Hodler's Digest, July 29-August 5: Both Kim Kardashian and the Operator of the New York Stock Exchange Get Into Bitcoin

Intercontinental Exchange, the operator of 23 global exchanges including the New York Stock Exchange, has announced plans to launch an "Open and regulated" global digital asset ecosystem, as well as one-day physically delivered Bitcoin contracts pending CFTC review and approval.

Kim Kardashian West posted an Instagram Story to her $114 million followers last week of what appeared to be her staking physical Bitcoin chips at a charity poker night out.

The physical cryptos appear to closely resemble a Kialara-designed bitcoin, which crypto entrepeneur Matt Roszak tweeted that he gave Kardashian West earlier that day.

Crypto wallet and exchange Coinbase announced this week that it is considering adding 40 new assets to its custodial service, with the caveat that they may be added "For storage only" and are not currently considering them for trading.

High Times Holding Corp., a cannabis culture media organization, will accept Bitcoin and Ethereum in its Initial Public Offering in an apparent first time for a traditional stock offering to accept crypto.

Major U.S. crypto exchange and wallet Coinbase has announced that it will be rolling out support for the British pound.

According to Coinbase, the new feature will let UK customers buy and sell crypto for pounds within the same day.

Crypto exchange Binance has bought Trust Wallet, an open source, anonymous, and decentralized wallet that supports Ethereum and over 20,000 different Ethereum-based tokens.

The crypto markets have taken a hit this week, with Bitcoin dipping briefly below $7,000 and Ethereum trading near $400. Total market cap is around $256 million by press time.

Paul Krugman, an economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2008, explained his position as a "Crypto skeptic" in a New York Times op-ed this week.