Current Bitcoin Price: $7036 (as of 7:00 AM PST)

The market is clearly performing well today, with all but 5 of the top-100 cryptocurrencies gaining value over the last 24 hours. Bitcoin has just ticked over the $7000 mark, with this development, which is the second time it has done so in several months.

Strong performers today are Dash, up 26%, IOTA, up 20%, as well as TRON, VeChain, NEO, and NANO — all up more than 10%.

Top Bitcoin & Crypto News Stories for 28th August 2018

EOS steals users’ computing resources

EOS is a controversial cryptocurrency, mainly for its questionable code origins and governance systems. While it’s the fifth largest crypto out there, bugs are still popping up on a weekly basis.

The latest of these allows malicious users to lock up others’ RAM by running code on their account, which adds table rows to the names of any users who send them transactions.

Brave browsers hits 10 million downloads

Brave is the ad-free, crypto browser that rewards you with Basic Attention Tokens in exchange for watching ads. While the monetary benefit alone is what gets users trying the browser, many have been pleasantly surprised by how it performs.

The Android app for Brave has just hit 10 million downloads on the Google Play Store, which means it’s doubled its user base in less than half a year.

Ethereum, EOS have only 8 dApps with 300 plus users

Ethereum and EOS have valuations of $28 and $5 billion, respectively, and the main selling point for both networks is the possibility of running dApps, or decentralized applications, on the currencies’ networks.

It may come as a surprise, then, that the two networks have a combined total of just eight dApps running with over 300 users. Ethereum accounts for 5 of these while EOS accounts for the other 3.