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❏ The Town of Innisfil, Ontario, will accept bitcoin for property tax payments from next month in a one-year trial project. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The SEC has extended its review period of the Bitwise bitcoin ETF proposal, filed in conjunction with NYSE Arca. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Mark Karpeles, former CEO of the collapsed bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, is reportedly to appeal his conviction on data manipulation charges. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin is slowly gaining altitude with a long-term lagging indicator flashing signs similar to those seen before the 2015 bull breakout. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ nChain, founded by self-styled bitcoin inventor Craig S. Wright, is looking for a patent counsel to manage its portfolio of blockchain-related IP. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Daniel Cawrey is CEO of Pactum Capital, a cryptocurrency investment firm focused on market making and liquidity. Formerly a CoinDesk Contributing Editor, he is author of the upcoming “Mastering Blockchain” book to be published by O’Reilly Media. Recently, a report was produced by Bitwise Asset Management showing the existence of faked volumes in the bitcoin […] ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Cryptocurrency gift card provider Bitrefill has added a service allowing users to book Airbnb rentals with bitcoin, ether and more. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A bull reversal would be confirmed if bitcoin closes March at levels above $4,190, price charts suggest. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Cryptocurrency researchers Willy Woo and David Puell released several new valuation metrics for bitcoin's price in February. Here's an overview. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ NYDFS has awarded its 18th BitLicense to prime broker startup Tagomi Trading, allowing it to offer bitcoin, ether, litecoin and bitcoin cash trading services. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Booted from India in a crypto banking crackdown, Zebpay is the latest exchange to use the lightning network to attract users. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Canaan Creative, manufacturer of the Avalon bitcoin miner, is considering another attempt to go public, sources say.  ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin has once more bounced from the 30-day moving average, thwarting a bearish move that saw prices drop below $3,920 on Monday.  ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin is on the defensive after a drop out of the recent trading range – now crucial support could turn into resistance. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Amazon-owned live streaming video platform Twitch.tv has reportedly removed its cryptocurrency payment option for subscriptions. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Sending bitcoin lightning payments over the web might soon get easier. That’s because a new bitcoin standard for simplifying lightning payments, the open-source WebLN standard, is gaining traction, now being used by Lightning Joule and Bluewallet, two of the more popular lightning wallets, as well as apps like Lightning Spin, to slim down the number […] ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's daily volatility in March, measured as the difference between 24-hour highs and lows, is its lowest since April of 2017. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Institutional digital assets platform trueDigital has signed two new deals to expand the reach of its OTC reference rates for bitcoin and ether. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Amaury Séchet, a leading developer of bitcoin cash, is leaving one of the projects that paved the way for the controversial cryptocurrency. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Chart signals of bullish exhaustion suggest bitcoin's narrowing trading range could soon be breached to the downside. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Cboe's suspension of bitcoin futures highlights a mistake we're all making when it comes to institutional involvement, argues Noelle Acheson. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Lightning Labs' Alex Bosworth talks about how the lightning network provides bitcoin's best hope for becoming the payments network of the future. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Before we knew whether bitcoin was legal or illegal, a group on New Yorkers created an in-person meetup for people to buy, sell and trade the cryptocurrency. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The Tor Project is now accepting crypto donations directly, taking bitcoin, ether, monero, zcash and 5 others. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The bitcoin futures market is far larger, relative to the spot market, than previously thought, says Bitwise Asset Management. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A group of Mt. Gox creditors has warned of a market risk to forks of bitcoin in a draft plan for the collapsed exchange's civil rehabilitation. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's short-term outlook will remain bullish as long as prices hold above key support at $3,920. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ tZERO plans to launch its own mobile trading app for buying and selling bitcoin and, possibly, ether. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Alleged bitcoin launderer Alexander Vinnik, who is wanted by several countries, has filed in Greece for extradition to Russia. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitmain, the largest manufacturer of crypto mining equipment, is scaling up its capacity to mine bitcoin itself. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's 14-month bear market has ended up creating a similar price pattern to one that paved the way for a bull run in 2015. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The long-defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox is finally moving toward settling creditors’ accounts in cryptocurrency or cash. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ California startup Lightning Labs released today a new feature to improve usability of the bitcoin payment channel network, lightning. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Payments startup Square wants to bring on crypto-focused engineers and designers, and may pay them in bitcoin. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Blockchain analytics firms say money laundering accusations against ShapeShift don't match up. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ How does it feel to hold the famous bitcoin lightning torch? Diana Aguilar explains. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Casa has just rolled out radio wave-screening "Faraday bags" as the ultimate cypherpunk accessory for bitcoin hardware wallets. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Blockchain technology startup Blockstream has revamped its wallet app, adding features that make storing bitcoin more secure and flexible. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's bulls need to break key resistance at $4,040 to force a continued rally, the three-day chart indicates. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Binance has unveiled a new platform in Australia that allows users to buy bitcoin with cash from 1,300-plus newsagent stores. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ BlockFi CEO Zac Prince explains in depth how the startup manages the myriad risks of lending and borrowing crypto. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's share of the cryptocurrency market is on the verge of falling below 50 percent for the first time in over 7 months. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin is showing signs of buyer exhaustion and could see a minor pullback unless resistance at $4,000 is scaled soon. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ An experimental service that allows users to pay for futures data from exchanges Kraken and BitMEX via the lightning network is now live. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's four-week price rally now faces a former support-turned-resistance level that repeatedly capped gains in 2018. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Active addresses on bitcoin's blockchain have increased 20 percent in recent weeks. So, why is the BTC price trading sideways? ❏ CoinDesk

