Altcoin News – IOTA & Microsoft, Ubiq wins award, TenX & Ripple XRP on Huobi Pro

IOTA & Microsoft, Ubiq wins award, TenX & Ripple XRP on Huobi Pro, Bitcoin BTC mining, Verge is back

Headlines
Microsoft and IOTA launch first cryptocurrency market for the Internet of Things
Ubiq wins Blockchain Company Of The Year and works on Trezor support
Huobi Pro launches TenX (PAY) and Ripple (XRP) , Verge (XVG) added on two more exchanges
Energy used by mining bitcoin this year is greater than the annual usage of almost 160 countries
why the market will explode over the next 2 years
News
The marketplace demo will run until January. IOTA has promised to release a series of blog posts and case studies to showcase the various ways in which companies and individuals can benefit from using its technology.
https://blog.iota.org/iota-data-marketplace-cb6be463ac7f
https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2017/11/28/iota-microsoft-data-marketplace-cryptocurrency/
https://twitter.com/DomSchiener?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
https://venturebeat.com/2017/11/28/iota-launches-iot-data-marketplace-envisions-devices-autonomously-buying-and-trading-information/
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/iota/

The amount of energy used by computers “mining” bitcoin so far this year is greater than the annual usage of almost 160 countries, according to new research.
http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-mining-electricity-usage-2017-11?IR=T

there’s a huge distinction between the money use case, store of value, and the blockchain use case, for other assets. And I think it’s useful to kind of separate those. So a blockchain makes a ton of sense to record in real-time legal – Ari Paul, CIO of BlockTower, Capital Cryo Hedge Fund. http://uk.businessinsider.com/cryptocurrency-value-explained-by-crypto-hedge-fund-cio-ari-paul-2017-11/?IR=T