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❏ Bitcoin is heading into a historically weak month on a positive note and could see gains if resistance at $4,190 is breached. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Mobile payments firm Square has reported its revenue and profits from bitcoin sales in 2018. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ New tech by a principal developer could soon make it possible for bitcoin's lightning network to expand to new use cases. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The latest big names to join the bitcoin payments experiment are financial giant Fidelity Investments and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin looks set to end its record six-month losing streak with modest gains in February. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ As the situation in Venezuela continues to escalate, artist cryptograffiti, crypto exchange AirTM and merchant services provider Cripto Conserje have teamed up for an all-day fundraiser to tear down – in whatever way they can – Maduro's regime. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin risks a further sell-off if the bulls' defense of $3,700 fails to produce quick recovery. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Argentina's thriving crypto startup scene offers a unique cocktail of technical development and tangible user demand for bitcoin. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Funds allocated to BTC/USD short positions on Bitfinex fell to 11-month lows on Sunday as the price of bitcoin fell more than 8 percent. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Warren Buffett has reiterated his negative view of bitcoin but expressed admiration for the underlying technology. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitfinex has announced that some of the bitcoin stolen in a major 2016 hack has been returned after it was retrieved by the U.S. government. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin nosedived yesterday, clouding the interim bullish outlook and a deeper drop could unfold if the key support near $3,700 is breached. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin likely bottomed out in December and could begin a new bull run this year, as a lagging indicator has turned bearish for the first time in four years. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bounty0x CMO Pascal Thellman discusses some of the potential security and incentives issues with validators on proof-of-stake networks. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Jurisdictions that lack clear guidance or take a hostile view of blockchain and crypto hurt the industry. Florida is doing both. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's price returned above $4,000 on Saturday for the first time in over a over eight weeks as the broader cryptocurrency market flashed green. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ CoinDesk takes a ride in the first car ever purchased with bitcoin – a Prius paid for with 1,000 BTC. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's three-day price consolidation looks to be a bull breather before a continuation of the recent rally to above $4,000. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ In a new interview, bitcoin's lead maintainer, Wlad van der Laan, argues any change to the cryptocurrency's supply would erode its utility and value. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ QuadrigaCX's "hot" wallets for bitcoin and ether have been nearly emptied with the funds sent to court-appointed monitor EY. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A much-followed bitcoin price indicator has turned bullish for the first time in seven months, indicating a trend change in the market. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A project aiming to empower people to build nodes that can send and route payments on bitcoin’s in-development lightning network has officially released version 1.0 of its code. Announced this week, RaspiBlitz has published finalized instructions for building a lightning node on a tiny hobbyist computer called a raspberry pi. Often used for custom tech […] ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The total trading volume in the cryptocurrency market recorded yesterday reached a its highest amount since April 25, 2018. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin could revisit December highs above $4,200 in the near-term as the recent rally is backed by a surge in trading volumes. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ There are two bitcoin ETFs under review by the SEC, after the VanEck/SolidX proposal was published in the Federal Register Wednesday. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Cryptocurrencies can't match gold on stability and volume, and are not a direct competitor, says the World Gold Council. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has officially gone public with his belief cryptocurrency offers an improved alternative to conventional money. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The VanEck/SolidX bitcoin ETF proposal is slated for publication in the Federal Register tomorrow, giving the SEC 45 days to approve, reject or extend a decision on it. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The amount of money in bitcoin short positions on Bitfinex dropped 28 percent since yesterday to reach a 6-month low. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin has broken the 100-day moving average for the first time in 272 days, briefly passing $3,900 overnight. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Schnorr signatures, a code change likely to be one of the biggest coming upgrades to bitcoin, have now gone from a theoretical idea to real code courtesy of technology startup Blockstream. Announced Monday, Blockstream has added a technology known as “MuSig” to its test cryptographic library, making it possible for developers to tinker with the […] ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bullish bets on bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency by value, reached 11-month highs on Monday. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ When "liking" your favorite tweet isn't enough, you can now send small bitcoin tips via the lightning network. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The $156 in bitcoin being passed via the "Lighting Torch" is a bigger deal than trillions in JPM Coins would be, writes Michael J. Casey. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitmain Technologies has announced a new 7nm bitcoin mining processor that it says offers a big boost in energy efficiency. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's high-volume move to one-month highs could be the start of a stronger rally to above key resistance near $3,760. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ In a response to the CFTC, nChain chief scientist Craig Wright has criticized ethereum and restated his claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Identifying speculative bubbles or bearish exhaustion may be possible through the use of a fairly new metric known as the Mayer Multiple. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ What is bitcoin? 40 experts show that 10 years later, it's still a question with a variety of answers. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The clock just started on the latest effort to launch a bitcoin ETF from NYSE Arca and Bitwise Asset Management. