? Daily Crypto News, February, 28th?

  • Singapore’s Wealth Fund GIC Among Those to Raise $300 Mln for Coinbase in 2018 ;
  • Constantinople Incoming: Tomorrow’s Two Ethereum Hard Forks Explained ;
  • Global Demand for Blockchain Engineers Up 517 Percent in a Year, Says Hired ;
  • Bitcoin Price May Rise in March Despite Month’s Bearish Track Record ;
  • Putin’s Order: Russia to Adopt Crypto Regulation by July ;
  • ? Daily Crypto Calendar, February, 28th ?
  • STEEM Trading Update

Welcome to the Daily Crypto News: A complete Press Review, Coin Calendar and Trading Analysis. Enjoy!

? Singapore’s Wealth Fund GIC Among Those to Raise $300 Mln for Coinbase in 2018

Singapore’s Government Investment Corporation (GIC) was reportedly one of the investors to have helped raise $300 million for major United States crypto wallet provider and exchange service Coinbase in 2018. Bloomberg reported the news on Feb. 28, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter.

According to its official website, GIC — which was founded to manage Singapore’s foreign reserves — has in excess of $100 billion assets in over 40 countries worldwide.

As reported, Coinbase revealed it had raised $300 million in a Series E equity financing round in October 2018, brining its post-money valuation at the time to $8 billion.

? Constantinople Incoming: Tomorrow’s Two Ethereum Hard Forks Explained

In less than 24 hours, the world’s second largest blockchain by market capitalization is expected to activate its sixth and seventh system-wide upgrades, at which point its global user base will be asked to make two near-simultaneous changes to its code.


Known as Constantinople and St. Petersburg, both upgrades will be implemented as “hard forks,” or upgrades that add new rules to the ethereum software that are incompatible with past versions. Both will also take place at the exact same block number – 7,280,000.


Should users decide to upgrade, St. Petersburg will effectively disable part of the Constantinople code discovered back in January to host a critical vulnerability affecting smart contract security. Further, four out of five planned ethereum improvement proposals (EIPs) – the majority of which, according to independent ethereum developer Lane Rettig, will not be noticeable to the average user.

? Global Demand for Blockchain Engineers Up 517 Percent in a Year, Says Hired

This month, the <abbr title=”

Ethereum is a decentralized blockchain platform, enabled with EDCCs, where a software developer can build games, financial applications, gambling applications, utility and logistics software, social networks and more.”>Ethereum community experienced vicious infighting on social media as people reacted to Afri Schoedon’s controversial tweet about Serenity and Polkadot. The alleged verbal violence directed at Schoedon resulted in his exit from Ethereum and a subsequent letter, signed by dozens of Ethereum contributors, calling the community to develop healthier discussion practices and to “protect each other from threats and violence.”


This wasn’t the first Twitter thread in the Ethereum community to turn ugly, but Afrigate renews pressing questions about discourse. How can members of the community disagree or offer criticism in ways that are generative? In light of this recent display of toxic communication, I sat down with Taylor Monahan of MyCrypto to talk about healthy communication in the <abbr title=”

A record or ledger of all transactions that virtually eliminates third-party tampering. While every exchange of value or data is recorded and visible to users, the identities of those exchanging, and what the money is being exchanged for, is kept private. However, the amount of money is public. New blocks can only be added in chronological order (through mining or other means of block validation), and the inherent value and information cannot be compromised. “>blockchain ecosystem.

? Bitcoin Price May Rise in March Despite Month’s Bearish Track Record

Bitcoin could end the five-year March losing streak with solid gains if resistance at $4,190 (high of last week’s inverted bullish hammer) is convincingly scaled in the next week or two.

The cryptocurrency reinforced a bullish triangle breakout witnessed last week with a quick recovery from sub-$3,700 levels yesterday. This “buy the dip” mentality indicates scope for a break above the recent high of $4,190.


