Coming every Sunday, the Hodler’s Digest will help you to track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions, and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.
Top Stories This Week
Vitalik Buterin Rails Against Centralized Cryptocurrency Exchanges
Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, said[1] this week that he hopes centralized exchanges will “burn in hell” due to their ability to determine which cryptocurrencies “become big” by charging “these crazy ten to fifteen million dollar listing fees.” Buterin then referred to Ethereum’s decentralization by using the example that even if he was forced at gunpoint to hard fork ETH, only a few users would download and run the update: “[that] is called decentralization.”
EU Parliamentary Report Says To Ignore Bitcoin Pessimists Like Robert Shiller
A new report from the European Parliament states[2] that since crypto will “remain with us for a while,” lawmakers shouldn’t ban or ignore the digital assets. The crypto-positive reports specifically mentions Nobel prize winning economist Robert Shiller, calling those who refer to crypto as a utopia or mania “mistaken.” The report notes that crypto global transaction network are “relatively safe, transparent, and fast,” although it does add that virtual currencies pose a problem to financial regulators due to their “anonymity and trans-border nature.”
BitMEX Exchange Co-Founder Ben Delo Reported As Crypto’s “Youngest” Billionaire
Ben Delo, the 34-year-old Oxford graduate who founded BitMEX in 2014, has reportedly become[3] Britain's youngest crypto billionaire. Delo told the Daily Mail this week that he prefers to give away his money to charities, following the frugal examples of Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. BitMEX is currently one
