Hodler's Digest, July 9-15: While Mining ETH is a 'Side Hustle' for Google Co-Founder, Mining BTC for Russians May Fund Election 'Interference'

Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google and the current president of Google's parent company Alphabet, has said that he and his 10-year-old son mine Ethereum together as a "Side hustle." Brin also said that cryptocurrencies are "Mind-boggling" and the crypto global network is "Extraordinary," admitting that Google hasn't been on the "Bleeding-edge" in embracing crypto.

Billionaire Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, tweeted this week about the "Mad skillz" of Twitter scammers impersonating famous people to steal ETH and other crypto from their victims.

According to the announcement, students will learn the "practical skills" involved in dealing with crypto exchanges, crypto wallets, and how to evaluate the analytics of ICOs.

Security-focused hardware wallet Ledger, which sold more than one million crypto wallets in 2017, is now seeking an additional funding found.

The company already raised $75 million in a Series B funding round in January, but the new fundraising intends to attract "industrial partners who will also sign commercial contracts with the crypto startup.

Steven Cohen, the founder of Point72 Asset Management, is allegedly backing crypto and blockchain-focused hedge fund, Autonomous Partners.

According to Bloomberg, Cohen invested in Arianna Simpson's crypto hedge fund visa his private equity firm Cohen Private Ventures.

Decentralized Crypto Platform Bancor Experiences "Security Breach" Involving $12 Mln. Bancor, a decentralized cryptocurrency platform, halted operations on July 9 as it investigated a "security breach" that reportedly involved around $12 million of Ethereum, $1,200 of Pundi X, and the platform's native token BNT. The exchange reported that no users funds were affected, as cryptocurrencies are not held in hot wallets.

Kaspersky Lab reports that cyber criminals have stolen around 21,000 in Ethereum through social engineering schemes over the past year, with more than a hundred thousand alarms triggered on security software dealing with crypto since the beginning of 2018.

Douthit details what he considers the recent "eye opening" changes that show the crypto space is actually moving in the right direction, like Bloomberg's Crypto Galaxy Fund Index and Goldman Sachs's future crypto trading desk.