🗞 Daily Crypto News, December 28th💰

• Survey Says 31% of South Korean Workers Are Cryptocurrency Investors ;
• EU Central Banker: “Stop Calling the Bitcoin a Coin”
• Privacy on the Blockchain: Where Are We Headed?
• Japanese Banking Giant Wants To Prevent Another Mt. Gox
• Director of UK-Based Crypto Exchange Kidnapped in Kiev
• BTC Trading Update by @cryptopassion

🗞 Survey Says 31% of South Korean Workers Are Cryptocurrency Investors

31.3% Invested in Virtual Currencies

On Wednesday, online job portal Saramin surveyed 941 salaried people in South Korea, and 31.3% of them claimed to have invested in virtual currencies, with an average investment of 5.66 million won ($5,300).

Read more & Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/31-of-south-korean-workers-are-cryptocurrency-investors/

🗞 EU Central Banker: “Stop Calling the Bitcoin a Coin”

European Union central bankers are becoming increasingly vocal on the subject of the world’s most popular cryptocurrency, bitcoin. Its precipitous price increase this year seems to coincide with wide-ranging statements, including the digital asset’s threat or lack thereof. Recently, the governor of the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) explained that more people should be warned about the decentralized currency and how it isn’t a currency at all.

Read more & Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/eu-central-banker-stop-calling-the-bitcoin-a-coin/

🗞 Privacy on the Blockchain: Where Are We Headed?

For all the claims that have been made over the years about bitcoin being a safe haven for criminals, it’s becoming increasingly clear that capital flows on the blockchain aren't private.

Bitcoin itself indexes poorly on both the anonymity and confidentiality fronts, as addresses offer pseudonymity at best, and balances are completely public. Companies like Elliptic and Chainalysis are building businesses around blockchain forensics, and as the network increases in value, incentives to track flows of capital only become stronger..

Read more & Source: https://www.coindesk.com/privacy-blockchain-headed/

🗞 Japanese Banking Giant Wants To Prevent Another Mt. Gox

Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking is preparing to launch a service that will protect cryptocurrency holders if the exchanges they use shut down or are hacked, reports Japan-based online publication Nikkei Asian Review.

Read more & Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/japanese-banking-giant-wants-to-prevent-another-mt-gox

🗞 Director of UK-Based Crypto Exchange Kidnapped in Kiev

Pavel Lerner, the managing director of the cryptocurrency exchange EXMO was abducted by “unknown persons” in Kiev, reports Ukraine-based web publication Strana.ua. According to their sources, Lerner was held while leaving his office in the center of town and driven off in a black Mercedes-Benz.

Read more & Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/director-of-uk-based-crypto-exchange-kidnapped-in-kiev

BTC Trading update by @cryptopassion

One of my 2 scenarios of this morning happened. Here is the chart that I was proposing your this morning :

And here the updated chart where the resistance line sent us back to the support line of the canal trading :

We should now see a decrease of the seller volume and a change of direction to start a new UP. The first objective is to go test resistance line and try to break it. When it will be done, we should try to do a new high.

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