Crypto news (10/19th/2020)

Bitcoin managed to close the previous week in the green.
Upbeat economic data in the US has boosted demand for the US dollar.

Last week, investor attention shifted to US corporate earnings, retail data and factor production statistics. Most of them were encouraging. More than 80% of the S&P 500 companies that have published their financial reports beat analysts’ forecasts.

ETH 2.0 May Come In 6-8 Weeks As Developers Share The Latest News.
A release candidate for phase 0 has been posted, although Medalla still needs more input.

ETH 2.0 developer Ben Edgington recently posted an update to cover the latest news on Beacon Chain testing and development. The major update is the release of version 1.0.0 Release Candidate 0 for the Beacon Chain, which contains a number of improvements and configuration settings.