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⁠BitFlyer Granted EU Operational License, Now ‘Most Compliant’ Crypto Exchange BitFlyer has been granted a license to operate in the EU, becoming the world’s “most compliant virtual exchange.” #NEWS

⁠Huobi Offers Platform Utility Token, ‘Not An ICO’ Huobi, the former Chinese cryptocurrency exchange, has announced that they will issue a token (the ‘Huobi Token’, HT) starting January 23. #NEWS

⁠A Social Network for Buyers and Sellers to Boost International Trade With its Crypto Currency TraDove joined up 250,000 corporate users from 100,000 companies on its own B2B platform with decentralized Blockchain techno…

The president of ECB is going to discuss Bitcoin and Blockchain as part of the Bank's third Youth Dialogue. The discussion is set to take place at 12:00 noon CET on Tuesday, Jan. 23. Are you joinining the dialogue? No –…

⁠Cointelegraph Heads To Davos For WEF, Partners With Tech Tuesday Event Cointelegraph will be in Davos, Switzerland to attend this year’s World Economic Forum as Tech Tuesday’s media partner. #NEWS

⁠Opera Browser Addresses Cryptojacking, Adds Anti-Crypto Mining For Mobile Opera will now include anti-crypto mining scripts in both its desktop and mobile browsers. #NEWS

⁠Startup Intends to Shake Up Antivirus Industry With a Decentralized Marketplace Keep calm and stop WannaCry, Petya! PolySwarm wants to reimagine the cybersecurity with Blockchain technology. #SPONSORED

⁠Crypto Market Update: Coins Down Across The Board After Brief Stint Of Green The cryptomarkets are showing another slump, with almost all the top 20 coins on CoinMarketCap in the red. #NEWS

⁠NGO Says ‘Blood Diamond’ Initiative Failed, Highlighting De Beers’ Recent Blockchain Solution Leading NGO leaves the Kimberley Process, citing failure to prevent trade of “blood diamonds,” which highlights importance of…

⁠‘Higher Than Expected’: Louis Dreyfus Reports Results of First Blockchain Agricultural Trade International trade deals continue getting the Blockchain treatment with a new successful trial involving Louis Dreyfus Co. #N…

⁠S. Korea To Tax Crypto Exchanges 24.2 Percent, In Line With Existing Tax Policy The South Korean government will collect 24.2% in taxes from virtual currency exchanges, in line with the country’s general taxation policy…

⁠Bulgarian Police Raids OneCoin Offices, ‘Ponzi Scheme’ Servers Shut Down A raid on the OneCoin offices in Bulgaria covered 14 associated companies, servers were shut down but the coin remains operational. #NEWS

⁠India’s Silicon Valley Partners With Local Fund To Build ‘Largest Blockchain Ledger’ A Blockchain governance stack called ‘Velugu’ is set to become reality in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. #NEWS

A WEIRD WEEK IN CRYPTO: McAfee, Monero Breath, and J-Pop: A round-up of the week’s oddest news stories on Cointelegraph YouTube: Subscribe to our channel for even more videos!

⁠Lightning Network’s Pizza Day? First Ever Physical Purchase On Lightning Network The first ever physical transaction may have been completed two days ago on the Lighting Network, according to Reddit user /u/btc_throwawa…

⁠Bitcoin To Drop As Low As $1000 This Year, Wall Street CIO Predicts Wall Street strategist Boockvar sees Bitcoin as a bubble waiting to burst, predicting a 70-90% drop in price this year. #NEWS

⁠Deutsche Bank Analysts: Low Volatility on Wall Street Brings Investors To Crypto Deutsche Bank analysts see a connection between a stable stock market and the rising prices in the crypto markets. #NEWS

⁠New Report: North Korean Hackers Stole Funds From South Korean Cryptocurrency Exchanges North Korean hackers allegedly stole millions of dollars in funds from South Korean cryptocurrency user #ANALYSIS

⁠Bitcoin Laundering Less Than One Percent of All Transactions A recent report indicates that less than one percent of all Bitcoin transactions involve money laundering. #NEWS

⁠Indian Banks Suspending Bitcoin Exchange Accounts Bitcoin exchanges are under fire in India, as many of the nations top banks have suspended or greatly curtailed functionality on exchange accounts. #NEWS

⁠European Central Bank to Discuss Bitcoin and Blockchain With Youth Young Europeans could ask the President of the European Central Bank questions about Bitcoin and Blockchain. #ADOPTION

⁠Decentralized Travel Distribution Platform Eliminates Middlemen to Make Your Trips Cheaper Changing the way the travel industry conducts business can completely transform the way we go from point A to point B. Winding T…

⁠Bitcoin Under Increasing Scrutiny on Island of Bali Bitcoin is under heavy surveillance on Bali, an island in the Indonesian archipelago, according to local reports. #NEWS

⁠Price Analysis, Jan. 19: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Ripple, IOTA, Litecoin, NEM, Cardano The bulls are back? Well, maybe. #PRICE ANALYSIS

⁠BitPay Integrates With ShapeShift to Enable Instant BTC-BCH Exchange BitPay integrates with ShapeShift to provide instant exchanges between Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash #NEWS

⁠Keep Calm And Hodl? CNBC Guest Tells Bitcoin Critic to ‘Piss Off’ Bitcoin is better than stocks, so “go piss off”: crypto investment debate gets out of hand on CNBC. #NEWS

⁠Trading Bots to Govern an Investment Strategy of Newly Created Decentralized Autonomous Funds NaPoleonX is introducing Decentralized Autonomous Fund to make investing in both cryptocurrencies and conventional assets on…

⁠Bitconnect Ponzi Scheme - No Sympathy From Crypto Community Too good to be true - cryptocurrency community slays Bitconnect on social media following closure of ‘Ponzi scheme’ lending platform and exchange #ANALYSIS

⁠Yale Prof. Shiller Thinks Bitcoin’s ‘Bubble’ Could Actually ‘Linger 100 Years Robert Shiller has updated his Bitcoin bubble accusations by suggesting it could “collapse” or “linger 100 years. #NEWS