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German Authorities Sold $14 Million in Seized Cryptos Over Price Fears

May 29, 2018 at 10:00 | Wolfie Zhao

Prosecutors in Germany have made an emergency sale of cryptocurrencies seized in two investigations due to concerns over price volatility.

Bitcoin Price Faces Last Major Support Level Before $5K

May 29, 2018 at 09:00 | Omkar Godbole

Bitcoin is down again and looks set to test another key support level at $6,900, the technical charts indicate.

Bitcoin Bears In Charge But Indecision Could Spur Rally

May 28, 2018 at 10:25 | Omkar Godbole

While the odds are still stacked in favor of bitcoin's bears, marketplace exhaustion may have provided a chance for a brief rally.

IHS Markit Has A Plan to Tokenize A $1 Trillion Loan Market

May 28, 2018 at 04:00 | Ian Allison

IHS Markit is developing a blockchain-based system to handle cash payments in syndicated loans – and eventually, in a wider range of transactions.

Just One Top Crypto Bucked This Week's Market Downturn

May 25, 2018 at 15:15 | Omkar Godbole

Shadowing the losses in bitcoin, the top-25 cryptocurrencies have all fallen over the last seven days – all bar one, that is.

Bitcoin Faces Close Below Long-Term Support In First Since 2015

May 25, 2018 at 10:00 | Omkar Godbole

If bitcoin closes the week below the 50-week moving average it will increase the likelihood of a sell-off to $6,000

Revolut App Adds XRP, Bitcoin Cash to Crypto Options

May 24, 2018 at 14:35 | Daniel Palmer

Mobile banking app Revolut now lets users buy, sell and hold Ripple's XRP and bitcoin cash, in addition to bitcoin, litecoin and ether.

Bitcoin Faces Drop to $7K as Bull Defense Crumbles

May 24, 2018 at 09:30 | Omkar Godbole

Bitcoin looks set to test $7,000 in the next 24 hours, courtesy of a bear flag breakdown on the technical charts.

Coinbase Is Rebranding Its Crypto Exchange Service

May 23, 2018 at 20:26 | Nikhilesh De

Coinbase announced Wednesday it was rebranding its GDAX platform as Coinbase Pro. Additionally, the company has acquired Paradex, a relay platform.

Bitcoin Price Faces Bear Indicator Not Seen Since 2014

May 23, 2018 at 09:00 | Omkar Godbole

Following bitcoin's recent losses, a key long-term trend indicator is looking increasingly bearish.

Keep an Eye Out for These Bitcoin Tech Trends in 2018

Aaron van Wirdum

In many ways, 2017 was Bitcoin’s best year yet. Most obviously, increased adoption made the pioneering cryptocurrency’s exchange rate skyrocket from under $1000 to well over 10 times that value.

But from a tech perspective, things seem to be just getting started: 2018 promises to be the year that a number of highly anticipated projects are either launched or adopted.

Here’s a brief overview of some of the most promising upcoming technological developments to keep an eye on in the new year.

Cheaper Transactions with Segregated Witness and a New Address Format

Segregated Witness (SegWit) was one of Bitcoin’s biggest — if not the biggest — protocol upgrade to date. Activated in August 2017, it fixed the long-standing malleability bug, in turn better enabling second-layer protocols. Additionally, SegWit replaced Bitcoin’s block size limit with a block weight limit, allowing for increased transactions throughout the network, thereby lowering fees per transaction.

However, adoption of the upgrade has been off to a relatively slow start . While some wallets and services are utilizing the added block space offered by SegWit, many others are not yet doing so. This means that, while Bitcoin is technically capable of supporting between two and four megabytes worth of transactions per ten minutes, it barely exceeds 1.1 megabytes.

This is set to change in 2018.

For one, the Bitcoin Core wallet interface will allow users to accept and send SegWit transactions. Bitcoin Core 0.16, scheduled for May 2018 (though this may be moved forward), will most likely realize this through a new address format known as “ bech32 ,” which also has some technical advantages that limit risks and mistakes (for example, those caused by typos).

