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...

Samsung coming to Bitcoin with ASIC chips - SlashGear www.slashgear.com – Share Overnight news from South Korea spoke of Samsung’s efforts to enter the bitcoin mining industry. Samsung was reported to be joining said market with mass production of bitcoin mining hardware starting this month. Their first move will hit the ground running with ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) production

Kyle’s note: This story hasn’t been completely confirmed yet, and a Redditor has shared some doubts. TheNextWeb is the only somewhat reliable outlet that has reported on it so far. It seems Samsung is just producing the chips for a bitcoin mining company, similar to how TSMC produces chips for Bitmain.



Israel's Blockchain Mining looks at Nasdaq, Toronto listings | Reuters www.reuters.com – Share Blockchain Mining Ltd (BLCM.TA) said on Tuesday it was preparing to list its stock on Nasdaq and the Toronto Stock Exchange by July after Israel’s market regulator said it might ban companies involved in cryptocurrencies from the Tel Aviv exchange.

Inside Taiwan's Cryptocurrency Push – Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com – Share The half a billion dollar theft in Japan on the Coincheck Exchange could be a cautionary tale for Taiwan, which has been looking to possibly fill the cryptocurrency void in Asia following the crackdowns in China and South Korea. Bloomberg’s Stephen Engle explores Taiwan’s cryptocurrency world. (Source: Bloomberg)

Techniques to reduce transaction fees - Bitcoin Wiki en.bitcoin.it – Share This page provides a list of currently-available techniques that may allow spenders to reduce the amount of transaction fee they pay. Not all techniques will apply to all situations, and some techniques require trading off other benefits for lower fees.

3 More Lies Bitcoin Skeptics Tell Themselves www.forbes.com – Share 🚨BY KYLE TORPEY🚨 The bitcoin skeptics have been out in full force lately, so here are three more examples of lies they tell themselves.

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Bitcoin has gifted huge windfalls to the alt-right, proving the benefits of cryptocurrencies are often dangers too | The Independent www.independent.co.uk – Share In recent months, it’s been hard to avoid the deluge of news articles, TV reports, social media chatter and conversations down the pub about the huge profits to be made from investing in the cryptocurrency bitcoin. But less often discussed is the fact that Nazi trolls, alt-right vloggers and leading extreme-right activists made millions from bitcoin last year.

Kyle’s note: This article illustrates the usefulness of bitcoin for politically-unacceptable causes. Obviously, racist causes are abhorrent, but it makes the point nonetheless.

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DNMUK subreddit banned www.reddit.com – Share “This community has been banned. This community has been banned for violating the Reddit rules. Banned 6 minutes ago.”

Information regarding Agora Reloaded? www.reddit.com – Share Hi all, I’m seeing little to no information regarding the downtime of Agora Reloaded. I am obviously assuming the worst, since their sub (/r/agorareloaded/) is now set to private as well. So what’s the good word? Anybody able to confirm my fears? Any better place I can look to get more information regarding the seizure? Thank you kindly.

Crypto Celebrities Warn of Twitter Scam Messages - Bitsonline bitsonline.com – Share Well-known cryptocurrency figures including Charlie Lee and Vitalik Buterin have warned Twitter followers of scammers impersonating their accounts. The scam messages are all similar: they have names and icons mimicking the well-known accounts,

Reddit detectives bust Venezuela Bitcoin donation fraud – Crypto.BI crypto.bi – Share Reddit detectives have done it again. A fake charity which requested donations for Venezuelans during hardship has been busted using a fake image as proof that children had supposedly received food shipments exchanged for BTC.

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Global workshop for financial investigators on detection, investigation, seizure and confiscation of cryptocurrencies | Europol www.europol.europa.eu – Share On 15 and 16 January 2018, Europol, INTERPOL and the Basel Institute on Governance jointly organised in Basel, Switzerland, a workshop for financial investigators on the detection, investigation, seizure and confiscation of cryptocurrencies. The event was attended by more than 60 financial investigators from money laundering, cybercrime and financial intelligence units from 32 different countries, together with experts in asset recovery and relevant private sector representatives.

Unconfirmed bitcoin stories from today...

South Korean National Pension Fund Invests in Cryptocurrency Exchanges | Finance Magnates www.financemagnates.com – Share The following terminology applies to these Terms and Conditions, Privacy Statement and Disclaimer Notice and any or all Agreements: “Client”, “You” and “Your” refers to you, the person accessing this website and accepting the Company’s terms and conditions. “The Company”, “Ourselves”, “We” and “Us”, refers to our Company. “Party”, “Parties”, or “Us”, refers to both the Client and ourselves, or either the Client or ourselves. All terms refer to the offer, acceptance and consideration of payment necessary to undertake the process of our assistance to the Client in the most appropriate manner, whether by formal meetings of a fixed duration, or any other means, for the express purpose of meeting the Client’s needs in respect of provision of the Company’s stated services/products, in accordance with and subject to, prevailing English Law. Any use of the above terminology or other words in the singular, plural, capitalisation and/or he/she or they, are taken as interchangeable and therefore as referring to same.

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