Today's news in Bitcoin - 01-Feb-2018

a) Total Bloodbath today in cryptocurrency world. Because of Tether FUD the price tanked 10 below 10k for Bitcoin. The FUD started when bloomberg came up with an article stating that US commodity futures trading commission send subpoena to Virtual currency exchange Bitfinex and Tether on the backing of USD for equal amount of USDT. Later it was found out that the subpoena was already send on 6th January and it was a pure FUD spread by Bloomberg.

https://twitter.com/iamjosephyoung/status/958423352934199298

b) Facebook has decided to ban all the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency news and advertisements.

https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/958416941357654017

c) 100 years old gold business is getting into cryptocurrency craze but with their own coin and that coin will be backed up by 1 gram real gold. Lets see if this can give a good competition to Bitcoin.

https://twitter.com/mikebelshe/status/958491608688635904

d) Deputy Prime Minister Kim Dong-yeon today will announce the government's position regarding 'virtual currency regulation in South Korea.

https://twitter.com/CryptoOfKorea/status/958483305434959872

e) Bitcoin Private fork will happen on 28th Feb. Zclassic and Bitcoin fork will happen almost at the same time.

https://twitter.com/HeyRhett/status/958543971361357824

f) Zclassic Electrum wallet has been released by the Zclassic Founder- Rhett Creighton
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https://twitter.com/HeyRhett/status/958493882974654465