“To spend coins from the P2SH format currently used for SegWit, users need to reveal a redeem script in the transaction,” Bitcoin Core and Blockstream developer Dr. Pieter Wuille, who also co-designed the bech32 address format, told Bitcoin Magazine .

“With native SegWit outputs this is no longer necessary, which means transactions take up less data. Recipients of SegWit transactions will be able to spend these coins at a lower cost.”

Perhaps even more importantly, several major Bitcoin services — like Coinbase — plan to upgrade to SegWit in 2018 as well. Since such services account for a large chunk of all transactions on the Bitcoin network, this could significantly decrease network congestion, thereby decreasing average transaction fees and confirmation times, even for those who do not use these services.

The Lightning Network Rolling Out on Bitcoin’s Mainnet

While further SegWit adoption should provide immediate relief of fee pressure and confirmation times, truly meaningful long-term scalability will likely be achieved with second-layer solutions built on top of Bitcoin’s blockchain.

One of the most highly anticipated solutions in this regard — especially for lower value transactions — is the lightning network . This overlay network, first proposed by Joseph Poon and Tadge Dryja in 2015, promises to enable near-free transactions and instant confirmations, all while leveraging Bitcoin’s security.

The solution has been under active development for about two years now, with major efforts by ACINQ, Blockstream and Lightning Labs. Progress on the scaling layer has been significant all throughout 2017, with early software releases of different but compatible software implementations, useable wallets interfaces and test transactions happening both on Bitcoin’s testnet and even on Bitcoin’s mainnet on a regular basis now.

“I'd say we have solved the main technical problems and have a relatively good idea on how to improve on the current system,” Christian Decker, lightning developer at Blockstream, told Bitcoin Magazine . “One last hurdle that's worth mentioning is the network topology: We'd like to steer the network formation to be as decentralized as possible.”

Given the current state of development, adoption of the lightning network should only increase throughout 2018 — not just among developers, but increasingly among end users as well.

“Integration and testing will be the next major step forward,” Lightning Labs CEO Elizabeth Stark agreed, noting: “Some exchanges and wallets are already working on it.”

Increased Privacy Through TumbleBit and ZeroLink

While it is sometimes misrepresented as such, Bitcoin is not really private right now. All transactions are included in the public blockchain for anyone to see, and transaction data analysis can reveal a lot about who owns what, who transacts with whom and more. While there are solutions available to increase privacy right now — like straightforward bitcoin mixers — these usually have significant drawbacks: They often require trusted parties or have privacy leaks.

This situation could be improved significantly in 2018. Two of the most promising projects in this domain — TumbleBit and ZeroLink — are both getting close to mainnet deployment.

TumbleBit was first proposed in 2016 by a group of researchers led by Ethan Heilman. It is essentially a coin-mixing protocol that uses a tumbler to create payment channels from all participants to all participants in a single mixing session. Everyone effectively receives different bitcoins than what they started with, breaking the trail of ownership for all. And importantly, TumbleBit utilizes clever cryptographic tricks to ensure that the tumbler can’t establish a link between users either.

An initial implementation of the TumbleBit protocol was coded by NBitcoin developer Nicolas Dorier in early 2017. His work was picked up by Ádám Ficsór as well as other developers, and blockchain platform Stratis announced it would implement the technology in its upcoming Breeze wallet, which also supports Bitcoin, by March 2018. Recently, in mid- December of 2017, Stratis released TumbleBit integration in this wallet in beta.

The other promising solution, ZeroLink, is an older concept: it was first proposed (not under the same name) by Bitcoin Core contributor and Blockstream CTO Gregory Maxwell, back in 2013. Not unlike TumbleBit, ZeroLink utilizes a central server to connect all users but without being able to link their transactions. As opposed to TumbleBit, however, it creates a single ( CoinJoin ) transaction between all participants, which makes the solution significantly cheaper.

This idea seemed to have been forgotten for some years until Ficsór (indeed, the same Ficsór that worked on TumbleBit) rediscovered it earlier this year. He switched his efforts from TumbleBit to a new ZeroLink project and has since finished an initial ZeroLink implementation.

