"Whisky on the blockchain" December 19, 2020

Today's blockchain and cryptocurrency news
Episode sponsored by ungrocery.com

Bitcoin is up 2% at $23,113
Ethereum is up 2% at $654
and XRP is up 2% at 58 cents

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
The Graph up 96%
Zilliqa up 28%
Nem up 15%

Bitmain's financial woes come to light.

Coinbase taps Goldman Sachs for IPO lead.

Lil Pump launches PumpCoin on Fyooz.

The University of Glasgow turns to blockchain provenance to combat fake whiskies.

• University of Glasgow - University news - Everledger seals agreement with UofG to combat counterfeit Scotch whiskies
• Lil Pump Is Doing a Social Token Called PumpCoin - CoinDesk
• Crytpo exchange Coinbase taps Goldman Sachs for upcoming IPO - Business Insider
• Bitmain recorded a nearly $60M loss in 2019, lawyer says in court hearing - The Block