The focus would shift to the primary bearish trend seen on the monthly chart if BTC fails to pick a strong bid in the next few days. In that case, the probability of BTC ending March on a negative note for the sixth consecutive year would rise.

? Putin’s Order: Russia to Adopt Crypto Regulation by July

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has instructed his country’s government to adopt federal laws relating to cryptocurrency by July this year. Russia has earlier broadened the definition of “digital financial assets” to include cryptocurrencies. Putin’s latest order resembles one he made regarding crypto regulation last year.


Putin has approved a list of instructions for 47 orders, according to a document posted on the Kremlin website on Wednesday. Among them is an order for the government to work with the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, to ensure adoption of “federal laws aimed at the development of the digital economy.” They include “determining the procedure for conducting civil law transactions in electronic form, as well as regulating digital financial assets and attracting financial resources using digital technologies,” the order details.


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? Daily Crypto Calendar, February, 28th?

Closed Alpha Testnet

“Incorporates over 15M American consumers’ data onto the CyberMiles blockchain,” during Feb 2019.

“Rather than rushing the mainnet out the door, the Matrix Team has decided to delay the launch of the mainnet until February.”

Po.et platform is set to release an open source e-book metadata format, similar to, but less expensive than today’s ISBN codes.

“Stage 2: Balancing and frequency regulation,” in Feb 2019.

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STEEM Trading Update by my friend @cryptopassion

Here is the chart of yesterday :

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Here is the current chart :

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Due to the drop of the BTC, we are currently starting also a correction. No luck because I’m quiet sure that if we would have a UP on the BTC, the resistance line on the STEEM around 0.39$ would have been broken. Anyway, the market decided the other scenario so we have to adjust our hopes. We have now a high risk to go test the support line around 0.31$…

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Some nice STEEM movement // Huobi STEEM/USDT listing

I busted my butt yesteday with the Dtube review for Oracle-d that turned out to be a bust since the review wasnt “professional” enough. Prolly was a bit too negative now that i think about it. haha
No matter!
Today is a new day.

For those of you that have missed it STEEM has been listed on Huobi exchange with a USDT pair. Which is always nice. Thats probably why we are seeing a pump the last day or so.

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If id have to guess id say that the exchange might be pumping the price a bit to get some traders hooked on the token early on. Just a guess ofc.
Id love to see STEEM and 0.4$ but its anyones guess if we can sustain the price growth. Usually STEEM drops off pretty fast after a small pump.
But im not a market analyst so im not pretending to know the movement of the market. Im just going off of what ive been seeing lately. Call it anecdotal. 🙂

The best thing about this listing is that we got a Tether/Steem pair. Thats amazing news especially in a volatile bear market when you can easily move your STEEM into a stable coin and alleviate risk easily.

Will i use Huobi?

Probably not, since i find centralized exchanges for most part being in the game of extortion and borderline criminal activity. Having a net negative effect on the crypto ecosystem. I dont deny that we “need them” right now, but that doesnt mean i need to like them.

? Daily Crypto News, February, 27th?

  • Cryptocurrency Jobs Peak in These Indian Cities ;
  • Sony and Fujitsu Develop Blockchain Platform to Fight Fake Educational Qualifications ;
  • Pitchforks And Plows: Toward A Generative Ethereum Ecosystem ;
  • Bolivars to Bitcoin: Activists Take Down Venezuela’s Maduro in Crypto Art Exhibit ;
  • Samsung Teases Early Blockchain Partners For Galaxy S10 Phone ;
  • ? Daily Crypto Calendar, February, 27th ?
  • STEEM Trading Update

Welcome to the Daily Crypto News: A complete Press Review, Coin Calendar and Trading Analysis. Enjoy!

? Cryptocurrency Jobs Peak in These Indian Cities

Demand for skilled professionals in the crypto space has been steadily rising, according to new data that ranks cities in India based on the number of jobs in the cryptocurrency field. Some cities such as Mumbai dropped several places from last year’s ranking while a couple of others are new to the list.


