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❏ The SEC and CFTC have settled charges with XBT Corp. after alleging the company sold unregistered security-based swaps for bitcoin. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Longtime bitcoin advocate Bruce Fenton has created a new broker-dealer for digital asset firms and financial advisors called Watchdog Capital. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin looks likely to see price gains next month as the effects of the May 2020 mining reward halving start to kick in. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Grave concerns about the evolution of blockchain technology from someone who lived in China and used bitcoin for its censorship-resistant value. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Happy birthday, bitcoin. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Canadian investment fund manager 3iQ plans to launch a closed-end bitcoin fund on the Ontario Stock Exchange later this quarter. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ CME Group revealed the product specifications for its bitcoin options contracts on Wednesday, targeting a 2020 launch. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ On Oct. 30, 2019, the bitcoin blockchain reached $1 billion in cumulative transaction fees. “This milestone is a really cool milestone just because it shows how much people value block space,” said Bryan Aulds, founder of bitcoin wallet Billfodl. “And that it’s something people don’t mind paying for, which I think is really important moving […] ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Metal giant Rusal is renting its facilities to the Russian Mining Corporation following 2018 U.S. sanctions. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A transcript of a Bitmain staff meeting reveals an ugly power struggle inside the world's biggest bitcoin miner maker that led to the abrupt ousting of co-founder Micree Ketuan Zhan. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin is on track to end its three-month losing streak, having recovered from recent lows around $7,400 seen a week ago. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The bitcoin mining giant is said to have confidentially filed for an IPO in the U.S. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Fans mobbed Binance's CEO like a rock star on his recent visit to Moscow. The warm feelings are mutual, with a big Russian expansion in the works. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Ledn is partnering with MakerDAO to bring the ethereum-backed stablecoin DAI to more users in Latin America. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A widely-tracked bitcoin price indicator with a strong track record of predicting big moves has turned bullish for the first time in over three months. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin mining giant Bitmain is experiencing turmoil inside its management co-founder and executive director Micree Ketuan Zhan is ousted. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Avalon bitcoin miner maker Canaan Creative has just formally filed for a $400 million US IPO. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin users in Lebanon have numerous hurdles to overcome to develop a local market during the nation's economic crisis. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bakkt says it's launching a consumer app next year that will let customers pay crypto at Starbucks. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin eked out double-digit gains last week, but failed to invalidate a four-month bearish trend. A pullback toward $8,800 may lie ahead. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A former regulator in China has argued that Sichuan – a bitcoin mining hub – should study how to remain attractive to crypto-related business. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin and Bitcoin SV are the only cryptocurrencies within the top 10 to have jumped back above their long-term moving averages. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's price jumped above $10,000 in the Asian trading hours, but the breakout into five digits was short-lived. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ CoinDesk's Brad Keoun talks to Arca's investment head about recent bitcoin price activity. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin prices surged Friday after the Chinese President said his countrymen should "seize the opportunity" afforded by blockchain technology. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The bearish but lagging cross has occurred for the first time in 18 months, courtesy of bitcoin's fall from the yearly high of $13,880. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The last of three Russian scientists caught illegally mining bitcoin at a top-secret nuclear lab has been given a prison sentence. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The private Libra project is not in line with what Dorsey wants Twitter to stand for, the CEO (and bitcoin supporter) said. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ South Korean bitcoin exchange and wallet startup Coinplug has raised $6.4 million from venture arms of major local financial institutions.  ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Galaxy Digital's asset management division is launching two bitcoin funds in November, according to a source with knowledge of the matter. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Travis Kling of Ikigai Asset Management explains why bitcoin is currently a risk asset, but showing signs of a future safe-haven asset. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ "Bitcoin is less volatile from a systemic perspective than I think the traditional financial industry is," says the Wyoming Blockchain Coalition co-founder. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ “If you are fleeing a country with just the clothes on your back and want to take your savings with you, bitcoin is an excellent safe haven,” says the founding partner of Castle Island Ventures. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is launching bitcoin options contracts through its subsidiary Bakkt. Bakkt announced Thursday that it would “launch the first regulated options contract for bitcoin futures,” adding a new product to its current slate of physically-settled bitcoin futures contracts. CEO Kelly Loeffler said in a Medium post that the contracts were built in response […] ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Long-term bitcoin price support at $7,200 may be put to test for the first time in six months, likely after a minor price bounce. