Stablecoin tether is apparently only backed 74% by cash reserves, and Elon Musk and Vitalik Buterin get friendly on Twitter.

Bitfinex and Tether deny the New York attorney general’s claims of a lost $850 million, and Samsung considers a Samsung Coin.

FinCEN’s enforcement against a p2p crypto exchanger could set a precedent, and French instant mashed potatoes go blockchain.

Bloomberg calls Bitcoin a bubble yet again, and Facebook is seemingly looking for $1 billion from VC firms for its stablecoin.

This week, PayPal ventured into blockchain for the first time, and Coinbase turns to cross-border payments.

This week saw the hacks of several large cryptocurrency exchanges, while the SEC pushed back their BTC ETF decision.

The QuadrigaCX story gets stranger as the criminal past of one founder is allegedly revealed, while IBM gets more into blockchain.

In this week’s Hodler’s Digest, Jay Clayton may not consider ETH to be a security, but the CBOE is over BTC futures contracts for now.

In major news this week, university students seem to be making a profit mining crypto, and Jack Dorsey buys $10,000 of BTC a week.