The Daily Dood for 1-6-18

Today's bitcoin high was about $17,252 USD on BitFinex

Headlines

Indians Confused Over Crypto Taxation – Exchanges Ask Government to Clarify
https://news.bitcoin.com/indians-crypto-taxation-exchanges-government-clarify/

The United States Remains Divided on the Bitcoin Regulation Front
http://www.livebitcoinnews.com/united-states-remains-divided-bitcoin-regulation-front/

Ripple CEO Claims Three Top Money Transfer Companies Will Use XRP
https://themerkle.com/ripple-ceo-claims-three-top-money-transfer-companies-will-use-xrp/

Zuckerberg Eyeing Out Power of Cryptocurrencies
https://cointelegraph.com/news/zuckerberg-eyeing-out-power-of-cryptocurrencies

The 2018 Year of Cryptocurrency Challenge – Week 1
https://themerkle.com/the-2018-year-of-cryptocurrency-challenge-week-1/

FanDuel Offering Bitcoin Prizes for NFL Wild-Card Weekend Tournament
https://btcmanager.com/fanduel-offering-bitcoin-prizes-nfl-wild-card-weekend-tournament/

Finance ‘Guru’ James Altucher Is Launching a Cryptocurrency Exchange https://news.bitcoin.com/finance-guru-james-altucher-is-launching-a-cryptocurrency-exchange/

Ripple's Frenzied Price Rise Could Herald Long-Term Growth http://bit.ly/2EfyaZa

An Ethereum (ETH) Based World
https://themerkle.com/an-ethereum-eth-based-world/

The Central Bank of Poland launches a campaign against cryptocurrencies #coinfox
http://www.coinfox.info//news/8542-the-central-bank-of-poland-launches-a-campaign-against-cryptocurrencies

Man’s Life Savings Stolen from Hardware Wallet Supplied by a Reseller
https://news.bitcoin.com/mans-life-savings-stolen-from-hardware-wallet-supplied-by-a-reseller/

Second Layer Developments Promise Major Changes For Bitcoin http://www.crypto-news.net/second-layer-developments-promise-major-changes-for-bitcoin/

2018 - Will you let corporations take over your Bitcoin? http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/2018-will-you-let-corporations-take-over-your-bitcoin-1654060

Youtube & Podcasts

Boxmining talks about Binance, Ripple, raiBlocks, TRON, TenX and more! 11 fun filled minutes of crypto info.

STEEMIT

A twitter friend's first post. I met @prasla on Twitter doing some steemit crypto giveaways over the holiday weekend. After winning, I noticed he hadn't written anything yet & suggest he create his first post. He took my advise and here it is! Another fellow steemian added to our ranks! Keep on Steeming!
https://steemit.com/crypto/@prasla/crypto-my-short-slim-story-on-cryptocurrency-embark

Looking forward to sharing with you some very exciting news regarding #Promo-Steem, @Steem-Ambassador and the much anticipated Steem Ambassador Programme soon. In the meantime I'm reaching out to users in the U.S. wishing to help promote Steemit & Steem. Via @stephenkendal steemit
https://steemit.com/promo-steem/@stephenkendal/looking-forward-to-sharing-with-you-some-very-exciting-news-regarding-promo-steem-steem-ambassador-and-the-much-anticipated

Let's Make Steem Trend on Twitter on the 9th of January - Join the Steem Twitter Thunderclap!! via @fitzgibbon Steemit
https://steemit.com/promo-steem/@fitzgibbon/let-s-make-steem-trend-on-twitter-on-the-9th-of-january-join-the-steem-twitter-thunderclap

Links

I turned Satoshi's 9-page White Paper into a topographic art piece; including all calculations via Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7okc14/i_turned_satoshis_9page_white_paper_into_a/?ref=share&ref_source=twitter via @reddit

ThunderClap campaign to promote Steemit various social networks like Twitter & Facebook. Sign up using your social media account to help spread the word & make Steemit grow.

http://thndr.me/sCNbfj

Free POW tokens. I'm not exactly sure what's going on with these. This is another social networking token and they're distributing the air drop via social site referrals. If you sign up, you recieve around 30,000 POW lite at the time of this writing. At the end of the air drop all POW lite will be converted to a POW ERC20 ethereum tokens and spendable like any other token.

https://POWtoken.com?ref=POW74296

The End

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