❏ More than six months since ICE revealed its vision for Bakkt, the bitcoin futures market is still awaiting regulatory approval. ❏ CoinDesk

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❏ CME says it has "no changes" in store for its bitcoin futures contract, following retrenchment by rival Cboe. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ There's a lot of overlap between bitcoiners and body hackers. CoinDesk editor Bailey Reutzel traveled to Austin, Texas to explore that crossroads and become a bitcoin holding (literally) cyborg. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Daily bitcoin trading volumes topped $11 billion Friday, the most seen since April 2018. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's current period of price consolidation may end with a bull breakout, price-volume analysis indicates. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Mark Karpeles, former CEO of now defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, has been found guilty and given a suspended sentence of 2.6 years. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Cboe said it would not add a new bitcoin futures market for March, citing a need to review how it approaches the space. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitfury Group has partnered with business payments processor HadePay to bring lightning network-based bitcoin payments to merchants. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's struggle for direction continues amid growing signs of a bull reversal in alternative cryptocurrencies. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A Singapore court has ruled crypto exchange Quoine liable for reversing trades for a total of 3,092 bitcoin by market maker B2C2. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin is trapped in a key trading range for the 13th week, with a break above the upper edge needed to confirm a longer-term bull reversal. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ An experiment pushing the boundaries of crypto payments, bitcoin's Lightning Torch has become "a stress test of channel liquidity" due to its success. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A few well-known cryptocurrencies are currently trading above their 200-day moving averages, which is widely considered to be a sign of a healthy market, yet the long lime market leader bitcoin is not. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A widely-followed bitcoin price indicator is about to turn bullish for the first time in seven months. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Canaan Creative, the maker of Avalon miners has raised hundred million U.S. dollars in a new funding round, which values the firm at over $1 billion. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin needs to print a higher high above $4,236 to confirm a long-term bullish reversal, technical charts suggest. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's repeated failure to beat resistance at $3,900 is a slight cause of concern for the bulls. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Fidelity's crypto trading and custody business is live and supporting bitcoin, but adding ether might take a while. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A startup formed by former Bitmain employees will offer crypto custody, OTC trading and lending. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin still needs to beat several key resistance levels to confirm a longer-term bull reversal. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The price trend of Binance Coin is significantly deviating from that of bitcoin and other well known cryptos as it continues to see rapid gains. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ With bitcoin's quick reversal of the losses seen on Monday, the technical charts are again pointing to a rally to $4,000. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ You’re not sure where it will end up exactly or who will actually read it. But you type up a message, pay a couple of cents in bitcoin and click the “send” button. Your message zips through space – yes, space – then is broadcast out of a satellite, blanketing the world. The result? A […] ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin has returned above crucial support at $3,700 and could bounce higher if it can defend that level. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin miners in China are betting that abundant water this summer will make their business profitable again. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's MACD histogram is registering its highest value since January of 2018, which suggests bitcoin's price may have already bottomed out. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ In what appears to be a first-of-its-kind transaction, developers have successfully sent a bitcoin lightning payment over radio waves. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ In beta since January, bitcoin betting game Hxro is adding thousands of waitlisted users today. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's lightning torch has made it to Iran – a milestone participants feel shows the payment network's censorship resistance. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin has taken a knock Monday and the sell-off could intensify if key support near $3,650 is breached. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A technical indicator, which incorporates both bitcoin's price and trading volume, is signaling the cryptocurrency may have bottomed in December. ❏ CoinDesk

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❏ QuadrigaCX's court-appointed monitor has finally provided blockchain addresses for the exchange's cold bitcoin wallets. They're nearly empty. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Upset Coinbase users are closing their accounts after the crypto exchange acquired an analytics startup with a controversial past. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ New improvements to an existing code repository are set to make it easier for developers to build their own features into bitcoin's lightning network. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The former CEO of collapsed bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has been refused a motion to stay a U.S. court case brought by former investors. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin has witnessed indecisive trading in the last 48 hours and would turn bullish again if prices rise above $3,900. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The U.S. Federal Reserve could soon include a bitcoin market crash as one of the risks to take into account when conducting stress tests. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Michael Haley has left security token platform AlphaPoint for crypto custody provider Casa, saying he wants “to get back into good old bitcoin.” ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin may have ended a six-month losing streak in February, but MKR, THETA, ENJ and MET ensure it wasn't the crypto market's biggest winner. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ South Africa's VALR exchange is launching March 1, expanding bitcoin access across the continent. ❏ CoinDesk