Daily Crypto Roundup 1/17/2019

Today in crypto, top professors started building a coin to beat bitcoin, Joe Lubin joined ErisX and BitPay showed $1 billion in transactions from last year. USD Coin also passed its third audit and big investors showed continued hesitancy toward the crypto space.
Crypto Insider also dove into decentralized energy, Proof-of-Stake (PoS) coins and MimbleWimble’s Grin and Beam.
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