? Sony and Fujitsu Develop Blockchain Platform to Fight Fake Educational Qualifications

Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony and IT equipment services firm Fujitsu have created an encrypted database for educational proficiency documents, The Asahi Shimbun reports on Feb. 26.

The database, which reportedly employs blockchain technology, is used to prevent forgeries of language proficiency documents, which some foreigners purportedly use to receive resident status to study in Japan.

? Pitchforks And Plows: Toward A Generative Ethereum Ecosystem

This month, the <abbr title="

Ethereum is a decentralized blockchain platform, enabled with EDCCs, where a software developer can build games, financial applications, gambling applications, utility and logistics software, social networks and more.

“>Ethereum community experienced vicious infighting on social media as people reacted to Afri Schoedon’s controversial tweet about Serenity and Polkadot. The alleged verbal violence directed at Schoedon resulted in his exit from Ethereum and a subsequent letter, signed by dozens of Ethereum contributors, calling the community to develop healthier discussion practices and to “protect each other from threats and violence.”


This wasn’t the first Twitter thread in the Ethereum community to turn ugly, but Afrigate renews pressing questions about discourse. How can members of the community disagree or offer criticism in ways that are generative? In light of this recent display of toxic communication, I sat down with Taylor Monahan of MyCrypto to talk about healthy communication in the <abbr title="

A record or ledger of all transactions that virtually eliminates third-party tampering. While every exchange of value or data is recorded and visible to users, the identities of those exchanging, and what the money is being exchanged for, is kept private. However, the amount of money is public. New blocks can only be added in chronological order (through mining or other means of block validation), and the inherent value and information cannot be compromised.

“>blockchain ecosystem.

? Bolivars to Bitcoin: Activists Take Down Venezuela’s Maduro in Crypto Art Exhibit

Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro will be taken down today.

At least his visage, painted on 1,000 bolivars by cryptocurrency-focused artist cryptograffiti, will be. The destruction of the artist’s newest piece – an 11-foot by 10-foot portrait of the Venezuelan leader – will happen in Cucuta, Colombia, about 500 yards from the Simon Bolivar Bridge, a landmark hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans have walked across to escape the poverty of their home country.

Since Maduro took office in 2003, Venezuela has suffered drastic inflation, starvation and socio-economic decline. And in recent months, the situation has worsened. This past weekend, violence broke out on the border with Brazil as the Venezuelan military moved to block food and medical supplies from entering Venezuela.

? Samsung Teases Early Blockchain Partners For Galaxy S10 Phone

South Korean tech giant Samsung looks to have revealed some of the first blockchain partners for its upcoming flagship cellphone, the Galaxy S10.
At its Samsung Mobile Business Summit session at MWC Barcelona 2019 on Monday, the company presented the new phone’s Blockchain Keystore to affiliates and customers, displaying a picture that included the logo for Cosmee, a beauty community service dapp (decentralized application) from the Cosmochain crypto project, as well as that of the Enjin crypto gaming platform.


As reported by CoinDesk Korea on Tuesday, while Samsung did not disclose precise details of the partner services, they are likely to be featured on the phone at launch or soon after.

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? Daily Crypto Calendar, February, 27th?

“The second version of Constantinople will not actually hit the network until February 27th.”

New deadline set by SEC to further review the rule change proposals to list a Bitcoin ETF.

TestNet Release

  • Stellar (XLM)

Testnet Release

Dev team hosts weekly update on current status developments, including the Tritium mainnet and satellite launch.

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STEEM Trading Update by my friend @cryptopassion

Here is the chart of yesterday :

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Here is the current chart :

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As you can see on the chart, we continued the bounce from the support line at 0.31$ but it looks like the market is blocking and is forming a double top. Let’s see if that pattern will be validated but I remember you that a double top is a bearish pattern which means that most of the time, we have a drop as result of this pattern. Let’s see!

