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Dear Forum Members,

Every week I read different news portals to know and enrich the knowledge of Digital Asset Market which helps me to understand the blockchain and crypto sentiment Here is the Top 7 News of last week.

2nd Week, 2020

1. JPMorgan Report Shows Bitcoin Institutional Demand is Rising, And It’s Crucial
Institutional interest in Bitcoin-related contracts appears to be building and market measures indicate high anticipation of the launch of CME Group Inc.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-11/jpmorgan-sees-high-anticipation-for-cme-bitcoin-options-launch

2. 12 percent of America's 100 biggest charity organizations accept bitcoin
The Block's new research data shows that relatively few of the United States' biggest charities currently accept bitcoin in 2019 accept bitcoin as donations.
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/52673/12-percent-of-americas-100-biggest-charity-organizations-accept-bitcoin

3. EU Countries Commence Crypto Regulations as Mandated by New Directive
The European Union’s 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive mandates that member states start regulating crypto assets by Jan. 10.
https://news.bitcoin.com/eu-countries-commence-crypto-regulations/
 
4. China’s state digital currency nearly ready, says central bank
The bank has finished the top-level design for the currency; research and development; and completed testing for the currency.
https://decrypt.co/16415/china-digital-currency-nearly-ready-says-central-bank

5. North Korean hacker group Lazarus is using Telegram to steal cryptocurrency
A hacking group believed to be from North Korea is reportedly stepping up its game to continue its cryptocurrency stealing campaigns.
https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2020/01/09/north-korea-hacker-group-lazarus-telegram-steal-cryptocurrency-bitcoin/

6. South Korea Moves Toward Institutional Acceptance of Cryptocurrency
The South Korean Presidential Committee has made recommendations that the government work toward institutional acceptance of crypto assets.
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/south-korea-moves-toward-institutional-acceptance-of-cryptocurrency-2020-01-09

7. Student Wins Satoshi Nakamoto Scholarship to Build Media-Focused Platform
A PhD student awarded at Cambridge University with its Satoshi Nakamoto Scholarship, designed to support the development of blockchain applications.\
https://cointelegraph.com/news/student-wins-satoshi-nakamoto-scholarship-to-build-media-focused-platform

Mir Rasel,
Digital Lead, Bitcurate ( Bitcurate is the best place to analyze, research, understand & forecast your cryptocurrency investments.)
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I think there is a positive point that we are getting the participation of many organizations in many countries around the world. When many people come to the crypto market, the capitalization is high, it will create a real financial market and the manipulation will decrease significantly. But besides that, there are many hackers raging and it will probably steal your money at any time, be careful in the future about the security of your wallet. Do not provide anything to strangers.
anyway, the general view shows that the crypto market in 2020 will be very exciting, we should prepare for the big party from now on.

JPMorgan is a great speculator for the market. I remember what they did in a bitcoin fork time. Maybe it was before. However, they published a large bitcoin investment in Bitcointalk. People should make their own plans. Don't expect signs from other people all the time.

It is obvious that the current sentiment for Bitcoin is bullish, but I do not know about altcoins.  I just hope that Bitcoin Bullish sentiment will grow stronger and deeper that it will affect the altcoin market and make it the same sentiment as it is.  We have seen enough drought in altcoin market and we are all hoping for a change this time.

Every day, few cryptocurrencies acquire infrastructure and this is a positive direction. I look forward to when altcoins begin to live a new life.

Most of the news about crypto is positive, first of all, EU 5AMLD regulations for crypto exchanges and wallets showing that regulated now focusing on digital assets and news about Chain's bank also preparing for crypto and also JP morgan news can change the market situation. I hope in 2020 we will see positive news about crypto. 

TIP: Edit your title it should be "These" and not "This" as your dealing with more subject.

Nice effort collating the facts and news. These news are actually big but it doesn't mean the sentiment for bitcoin is always favor in bullish sentiment. Most of some articles are created to give fud but the truth is they are dragging down the price as they are still in process of accumulation. Market depends on market movement and not alone by these fundamental news keep sprouting around. Well a little bit effect but not really the basis.

All these news and events do exhibit that the crypto market is slowly but surely evolving into a more and more accepted and adopted mode of payments and transfers and on many sectors it has been accepted as alternative asset class which itself is massive for the future of crypto market because huge money from traditional markets will be entering crypto if the world faces some conflicts or proxies.

Based on those news and it looks like that the market sentiment looks good right now. But some of them are not so important consider there was a better news like CBDC, SEC that is working on the regulation framework for crypto and many more. It looks like that slowly but surely so many countries are starting to become crypto friendly.
But i think we must focus into the news that focused on the creation of regulation for crypto because this will become the journey for crypto to get mass adoption.