Ficsór recently ran some tests with his ZeroLink implementation, and while results showed that his implementation needs improvement, Ficsór considers it likely that it will be properly usable within months.

“I could throw it out in the open right now and let people mix,” he told Bitcoin Magazine . "There is no risk of money loss at any point during the mix, and many mixing rounds were executing correctly. It is just some users would encounter some bugs I am not comfortable with fixing on the fly.”

More Sidechains, More Adoption

Sidechains are alternative blockchains but with coins pegged one-to-one to specific bitcoins. This allows users to effectively “move” bitcoins to chains that operate under entirely different rules and means that Bitcoin and all its sidechains only use the “original” 21 million coins embedded in the Bitcoin protocol. A sidechain could then, for example, allow for faster confirmations, or more privacy, or extended smart contract capabilities, or just about anything else that altcoins are used for today.

The concept was first proposed by Blockstream CEO Dr. Adam Back and others back in 2014; it formed the basis around which Blockstream was first founded. Blockstream itself also launched the Liquid sidechain, which allows for instant transactions between — in particular — Bitcoin exchanges. Liquid is currently still in beta but could see its 1.0 release in 2018.

Another highly anticipated sidechain that has been in development for some time is RSK . RSK is set to enable support of Turing-complete smart contracts, hence bringing the flexibility of Ethereum to Bitcoin. RSK is currently in closed beta, with RSK Labs cofounder Sergio Demian Lerner suggesting a public release could follow soon.

Further, Bloq scientist Paul Sztorc recently finished a rough implementation of his drivechain project. Where both Liquid and RSK for now apply a “federated” model, where the sidechain is secured by a group of semi-trusted “gatekeepers,” drivechains would be secured by bitcoin miners.

If drivechains are deployed in 2018, the first iteration of such a sidechain could well be “ Bitcoin Extended :” essentially a “big block" version of Bitcoin to allow for more transaction throughput. That said, reception of the proposal on the Bitcoin development mailing list and within Bitcoin’s development community has been mixed so far. Since drivechains do need a soft-fork protocol upgrade, the contention does make the future of drivechains a bit more uncertain.

“Miners could activate drivechains tomorrow, but they often outsource their understanding of ‘what software is good’,” Sztorc told Bitcoin Magazine . “So they'll either have to decide for themselves that it is good, or it would have to make it into a Bitcoin release.”

A Schnorr Signatures Proposal

Schnorr signatures, named after its inventor Claus-Peter Schnorr, are considered by many cryptographers to be the best type cryptographic signatures in the field. They offer a strong level of correctness, do not suffer from malleability, are relatively fast to verify and enable useful features, thanks to their mathematical properties. Now, with the activation of Segregated Witness, it could be relatively easy to implement Schnorr signatures on the Bitcoin protocol.

Perhaps the biggest advantage of the Schnorr signature algorithm is that multiple signatures can be aggregated into a single signature. In the context of Bitcoin, this means that one signature can prove ownership of multiple Bitcoin addresses (really, “inputs”). Since many transactions send coins from multiple inputs, having to include only one signature per transaction should significantly benefit Bitcoin’s scalability. Analysis based on historical transactions suggest it would save an average of 25 percent per transaction, which would increase Bitcoin’s maximum transaction capacity by about 33 percent.

Further on, Schnorr signatures could enable even more. For example, with Schnorr, it should also be possible to aggregate different signatures from a multi-signature transaction, which require multiple signatures to spend the same input. This could, in turn, make CoinJoin a cheaper alternative to regular transactions for participants, thereby incentivizing a more private-use Bitcoin. Eventually the mathematical properties of Schnorr signatures could even enable more advanced applications, such as smart contracts utilizing “ Scriptless Scripts .”

Speaking to Bitcoin Magazine , Wuille confirmed that there will probably be a concrete Bitcoin Improvement Proposal for Schnorr signatures in 2018.

“We might, as a first step, propose an upgrade to support Schnorr signatures without aggregation,” he said. “This would be a bit more straightforward to implement and already offers benefits. Then a proposal to add aggregation would follow later.”

