On the night of Saturday, January 6, the total capitalization of the market for the first time in history exceeded the $ 800 billion mark. The share of bitcoin continues to decrease: as of Sunday, it is only 34%. The very first Cryptocurrency in the first week showed quite moderate results in new realities: having lowered in the first days of January slightly below $ 13,000, bitcoin then grew in price by several thousand dollars. However, after rising above $ 17,000, by the end of the week, Bitcoin is trading around $ 16,200. Ethereum - more than $ 1,000 This is probably the news that many have been waiting for separately. The most patient ones eventually waited: on January 4, Ethereum first traded above $ 1,000. However, if you look at the ratio of ETH to BTC, the situation is not so rosy: according to the results of the week, bitcoin holders, as seen in the graph below, turned out to be in profit. The price of ETH to BTC at the time of publication was $ 1,130. NaN$NaN BTC Bitcoin and the blockbuster industry: the main events of the week (01.01.18 - 07.01.18) NEWS 01/07/2018 The first week of 2018 was relatively quiet if such a concept is applicable to the crypto-currency space. Nevertheless, a number of events should be highlighted. Capitalization of crypto-currencies - more than $ 800 billion On the night of Saturday, January 6, the total capitalization of the market for the first time in history exceeded the $ 800 billion mark. The share of bitcoin continues to decrease: as of Sunday, it is only 34%. The very first Cryptocurrency in the first week showed quite moderate results in new realities: having lowered in the first days of January slightly below $ 13,000, bitcoin then grew in price by several thousand dollars. However, after rising above $ 17,000, by the end of the week, Bitcoin is trading around $ 16,200. Ethereum - more than $ 1,000 This is probably the news that many have been waiting for separately. The most patient ones eventually waited: on January 4, Ethereum first traded above $ 1,000. However, if you look at the ratio of ETH to BTC, the situation is not so rosy: according to the results of the week, bitcoin holders, as seen in the graph below, turned out to be in profit. The price of ETH to BTC at the time of publication was $ 1,130. Ripple - dreams come true? Having managed to reach the second place in terms of capitalization before the end of 2017, in the first week of the new year, the Ripple coin (XRP) continued its confident ascent, at some point close to the $ 4 mark. Rumors of the forthcoming addition of XRP to Coinbase played a role in this, not least. The platform itself, however, refuted these reports, saying that no decision was taken at this stage. Nevertheless, as a mini-world, three people involved in Ripple, due to the rapid growth of the price of a token in recent weeks, can feel quite good. All of them in theory greatly multiplied their state. Visa closes debit bitcoin-cards for residents of Europe The largest issuers of debit bitcoin-cards announced the closure of this product line for non-residents of the United States after Visa ordered to stop supporting the corresponding payments. The order was sent on Thursday, January 4, to the payment platform WaveCrest, whose customers are several bitcoins, including BitPay, TenX, Bitwala, and Wirex. All of them have already made statements to stop issuing and servicing the cards. Visa, however, insists that this step should not be viewed as a repressive measure against cryptocurrency, and the partnership with WaveCrest is suspended due to "non-compliance with the rules of work" on the part of this Gibraltar financial company. Mark Zuckerberg - cryptocurrency out-going The head of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg made a series of New Year resolutions, declaring, among other things, his readiness to explore the possibility of integrating crypto-currency into the world's largest social network that he owns. Quite curious are the statements of Mark about the need for greater decentralization. "Recently, such important counter-trends as encryption and crypto-currencies have emerged. They take power from centralized systems and return it to people. At the same time, they involve risks of more difficult control. I'm interested in a deeper study of the positive and negative aspects of these technologies and their possible use in our services, " Zuckerberg said. Miners leave China Bitmain, the largest Chinese manufacturer of mining equipment, began shifting its facilities outside the country. According to Bithain co-founder Jihan Wu, the company has already opened a headquarters in Singapore and has also launched mining operations in the US and Canada. In addition, it became known that the third largest in China mining-pool BTC.top opened a unit in Canada. Another large pool, ViaBTC, opened branches in Iceland and the USA. Such measures are caused by increased pressure from the Chinese authorities on the crypto industry. Earlier in the week, the People's Bank of China denied the rumors about a possible ban on mining bitcoins. At the same time, the regulator confirmed its intention to gradually eliminate the existing preferential terms for this business in the field of electric power, taxes and land use. Samourai Wallet vs. BitPay Samourai, the popular bitcoin-purse team, said that the industry's largest processing service BitPay, without any warning or discussion with the developers, refused to support the standard display scheme for end users of payment requests described in BIP21. Instead, BitPay adopted a questionable and not widely supported BIP70 scheme. The BIP21 scheme is accepted by all wallets and service providers from 2012 and ensures that regardless of the software used QR codes and payment requests are created and interpreted in one standard way. This ensures maximum compatibility and interoperability of software and services in a decentralized network with open source. Also, developers say they refuse to accept BitPay's aggressive use of the dominant position of the company in the marketplace and to force purse providers to support their business plans or force users to use the system that adversely affects their privacy and the interchangeability of bitcoin as a whole. New contender for the title of creator bitcoin The list of likely candidates for the name of Satoshi Nakamoto is replenished. The lawyer from Los Angeles Justin Sobaji is convinced that under this pseudonym lies a scientist from Estonia. At the end of 2017, Sobaji sent a letter to the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, The Sun and Postimees with a "number of proofs" that the founder of the first cryptocurrency was the senior research fellow at the University of Tartu's cryptography Helger Lipmaa. Sobaji is sure that the famous white paper bitcoin could be written only by a person who is well versed in time marking and hashing technologies. According to him, the principles of this technology were disclosed in the doctoral work of Lipmaa, as well as in a number of scientific articles published by him in the late 1990s.