Today's blockchain and cryptocurrency news Bitcoin is up 3% at $9,890 XRP is up 1% at 25 cents and Ethereum is up 2% at $173 Top gainers in the last 24 hours: Burst up 25% and Grin up 18% North Korea is denying the UN report that suggests the nation was behind major hacks of banks and cryptocurrency exchanges. Craig Wright asking for an addiditional 14 days to challenge the judge’s decision because of hurricane dorian. The Thai crypto exchange bitcoin co is shuttering after 5 years. Phillipino boxer and senator Manny Pacquiano is launching his own cryptocurrency called ‘pac’. Soviet-era factories are finding a second life as Bitcoin mining farms.