Today's blockchain and cryptocurrency news Bitcoin is up 0.5% at 9,302 Ethereum is down 1.5% at $204 and XRP is down 3% at 21 cents Top gainers in the last 24 hours: Hyperion up 20% 0x up 19% and Status up 19% VBit picked up 1.1 million in a fund raise to open a new 200mw bitcoin mining facility in Canada. Ukraine’s state-owned nuclear energy subsidiary Energoatom has been advised to mine crypto with their nuclear power plants. The New York Department of Financial Services has granted ErisX a bitlicense—the first of the year. The Libra association has named their first CEO: Former HSBC Chief Legal officer Stuart Levey.