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❏ Bitcoin decoupled from traditional markets in the month of May, rising more than $3,000. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin is teasing a short-term bearish reversal at the onset of the historically strong month of June. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's price pierced $9,000 earlier today for the first time in over a year but quickly retreated to price levels sub $8,600. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Crypto trader Wei Liu says he registered a copyright on the Satoshi White Paper to poke fun at what he calls the "cult of CSW." ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin still has potential for a move to $9,000, having established a bullish pattern at key price support in the last 24 hours. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Craig Wright now has a legal rival for claimed authorship of the bitcoin white paper, as a second registration is filed with the U.S. Copyright Office. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Authorities in Sichuan province are reportedly probing into local bitcoin mining farms that may have been constructed without official approval. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Cryptocurrency, bitcoin, and ethereum finally make it into the venerable AP Stylebook. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Scammers boosted the price of bitcoin SV with a fake news alert purporting to show BSV's creator is also bitcoin's. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin is on track to register its longest winning streak since August 2017, with four consecutive months of price gains. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A flare-up between developers, startup members and other members of the ecyostem around bitcoin raised a range of questions over the weekend. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ With the price of bitcoin surging, the South Korean government has held an inter-agency emergency meeting over the risk for investors. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin has formed a technical pattern called a “bull flag” on the hourly chart – a pause that often refreshes higher. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin has retreated from 12-month highs over $8,900 hit earlier today, but prices are holding well above key support at $8,390. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Today's bitcoin spot market is “significantly" smaller and more efficient than is generally perceived, argues a Bitwise Asset Management paper. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's price has once again set a new high for 2019 after breaking out from a bullish pattern on the daily chart, reaching as high as $8,905. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Regulation is needed to maintain neutrality among exchanges, but it might not be around the corner, argues Konstantinos Stylianou. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Two mining pools recently carried out a 51 percent attack on the bitcoin cash blockchain. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ An app that lets you send lightning tips via Twitter just got a 1.0 software release with a set of new features. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin... in space? A company led by Blockstream CSO Samson Mow is looking to bridge the worlds of crypto and online gaming. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin has moved back above $8,000 as a widely followed long-term indicator turns bullish for the first time in over a year.  ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Another crypto buying and selling service has banned Iranian users, pushing them toward anonymous decentralized exchanges. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Five months after receiving a BitLicense, Robinhood is now offering ethereum and bitcoin trading in New York State. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin dived out of a narrowing price range on Wednesday, opening the doors for a deeper drop to $7,200. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Swiss luxury watchmaker Franck Muller has launched a limited-edition bitcoin timepiece dubbed “Encrypto” that comes with a cold wallet. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Kiosk network Coinstar has expanded its bitcoin-buying service, adding around 100 new outlets and growing U.S. coverage to 21 states. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ No, the U.S. government didn't officially recognize Craig Wright as Satoshi. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A bitcoin transaction mixer has been seized and shut down by authorities in the European Union. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin is teasing a downside break of its recent trading range, having again faced rejection above $8,000 today. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ An Israeli court has ruled against an investor in declaring bitcoin is an asset and not a currency, and thus subject to capital gains tax. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Crypto lending startup BlockFi is almost halving the interest rates it offers on ether deposits, while some bitcoin rates will increase slightly. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Two OTC traders in China have been accused of illegally soliciting over 7,000 bitcoin in deposits for a supposed loan offering. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A man has been arrested in the Netherlands for allegedly scamming investors out of over $2.2 million in a fake bitcoin mining scheme. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Craig Wrights efforts to copyright the Bitcoin archives are genius in a very special way. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin SV (BSV) suddenly surged more than 200 percent on some exchanges after Craig Wright promises to revert Bitcoin White Paper copyright to the Bitcoin Association. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Craig Wright has filed copyright registrations for the original Satoshi white paper and bitcoin code with the U.S. Copyright Office. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin has failed three times in seven days to find acceptance above $8,300, raising the risk of a notable short-term correction. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ NYSE Arca has formally applied to the SEC for a rule change that would let it list shares in a proposed bitcoin trust managed by Wilshire Phoenix Funds. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has again delayed a decision on a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) proposal. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin has registered double digit gains for three consecutive weeks – a feat last seen at the height of the bull market in 2017. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The number of subpoenas early crypto companies got from misinformed government agencies was "staggering," says Bloq's Steve Beauregard. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The guy who coined the term "hodl" has a real bitcoin story that only made his interest in the technology stronger. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The word "blockchain" isn't used in the bitcoin white paper, the document that started it all. So, how did the term take off as a buzzword? ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Can a logo symbolize the ethos of a project? An industry? An entire movement? Bitcoin's might have come close. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Titan is a one-step crypto miner management system from Bloq Labs. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitfinex will list its LEO exchange token on Monday, trading against bitcoin, ether, EOS, tether and the U.S. dollar. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Amid extremely overbought conditions, bitcoin has fallen by $1,700 on Friday – its biggest intraday price drop since January 2018. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin has once again come into contact with a greater crypto market sell-off, slashing its price by more than $1000. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin is facing a price correction to well below $8,000, as exhaustion leaves the bulls unable to hold onto fresh 10-month highs hit earlier today. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A third of all ether is owned by just 376 whales, blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis says. Yet that number is down from some previous years. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin could learn a lesson from the railways, says Simon Johnson: For the customer, it’s just about getting from A to B fastest and cheapest. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The bitcoin cash network forks after a bug emerged in the upgrade software, leading developers to put together a hotfix. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Blockstream, the bitcoin-focused startup, is creating a new security token platform on its Liquid sidechain network. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ With bitcoin's rally showing signs of exhaustion above $8,000, investors have started pouring money into relatively cheap alternatives. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Beaming bitcoin from satellites might sound far-fetched, but there are serious use cases, according to Adam Back, CEO of Blockstream. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Blockchains offer potential solutions to deep-seated problems in society, but their own governance issues need to be solved first, writes Pindar Wong. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A filing from the SEC Tuesday did not advance one of several bitcoin ETF proposals currently waiting for regulatory sign-off. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Fluctuations in the price of bitcoin have not affected overall interest in futures tied to the cryptocurrency, a TD Ameritrade executive said on Tuesday. “We get calls, emails, 60,000 clients have traded something in this complex,” Steven Quirk, TD Ameritrade executive vice president, remarked during a panel at CoinDesk’s Consensus 2019. As Quirk said later: […] ❏ CoinDesk

❏ RIF Labs, which built the RSK sidechain for tokens and smart contracts on top of bitcoin, has launched a "third layer" to help scale this technology. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin clocked fresh 10-month highs earlier today and currently appears on track to post its biggest monthly rise since late 2017. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Elk aims to make it easy to connect hardware devices to blockchains and control electronic components or accept payments. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ HTC has added Kyber Network’s liquidity protocol to its blockchain phone, enabling direct swaps between ERC-20 cryptocurrencies. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A new routing proposal is expected to be merged today into the official “specifications” of lightning, the technology many advocates trumpet as the fix to bitcoin’s long-standing payment problems. Christian Decker, one of the most prolific lightning developers who engineers for the tech startup Blockstream, pointed out that the proposal, which he wrote, is moving on […] ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The price of bitcoin (BTC) rose above $8,000 after surging more $1200 today alone, ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Casa CTO Jameson Lopp explained how Tor leapfrogs some of the thorny networking hurdles that come with setting up a node. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin (BTC) extended its recent gains today, jumping 16 percent to its highest price since July 31, 2018. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bakkt announced Monday it would be testing its bitcoin futures products in July. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Payments startup Flexa has released a crypto wallet called SPEDN to help brick-and-mortar retailers accept cryptocurrencies. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A new decentralized ID solution from Microsoft built directly on the bitcoin blockchain could have far-reaching impacts. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Despite a pullback from 9-month highs overnight, bitcoin has still clawed back nearly a quarter of the losses since its late-2017 record high. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin’s price rose above $7,500 on most exchanges for the first time today in over 9 months marking a resurgence of the crypto bull market. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Satoshi's Treasure has attracted enough sponsorship to continue making crypto-centric games even after someone wins this initial prize. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Sending bitcoin transactions without an internet connection just got a little bit easier. Announced at the Magical Crypto Conference on Saturday in New York City, Blockstream Satellite and goTenna are integrating their technologies to make it easier to send bitcoin transactions with technology used to onboard people without direct internet connections. Blockstream Satellite is a […] ❏ CoinDesk

