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

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Must read Bitcoin stories from today...

Criminal activity will spur government intervention and kill bitcoin www.cnbc.com – Share Kyle’s note: I don’t think this guy has a good point. There have been many examples of people talking about governments shutting down bitcoin without explaining how they’ll be able to do it, which is an extremely important aspect of a supposed shutdown. Just putting this here so I can talk about it on the show really.

Scammers Banking Millions by Counterfeiting the Upcoming Telegram ICO - Bitsonline bitsonline.com – Share Pavel Durov – the founder of Telegram Chat Messenger – has warned crypto investors to look out for scams that use the Telegram brand name. The young entrepreneur tweeted his caution after hearing of multiple fake websites created to trap those curious about the billion-dollar token sale.

Easing stance, South Korea to adopt real-name crypto trading apnews.com – Share SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Softening its tough stance on crypto trading for now, South Korea said Tuesday it would adopt a system requiring that transactions that until now were an

Kyle’s note: This news about real-name trading is actually old, but it was reconfirmed today. A Reuters report from today also indicated a full ban on domestic cryptocurrency exchanges is still on the table.

Bitcoin Outputs Per Day - Bitcoin Scaling Data outputs.today – Share outputs.today tracks the number of outputs per transaction occurring on the Bitcoin blockchain every day.

Kyle’s note: Tracking outputs per day rather than transactions is probably a better indicator of the activity on the network.

transactionfee.info transactionfee.info – Share Check the fee efficiency of your last transaction!

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

After Bitcoin Futures, Watch Out for Crypto Repos - WSJ www.wsj.com – Share A former Goldman Sachs banker plans to launch a digital currency platform that will make it easier for investors to short one cryptocurrency against another, potentially bringing the nascent market one step closer to the financial mainstream.

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Ending Bitcoin Support stripe.com – Share Starting today, we are winding down support for Bitcoin payments. Over the next three months we will work with affected Stripe users to ensure a smooth transition.

More bitcoin technical stories from today...

[bitcoin-dev] Taproot: Privacy preserving switchable scripting lists.linuxfoundation.org – Share Interest in merkelized scriptPubKeys (e.g. MAST) is driven by two main areas: efficiency and privacy. Efficiency because unexecuted forks of a script can avoid ever hitting the chain, and privacy because hiding unexecuted code leaves scripts indistinguishable to the extent that their only differences are in the unexecuted parts.

Blockchain State Storage Rent Revised | Bitslog bitslog.wordpress.com – Share (This post is an updated re-post of a previous post in RSK blog) In a nutshell, storage rent is a fee users pay in order to have their accounts, contracts and memory live on the network at any time, so their data can be accessed fast and at a low cost. Storage rent does not fulfill any purpose in…

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

/r/DarkNetMarkets: This is the day! www.reddit.com – Share This is the day everything is coming back to normal 3.66$ bitcoin transaction fee. Now you can spend your bitcoins and buy that European molly without having to do a 15$ transaction!

More altcoin and ICO stories from today...

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SEC is scrutinizing overnight blockchain companies: chairman | Reuters www.reuters.com – Share The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is scrutinizing public companies that change their name or business model in a bid to capitalize upon the hype surrounding blockchain technology, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton said on Monday.

Digital currencies not licensed –Bank of Ghana | Business News 2018-01-22 www.ghanaweb.com – Share The Bank of Ghana says activities in digital currency are currently not licensed under the Payments System Act 2003 (Act 662). It said while it has taken notice of recent developments in the use, holding, and trading of virtual or digital currencies (also known as cryptocurrencies), such as Bitcoin in Ghana, it is not legal tender and it is not regulated.

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