Whether Schnorr signatures will already be adopted and used on Bitcoin’s mainnet is harder to predict. It will require a soft fork protocol upgrade, and much depends on the peer review and testing process.

Bitcoin Trends

Although Bitcoin has been around for about a decade now it wasn’t until recently, that it has become fashionable and common knowledge. This year we’ve published several articles about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general. Including Bitcoin: The New Safe Haven?, Cryptocurrency: Is Bitcoin the Future of Money?, and eCommerce Trends: What’s in Your eWallet? It seems like every time you turn around there is a new CryptoCurrency being created some of which have advantages over the original Bitcoin, some of which are just “Me Too” people trying to jump on the Bandwagon and others that are just outright scams. Today we will take another look at the Digital Currency Trend.

Tim McMahon, editor.

Will Digital Currencies Continue Shaping the Financial Market?

The last couple of years have seen several waves of popularity for digital currency, and as they continue to be adopted by more people and become more mainstream, it is important to consider how this technology will shape our world’s financial market in the years to come.

Therefore, in this article, backed by a couple of interesting facts provided by BitcoinPlay, we will proceed to talk about the main ways the digital currency trend will continue to impact the financial market.

1. Cheaper Payments

It has been estimated that by adopting blockchain technology, the world’s top 10 investment banks could save around $8-12 billion, which translates into lower commissions and transaction fees. By using bitcoin vs. a Credit Card processor, the middleman is cut out completely, hence on a worldwide scale, the yearly savings will be even bigger.

2. Instant, Cross-Border Payments

Perhaps one of the main disadvantages that people have when sending payments to other countries, is the long period of time before a payment is cleared. In the case of bitcoin, transactions are processed instantly, and only take a couple of minutes before they’re confirmed and saved forever on the public ledger (blockchain). This is a big difference when compared to the general 3-5 business days that a person has to wait before a bank payment is confirmed.

3. Money Security

All is not perfect with bitcoins. Losing your cash wallet is bad enough, yet losing access to a digital currency wallet can be disastrous, depending on the amount of coin being stored. Consider the case of James Howell who lost 7,500 bitcoins because he didn’t have a backup of his hard drive.

Since there is no way to recover a lost bitcoin address, many believe that a new platform of products meant to keep your bitcoin addresses and wallets safe will appear on the market. Additionally, features such as imposing limits on your daily spending via account settings may soon become a possibility as well. On the flip side, the lack of ability to recover a lost bitcoin address prevents someone else from stealing it through fraud.

4. Digital Currencies Acting as Reserve Coins

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are still in their infancy, which makes them a lot less reliable when compared to fiat currencies such as the Euro (EUR), Dollar (USD), or Pound (GBP), etc. However, there are countries where the national currency lacks credibility due to irresponsible central bank actions or profligate money printing, resulting in massive currency inflation. Take the case of Venezuela for instance, where inflation has grown 128%, or the popular case of Zimbabwe, well-known for its huge inflation, and trillion dollar bank notes. In such regions, bitcoin and other digital currencies could turn out to be a lot more reliable, despite their volatile nature.

5. The Financial Field will Become More Transparent

Most digital currencies are based on similar principles, such as transparency, transaction recording, decentralization and more. By transparency we don’t mean that individual transactions are traceable, quite the opposite privacy is ensured due to the very nature of Bitcoins but the whole “Blockchain” meaning the amount of the transaction is visible, and the algorithm for managing it is well known and available for everyone to see. To continue to function, fiat currencies will need to adopt some of these principles as well, so we may soon be witnesses to new payment systems being developed by banks and governments. In return, this will also lead to fewer people being tricked by banks after signing contracts that they do not read or understand, and overall, fewer issues when it comes down to money in general.

6. Government Free Currency

We’ve been exchanging currency from country to country for years, but imagine a financial system where the government does not control the supply of money. This could eliminate the spectre of government induced inflation and add a level of stability to the markets. But there are still hurdles to overcome. Currently there is no way to force a refund of bitcoins so it is up to the integrity of the receiver whether you get a refund or not.