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I finally have sustainable voting power // Steemvoter

Lately i have been having trouble keeping my voting power from draining fast. At one point i dropped to under 60%.
You work hard to build up your few cents never to see your full vote drop.

I was supporting a few folks via SteemVoter that post multiple times a day and my VP was falling rapidly.

I tweaked a few things and i seem to be recovering my VP slowly. The problem is that i cant know for sure how many times someone will post a day so i would love to see @steemvoter / @buildteam add an option of being able to choose how many times a day my vote goes out.
That would allow much more customization and a better experience overall.

Maybe you want to vote someone always 100% no matter what. Great. Maybe you want to vote someone 2 times a day for 100%. 4 times a day at 50%.

An option like that would allow us to have more control over our voting power and that is something that i would most definitely like to see.

You could even monetize added functions like this. Provide the basic service to everyone for free, but charge a few Steem a month for a more customized experience.

Im a relatively small account and my curation is just a small part of my income here, but im sure there are large curator accounts that would love having a higher level of customization and would probably pay for it. The feature i mentioned is just one among few that could be added to the payed package.

One day i shall see my VP over 90%. haha.

Ill see you guys around. 😛

? Daily Crypto News, February, 26th?

  • Constantinople, For Real This Time ;
  • Coinbase Exchange Users Can Buy and Sell XRP Starting Tomorrow ;
  • Long-Term Bitcoin Price Indicator Turns Bearish, Suggesting Bottom May Be In ;
  • Bitfinex Recovers $106,000 of Stolen BTC With US Government Help ;
  • NFTs Are Here. But Where Are They Headed? ;
  • ? Daily Crypto Calendar, February, 26th ?
  • STEEM Trading Update

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? Constantinople, For Real This Time

The much-anticipated Ethereum hard fork known as Constantinople is set to be implemented at block number 7,280,000, which developers have predicted will take place on Thursday, February 28. Of course, the exact timing of activation depends on block times between now and then, meaning the upgrade could happen one to two days before or after this Thursday.

Constantinople was initially set to activate last month, but a security vulnerability in EIP 1283, one of the originally included improvement proposals, delayed the upgrade’s implementation. Core developers decided to remove the faulty EIP and push the hard fork back to block number 7,280,000.

? Coinbase Exchange Users Can Buy and Sell XRP Starting Tomorrow

Crypto exchange Coinbase is launching support for XRP, the third-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.

The exchange announced Monday it would be listing XRP on its professional trading platform, Coinbase Pro, in “transfer-only” mode, meaning customers can only deposit tokens to begin with. After a minimum of 12 hours, the company plans to activate other trading services, though this timeline is variable.

Initially, Coinbase Pro customers in the U.S. (excluding New York state), the UK, some EU nations, Canada, Singapore and Australia will be able to access XRP, with support for other jurisdictions possibly being added in the future.

? Japanese Multinational Holding SoftBank Announces Blockchain ID Working Group

Japanese multinational holding conglomerate SoftBank Corp. and American telecoms-focused blockchain firm TBCASoft are to lead a new blockchain-based digital identification study group under the canopy of the Carrier Blockchain Study Group (CBSG). The development was announced in a SoftBank press release on Feb. 26.

As previously reported, CBSG — a global blockchain consortium of telecom carriers — was founded in September 2017, in a bid to push greater adoption of the technology in the industry. Alongside Softbank and TBCASoft, the organization counts Taiwan-based telecoms carrier Far EasTone and U.S.-based telecoms firm Sprint as founding members.

? Bitfinex Recovers $106,000 of Stolen BTC With US Government Help

Bitfinex has recovered 27.7 bitcoin stolen by hackers in August 2016, the company said on Monday. The coins, worth around $106,000 at the time of writing, represent only a small fraction of the total BTC stolen. U.S. federal law enforcement agencies recovered the bitcoin and returned it to the cryptocurrency exchange.

