The South Korean online portal for employment Saramin interviewed 941 employees and found out that 31.3% of them invested in cryptocurrencies. The average investment volume was 5.66 million won ($ 5,300). Of the surveyed employees who invested in the cryptocurrency, 44.1% invested less than 1 million won, 18.3% - 1-2 million won, 9.8% - 2-4 million won, 7.8% - 4-6 million won, 12.9% - more than 10 million won. 54.2% of respondents said they invested in cryptocurrency because I think this is the fastest way to earn, and 47.8% said it was an easy investment, as the amount was insignificant.

Bitcoin is considered a haven for hyperinflation for Latin Americans - at least two new Cryptocurrency funds were opened in 2017 to meet the needs of wealthy Latin Americans, according to a local report. While both funds are located overseas, most of their clients are family offices from Argentina, Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean. "Latin America is very unstable," said Carlos Mosquera, founder of the Italian hedge fund Solidus Capital. "Cryptocurrencies turn into a new shelter for her."

A group of famous musicians, including Mariah Carey, Marilyn Manson and many others, began to accept Monero anonymous cryptocurrency as payment for their albums. The Project Coral Reef was attended by more than 40 performers, such as Slayer, Weezer, G-Eazy, Sia and Fallout Boy. The authors of the project - businessman Naveen Jane (Naveen Jain) and the leading developer of Monero, Riccardo Spagny (Riccardo "Fluffypony" Spagni). This initiative will allow to buy albums and souvenirs of such artists as Mariah Carey, Mötorhead, Alice Cooper and others with 15% discount.

ICO of Blockstack start-up officially completed - the company announced the collection of 50 million dollars through the sale of 440 million tokens. Crowdsale started in November, with investors such as Union Square Ventures (USV), Foundation Capital, Lux Capital, Winklevoss Capital, Blockchain Capital, Digital Currency Group, Techcrunch founder Michael Arrington and Digg founder Kevin Rose. In their statements the Blockstack team tried to emphasize that all investors should be considered as long-term partners, each of which agreed to take an open position regarding the project's Cryptocurrency.

The British government plans to impose strict rules on Cryptocurrency, in particular Bitcoin, to combat fraud, tax evasion and money laundering.The UK Treasury will regulate the use of the Cryptocurrency, as a result of which it falls under the law on combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism.

As expected, Bitcoin quickly played his position and even set a new high at $ 11,845. This was promoted as official news that the US regulator allowed the exchanges to sell futures and options for Bitcoin, as well as rumors that NASDAQ is also going to launch Bitcoin futures next year. Later this rumor was disproved, but managed to manifest its influence. Now Bitcoin continues to bargain at the borders of the new border of 12 000 dollars, and most likely with the beginning of the week it will pass this level. At least there are no weighty reasons that could prevent this. Capitalization of Bitcoin closely approached the mark of 200 billion dollars, and the total capitalization of Cryptocurrencies exceeded $ 350 billion.