Some governments like Japan have embraced bitcoins making them legal. Others like Belgium and Switzerland have made them Value Added Tax (VAT) free. One Canton in Switzerland will even begin accepting Bitcoin as payment for taxes beginning in January 2018. And Falcon a private Swiss bank is now selling bitcoin to their clients. Other countries with a less Free Market mindset like Saudi Arabia, Bolivia, Kyrgyzstan, Ecuador and Bangladesh have outlawed them. And still other countries like Thailand seem a bit undecided.

7. Bitcoins are Energy Intensive

You would think that since bitcoins are purely digital they would require less energy to create than paper currency or even credit cards but because of the complex “mining” process of creating bitcoins and the fact that every transaction is mirrored throughout the entire ‘blockchain” one bitcoin transaction consumes 3,994 times more energy than a credit card transaction.

Based on everything that has been outlined so far, these are only a few of the changes that are likely to take place in the years to come, if digital currencies become a true driving force on the financial market. The trend is well-built now, it just needs time before mass-adoption is obtained.

All Images in this article are from an Infographic from Emerging Growth called 58 Insane Facts about Bitcoin and are used by permission.

Plotting the Bitcoin Trend

Bitcoin chart followers note a dismal-looking trendline.

A clear pattern has emerged in the bitcoin chart, and it's not pretty.

Bitcoin Futures

Does anyone remember the hype regarding the launch of bitcoin futures?

The true believers thought that bitcoin futures would let the big boy hedge funds and pension plans in, and that would take Bitcoin to the moon.

Instead, the launch of Bitcoin futures marked the top of the market.

Meanwhile, if the current trendline continues, and fundamentally speaking there is no reason to believe it won't, the next bounces will be in the $5,800 area followed by the $3,200 area, then the $1,900 level.

On the cash chart $19,345 was the top. A decline to $1,900 would be about 90%.

Should it play out that way, the true believers will not label this a bubble, but will instead insist that $100,000 is still in the cards.

Mike "Mish" Shedlock

I bought a little bitcoin just over a year ago on recommendations from some very bright people. Sold in 3 stages over 9 months. Ended up with 4x my investment and a small remaining position. Still think it has potential to be an important currency/investment. Will maintain my small position just in case.

Very good plan. Congrats

Doesn't it cost about $4,000 In electricity to mine a bit coin nowadays? Will the "miners" collapse? And with it new "supply?"

the bitcoin algorithm will adjust to mining costs automatically depending on the activity usage of miners. If miners drop out the cost will go down automatically.

It will become the ultimate money laundry platform for people in developing country to move their money in and out their border, noticeably chinese people. However, to get there, the price needs to be stabilized enough so value can be projected properly.

A little off topic. So it’s my understanding that infaltionists argue that if we don’t have inflationary monetary policy then all the rich will hoard the hard money I.e gold and everyone else will be poor. The deflationists argue that if we don’t make money hard then all the rich will just print money and hoard all the real assets themselves and leave us with a crappy currency. Is there any way around the human condition? Is there any way cryptos or a like technology could truly level the playing field?

I have spent years saying that bitcoin was the world's first spontaneously self-organized crowd-funded (sounds good, doesn't it) .
Ponzi scheme.

Congrats to all of you who ended out ahead on the deal.

I always had this vague feeling that a lot of people involved in bitcoin want to see it hit some kind of parity with the price of an ounce of gold. Maybe that's where it's headed?

I mean, if, as Mish states, $1900 is some kind of key technical level, that's at least in the ballpark.

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Trend Analysis Reveals the Most Loved and Hated Cryptocurrencies

For investors trying to predict market movements, the more data that can be analyzed the better. Trend analysis and fundamental analysis are a starting point, but there are other clues scattered across the web which lie outwith conventional search parameters. One of these, social analysis, involves discerning the general sentiment towards cryptocurrencies on public networks such as Twitter. One bot does just that on an hourly basis, revealing which coins are feeling the love and which are receiving hate.

Social Analysis Reveals Market Sentiment

Twitter is full of bots. While some of them are malevolent, spamming users and spreading fake news, others are extremely nifty. Watson’s Reports is a bot that provides hourly updates on what people are saying about cryptocurrencies on Twitter. The trend analysis bot, developed by data analyst Crypto Watson , highlights the most talked about cryptocurrencies. It also analyzes the prevailing sentiment to reveal which coins have the most positive and negative mentions.