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's six days in the doldrums has weakened the bull case in the short term, leaving a target of $3,700 for a resumed rally. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ If hackers felt like it, they could split bitcoin in two, but researchers say they have a solution in the form of a relay network called SABRE. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Using the Lightning Network, more than 150 people bought Domino's pizza with bitcoin this week. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The largest US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has allowed its users to withdraw BSV three months after the hard fork. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Sources in Iran say the country's financial sector is taking clear steps toward a state-backed token economy. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Transaction fees make the bitcoin blockchain go round. The miners are compensated for their efforts, not only through inflationary block rewards, but also through fees charged to users for adding their transaction to blocks. While fees on average make up about 4% of the total miner revenue per day, with the lion’s share coming from […] ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A long-term price indicator validates a growing consensus among investors that bitcoin is close to bottoming out. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Researchers have identified a group of bitcoin addresses that likely belonged to the cold wallets of failed exchange QuadrigaCX. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The withdrawal of a proposed ETF that would have had exposure to bitcoin futures comes just days after its submission to the SEC. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Nasdaq, the second-largest stock exchange in the world, is adding bitcoin and ethereum indices to its global data service later this month. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's struggle to cross a key moving average lined up above $3,600 is a cause of concern for the bulls. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Japanese IT giant GMO Internet has just reported an operating loss of nearly $12 million for its cryptocurrency business in 2018. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ QuadrigaCX lost another 100 bitcoin after transferring them to a cold wallet it previously said it cannot access. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's pullback from three-week highs hit on Friday doesn't mean the rally is over. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Lightning Network projects are booming, thanks in part to the buzz surrounding bitcoin bull Jack Dorsey. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ BinanceCoin (BNB) has extended its recent gains to set a new all-time high in bitcoin-denominated value. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ An ETF proposal filed Monday would invest in bitcoin futures and the sovereign debt of several developed countries. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin saw a high-volume bullish move Friday that may have opened the doors for a rally above $3,800. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ NYSE parent firm Intercontinental Exchange is likely to spend over $20 million building its bitcoin futures trading platform Bakkt in 2019. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ We took a tour of the Museum of Bitcoin, a pop-up installation at The North American Bitcoin Conference 2019. It was a trip down memory lane. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The broader cryptocurrency market picked up strong bid during Friday's trading session with litecoin (LTC) leading the charge. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A U.S. SEC commissioner, Robert J. Jackson Jr. has said he believes a bitcoin exchange-traded fund will ultimately be approved. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin, which continues to languish near seven-week lows, is being outshone by a surge in price for litecoin. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The latest code version for the lightning network, often trumpeted as the future of bitcoin payments, includes a "block size increase." ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Hamas is soliciting bitcoin donations for its military operations, but so far has only garnered a few thousand dollars. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ There's a website out there masquerading as Bakkt in an apparent attempt to bilk people out of their bitcoin. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ With bitcoin closing yesterday at the lowest level in 7.5 weeks, the gradual sell-off is showing no signs of abating. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Lingerie purchasing as a bitcoin use case is much less far-fetched than you might imagine. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin price gains may be capped by a key moving average that has been acting as stiff resistance since mid-January. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Coinbase users will be able to directly control their bitcoin holdings from the firm’s Wallet app after a coming update. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's hashrate distribution has become more decentralized, according to a research report from Canaccord Genuity Group. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's "lightning torch" saw none other than Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey snatch up the ongoing payment experiment and pass it on Tuesday. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The bitcoin block reward will be cut in half next year – and soon, market watchers can place bets on exactly when the subsidy halving will happen. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The current calm in the bitcoin market is reminiscent of the lackluster trading witnessed in October ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Leaked bank documents suggest that $312.5 million in crypto from defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox was sold via the BitPoint exchange. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The bitcoin community is currently immersed in an experiment called the “lightning torch," and it's reached 37 countries so far. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The slow drip bitcoin price sell-off seen over the last six weeks has produced a bullish pattern on the daily chart. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitfury has teamed up with a South Korean firm to mine bitcoin using cheap, clean hydro power in Paraguay. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's price has officially continued to print lower price highs for the longest amount of time in the cryptocurrency's 10 year history. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The SEC and CFTC have five weeks of work to catch up on, and crypto advocates have no illusions that bitcoin ETFs and the like are a priority. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's price fell for a record sixth time in January, after an early bounce to $4,000 failed to entice mass buying. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Casa is open sourcing aspects of its lighting network-enabled bitcoin node and launching a browser extension for direct control of the device. ❏ CoinDesk