Overstock Gets 100 Million from Soros Fund + Beware of Hackers

News
Nomura Analysts Think Bitcoin Is Making Japanese People Spend More
https://bitcoinist.com/nomura-analysts-think-bitcoin-making-japanese-people-spend/

Merrill Lynch Bans Clients From Bitcoin Investment Trust
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bank-of-america-merrill-lynch-bitcoin/merrill-lynch-bans-clients-from-investing-in-silbert-bitcoin-fund-idUSKBN1ET02N

Sneaky Crypto Malware Miners Are Targeting Ad Networks Next
https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-malware-miners-israel-ad-networks-monero/

Over 860,000 Have Signed Up to Mine the Venezuelan Petro
http://bitcoinist.com/860000-mine-venezuelan-petro/

Ripple XRP: The influence of Exchanges
http://www.newsbtc.com/2018/01/04/ripple-xrp-influence-exchanges/

Ripple Co-Founder Becomes ‘World’s Richest Person’
http://bitcoinist.com/ripple-co-founder-worlds-richest-person/

Coinbase to Customers: Don’t Forget to Pay Taxes on Bitcoin Gains
https://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-reminds-users-to-pay-their-bitcoin-taxes/

Official Complaints Say Korea Trading Restrictions are ‘Unconstitutional’
http://bitcoinist.com/south-korea-trading-restrictions-unconstitutional-says-official-complaint/

‘Power Back Into People’s Hands’ – Zuckerberg Announces Facebook’s Crypto Focus
http://bitcoinist.com/power-back-peoples-hands-zuckerberg-announces-facebooks-crypto-focus/

Bank of England Has ‘No Plans’ to Launch Cryptocurrency
https://www.coindesk.com/bank-of-england-has-no-plans-to-launch-cryptocurrency/

Texas Sends Cease and Desist Order to Bitconnect
http://bitcoinist.com/texas-sends-cease-desist-order-bitconnect/

Overstock Gets $100 Million from Soros Fund for Blockchain and More
https://www.coindesk.com/blockchain-bonanza-overstock-gets-100-million-investment-soros-fund/

What Meltdown and Spectre Flaws Mean for Crypto
https://www.coindesk.com/meltdown-spectre-cpu-flaws-mean-cryptocurrency/

China’s Bitcoin Miners Moving to Avoid Clampdown
http://insidebitcoins.com/news/chinas-bitcoin-miners-moving-to-avoid-clampdown/95861

Axed List
Criminals Have Found an Alternative to Bitcoin: This trend is super obvious to anyone involved in crypto. Eventually Bitcoin will lose its public reputation of being for criminals because actual private coins will be better. Expect to see Bitcoin phased out of the darkweb if it already isn’t.
http://bitcoinist.com/criminals-found-alternative-bitcoin/

Volatility: A Necessary Ingredient for Monetary and Social Transition: An article that reinforces the fact that we really don’t have a solid definition of what is money. Is it something backed by other assets like gold, controlled by a centralized institution, or decentralized and maintained by many?
https://www.coindesk.com/volatility-necessary-ingredient-monetary-social-transition/

$100 Billion Controversy: XRP’s Surge Raises Hard Questions for Ripple: Supports the fact of Ripple’s coin not really having much use right now. Maybe in the future it will, but currently the most popular platform does not use XRP.
https://www.coindesk.com/100-billion-controversy-xrps-surge-raises-hard-questions-ripple/

Bitfury Group Unveils Technique to Analyze Bitcoin Transactions: Don’t think you’ll be able to hide from the government when using Bitcoin. If you don’t convert to a good privacy coin you will have everything trackable. So either play legally or play Smart. Because you will get boned if you don’t.
https://themerkle.com/bitfury-group-unveils-technique-to-analyze-bitcoin-transactions/

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