The most recent hourly at the time of publication shows bitcoin predictably out in front with over 3,000 mentions. Waves (1,491), ethereum (1,407), and ripple (1,030) follow. Below that come the likes of litecoin, neo, verge, tron, stellar, and bitcoin cash. While bitcoin invariably leads, other cryptos enter and exit the top 10 depending on whether they’re in the news. But just because someone’s talking about a cryptocurrency doesn’t mean they’re holding it or planning to invest. In fact, several of the most popular coins are also the most hated.

A research paper published in December called “Market Sentiment Helps Explain the Price of Bitcoin” examines this trend in more detail. Its author concludes:

By combining the concept of Metcalfe’s law the variation of the BTC price can be accurately explained by using a market sentiment volume about BTC that is positively scored on social networks. The assumption is that the price of BTC is predominantly a result of the demand-supply balance of buyers and sellers, which is greatly influenced by market sentiment. It is likely that market sentiment is also highly affected by the price itself, forming a circular and bidirectional reflexivity.

It’s Better to Be Hated Than Ignored

According to the Watson’s Reports bot , bitcoin has the highest amount of negative hourly sentiment (11.5%). That’s to be expected given bitcoin’s dominance; haters gonna hate after all. A look at the runners-up in the positive and negative categories reveals some interesting entrants. The most positively mentioned coins are sia (20.6%), zclassic (19.5%), and digibyte (18.7%). Ubiq and stellar complete the top five.

In terms of negativity, after bitcoin it’s ethereum (6.1%), litecoin (5.3%), bitcoin cash (4.9%), and tenx (4.6%). Because the bot updates its analysis each hour, these trends are quite dynamic, with many cryptocurrencies, save for bitcoin, regularly trading places. Whether social analysis is an arbiter of market trends is a matter for investors to agonize over.

A Whole Lotta Bots

Public databases such as Twitter, which provide gigabytes of scrapable data in real-time, are ideal for bots to trawl. Coders have developed bots to analyze an investor’s returns if they were to automatically buy and sell on the advice of Twitter traders, for example. Other bots will tweet when the buy volume for a coin suddenly increases, or in the case of Telegram bot Crypler when a coin is added to an exchange. As AI and the use of bots increases, traders will increasingly take their signals from computers. For the time being, at least, the best traders still rely on a good dose of intuition and gut instinct, attributes which no bot can detect.

Do you think social media analysis can indicate imminent price movements? Let us know in the comments section below.

Images courtesy of Shutterstock, and Watson’s Reports.

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Bitcoin Price Analysis: Bitcoin Tests Parabolic Trend After 25% Weekly Growth

Over the last 7 days, bitcoin has seen further, rapid growth as it manages to squeeze a $2,000 rally leading into its current all-time high in the $9700s — a staggering 25% growth in 7 days. As discussed in previous bitcoin market analyses, the bitcoin market has progressed in a parabolic envelope:

Figure 1: BTC-USD, 1 Day Candles, Macro Parabolic Envelope

As of the time of writing this article, the current bitcoin market has broken its linear channel (outlined in purple) and is now testing the upper boundary of the parabolic envelope. As we approach the end of the parabolic envelope, the swings in price will become more sudden and more severe as the market attempts to remain within the constraints of its parabolic trend.

As the upper limit of the parabolic trend advances, the lower limit also advances. Currently, all eyes are on this parabolic trend as individuals are trying to time the top of the market only to have their positions liquidated time and time again. It’s never advisable to try and time the top of a parabolic market because the upper boundary that confines the market is growing in a parabolic fashion.

Figure 2: BTC-USD, 2 Hour Candles, Micro Trend

Figure 2 above shows a closer view of both the parabolic and linear trendline outlined in Figure 1. This image shows a textbook, 161% Fibonacci Extension from the previous all-time high where it ultimately found resistance on the parabolic envelope. The move that led to the current all-time high was sudden and doesn’t offer much support below the current values. If bitcoin retraces, we can expect support to line on the linear trendline outlined in purple, and the 100% retracement values in the $7900s.

