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❏ LedgerX has launched the first physically-settled bitcoin futures contracts in the U.S., beating Bakkt to the punch. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin looks set to end its five-month winning run with a 9 percent price drop in July. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Mobile shoppers can earn bitcoin for purchases from Amazon, Starbucks, and Target, just to name a few.  ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Canaan Creative, the major bitcoin miner manufacturer, has confidentially filed for an IPO in the U.S., say IFRAsia sources. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ An importer of Bitmain's bitcoin miners is under investigation for underpaying customs fees, a search warrant obtained by CoinDesk reveals. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Cypherpunk and CEO of Metal Pay, Marshall Hayner, thinks regulation is coming one way or another and that the best thing to do is keep an open mind and get educated. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Mark Karpeles, former CEO of the early bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, must face a class action lawsuit in Philadelphia over the firm's 2014 collapse. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin wallet provider and blockchain explorer Blockchain just launched its first exchange platform, the PIT. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's bulls have reason to be optimistic despite the recent 33 percent price drop, as a long-term technical indicator has turned bullish. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The European arm of Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange bitFlyer has launched a bitcoin buying and selling service aimed to be easy to use. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ With $3.25 million in new funding, Smart Valor says it's launching the first regulated bitcoin exchange in crypto-friendly Switzerland. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ In a Twitter AMA on Monday, Square Crypto made it clear that its focus is on building for bitcoin, not for Cash App. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A dark web drug dealer must forfeit $4 million in funds including bitcoin after pleading guilty in New York. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin is continuing to feel the brunt of the short-term bearish trend, with charts calling a move to $9,100 and possibly lower. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ An Austrian printing company that has history going back to the early 1800s has launched a secure bitcoin storage device. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ How do we break a vicious cycle of KYC and financial exclusion? The answer may lie in blockchain technology’s own capacity to track transfers. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ CEO Alex Adelman says the average Lolli user has earned $26 in bitcoin rebates. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The lightning network, seen as the future of bitcoin payments, is now a bit easier to monitor. This Wednesday, Lightning Labs released a new network analysis tool dubbed “Lndmon” that bitcoin lightning network users can use to pull up data about the state of their node and the rest of the network. The offering features […] ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The bullish mood in the bitcoin market is at its weakest in five months, according to key technical indicator. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ U.S. prosecutors have charged the head of a bitcoin escrow company with defrauding investors for $7 million.  ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his administration are said to be using proceeds from the airline industry – and cryptocurrency – to avoid sanctions. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin is back above $10,000, but the technical charts indicate a bull revival is still $1,000 away. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Business magnate Bjørn Kjos and his family have reportedly set up a crypto exchange and plan to offer bitcoin payments at Norwegian Air Shuttle. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A resident of New Jersey has been charged with running an unlicensed bitcoin exchange service called Destination Bitcoin. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Supporters of presidential candidate Andrew Yang can now send bitcoin donations to a new super PAC via the Lightning Network. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The firm's early investment in derivative platform ErisX may enable the firm to expand their crypto investment opportunities. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Secretary Steven Mnuchin said, "I will personally not be loaded up on bitcoin in 10 years.” ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Compared with bitcoin, people in the U.S. don't trust Facebook's anticipated new stablecoin Libra, according to a new survey. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Online electronics and software retail giant Newegg has expanded its bitcoin payments option to a host of new countries in partnership with BitPay. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin is on the defensive for the fourth straight day and may be facing a further drop toward $9,050. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin fell below key support above $10,000 earlier today and could be facing a deeper drop, according to price and volume analysis. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Iran is officially recognizing bitcoin mining as an industry it will regulate and for which it will set electricity rates. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bakkt is scheduled to begin testing its bitcoin futures contracts Monday, more than six months after its originally planned launch date. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin ended its longest losing streak in seven months over the weekend, but the outlook still remains bearish. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ While some traders prefer to watch multiple indicators for buy signals on their charts, others prefer a simpler setup like the Awesome Oscillator. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ He can try, argues Noelle Acheson – but the risk he might succeed is outweighed by the benefits of the heightened conversation. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A bold maneuver in the dark nets a group of wannabe crypto thieves in Birmingham, U.K., very little. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ CoinDesk dives deep into the complex process of reviewing code for the Bitcoin Core software. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin (BTC) has rallied sharply in the last 24 hours, but the bulls must still beat key resistance just over $11,000. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bounties demanded by the Ryuk hackers reach upwards of $5 million to be paid in bitcoin, according to the FBI. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin surged $1,000 in just 30 minutes during U.S. trading hours Thursday, a move that found the leading cryptocurrency rising to $10,400. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The first crypto ATM provider in the U.S. passed this milestone after expanding to 90 new locations in Arizona and Nevada. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's recovery from one-month lows looks to have stalled near $10,000 and may be short lived. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Introduced Wednesday, a new proposal called Signet offers a fresh alternative to bitcoin's test network. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ New court filings have accused former Bitcoin Core contributor Peter Todd of sexual misconduct. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ These anticipatory steps have been taken in face of a "maturing" regulatory environment, as the firm plans to expand its crypto-related financial services. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The world's most valuable cryptocurrency could find price support at $7,500 – that is if it follows past patterns on the charts. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin logged one of the biggest daily price losses of the year on Tuesday, confirming a short-term bullish-to-bearish trend change. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ For a panel about a proposed cryptocurrency, Tuesday's Senate Facebook hearing was light on actual crypto talk. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Cuba highlights the difference between bitcoin and corporate token projects like Libra. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Another tranche of stolen funds have hit exchanges and are being turned into fiat. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The widely tracked MACD bitcoin price indicator has turned bearish for the first time in seven months. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ In a press conference Monday, Mnuchin voiced the Trump administration's concerns with Facebook's Libra and cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin is under pressure ahead of U.S. congressional hearings on Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency on July 16 and 17. But what happens next? ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Donald Trump took aim at bitcoin last week. He also kicked off a whole new phase in bitcoin's mainstream moment. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The cryptocurrency markets fell sharply on July 14 after bitcoin (BTC) endured another $1400 sell-off, denying the bulls a chance to revisit 2019 highs. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Police confiscated over 4,000 mining devices in a 20 person bust. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Institutional digital assets platform TrueDigital Holdings has announced plans to offer bitcoin derivatives for U.S. investors – if the CFTC approves. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin has bounced up from historically strong price support, raising the prospects of a renewed push toward recent highs above $13,000. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ An advocacy group is testing out the idea that the combination of bitcoin and orbital communication can help fight news censorship. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Trump recently tweeted: unregulated crypto possess the ability to facilitate unlawful behavior; So far the markets have been slow to react. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ US President Donald Trump tweeted about bitcoin and Facebook's Libra on Thursday. He's not a fan. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Powell compared bitcoin to gold, referring to them both as speculative stores of value. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Spanish police authorities are raising the alarm because a recent criminal case involved the use of bitcoin ATMs, making their jobs more difficult. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's three-day chart suggests that a "golden cross" is set to occur for the first time since early 2016. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Before shutting down, Bitcoin Wallets' "manager" promised 100-percent returns on investors' money in just two weeks. Then they burned down his house. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin dropped around $2,000 in the last 24 hours, but the outlook isn't as gloomy as you might think. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The cryptocurrency markets fell sharply on July 10 after bitcoin (BTC) suffered another $1000 sell-off, denying a bullish breakout that looked primed to test its recent 2019 highs. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The Winklevoss twins might mend fences with Mark Zuckerberg through the Libra cryptocurrency project. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The payments feature will facilitate in-store or online purchases at blue chip retailers including Starbucks, Whole Foods, AMC, Home Depot, and Southwest Airlines. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin bolstered its already bullish technical setup with a move above $13,000 earlier today. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin’s break above a key price hurdle looks to have set the tone for a retest of recent highs above $13,800. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin mining difficulty has grown faster in the last two weeks than in any period since August 2018, a sign that competition is heating up. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Former Mt Gox customers can recoup $900 per bitcoin owed by selling their claims to Fortress Investment Group. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Hundreds of locals who used to eagerly gather outside the Bitcoin Wallet office in Ladysmith, South Africa are now mobbing the office to demand their money back. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ IDG-backed cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin has just launched a crypto derivatives trading platform called KuMEX in public beta. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin leaped into the green in the European trading hours, and is now looking to scale key resistance above $12,000. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The popular wallet service Electrum is soon to add official support for bitcoin's lightning network, its founder has told CoinDesk. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Following another $1,000 drop, bitcoin’s bulls now have target of $12,061 to mitigate bearish pressure. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ New research has found that the U.S. leads the world in the volume of tweets referencing bitcoin and Facebook's planned cryptocurrency. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ An Australian couple lost over AU$20,000 in a bitcoin scam, and were even taunted by the perpetrator over their losses. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ After clawing back 25 percent of recent losses, bitcoin looks set to close in the green on July 4 for the fifth consecutive year. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The software upgrade can potentially be introduced to approximately 170,000 machines across America. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A fake ID ring operated between June, 2013, and February, 2018 and may have netted over $4.7 million in bitcoin. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The anti-bitcoin NYU professor debated the founder of BitMEX. It didn't go well. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Blockstream has created an "experimental" tool making it easier for users to trade "trustlessly" between tokens on its Liquid sidechain. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ CME's bitcoin futures product is increasing in popularity, with June setting a record for open interest amid a surge of new account sign-ups. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Casa's new wallet aims to help aspiring cypherpunks graduate from getting their first bitcoin to running their own lightning node. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin has risen sharply in the last 24 hours, but a key price hurdle must still be passed to confirm a bull revival. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin was trading below $10,000 on exchanges for the first time in 11 days Tuesday morning, and may face further losses ahead. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The CFTC just granted ErisX a derivatives clearing organization license, clearing the way for it to launch bitcoin futures contracts. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin may be back over $10,000, but the price increase is bringing with it similar market inconsistencies as seen in the cryptocurrency’s meteoric 2017 ascent. At press time, bitcoin prices in South Korea are once again trading at a notable premium to Western exchanges. The spread, popularly known as the “Kimchi Premium” after a Korean […] ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Crypto derivatives exchange EverMarkets is opening its doors to customers worldwide, with trades collateralized in bitcoin. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ With technical charts flashing signs of buyer exhaustion, bitcoin risks falling to levels below $10,000 this week. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin is surging and Libra is shaking up regulators as the globe faces a period of doubt on the economic front. ❏ CoinDesk