Over two years following the hack of the Bitfinex platform, today we see the results of a clear and robust response strategy and the efforts of the U.S. government. It gives us great pleasure to be able to reimburse our traders that were loyal to us and believed in us at a very difficult time. We would like to thank U.S. federal law enforcement agencies for their ongoing efforts to investigate the security breach and their commitment to seizing and returning stolen assets.

? NFTs Are Here. But Where Are They Headed?

There was something both fresh and familiar about the NFT.NYC conference that non-fungible token developer PeopleBrowsr put on at the PlayStation Theater in Times Square last week.

It felt like some of the early bitcoin conferences: A little scrappy and rough around the edges, some wild ideas that ranged from practical to pie-in-the-sky, but in all exuding a great deal of enthusiasm for a novel blockchain technology that could spawn a variety of new business and philanthropic models.

It remains to be seen whether NFTs can get beyond the gimmick status they occupied in popular imagination since Dapper Labs launched CryptoKitties, the popular game that creates unique, collectible, breedable digital cats. There are questions about scalability and interoperability associated with ERC-721, the dominant, Ethereum-based NFT standard, and on whether the world will embrace outside-the-box ideas for redefining value, property and commerce.

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? Daily Crypto Calendar, February, 26th?

  • FintruX Network (FTX)

“A live video AMA with the FintruX team is quickly approaching on 26th February!”

  • Ethereum (ETH)

“The second version of Constantinople will not actually hit the network until February 27th.”

  • Bitcoin (BTC)

New deadline set by SEC to further review the rule change proposals to list a Bitcoin ETF.

  • Stellar (XLM)

Testnet Release

  • SNexus (NXS)

Dev team hosts weekly update on current status developments, including the Tritium mainnet and satellite launch.

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STEEM Trading Update by my friend @cryptopassion

Here is the chart of yesterday :

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Here is the current chart :

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With this kind of chart, it is obvious that my lines are well selected and used by the market. Look how the STEEM went touch exactly the support line at 0.31$ and how the bounce has been created by the support line. The chart is confirming exactly my scenario. So now let’s see, that bounce is perhaps just a pause before the next drop but the DROP could also be invalidated if the UP is continuing. The coming hours will be very important.

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Just the obligatory post for the day.

Last few weeks i have been grinding hard as some may call it. A week ago i ran into @scripsio which is a blog site that utilizes Steempress to send your posts to the Steem blockchain. Not only is it so much easier to write a post there due to the superior text editor, since it uses Steempress i almost doubled my weekly Steem income simply from Steempress votes.

I mean, its still not crazy numbers, but when youre stuck at 20 cents per post and then you jump to $1, suddenly you feel super important. (not really lol)

Even though i basically blog for fun (and dream whale dreams haha) i still try and find as many ways to increase my payouts.

Because…. Is that not a smart thing to do?

I delegate to @wherein (great project worth a look) that upvotes my posts. I delegate to @partiko (we all know partiko) that are a bit stingy with votes but they drop occasionally. I delegate to @steem-ua for some more votes and now @steempress.

At this point im pretty sure i covered all projects that exist on the Steem blockchain that will upvote my daily drivel. haha

On Whaleshares its a bit of a different story since the earning potential right now is much higher from blogging there and folks are a lot more generous. Upvotes flying left and right.

Steem is starting to be about things other then blogging, which is great, but its still nice that there are projects like these that i listed that will give you a small boost from time to time.

And there we go… My obligatory post for the day. I guess it was about something after all..

Lol. Ill see you guys around.

The market is red again, you say?

Haha. STEEM got poor gains these last few days compared to other tokens (I think we didnt even outperform BTC) and when the dump hits us we lose 11%. Good thing im starting to diversify my portfolio, moving some of my STEEM to other projects to reduce some of the risk. STEEM just seems to be slowly slipping. Outside the pump we had a few weeks ago when Bithumb opened transfers again, STEEM has mostly followed the rest of the market, but with poor gains and sharper drops.

March is a few days away and im hoping, finally, we will hear some SMT news. They promised the testnet on March 1. and as much as im skeptical that Steemit.inc will deliver, im hopeful just the same.