However, if bitcoin manages to break these parabolic trend values and find support or continue upward, bitcoin could see prices as high as $12,000 (the next set of fibonacci extension values). It should be noted that a breaking of this parabolic envelope would mark a breakout of the 2.5 year long parabolic trend outlined in Figure 1. To date, we have yet to break above the parabolic envelope.

Historically, when bitcoin encounters the parabolic trendlines, the market sees either a bearish reversal (if touching the upper curve) or a bullish reversal (if touching the lower curve). Right now, bitcoin is still in the waiting period as the market decides what the next move will be.

Bitcoin saw 25% market growth in the last week.

The market is currently testing the upper boundary of a 2.5 year long parabolic growth curve. Historically, this has lead to a market reversal that sends the price downward to test the lower parabolic curve.

A breakout of the parabolic envelope could send the bitcoin market into the $12,000s.

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Plotting the Bitcoin Trend

Bitcoin chart followers note a dismal-looking trendline.

A clear pattern has emerged in the bitcoin chart, and it's not pretty.

Bitcoin Futures

Does anyone remember the hype regarding the launch of bitcoin futures?

The true believers thought that bitcoin futures would let the big boy hedge funds and pension plans in, and that would take Bitcoin to the moon.

Instead, the launch of Bitcoin futures marked the top of the market.

Meanwhile, if the current trendline continues, and fundamentally speaking there is no reason to believe it won't, the next bounces will be in the $5,800 area followed by the $3,200 area, then the $1,900 level.

On the cash chart $19,345 was the top. A decline to $1,900 would be about 90%.

Should it play out that way, the true believers will not label this a bubble, but will instead insist that $100,000 is still in the cards.

Mike "Mish" Shedlock

I bought a little bitcoin just over a year ago on recommendations from some very bright people. Sold in 3 stages over 9 months. Ended up with 4x my investment and a small remaining position. Still think it has potential to be an important currency/investment. Will maintain my small position just in case.

Very good plan. Congrats

Doesn't it cost about $4,000 In electricity to mine a bit coin nowadays? Will the "miners" collapse? And with it new "supply?"

the bitcoin algorithm will adjust to mining costs automatically depending on the activity usage of miners. If miners drop out the cost will go down automatically.

It will become the ultimate money laundry platform for people in developing country to move their money in and out their border, noticeably chinese people. However, to get there, the price needs to be stabilized enough so value can be projected properly.

A little off topic. So it’s my understanding that infaltionists argue that if we don’t have inflationary monetary policy then all the rich will hoard the hard money I.e gold and everyone else will be poor. The deflationists argue that if we don’t make money hard then all the rich will just print money and hoard all the real assets themselves and leave us with a crappy currency. Is there any way around the human condition? Is there any way cryptos or a like technology could truly level the playing field?

I have spent years saying that bitcoin was the world's first spontaneously self-organized crowd-funded (sounds good, doesn't it) .
Ponzi scheme.

Congrats to all of you who ended out ahead on the deal.

I always had this vague feeling that a lot of people involved in bitcoin want to see it hit some kind of parity with the price of an ounce of gold. Maybe that's where it's headed?

I mean, if, as Mish states, $1900 is some kind of key technical level, that's at least in the ballpark.

Bitcoin: Now taking Over the Airdrop Trend with Bitcoin Dollar

The Bitcoin hard fork party may be over, but airdrops are the new big thing. So it is no wonder that a new asset, Bitcoin Dollar (BTDOLL), in essence an Ethereum-based token, is spreading its fame in the form of an airdrop.

— BITCOIN DOLLAR (@BitcoinDollar) March 13, 2018

Beyond the airdrop, the new BTDOLL assets are sold off exchanges, with a minimum investment of 0.01 ETH. And the news of the airdrop seems to be spreading like wildfire in the community.

For now, the Bitcoin Dollar does not have big claims - just an attempt to put an asset on as many exchanges as possible, and potentially make gains. BTDOLL trades already on Yobit, on ridiculously tiny volumes of 0.07 BTC, for a market price around $8.

