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...

Extortion, Police Raids and Secrecy: Inside The Venezuelan Bitcoin Mining World hackernoon.com – Share I have never feared for the safety of anyone I have collaborated with on an interview. Many people put their lives and families at risk for what I am about to tell you. This is one of those stories I…

Dream Marketplace adds Monero www.reddit.com – Share Vendor here. I just logged into Dream and was prompted to set whether or not I will accept Monero for orders (fuck yes, I will). So Dream now accepts BTC, BCH, and XMR!

Grayscale Plans Five New Crypto Funds - Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com – Share Grayscale Investments, which made it easier for mainstream investors to bet on Bitcoin, plans to offer four new single-currency crypto funds and another based on a basket of digital currencies by the start of April.

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Benevolent Bitcoin Stranger Donates Millions in Digital Currency to Chicago Family’s Charity www.nbcchicago.com – Share Plenty of people have serious doubts about Bitcoins–but Tuesday night a Chicago family became believers in the digital currency because of a head-spinning windfall that will help kids. Dick Johnson reports. (Published Tuesday, Jan 23, 2018)

Two PU Freshmen Start Cryptocurrency Investment Service | Town Topics www.towntopics.com – Share Two Princeton University freshmen are venturing into the uncharted frontier of cryptocurrency finance. As they weather finals week, Hunter Sporn and Kevin Zheng are also part of a small team hard at work on their startup, Everest Capital. Using algorithms to monitor multiple factors, including price data, consumer sentiment, and social media analytics, they hope to offer cryptocurrency investment forecasts, mitigating risk in a market with immense volatility.

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Dealing in bitcoin not a crime - Cryptocurrency operators | Business News 2018-01-24 www.ghanaweb.com – Share Cryptocurrency operators have said transacting bitcoin business is not illegal in Ghana, but have cautioned the citizenry to understand how it works before they invest in it. This comes on the heels of the Bank of Ghana’s caution to the public against the use of digital currency like bitcoin.

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Rapid Ransomware Continues Encrypting New Files as they Are Created www.bleepingcomputer.com – Share A new ransomware is being spread called Rapid Ransomware that stays active after initially encrypting a computer and encrypts any new files that are created. While this behavior is not unique to Rapid, it is not a common behavior we see too often.

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IOTA ($MIOTA) Analysis - Multicoin Capital multicoin.capital – Share Note: Multicoin Capital will be hosting its first live conversation to discuss the findings of this report on Wednesday, January 24th at 11am US Central Time. If you’d like to attend live, please register here. For those unable to attend, please submit any questions to conversations@multicoin.capital . We will update this blog post with a download link for an audio recording of the conversation afterwards.

MakerDAO and More: The Quest for a Stable Stablecoin Continues - CoinDesk www.coindesk.com – Share Usually, no one bats an eye when a cryptocurrency’s price drops 30 percent over the course of a week. This is the Wild West, after all.

Kyle’s note: I think Abra makes stablecoins kind of useless. You can already hold the value of basically any fiat currency backed by bitcoin with the Abra app.

More bitcoin regulation stories from today...

Bitcoin Futures Get Cold Shoulder From Japanese Regulator - Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com – Share Japan’s financial regulator is in no hurry to follow the U.S. and enable the listing of futures contracts linked to cryptocurrencies, according to a senior Financial Services Agency official with direct knowledge of the matter.

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