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❏ New tech usually struggles with vocabulary, says Noelle Acheson. With bitcoin, the confusion rubs off integral concepts in securities legislation. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin now stands alone in the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market value at CoinMarketCap with the rest having fallen below a key long-term moving average. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Down 4.8 percent from the monthly opening price, bitcoin looks set to end August on a negative note and is on track to register its third monthly loss of the year. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The dollar-pegged stablecoin tether (USDT) has become a virtual bridge between Chinese traders and global markets. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Having dived out of a narrowing price range, bitcoin is looking weak and may end up falling to $9,000 in the next 24 hours. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Beginning at 17:50 UTC and lasting until 18:20 UTC, BTC witnessed a large pullback from $10,200 to $9,600. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bakkt said Wednesday it would start offering customers access to its secure bitcoin storage warehouse starting Sept. 6. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ This week on CoinDesk Live our own Brady Dale talks with Jimmy Song about his new book. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A group of bitcoin enthusiasts just ran, biked and swam across Europe, all to promote the cryptocurrency they believe is leaving a powerful, positive mark on the world. The first “Satoshi Freeathlon” officially finished this weekend, in which a group of seven bitcoin enthusiasts flexing their athletic abilities by journeying from Switzerland’s “Crypto Valley” in […] ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's price action continues to stall as the fight between buyers and sellers falls quiet above the 100-day average of price. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin’s (BTC) recent market movements have thrown into contention the mid-term direction with some asking if BTC’s demand is enough to beat off another bear market?  ❏ CoinDesk

❏ In a court document published August 27, Judge Bruce Reinhart confirmed Craig Wright must forfeit half his bitcoin and intellectual property acquired prior to 2014. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's pullback from June's high of $13,880 will likely gather pace if key moving average support is breached. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A magistrate judge has recommended that Craig Wright turn over 50% of his bitcoin and intellectual property from before 2014 to Ira Kleiman. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ CoinFlex closed a $10 million funding round backed by Polychain Capital and Bitcoin.com chairman Roger Ver, among others. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A widely-tracked lagging bitcoin price indicator is reporting bearish conditions for the first time since February. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Overstock.com’s interim CEO Jonathan Johnson, the president of its subsidiary Medici Ventures, plans to continue the company's blockchain work. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The latest effort by someone to present themselves as the creator of bitcoin says a lot about the propensity for drama in the ecosystem, Michael J Casey writes. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Burning Man, the mecca of tech industry parties, offers lessons for the cryptocurrency movement. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Josh Gnaizda of Crypto Fund Research looks into possible reasons behind the relative performance of crypto funds vs bitcoin since Q1 2017. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The largest wallet provider, Blockchain, partnered with the largest bitcoin payment processor, BitPay. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Two Canadian nationals posed as HitBTC customer service representatives in order to steal a user's login credentials. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Hotmine makes a bitcoin mining rig that doubles as a home heating appliance. It's targeting places where winter is brutally cold. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Wright has made another attempt to cement his claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto, posting bitcoin's white paper on a scientific paper hosting site. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's recovery to $10,255 seen in the last 24 hours could be short-lived, suggest bearish price and volume indicators. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ CoinDesk travels to Florida to talk to supporters and detractors of the so-called creator of bitcoin. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Deribit is teaming with institutional traders' messaging service Paradigm to facilitate block trades of bitcoin and ether derivatives. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's defense of the 100-day price average and a bullish RSI divergence on the hourly chart call for a minor price bounce to $10,300. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Terrorists are using bitcoin, but they aren't the only ones. Here's the real story about bitcoin usage in Palestine. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The White House advisories state "convertible virtual currencies," particularly bitcoin, bitcoin cash, ethereum, and monero, are actively being used on dark net markets. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Mobile wallets and other apps will soon be able to plug into Flexa's payment rails and offer crypto payments to retailers. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The U.S. Treasury's OFAC has put bitcoin and litecoin addresses of three Chinese nationals on its sanctions list, the second time the agency has blacklisted crypto wallets. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Postmates has become the latest partner for Lolli's bitcoin rewards service. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A severe rainstorm in China's southwest has led to fatal mudslides, causing some local hydropower plants and bitcoin miners to halt operations. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin may fall back to recent lows below $9,500, having strengthened the short-term bearish case with a $700 drop earlier today. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Square Crypto just hired one of the world’s most prolific bitcoin developers. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Smart contracts could soon get a boost in bitcoin as prominent programmer Pieter Wuille has unveiled a new coding language designed specifically for their use. Posted to the bitcoin developer mailing list Monday, the ‘Miniscript’ language aims to make it easier for programmers to write up “smart contracts” or conditions for spending bitcoins. Programmers Wuille, Andrew […] ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Having faced rejection near the psychological hurdle of $11,000, bitcoin may end up falling below $10,000 in the next 24 hours. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ BitPay processes about $5 million in bitcoin for real estate transactions through international and domestic individuals and firms. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Pete Najarian previously worked for bitcoin service provider Xapo as senior vice president of institutions. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Metal Pay will grow to incorporate a digital bank, a crypto exchange, a payments application, and several features associated with traditional banking services. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin has gained $1,000 since the Bakkt exchange announced it has the green light to offer bitcoin futures, but key resistance still lies ahead. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The Japanese e-commerce giant's Rakuten Wallet exchange has gone live for spot trading of bitcoin, ether and bitcoin cash against the yen. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Fidelity Charitable reported receiving more than $106 million in crypto donations since accepting bitcoin in 2015. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The Cross-Chain Working Group project will (almost) enable bitcoin transactions on ethereum, opening up a new world of interacting smart contracts. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bakkt says it will launch Sept. 23 after receiving a trust charter through the New York State Department of Financial Services. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ China may be about to launch a fiat digital currency, but in all likelihood, it will only resemble a cryptocurrency on the surface. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A British man has been handed jail time and ordered to forfeit over £400,000 ($487,000) for offering hacking services and stolen data for crypto. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin has bounced from key price support, but the outlook remains bearish as long as prices hold below Thursday's high of $10,445. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ QuadrigaCX creditors are losing patience with their court-appointed law firm, demanding answers about the effort to recover their funds. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The judge overseeing the ongoing lawsuit against Craig Wright, who claims to have invented bitcoin, shot down a motion challenging the court's jurisdiction over the suit. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ MoonRekt players now get to stake the crypto they're betting on: bitcoin! ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin temporarily tumbled past a key moving average after enduring its worst single-day loss in a month. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's share of the total crypto market is rising rapidly, but is that necessarily good news for the sector? ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The cryptocurrency markets are flashing red again Thursday after bitcoin (BTC), the world's largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, fell by more than $900 in 24 hours. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin is looking south, having retraced more than 50 percent of the $3,000 rally seen in the 10 days to Aug. 6. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Samsung has added bitcoin functionality to its blockchain-enabled smartphones six months after launch. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The U.K. Advertising Standards Authority has upheld complaints over a bitcoin ad placed by crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ “Half of the audience here is like, ‘I hope you die in a fire.’” ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Functioning like a pipeline for commercial transactions, SPEDN processes regular purchases in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin or ethereum. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The spread between the price of bitcoin on South Korean and U.S.-based crypto exchanges has disappeared after hitting 2019 highs. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Seed CX has begun testing bitcoin margin swaps with users and is waiting on regulatory approval to launch them. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin now needs to break above $13,200 to revive the stalled bull market, a key monthly chart pattern suggests. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Crypto exchange Bitex wants to decrease costs associated with cross-border banking using the bitcoin blockchain. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Poloniex allowed margin trading on the coin until a flash crash wiped out 1,800 bitcoins worth $13.5 million at the time ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Congressional researchers detailed the current state of energy consumption related to cryptocurrency mining and potential regulations for the energy-intensive process. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The SEC extended the time it would have to make a decision on three different bitcoin ETF proposals Monday. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The trio sold their products on the dark web and shipped as far as Australia. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Investment bank Goldman Sachs has recommended that investors should capitalize on the current price dip and buy bitcoin. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin could drop below $11,000 in the next 24 hours, after sellers took victory in a four-day-long tug of war with the bulls. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Though the IRS has yet to publish its promised crypto tax guidance, the warning letters recently sent to 10,000 traders hint at what to expect. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Donald Trump is stoking the flames of a new currency war, creating a do-or-die moment for the cryptocurrency movement, writes Michael J. Casey. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ After a recent network upgrade, nodes separated from the bitcoin SV blockchain, highlighting why hard forks prompt much infighting among devs. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin is witnessing indecisive price action for the third day, with a break above Wednesday's high of $12,145 needed to revive the bullish outlook. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Quontic, a small bank in New York, has started working with crypto firms, joining the very short list of institutions to embrace the sector. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Amir Zaidi, director of the CFTC's Division of Market Oversight, is to leave the regulator within weeks, according to Bloomberg Law. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Blockstream is further stepping into bitcoin mining with the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman as customers. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin is outperforming gold amid heightened uncertainty in the markets, though both are no doubt reacting to geo-macro events. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin appears to have ended its six-week-long correction on Wednesday, making way for a retest of key resistance at $13,200. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ This is the inside story of how a "white hat hacker" approached Binance with inside information - and how it went wrong. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Coinbase will have to face a negligence lawsuit from customers who bought bitcoin cash during the 2017 bull run, a judge ruled. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The couple must forfeit an undisclosed sum of bitcoin and bitcoin cash they acquired from selling illicit goods on a dark web marketplace. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ "Nakamoto is bitcoin country. HODL or GTFO." Sources tell CoinDesk this is the new project from former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin Core developer Bryan Bishop has proposed a feature to delay transfers from cold storage so users can stop thieves from draining their wallets. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin needs to break above stiff resistance at $12,000 to unleash the next phase of the bull market. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Iranian bitcoiners are showing the world what censorship resistance really looks like. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's price dropped from a daily high of $12,300 Tuesday, a price not seen since mid-July ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The business mogul critiqued Morgan Creek Digital Anthony Pompliano's financial holdings, comparing cryptocurrencies to "Vegas games" ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A verdict was not declared in an ongoing contempt and sanctions hearing for the self-declared inventor of bitcoin. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Winklevoss Capital, Galaxy Digital, and ConsenSys funded the crypto lender's latest round. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A Malta-based seller of bitcoin mining machines is in hot water after failing to refund a customer who complained over high power bills. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's move above $12,000 is backed by an uptick in trading volumes and bullish readings on the daily chart. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin privacy wallet Samourai announced last Thursday that its primary competitor, Wasabi Wallet, is the target of an ongoing network attack. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin has broken out of bearish mode with a near 10-percent surge this morning and looks to be decoupling from alternative cryptocurrencies. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The total computing power now dedicated to securing the bitcoin blockchain has set yet another record. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin has risen back above the $11,000 psychological price point after regaining ground on July 8's and July 22's bearish breakdowns. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ From experimenting with zcash in the Bronx to rogue bitcoin contributors, these teens are shaping the future of cryptocurrency. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin will not become a global reserve currency, argues Noelle Acheson. But it is adding a powerful tool to the box of potential solutions. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The exchange will list the major cryptocurrencies, simple ledger protocol tokens, and support BCH trading pairs. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Roger Ver is now Executive Chairman of Bitcoin.com as Stefan Rust joins as CEO ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic partnered with MIT to analyze $6 billion worth of bitcoin transactions. Here's what they found. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin is flashing green for the fourth consecutive day and could test key resistance above $11,000 over the weekend. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Blockade Games says it has successfully bridged the two networks by sending a bitcoin lightning transaction to trigger an ethereum smart contract. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Square sold $125 million in bitcoin through its Cash App in the second quarter of 2019, a new record for the payments company. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ LedgerX admitted it has not launched bitcoin futures, as it previously claimed, after the CFTC said it had not approved the exchange to do so. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ ICE CEO Jeffrey Sprecher said Bakkt will launch its physically-settled bitcoin futures soon, subject to regulatory approval. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Lightning usage is growing steadily in 2019, with several startups now offering retail-friendly wallets. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin has eked out moderate gains amid the U.S. Federal Reserve’s announcement of its first rate cut in over a decade. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ There's a bit less trust now needed when developers compile the software at the heart of bitcoin. ❏ CoinDesk