Bitcoin Dollar Red Flags?

What is even weirder is the price structure for BTDOLL when bought for Ethereum. This raises red flags for the project. While 0.01 ETH buys 500 BTDOLL, when sending 0.1 ETH, one does not receive 5,000 BTDOLL, but 3,000. The same thing applies for larger purchases: sending in 0.5 ETH buys 10,000 BTDOLL, not 15,000.

The community has launched a poll for listing the asset on another exchange, but this is a great unknown. The best thing about BTDOLL is that some could be acquired for free in an airdrop. Yet a listing on either Binance, Poloniex, KuCoin or Coinexchange may be a far stretch for this asset.

Bad grammar is also one of the tell-tale signs of a project brought together in a hurry, with an unknown purpose beyond quick gains. The Bitcoin Dollar project has been around since December 30, 2017, but the most active phase of the airdrop and early purchase program is happening now.

Bitcoin-Branded Airdrops

Bitcoin already exists in the form of ERC-20 assets, with copies named Bitcoin Token, as well as Bitcoin Silver. In fact, Bitcoin Token is just preparing to make it rain:

Get ready! our official BitcoinToken #Airdrop is getting closer! (just a few weeks away) Everyone will earn $BTK share with others so they do not miss out on the announcement. >> Tag and invite friends to follow @bitcoin_token and Invite to Telegram: https://t.co/9CFT4XH5O7 pic.twitter.com/ilystBCt6m

Another project, eBitcoin, also an ETH-based token, is in the midst of an airdrop until March 17. It seems the proliferation of new assets means newcomers will not rush to buy all the coins, hence airdrops manage to grow the community and create a trading ecosystem, thus giving the airdrop asset at least some price discovery mechanism. But Bitcoin-related airdrops seem to be just one way to capitalize on the brand and influence of Bitcoin.

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Repair the Yahoo Search App.

Yahoo Search App from the Google Play Store on my Samsung Galaxy S8+ phone stopped working on May 18, 2018.

I went to the Yahoo Troubleshooting page but the article that said to do a certain 8 steps to fix the problem with Yahoo Services not working and how to fix the problem. Of course they didn't work.

I contacted Samsung thru their Samsung Tutor app on my phone. I gave their Technican access to my phone to see if there was a problem with my phone that stopped the Yahoo Search App from working. He went to Yahoo and I signed in so he could try to fix the Yahoo Search App not working. He also used another phone, installed the app from the Google Play Store to see if the app would do any kind of search thru the app. The Yahoo Search App just wasn't working.

I also had At&t try to help me because I have UVERSE for my internet service. My internet was working perfectly. Their Technical Support team member checked the Yahoo Search App and it wouldn't work for him either.

We can go to www.yahoo.com and search for any topic or website. It's just the Yahoo Search App that won't allow anyone to do web searches at all.

I let Google know that the Yahoo Search App installed from their Google Play Store had completely stopped working on May 18, 2018.

I told them that Yahoo has made sure that their Yahoo members can't contact them about anything.

I noticed that right after I accepted the agreement that said Oath had joined with Verizon I started having the problem with the Yahoo Search App.
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net::ERR_CLEARTEXT_NOT_PERMITTED

I tried to search for things like www.homedepot.com. The same thing happened. It would say WEBPAGE NOT AVAILABLE. The only thing that changed were all the upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols.
Then it would again say
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This is the same thing that happened when Samsung and At&t tried to do any kind of searches thru the Yahoo Search App.

Yahoo needs to fix the problem with their app.

Yahoo Search App from the Google Play Store on my Samsung Galaxy S8+ phone stopped working on May 18, 2018.

I went to the Yahoo Troubleshooting page but the article that said to do a certain 8 steps to fix the problem with Yahoo Services not working and how to fix the problem. Of course they didn't work.

I contacted Samsung thru their Samsung Tutor app on my phone. I gave their Technican access to my phone to see if there was a problem with my phone that stopped the Yahoo Search App from working. He went to Yahoo and… more