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's price fell to less than $7,500 today and traders believe a "long squeeze" is to blame. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's struggle for clear directional bias looks set to end, with volatility hitting multi-month lows and the charts suggesting a big move could soon occur on the higher side. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The portfolio manager behind SPDR Gold Shares is developing a bitcoin ETF, but winning SEC approval remains a holy grail in the nascent space. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Hackers can make up to $130,000 a month for a $10,000 investment. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ "We saw a bubble building and we thought the best way to address it was to allow the market to interact with it," said Christopher Giancarlo. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitmain's new bitcoin mine exploits cheap electricity in Texas, the nation's biggest power market. Locals are happy for the new jobs. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The digital asset IRA company will offer interest on cryptocurrency and cash holdings that customers want to lend out. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A short-term bitcoin price indicator has turned bullish, strengthening the case for a test of key resistance above $8,800. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin custody provider Casa has launched a new service to help holders of the cryptocurrency to ensure their assets are passed to loved ones in the event of their death. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ LocalBitcoins data is a starting point for research, but it isn't conclusive evidence of grassroots adoption. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ In the era of negative rates, return-hungry investors may increasingly borrow in low-interest fiat and invest in higher-yielding crypto accounts. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The deal, which closed recently for an undisclosed sum, will see O3 Labs’ eight-person developer team integrate into Bitcoin.com. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The enhanced crypto functionality will let Opera for android users make bitcoin payments from its built-in digital wallet and interact with dapps on TRON. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ At the lightning network's inaugural conference in Berlin, the future economics of the bitcoin payment technology took center stage. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin has bounced from key support and neutralized the immediate bearish setup, though a bullish reversal is still $600 away. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A new denial-of-service attack could slow down or completely stop bitcoin payments over the lightning network. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The Taiwanese electronics giant has launched the Exodus 1s phone with a built-in hardware wallet and the ability to support a bitcoin node. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The 18 millionth bitcoin is about to be mined. Though the remaining 3 million will take 120 years to mint, some question the certainty of the original hard cap. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Hackers have been distributing a compromised version of the official Tor Browser that's packed with malware designed to steal bitcoin. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ An impending death cross, a bearish but lagging indicator, suggests bitcoin could be nearing a major bottom. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Binance’s futures exchange is raising leverage to 125x with the launch of BTC/USDT contracts today. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A new report says bitcoin has failed as a means of payment or store of value, but stablecoins like Libra are a risk to financial stability. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The bitcoin market isn't mature enough to support an ETF, said the SEC in its latest rejection of the concept. So what now? ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin is looking increasingly weak, having closed below $8,000 on rising trading volumes Wednesday. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ For many of these bitcoin users, crypto payments are merely a last resort and fiat transfers are still generally easier. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A U.S. federal grand jury indicted a South Korean citizen for operating a child porn site, funded by millions dollars worth of bitcoin. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin has faced its highest selling pressure since February in the last 24 hours and could drop below recent lows near $7,750. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ With an AI system trawling 850,000,000 tweets a day, the eToro product calibrates an optimal coin portfolio based on Crypto Twitter sentiment. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Members of the public have another 21 days to send the SEC comments on a proposed ETF backed by bitcoin and Treasury bonds. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Satoshi, noun, “The smallest monetary unit in the bitcoin digital payment system, equal to one hundred millionth of a bitcoin," enters the OED. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A vertically integrated startup has raised $30 million to bring bitcoin mining back to the U.S. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A long-term bitcoin chart indicator has turned bullish for the first time in three years, though it's had little impact on prices. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin halvings normally result in price increases. Maybe not this time. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Two years in the making and already backed by some $20 million in digitized gold, CoinShares announced the DGLD token Tuesday. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The CME touts the success of its bitcoin futures contract, as the battle for institutional investors heats up thanks to competition from Bakkt. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Investors who trade crypto tend to take bigger risks in the stock market, suggesting they seek dopamine more than diversification, a study found. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin has crossed the 20-day moving average hurdle, but remains in bearish territory on the daily and weekly charts. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ "Why are we not thinking about how to create dark finance tools we can leverage against government bonds?" ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Market movements show us that bitcoin is not generally accepted as a safe-haven investment. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin's quick pullback from a 2.5-week high of $8,830 this morning has invalidated a bullish breakout on the 4-hour chart. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Erik Finman's $1 million fund will make seed-level investments in startups dealing in banking and decentralized finance. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin may rise to $9,000 in the short-term, as traders are seemingly unfazed by the U.S. regulator's decision to reject Bitwise's bitcoin ETF proposal. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The U.K.-licensed firm's new derivative product allows clients to synthetically trade gold against bitcoin and aims to capitalize on a move to haven assets. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin popped earlier this morning and our own Brad Keoun talks to Joe DiPasquale of BitBull Capital about what moved the market. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The SEC has rejected Bitwise's proposal for a bitcoin ETF. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin prices have jumped 5.9 percent in the past 24 hours, recovering some of the cryptocurrency's losses in recent weeks. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Binance is now accepting bitcoin purchases via P2P purchases on Alipay and WeChat. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The Fed Reserve's decision to expand its balance sheet is seen as a long-term positive for bitcoin, but prices are yet to feel any effect. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Skew., a startup led by an ex-JPMorgan trader, did an S&P 500 options trade on bitcoin’s blockchain to prove the tech works better than Wall Street. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Lightning-focused bitcoin startup ACINQ added an interesting investor to its cap table: Bpifrance, a state-owned bank that just made its first crypto investment. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Casa, a bitcoin custody provider, is launching a new version of its flagship device. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin logged the biggest single-day price gain in five weeks on Monday, opening doors for a stronger recovery rally to key resistance above $8,500. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A look at some recent data around usage on bitcoin's lightning network. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Argentina's economic woes have led to a rise in crypto adoption. We talk to Athena Bitcoin, one of the biggest crypto ATM networks in the country. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin has again defended historically strong price support near $7,700, keeping the hopes of a corrective rally alive. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Algo Capital, an investment firm focused on the Algorand ecosystem, lost a few million in bitcoin and ALGO tokens after its CTO's phone was hacked. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Despite a recent pullback, bitcoin’s price has more than doubled in 2019, dwarfing investors' year-to-date returns from stocks, bonds or commodities. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Crypto fund Galaxy Digital and OTC trader XBTO have conducted the first-ever block trade of Bakkt's bitcoin futures contract. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A bullish breakout may be on the way, price indicators suggest, potentially fueling a rally to $8,800. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A website launched last year by the U.S. state of Ohio allowing businesses to pay a range of taxes with bitcoin has been taken offline. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The firm's SEC prospectus details a cash-settled bitcoin futures fund offering 100,000 shares at $10 apiece. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The increased likelihood of a U.S. recession has brought a boost to gold prices. For bitcoin, though, it's a different story. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Swiss stock exchange SIX has listed the Amun Bitcoin Suisse BTC/ETH exchange-traded product (ETP). ❏ CoinDesk

❏ At this week's TQuorum conference, the shared values of the Tezos community were on display. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ It’s way too soon to write off Bakkt, despite the bitcoin futures market’s disappointingly slow start, equity analysts at Oppenheimer & Co. said. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ October has started poorly for traders looking to capture Tuesday's rebound, as prices were swiftly rejected back below $8,300 this morning. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The engineer at a top-secret nuclear lab, along with two colleagues, had accessed the plant's supercomputer to mine bitcoin. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Bitcoin is better bid Tuesday, but the relief rally is struggling to gather traction above a key former support-turned-resistance. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ A man faces charges by the U.S. Attorney's Office and the CFTC over claims he took money for bulk bitcoin orders that were never delivered. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ The German bank is set to help European retailers accept bitcoin payments in early 2020. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Just 623 bitcoin futures contracts were traded during Bakkt's debut week. ❏ CoinDesk

❏ Band Protocol launched its binary options dapp Monday, allowing users to make predictions on bitcoin's price swings. ❏ CoinDesk