❏ HTC plans to release a low-cost smartphone capable of running a full bitcoin node by the end of Q3. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin surged to an eight-month high of $6,964 earlier today, as a bull cross of long-term moving averages occurred for the first time since 2015. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Analysts predict that bitcoin's price will return to its $20K high in March 2021. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The Open Money Initiative is bringing insights from Venezuela to help crypto startups make better tools for people in distressed economies. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's ascent continues, with prices hitting new multi-month highs earlier today, and other top cryptos may soon join the party. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Cryptocurrency exchange Binance said it is revamping security measures after losing some 7,000 bitcoin in a hack earlier this week. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A prospectus for a new bitcoin and ether-based exchange-traded fund has just been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ That Binance could have colluded with miners to roll back hack transactions means bitcoin is not resistant enough to censorship, says Amir Taaki. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Litecoin's next block reward halving is now less than 90 days away, but the world's sixth largest cryptocurrency may still have room to run before investors "sell the news." ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's weekly relative strength index (RSI) has printed its highest value since 2018, showing its momentum is firmly back in bullish territory. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ HoneyMiner, the desktop-based crypto miner, now works on MacOS. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A bitcoin mining fund is investing $44 million in brand-new hardware, a longer-term bet than most are making. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's recent rally looks sustainable, according to the charts, and the cryptocurrency's rising dominance rate suggests investors are bullish. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The price of bitcoin (BTC) rose above $6,000 today with a market cap above $100 billion for the first time in nearly six months. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ U.S. authorities formally charged the moderators of DeepDotWeb with money laundering using bitcoin and other crimes. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The suggestion to reverse transactions on the bitcoin blockchain has caused an uproar on social media with several community members espousing such an idea is not only infeasible but reckless. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The Binance hackers are moving their stolen BTC into smaller and smaller wallets in an effort to hide their tracks. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Crypto is the new counterculture, and you, yes you are invited. You gotta start believing! ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's bullish case is still intact after a pullback from 5.5-month highs, but prices must be held above key support at $5,700. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said the team is deciding on whether it will do a rollback on the bitcoin network after hackers stole 7,000 bitcoin. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Crypto exchange Binance has disclosed a 7,000 BTC loss following the discovery of what it called a "large scale security breach." ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitmain's internal bitcoin mining operations are generating 88 percent less computing power than a month ago, suggesting the industry giant has cut capacity. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The Federal Trade Commission is suing a crowdfunder who promised a smart backpack but instead spent the proceeds on bitcoin. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The developers behind the cryptocurrency project Grin are reporting that they have received an anonymous donation of 50 BTC. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin is gaining altitude in line with the bullish developments on the technical charts and could soon rise above the psychological level of $6,000. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Crypto mining and exchange startup Bcause is weeks away from launching a spot trading market for bitcoin, ether, bitcoin cash and litecoin. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin miners made the case for their industry as a driver of clean energy adoption, rather than an ecological disaster, at Fidelity’s Mining Summit. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin developer Pieter Wuille unveiled two proposals today that offer new plans for bitcoin's possible next big upgrade. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Warren Buffet told reporters at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska that he still couldn't support bitcoin. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Fidelity is launching cryptocurrency trading service for institutional customers “within a few weeks," according to Bloomberg source. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A U.S. court has ordered self-proclaimed bitcoin inventor Craig Wright to disclose bitcoin addresses from 2013 in an ongoing lawsuit. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin could be in for a price pullback, having faced rejection at the June 2018 bottom for three consecutive days. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The CFTC is willing to approve an ether futures contract – provided it ticks all the right boxes, a senior official said. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Crypto data provider CoinMarketCap has excluded bitcoin prices provided by the troubled Bitfinex exchange from its weighted average calculation. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ When I visited some early bitcoin startups in Hong Kong five years ago, they were unanimous about their biggest challenge: finding a bank that would let them open an account. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A new app for the Apple Watch has been launched by bitcoin startup Bluewallet, which connects users to the nascent lightning network. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Correlation isn't causation but it looks like gold's fall is driving BTC up. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The New York Police Department warned the public to be aware of phone scams where callers impersonate government officials and demand payments in bitcoin. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's price hit 5.5-month highs above $5,700 soon before press time, bolstering both short- and long-term bullish views. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The cost of secondhand cryptocurrency mining equipment in China has nearly doubled in the last few weeks in response to bitcoin’s price jump. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ ICE CEO Jeffrey Sprecher says crypto winter has been "helpful" to bitcoin futures exchange Bakkt by letting it buy firms on the cheap. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin is on the offensive, having defended key support, but a rally to $6,000 faces several resistance levels lined up in $5,400–$5,900 range. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Diana Aguilar used bitcoin to survive in Venezuela, but cryptocurrency can’t fix the troubled nation's economy, she argues. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A quarterly earnings report from Square shows the payments firm seeing strong growth in bitcoin sales. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin scaled an important price resistance with near 30 percent gains in April, solidifying the long-term bull breakout witnessed a month ago. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Income tax payers in the U.S. now have the option to receive their federal and state refunds in bitcoin through Bitpay and Refundo. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Turkish exchanges OKEx and BtcTurk are onboarding thousands of crypto traders as the Lira falters. ❏ CoinDesk