🗞 Daily Crypto News, February 19th 💰

• CFTC Offers $100,000 Bounty to Crypto Pump-and-Dump Whistleblowers;
• Why Switzerland is Becoming a “Crypto Nation” with a Flourishing ICO Market: Expert Take
• Dogecoin Is Helping Ethereum Solve Its Biggest Issue
• 3 Ways Decentralized Gaming Platforms Will Disrupt the Gaming Industry
• Shark Tank’s Herjavec Thinks Bitcoin And Blockchain Are ‘Here To Stay’
• 📑 Daily Crypto Calendar, February 19th 💰
• STEEM Trading Update by @cryptopassion

🗞 CFTC Offers $100,000 Bounty to Crypto Pump-and-Dump Whistleblowers

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has created a bounty to encourage whistleblowers coming forward in exposing “pump-and-dump” schemes. “Customers should not purchase virtual currencies, digital coins,” the CFTC warned, “or tokens based on social media tips or sudden price spikes. Thoroughly research virtual currencies, digital coins, tokens, and the companies or entities behind them in order to separate hype from facts.”

Read more & Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/cftc-offers-100000-bounty-to-crypto-pump-and-dump-whistleblowers/

🗞 Why Switzerland is Becoming a “Crypto Nation” with a Flourishing ICO Market: Expert Take

Switzerland has long been a global center for the wealth management industry, housing around $2 trillion, or 27 percent, of global offshore wealth. Since 1934, Swiss bankers and regulators have resisted the efforts of foreign tax regulators, including the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the US, to obtain information about secret Swiss bank accounts. They claimed compliance with Swiss law and the need to protect the privacy of their customers, as Swiss private bankers smuggled US taxpayer wealth from the US to Switzerland in all sorts of creative ways. From bundles of cash hidden inside rolls of newspaper to setting up shell companies, to jamming diamonds into toothpaste tubes, Swiss bankers aided tens of thousands of wealthy American clients to evade US taxes through secret offshore bank accounts.

Read more & Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/why-switzerland-is-becoming-a-crypto-nation-with-a-flourishing-ico-market-expert-take

🗞 Dogecoin Is Helping Ethereum Solve Its Biggest Issue

Created on a whim in 2013, dogecoin isn't simply still around, it's playing a crucial role in the ongoing testing of at least one "serious" technology. In fact, on February 5, it notably factored into an experiment that successfully showcased one of ethereum's more enterprising projects.

"We built a first version of that, which we're calling 'truebit lite.' It demonstrates that all the core pieces of truebit work. It's a big milestone for us."

Read more & Source: https://www.coindesk.com/dogecoin-helping-ethereum-solve-biggest-issue/

🗞 3 Ways Decentralized Gaming Platforms Will Disrupt the Gaming Industry

As the gaming industry starts to utilize blockchain technology to drive digital innovation, there has been an uptick in the creation of “decentralized gaming platforms.” Decentralized gaming platforms serve as a one stop shop for gamers and developers to create and play games, sell/purchase virtual goods, and make use of cryptocurrencies. These platforms can also help companies launch initial coin offerings (ICOs).

Read more & Source: https://themerkle.com/3-ways-decentralized-gaming-platforms-will-disrupt-the-gaming-industry/

🗞 Shark Tank’s Herjavec Thinks Bitcoin And Blockchain Are ‘Here To Stay’

According to Shark Tank’s Robert Herjavec, Bitcoin is “here to stay” in the long term, cryptocurrency will definitely be regulated, and investors should both get in and get out now, according to an interview with financial news outlet TheStreet.

Besides Shark Tank, Herjavec is the CEO of the cybersecurity firm the Herjavec Group.

When asked about the security of cryptocurrencies, Herjavic doesn’t think that crypto exchanges themselves are “prone to great security,” referencing the hack of over $500 mln in NEM from the Japanese-based crypto exchange Coincheck last month, but that cryptocurrency transactions are secure.

Read more & Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/shark-tanks-herjavec-thinks-bitcoin-and-blockchain-are-here-to-stay

Daily Crypto Calendar, February, 19th

• 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

Yesterday, we were testing for the second time the previous top with that chart :

Here is the current chart :

As you can see, we failed again to break it and we have now a little correction.

We are in the middle of our 2 lines and we can see a DOJI in formation (green circle). For the new followers, the DOJI is often an indicator of change of direction or an indicator of indecision. So we could see happening a third attempt to break that resistance line in green but there are also probabilities that we go back on our support line in red. I will wait to see the result of that DOJI to adapt my positions.

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