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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South Korea considers shutting down domestic cryptocurrency exchanges | Reuters www.reuters.com – Share South Korean policymakers joined the global chorus of virtual-coin critics on Thursday, saying Seoul is considering shutting down domestic virtual currency exchanges as the new breed of market exposes users to speculative frenzy and crime.

Simple Schnorr Multi-Signatures with Applications to Bitcoin eprint.iacr.org – Share Kyle’s note: I haven’t had a chance to read this yet, but Schnorr signatures in general are an important development for Bitcoin.

Virtual currency meets finance in glitzy Swiss resort | Reuters www.reuters.com – Share More than a dozen billionaires flocked to the Swiss ski resort of St. Moritz this week to meet up with blockchain entrepreneurs, fund managers and government officials to discuss investing into the burgeoning cryptocurrency scene.

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Shorts on top as January Cboe bitcoin futures settle | Reuters www.reuters.com – Share Bitcoin was seen as coming to the big leagues with the launch of U.S. futures trading in December. For those keeping score at home, the first round of this series was a resounding win for bitcoin bears over the bulls.

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Scaling Bitcoin to One Billion Users, Part I | Bitslog bitslog.wordpress.com – Share The most important comparative properties of cryptocurrencies are decentralization, scalability, confidentiality, stability, usability, security. But scalability is always in conflict with the rest of the properties. To scale higher, some blockchains sacrifice security, usability or privacy. For example, Bitcoin sacrifices some security because it lacks stateful smart-contracts, so users cannot set daily withdrawal limits or…

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Introducing Zebpay 2.0 – Zebpay Blog blog.zebpay.com – Share As India’s leading cryptocurrency exchange, it is very important for us to keep evolving based on the feedback we receive from our users. We listened to you and now have hit a major milestone with…

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Iowan Narrowly Escapes CryptoCurrency Ponzi Scheme | whotv.com whotv.com – Share ELKHART, Iowa – Though it’s been around for a few years, crypto currency like Bit-Coin is just now working its way into mainstream culture; and when there is a new trend there are people trying to run schemes off the hype, as one Iowan found out.

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Ledger-to-Ledger? Hardware Wallet Integrates with Decentralized Exchange - CoinDesk www.coindesk.com – Share In a post published Wednesday, the Øx order book provider announced the integration with Ledger, allowing people who use the hardware to transfer ether (the cryptocurrency of the ethereum network) or supported ERC-20-based tokens directly to another Ledger wallet.

Antpool Adds Support for Siacoin Mining Amid Bitmain Miner Launch - CoinDesk www.coindesk.com – Share The announcement of AntPool mining support comes alongside the news that China’s mining chip giant Bitmain, which owns AntPool, has launched a new mining hardware device, dubbed the AntMiner A3. Data shows that, currently, AntPool accounts for 18 percent of the global bitcoin hashing power.

Chart-topping fitness app 'Sweatcoin' secures funding | Reuters www.reuters.com – Share Sweatcoin, a free smartphone app that pays people to be physically active, said on Wednesday it has secured its first round of institutional funding after topping download charts in Britain and the United States.

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LIVE MARKETS-Told you so! Watchdog berates French TV star after Bitcoin slump | Reuters www.reuters.com – Share Remember how French financial authorities including the head of the country’s central banktook up arms when reality TV star Nabilla Benattia encouraged hers fans to invest in bitcoin? Well, the slump in the cryptocurrency has brought them a “told you so” opportunity whichthey were quick to seize. “The followers of Nabilla who would have invested at the time she encouraged them to wouldhave made a very substantial loss, about a third,” Robert Ophele, head of the French financialmarkets authority (AMF), said yesterday. “She’s the proof one should not venture recklessly into these kinds of investments”, headded.

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A note to my hackers : Bitcoin www.reddit.com – Share On Jun 29, 2014 you stole all my bitcoin from my wallet (almost 4BTC), from what I can make out accessed my dropbox account and got hold of my…

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