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❏ We need to solve the communication problem between crypto projects and regulators to build a healthy ecosystem, writes Shin'ichirio Matsuo. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ It was an emotional day for the self-professed creator of bitcoin as he testified in the on-going Kleiman lawsuit. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Authorities in Iran have reportedly seized roughly 1,000 bitcoin mining machines from abandoned factories. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin is on track to close in the green for the fifth straight month, despite having witnessed a double-digit technical correction in the last 36 hours. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin is down more than $1,700 since yesterday after a violent sell-off rocked the markets, catching a lot of traders off-guard, while altcoins continue to rise. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Erik Voorhees thinks that Facebook's currency will be a gateway for bitcoin adoption. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The overall crypto market has shed some $80 billion over the past 24 hours. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ We will be live all day talking about Bitcoin in Flux. Join us to talk about pricing, predictions, and commentary. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Snowden used bitcoin to buy encrypted services to talk with journalists in 2013 ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The wallet supports iOS for now but will expand into Android soon. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin is witnessing a technical correction a day after printing the biggest one-day trading range since the start of last year. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin mining has become competitive than ever, new network data shows. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin is back on the rise after recovering from a sharp sell-off yesterday evening, currently up $1,400. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Coinbase went down briefly on Wednesday afternoon, coinciding with a massive sell-off in bitcoin's price. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Steve Shadders, who sees the "Satoshiness of Wright," will testify as a factual witness alongside Wright himself. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin’s price has refreshed 17-month highs in the U.S. trading hours with a move above $13,000. CoinDesk’s Bitcoin Price Index is currently trading at 13,020, the highest level seen since mid-January 2018, having surpassed the Asian session high of $12,919 at roughly 17:30 UTC. With the rise above $13,000, bitcoin has taken the cumulative month-to-date gains […] ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Coinsource will be updating all of its 230 machines in 29 US states and the District of Columbia in a push to create a remittance system. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Europol and police agencies have busted a cloned exchange operation that stole over $27 million in bitcoin from thousands of victims. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin’s surging price over the last week is reminiscent of the bull market frenzy observed a year and a half ago. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin has risen above $12,900 for the first time since Jan. 21, 2018 to break a new high for 2019 at $12,337. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Draper and the Argentinian president bet that bitcoin would overtake the peso. He might be right. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin has done it again, hitting a new 2019 high at $11,788, before retracing slightly. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Square is rolling out bitcoin deposits for its Cash App, supplementing the buy, sell and transfer options. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The SEC has kicked off a public comment period for a proposed ETF backed by bitcoin and T-bills. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's price topped €10,000 on Tuesday, hitting the highest level seen since late January 2018. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The bitcoin rewards app Lolli is going global in 2019, starting with the travel industry. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ LedgerX just got the green light from the CFTC to offer physically settled bitcoin futures to retail investors. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's price jump has juiced demand for new mining equipment, with some models on backlog until October. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin’s price rose to fresh 15-month highs today with a key technical indicator pointing to the strongest buying pressure in over two months.  ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The new self-directed crypto retirement plan features $100 million in insurance protections and lower fees. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin appears to be powering to the best second quarter price gain on record and the best quarterly performance overall since late 2017. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin has broken yet another 2019 record, reaching as high as $11,284, before conceding to a short-term period of profit taking. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin developer Mark "Murch" Erhardt tells CoinDesk about the most surprising interaction he ever had in his years of running the Bitcoin Stack Exchange. Turns out the crypto world *is* that small! ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's price passed five digits on cryptocurrency exchanges for the first time in 15 months. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The Chaincode Labs summer residency program shows how decentralized software development evolves. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Self-professed bitcoin founder Wright may be held in contempt of court. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin has erased 40 percent of the sell-off seen in the 12 months to December 2018 and looks set to rise above $10,000. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The one-tap miner now supports ethereum, zcash, grin, and monero alongside BTC. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ At 18:00 UTC on June 20, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization broke from a bullish triangle pattern on the daily chart, after being held beneath $9,348 for an extended period of time. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The company has expanded to 250 locations in 25 states. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The new mainstream-friendly mobile wallet from Lightning Labs saw 2,000 downloads on Day 1. Next up for the company: merchant services. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A court document filed on May 8 details Craig Wright's bitcoin holdings prior to Dec. 31, 2013. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin is struggling to find acceptance above $9,300 even as futures listed on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange are witnessing record open bets – a sign of increased institutional interest. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ This bitcoin evangelist is bridging the gap between the Asian mining industry and global open source developers. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's price fell on Tuesday, snapping the longest daily winning streak since July 2018. The long-term outlook, however, remains bullish. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ In total, authorities seized 20 kilograms of MDMA, over seven kilograms of Ketamine, over 10,000 Xanax pills, and more than $100,000 in cash. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Edan Yago is the founder of CementDAO, an effort to bring together stablecoins into a unified ecosystem. The views expressed here are his own. With the announcement of Libra, cryptocurrency has entered the big leagues. Facebook’s entry into this market means every single company now has to take cryptocurrency seriously. Companies around the world are […] ❏ CoinDesk

❏ 22,858.822 bitcoin were misappropriated under Control-Finance's Ponzi-like scheme. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Refugees can use a new POS to purchase goods, food, and services when they leave Venezuela. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ George McDonaugh is CEO and co-founder of KR1 plc, a London listed cryptocurrency and blockchain investment company. Facebook is creating its own cryptocurrency – something that even those of us necking the crypto Kool Aid back in the early bitcoin days never in our wildest dreams thought would happen. The details are emerging, but what […] ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Binance will issue a number of tokens pegged to leading cryptocurrencies on Binance Chain to boost the number of trading options on its platform. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin is struggling to gather upside traction following Facebook's official announcement of its Libra cryptocurrency project. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Cryptocurrency, at scale. That's Facebook's vision as laid out in the long-awaited, just-released Libra white paper. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin has a distinct set of properties unlike any other asset, argues the world's largest cryptocurrency asset manager. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ “This initiative is an answer to great transformation”, the regulators said. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Now in beta for the iPhone, Breez's app harnesses lighting, Neutrino and atomic swaps to make bitcoin P2P payments feasible for daily transactions. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin rose above $9,000 over the weekend, taking cumulative year-to-date gains to more than 150 percent. Here's three likely reasons why. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Crypto mining giant Bitmain is locked in a legal battle with former employees who started a rival bitcoin mining pool, Poolin. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's price rose to 13-month highs above $9,300 on Sunday, taking cumulative weekly gains to 17 percent. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The last time Bitcoin shot past 1 million daily active addresses was in November, 2017. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Before his move to supporting Craig Wright's bitcoin SV, Ryan X Charles describes his short-lived tenure at reddit and the trolls who made his life hell. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The card offers zero fees for bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin transactions. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Analysts are bullish on Facebook's upcoming blockchain product. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has revealed more details about the role Square Crypto might play in boosting bitcoin development. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The first protocol for issuing tokens via bitcoin’s lightning network is aimed to rival ethereum's ERC-20. But that's a tall order. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A clear divergence between prices and trading volumes on the charts suggests bitcoin’s recent $800 rally could be short-lived. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bakkt will begin user testing of its bitcoin futures contracts on July 22, revealing new contract specifications on Thursday. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The lightning-centric bitcoin startup plans to use this funding to expand services to almost every country in the world by 2020. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin is about to see a key bullish cross of two moving averages the first time in nearly four years. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ New research from mobile mesh networking company goTenna explores how bitcoin's lightning network can help decentralize mobile communications. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Square has hired former Google director and Bitcoin Optech contributor Steve Lee as the first member of its new crypto team. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ “I don’t know what Bitcoin is,” Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says even as his administration eyes blockchain projects. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin is lacking a clear directional bias for the eighth consecutive day as litecoin continues to surge. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ For Breaking Bitcoin 2019, technologists gathered in Amsterdam to explore the future of bitcoin. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's struggle for direction continues with prices locked in a tight range for a week. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ So-called lightning network “watchtowers” — a much-anticipated next step for securing the network — are coming soon. Watchtowers have long been considered a missing piece of bitcoin’s lightning layer, as they’re crucial for squashing fraud on the experimental, off-chain network that could make bitcoin payments faster and more scalable. With version 0.7 of the LND software […] ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Long-time Bitcoin Core contributor Michael Ford has been named the newest maintainer of the open-source software project. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The startup behind the privacy-centric bitcoin app Wasabi Wallet recently brought together 100 people to collectively execute a "CoinJoin" transaction. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's bulls need to keep prices above key support at $7,432 to avert a short-term bearish reversal. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A new hardware partnership is helping the team behind Samourai Wallet extend their obsession with privacy to the world of bitcoin nodes. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ For academics, bitcoin, and more broadly crypto, is an exciting space where the ideas they write up in papers actually get built and tested. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Online black marketplace Silk Road had quite the effect on bitcoin, being one of the technology's biggest use cases in the early days, and for a while it didn't have its own Wikipedia page – until this man. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Untouched since 2016, $1.37 million of stolen bitcoin changed wallets Friday. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Coinbase recorded its most bitcoin trade volume in 14-months during May when over 739,000 bitcoin's traded hands, worth approximately $5.9 billion in today's value. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The decision will affect 76 machines within the city limits. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ May 2019 was the best month for CME bitcoin futures volume since launch in 2017. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin has recovered to $8,000 after defending key support for two consecutive days and may remain well bid over the weekend.  ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Coming guidance from the IRS is expected to clarify longstanding crypto tax questions. Here's what to look for. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ S.L. Benfica fans can now lay down bitcoin and ether to pick up a team jersey. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin has shed $1,400 over the last seven days, contradicting gold's 5.4 percent price rise to the highest since February. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Andrew Keys is moving to DARMA Capital, where he intends to help investors generate returns on their ethereum and bitcoin holdings. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A key technical line applied brakes to bitcoin's sell-off earlier this week, but so far the bounce has been shallow, with upside capped around $7,900. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's TAAR (transaction amount to active addresses ratio) is hovering around 7-month highs, potentially adding a fundamental validation to bitcoin's latest price growth. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The founder of GoldMoney.com is upset that Grayscale compared gold unfavorably to cryptocurrencies. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The disgraced crypto CEO Mark Karpeles has a new book and a new mission: to secure bitcoin. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin’s ongoing corrective bounce could be short-lived, as the charts are signaling a short-term bullish-to-bearish trend change. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Co-author of the lightning network white paper Tadge Dryja has released new code for a proposed scaling solution he's been working on for a year. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Badger Wallet, a popular BCH storage app, is coming to iOS. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin’s price pullback seems to have stalled near historically strong support, but a bounce, if any, could be shallow. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin has once again fallen beneath $8,000 amid a sharp sell-off that saw prices drop to as low as $7,090 according to Coindesk data. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ CME Bitcoin Futures have hit a record high in open interest at 5,190, up seven percent on the week prior, data from the CFTC shows. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ An Egyptian web firm is building Dmail on Blockstack to bring bitcoin-friendly privacy tech to the Middle East. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The team behind the privacy-centric Samourai Wallet has received a $100,000 investment to expand its offerings. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin could revisit sub-$8,000 levels in the short-term, as a longer-duration chart is flashing signs of bull exhaustion for the first time in 2019. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The company behind Slush Pool, the first cryptocurrency mining pool to make its services publicly available, is rebranding. The Prague-based company Braiins is perhaps less well-known than Slush Pool, one of the largest bitcoin mining pools as it makes up more than 9 percent of the cryptocurrency’s hashrate today. Yet Braiins has been operating it […] ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Michael J. Casey is the chairman of CoinDesk’s advisory board and a senior advisor for blockchain research at MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative. Let’s talk about bitcoin, toxicity and inclusiveness. (Boy, my Twitter feed is going to have fun over the next few days.) To start with, let me take a position: I stand with those […] ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A bar in Japan is teaming up with a locally-based lightning startup to let customers pay using the experimental payments network. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A new paper outlines a proposed protocol that seeks to boost the bandwidth for bitcoin nodes. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The cryptocurrency markets saw rapid growth in May, with quite a few tokens – including bitcoin SV – outshining bitcoin. ❏ CoinDesk