The Daily Dood for 2- 13 -18

Today's bitcoin high was about $8,844 USD on BitFinex

Looking strong, support holding above $8,500 USD. Looks like a little resistance around $9K. Climb baby climb. Total cryptocurrency market cap is rising, currently at around $425,000,000,000 and bitcoin dominance is currently about 34.85%

Today's Headlines

Jay-Z Expands Portfolio to Include Crypto https://news.bitcoin.com/jay-z-expands-portfolio-to-include-crypto/

Russian Ministry Proposes Capital Mandates for ICO Organizers
https://www.coindesk.com/russia-proposes-mandate-on-ico-organizers-capital-threshold/

Government Websites Hit With Crypto-Mining Malware Over the Weekend https://bitsonline.com/government-websites-hit-crypto-mining-malware-weekend/

ARK Releases Technical Update — Introducing API V2 https://coinidol.com/ark-releases-technical-update-introducing-api-v2/

Hacked Exchange Coincheck To Be Sued By Traders For Freezing Funds https://cointelegraph.com/news/hacked-exchange-coincheck-to-be-sued-by-traders-for-freezing-funds

Ethereum Classic Price Surges Amid Choppy Markets https://www.ccn.com/ethereum-classic-price-surges-amid-choppy-markets/

Ripple (XRP): Rough Patch, Selloffs, and Ups and Downs https://twitter.com/ThemeREX_net/

So Is There a Correlation Between Bitcoin and Stock Market? Yes, But No https://cointelegraph.com/news/so-is-there-a-correlation-between-bitcoin-and-stock-market-yes-but-no

Weiss Cryptocurrency Ratings Issues Fresh Alert on Tether https://www.ccn.com/tether-under-scrutiny-again-as-weiss-cryptocurrency-ratings-releases-latest-alert/

Coincheck Saga: Investigations over Stolen NEM, one Suspect Already Interrogated https://btcmanager.com/coincheck-saga-investigations-stolen-nem-one-suspect-interrogated/

Monero Declares War on ASIC Manufacturers https://www.ccn.com/monero-declares-war-asic-manufacturers/

South Korea Considers Adopting Crypto Exchange Licensing System Like NY’s BitLicense https://cointelegraph.com/news/south-korea-considers-adopting-crypto-exchange-licensing-system-like-nys-bitlicense

Crypto Industry, Regulate Thyself – Cryptocurrency Giants Form Self-Regulatory UK Trade Body http://bitcoinist.com/bitcoin-giants-form-self-regulatory-uk-trade-body/

U.S. Corporate Customers Barred From Bitfinex’s Margin Markets https://news.bitcoin.com/u-s-corporate-customers-barred-bitfinexs-margin-markets/

Europe’s Small Banks See Crypto as Opportunity to Take on Big Banks http://bitcoinist.com/europe-small-banks-crypto-big-banks/

Youtube, Podcasts, Media

ShitcoinTalk 48

How Blockstream failed and took the BTC fork with it https://coinivore.com/2018/02/13/blockstream-failed-took-btc-fork/

Tweet of The Day

Some people don't see the big and whole of $crypto... Guys, we are part of something big...

CryptoCapone ⚡️ crypto_capone February 13, 2018

STEEMIT

Daily Steem Stats Report - Tuesday, February 13, 2018 — Via @penguinpablo Steemit https://steemit.com/steemit/@penguinpablo/daily-steem-stats-report-tuesday-february-13-2018

Why not earn your next #beer with a nice post? - The Steemit #BeerSaturday Challenge week 36 is calling all Steemians — Steemit https://steemit.com/beersaturday/@detlev/why-not-earn-your-next-beer-with-a-nice-post-the-steemit-beersaturday-challenge-week-36-is-calling-all-steemians

Links

H.R.3708 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income de minimis gains from certain sales or exchanges of virtual currency, and for other purposes.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/3708

Music and cryptocurrency commentary http://radiocrypto.com/

So many people ask me about TA or technical analysis and where to start. Tone Vays just put together a real great educational page covering the basics of TA. http://www.libertylifetrail.com/education/learntrading/

Here's something that's long overdue! The Crypto Scam Checker. Listing of known internet crypto scammers! https://fried.com/crypto-scam-checker/

LiveCoinWatch is similar to CoinMarketCap. Check it out if you like researching coins, trade volume, and who's in the top 10.
https://www.livecoinwatch.com/

It's looking like Binance is taking on new traders again. Sign up while you can, and find out why over 3,000,000 active cryptocurrency traders call Binance home!
https://www.binance.com/?ref=11560333

The End

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