State of things.


I promised myself 3 things when i bought STEEM.

  1. I will not hold Bitcoin!
  2. I will not sell for fiat!
  3. I will not cry if i lose all my money!

Haha.

So far im standing strong although every market shift feels like someone is poking me with a hot poker since i know im missing out by not doing smart and obvious trades.

Oh well, cant wait for another slow build up and sharp drop. Kudos for @enforcer48 for calling it. haha.

Ill see you around. 😉

Steem Monsters// Tournaments update// Thoughts

Those who know me know my position on Steem Monsters. That game is making me rich AF so i love it to death. hehe.
Today/Yesterday Steem monsters came out with an update which i think is probably the most significant one since the battles were introduced.

Tournaments.

Prior to the release of tournaments, Steem monsters did have tournaments that were organized for most part on off-chain sites (cant remember the name) and discord, but that made the whole experience tedious and annoying. You would have to shout out names in the discord chat, people wouldnt show up, then you would annoy @aggroed or @yabapmatt with questions and then theyd put timers on discord messages and then folks would mistakenly type in the wrong results, etc etc etc..

Can i please call this a win? Can i Aggroed, can i please? I waited for 20 mins already.

It was just supremely annoying and would take way too long. I played a couple tournaments but the waiting and not knowing when the next game will be was just boring and took away from the experience.
But now we have a pretty UI.

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The look of the Tournaments tab i think is perfect.

  1. Shows all the necessary information.
  2. Looks slick.
  3. its extremely intuitive and you pick up how it works almost instantly.

The strongest part of this update is that you can simply jump in a tournament when ever you feel like when youre browsing your collection or doing your dailies. You just check the tournament list, see a tournament happening in 10-15 minutes, grab a glass of Whiskey (imperative) and just jump in.
I cant even describe how big of an improvement that is over having to jump between 10 screens, discord chat rooms, DMs, etc.

I was intending to try out a tournament today but i literally missed the check-in at 15:00 by less then 1 minute so all you get are a few screenshots this time.

Now that Steem Monsters has competition in the gaming department on the Steem blockchain i have a feeling that we will see a bit more innovation and quicker improvements which is always a good thing for the user base.

Side note: A birdie told me that some whales and investors arent really happy with some of the choices Aggroed and Matt made with Steem Monsters and a lot of them started looking towards DrugWars which could add some more urgency to the work Steem Monsters devs are doing.

Cant wait to see what happens next.

These last few days we are only getting good news. Hopefully Steem and BTS gain some more momentum in the market and my joy-meter will show FuLL. Then ill be able to treat myself with that bottle of Jack ive been eyeing on my neighborhood store shelf these last few days…

Ill see you around.

Could there be merit in the recent bull market expectations?

These last few days ive been seeing a lot of crypto-analysts talk of upward movement in the market.
I wouldnt call myself some that is well versed in Elliot waves or Fibonacci but i do hold that the market moves in cycles that can be anticipated to a degree in the log run.
I dont believe you can pin-point the exact moment of the shift to a high degree of success, but a general guess as to when it “might” happen, i think is possible.

What i like about the news these last few days is the “feeling” that things might shift. As much as im not someone that will bash something that i dont understand to the highest degree, i still think that when we are talking about long term upward movement happening, “general sentiment” is king here.
All these analysis might be self-fulfilling prophecies (i dont believe they are) since they could very well be acting as the trigger needed to turn the market around.

For those reasons there are only a small number of folks whose analysis i take at least somewhat seriously on STEEM. Most of them are using @timm. (https://mentormarket.io/)
Guys like Haejin give market analysts a bad name so many folks i know avoid them, but i can say that there are some great insight to be found on TIMM.
Just a short disclaimer: Not everything is straight forward and some folks do make some generic price predictions, but once they think they are on to something you can tell right away.

Let me know what you think. Is there merit in all this talk?

Ill see you around.