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Kyle Torpey's Daily Bitcoin Recap Kyle Torpey has been a full-time Bitcoin writer and researcher since early 2014. Currently, he contributes regularly to Forbes and CoinJournal. His work has also appeared in Business Insider, VICE Motherboard, Nasdaq, and many other media outlets. Additionally, Kyle goes over the day's top Bitcoin stories in a daily YouTube show and podcast, which can be found at http://kyletorpey.com

Note 1: My articles are now included in the “must read Bitcoin stories” section. Any article I’ve written will say “🚨BY KYLE TORPEY🚨” at the start of the article description. Note 2: A reader pointed out that my short description of a Ripple article from FT in Friday’s issue should have said the 16 banks surveyed are not using XRP right now rather than saying they never plan to use XRP.

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Must read Bitcoin stories from today...

Avoiding Dystopia and Messari’s Secret, Optimistic Plan medium.com – Share If you’ve followed me for any length of time, you probably know I’ve grown highly disillusioned with the current state of affairs in crypto. I thought I would enjoy the moon, but like many of the…

Kyle’s note: I don’t agree with this whole piece, but the bit about off-grid communities that only use bitcoin developing is interesting.

Bitfinex froze my account with over $1 million : bitfinex np.reddit.com – Share Hi, I’m an European guy under 30 and today I’m very worried. I post from a new account for obvious reasons. I entered into the crypto-world as a…

Kyle’s note: This is an unconfirmed story, but it illustrates the need for better privacy in bitcoin.

Bitcoin – Opacity – Medium medium.com – Share Let us follow the logic of things from the beginning. Or, rather, from the end: modern times. We are, as I am writing these lines, witnessing a complete riot against some class of experts, in domains…

What Is MUFG Coin? Japan’s Largest Bank To Open Cryptocurrency Exchange www.ibtimes.com – Share The bank will also open an exchange to trade the cryptocurrency, called MUFG Coin, which will be pegged to the yen.

Kyle’s note: This story was in the newsletter once or twice last week, but this is a more credible source to confirm it.

More bitcoin price and Wall Street stories from today...

Goldman Sachs warns clients about cryptocurrencies finance.yahoo.com – Share Goldman Sachs is warning its wealthiest clients that there’s no doubt that the rise in bitcoin’s price (BTC) has pushed it into bubble territory. The firm’s Private Wealth Management division touched upon the cryptocurrency craze in a 108-page note titled “(Un)Steady as She Goes,” an annual outlook

GVA Research CEO Garrity Sees Bitcoin Falling to $5,000 – Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com – Share David Garrity, chief executive officer at GVA Research LLC, discusses the volatility in Bitcoin and his outlook for cryptocurrencies. He speaks on “Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia.” (Source: Bloomberg)

Kyle’s note: I agree with this guy’s assessment on regulatory risks, but the number of payments on the network is not a proper way to value bitcoin.

Bitcoin Has No Role Yet for Institutional Investors: Bernstein - Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com – Share Taken on its own, Bitcoin’s eye-popping 1,400 percent rally last year would put most other investments to shame. But even such a monster gain might not be enough to put the cryptocurrency on the radar for institutional investors, according to Sanford C. Bernstein Ltd.

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Evrial Trojan Switches Bitcoin Addresses Copied to Windows Clipboard www.bleepingcomputer.com – Share A new information stealing Trojan called Evrial is being actively distributed in the wild. Like most infostealing Trojans, Evrial can steal browser cookies and stored credentials, but this Trojan also has the ability to monitor the Windows clipboard for certain text replace it with text received from the attackers.

More bitcoin dark web, hacking, and scam stories...

Odyssey Market hacked www.reddit.com – Share Hey guys, I took a break from things, but I’m back and fighting the good fight once again. There were a couple of markets that launched during my absence so I’ve been having a look into them, I’m currently running initial automated scans and will look further into each within the next few days.

More altcoin and ICO stories from today...

Top Swiss cryptocurrency lawyer questions 'stupid' ICO structure | Reuters www.reuters.com – Share One of the top lawyers in the booming cryptocurrency industry says the legal structure he helped set up to raise funds for new virtual currencies is “old, inflexible and stupid” and may no longer be fit for purpose.

More bitcoin regulation stories from today...

Korea to require cryptocurrency exchanges to share user data with banks www.theinvestor.co.kr – Share The government plans to require cryptocurrency exchanges to share users’ transaction data with banks, in a potential move to impose taxes on the transactions, an official at financial authorities said on Jan. 21. Currently, financial authorities ban banks from offering virtual accounts, which are needed to sell or buy cryptocurrencies, to individual customers, the latest measure to help prevent speculative investme…

Unconfirmed bitcoin stories from today...

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