🗞 Daily Crypto News, February 18th 💰

• IARPA’s Geopolitical Forecasting Challenge And Blockchain For Prediction Markets;
• Swiss Financial Authority Releases ICO-Specific Regulatory Guidelines
• Crypto Trading in 2018: New Strategies, Bigger Crowds and Diminishing Returns
• Bitfinex Plans Launch of Decentralized Exchange Eosfinex
• The CryptoKitties Competitors: 4 Ethereum Games That Are Catching Up
• 📑 Daily Crypto Calendar, February 18th 💰
• STEEM Trading Update by @cryptopassion

🗞 IARPA’s Geopolitical Forecasting Challenge And Blockchain For Prediction Markets

According to one notion from collective intelligence theory called the "wisdom of the crowd," consensus from a group of people is often better than any single expert opinion at casting accurate predictions, decision making, and problem solving. This idea has deep historical roots going all the way back to Aristotle, and is gaining renewed popularity thanks in part to blockchain technologies like Ethereum and the decentralized principals they instill.

Read more & Source: https://www.ethnews.com/iarpas-geopolitical-forecasting-challenge-and-blockchain-for-prediction-markets

🗞 Swiss Financial Authority Releases ICO-Specific Regulatory Guidelines

The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) published a set of guidelines yesterday, Feb. 16, for applying existing financial market legislation to the regulation of Initial Coin Offerings (ICO).

“Our balanced approach to handling ICO projects and enquiries allows legitimate innovators to navigate the regulatory landscape and so launch their projects in a way consistent with our laws protecting investors and the integrity of the financial system."

Read more & Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/swiss-financial-authority-releases-ico-specific-regulatory-guidelines

🗞 Crypto Trading in 2018: New Strategies, Bigger Crowds and Diminishing Returns

The cryptocurrency landscape has changed significantly over the past 12 months. Gone are the guaranteed returns of 5x, 10x or greater on ICOs, as a growing number of investors clamor for a piece of the pie. New coins, new forks, and new airdrops have created a competitive marketplace characterized by diminishing returns and reduced profits. The best traders are still able to claim the lion’s share of the rewards though, leaving the rest to fight it out for the scraps.

Read more & Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/crypto-trading-2018-new-strategies-bigger-crowds-diminishing-returns/

🗞 Bitfinex Plans Launch of Decentralized Exchange Eosfinex

Bitfinex has announced that it will launch a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange built on the Eos.io platform. The new platform, Eosfinex, will be the first exchange to be hosted using Eos.io’s decentralized application infrastructure.

Read more & Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/bitfinex-plans-launch-decentralized-exchange-eosfinex/

🗞 What Is the Cryptocurrency Anti-Phishing Working Group?

Cryptocurrency users are often targeted by criminals of all kinds. Whether through malicious software, hacked platforms, or phishing sites and emails, the number of threats has not diminished in the slightest. To counter all of this, there is a cryptocurrency anti-phishing working group. This group aims to help participants in the cryptocurrency ecosystem protect their assets from phishing and targeted attacks.

Read more & Source: https://themerkle.com/what-is-the-cryptocurrency-anti-phishing-working-group/

Daily Crypto Calendar, February, 18th

• Litecoin (LTC)

At block 1371111, Litecoin Cash will hard-fork away from the Litecoin blockchain.

• Verge (XVG)

Justin Vendetta will answer community questions on video.

• Bitcoin White (BTW)

Wallet For iOS + Mac OS

• Bitcoin Scrypt (BTCS)

Mandatory hard-fork to fix difficulty retargeting issue. Move from pure POW to POS hybrid and the addition of voting functionality.

• Gifto (GTO)

Trade GTO on Binance during the competition period to earn a place in the lucky draw.

https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@vlemon/daily-crypto-calendar-february-18th

STEEM Trading Update by @cryptopassion

Here was my predictions 2 days ago :

Here is the current chart :

As you can see I was right and we are now testing for the second time the previous TOP. The more we are testing that resistance line, the more this one is becoming weak. So it is just a question of time before we break it.

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