Interesting news, I didn’t even know about some.  The understanding that technology is moving fast and blockchain is increasingly becoming part of everyday life is good.  I follow the news from different portals and realize that it will be even more interesting further.

Reading news like this adds insight to beginners who usually just ask their friends and are tempted about things big and instant money. Indeed such knowledge is needed in order to avoid such nature. Usually, beginners often get hit by scams and are angry at saying crypto scam, so reading this news can make such habits disappear and more heart-hearted in taking risks.

actually if we monitor the development of bitcoin and crypto then we will know a lot of information and sometimes it can have an impact on market conditions as well. so we can exploit this potential if it can be profitable, plus the potential of the media can have a pretty good impact on the market.

Last year, I could not think that cryptocurrency will be so interesting in terms of news in 2020. I thought 2020 would be a very calm year. But just as many events happened in the world, so many fractures happened in the crypto world. I love it. I hope that everything will change for the better.

The institutional demand news is very interesting. The rest of them I'm not too sure about.

The thing is that the next bull run will certainly be driven by institutional investors, as a lot of forum members have echoed the same sentiment. Perhaps it won't be JPMorgan per se but they have certainly had a complete 180 in their attitude towards bitcoin over the past few years, coming from Jamie Dimon publicly denouncing BTC to launching their own bitcoin related services.

Even if they may not contribute much to BTC in the long term, in the short run they will provide a spark in the market, especially for coins with existing liquidity.

Yes, I also guess crypto market in 2020 will be very exciting. Let's be prepared.

I have a question, how did you predict the ETH?

So, do you think there's new linkage with Bitcoin will have a role in the BTC price?

Yes, this is one that is in accordance with a term knowledge is power. So we can know when to enter investment and when to take a profit. With the knowledge of the news, prices on the market will change greatly even if sometimes only slightly. Things like this are what we really need so that we can view bitcoin and altcoin more broadly.

I am not really into news but as what I have read from your post most of the news are very important and positive towards crypto currencies acceptance.

I saw that you only cares about positive news, I have no problem with it but it will be best also if you can share some of the news that are against crypto currencies so we can at least compare whether the anti crypto currencies are growing or not. As I heard that there are other countries that starts banning crypto currencies as of the moment and I would love to check whether what countries are these.

All the other news are small compared to first one, I mean if companies are interested in bitcoin that is great news because that means more and more money could be coming into bitcoin.

Think about wall street caring about crypto as much as they care about stocks? That alone is insane to think about, like they call people and tell them to buy bitcoin etc etc, like have a crypto fund where everyone can invest their money to and they deal with it going from coin A to coin B and back etc. That would increase the money involved in crypto a lot, and could take us to a whole new level. I don't what this "interest" level is at right now but if we could reach to high levels that would change the shape of crypto world totally and get us to next level where we need it.

Damn, those are some interesting articles, looks like i got some really good reading material today, thx man haha
I noticed the institutional money flowing in, ive been mentioning to people i think price will struggle to pump anymore as theres too many 5% big money takers nowadays : /
BTC's volatility is crazy profits for institutions, they will work on bleeding BTC dry now while they implement the tech as much as possible where needed
crazy how theres scholarships and shit with Satoshis name on it, no shortage of people capitalizing on this industry's names : /

Altcoins are also on that track!

in my opinion the seven news items are good news and have a positive impact on bitcoin price movements. since the beginning of this January bitcoin has continued to increase. although not a high rise but this is quite encouraging. I can take a little advantage from yesterday's bitcoin increase. I hope all this good news drives the crypto market to enter the bull market.

I love this article.
Student Wins Satoshi Nakamoto Scholarship to Build Media-Focused Platform.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/student-wins-satoshi-nakamoto-scholarship-to-build-media-focused-platform (https://cointelegraph.com/news/student-wins-satoshi-nakamoto-scholarship-to-build-media-focused-platform)

Thanks for sharing!
Education, blockchain, and bitcoin all together play an important role. We need to educate ourselves to be able to take the Bitcoin to the next level and use the technology in our favor to solve everyday problems.
Surely later we will hear new news and advances from this winning Satoshi Nakamoto Scholarship PhD student. Because the new generation does not stop when it seeks to develop more innovations.
Bitcoin has allowed the awakening of big dreams.

I think cryptocurrencies issued by China's central bank are hard to achieve.
Perhaps the Chinese cryptocurrency will be backed by the renminbi or fixed assets. However, the Chinese government is famous for its corruption and shady so it is difficult for China's cryptocurrency to attract investors.

I am not feeling that altcoin is already on that track.  I believe we still need to wait for sometime before altcoin become bullish. 


Well, those news are all about Bitcoin and creating a hype around its market.  I do not know if this will have an immediate effect on altcoin.  We all know that altcoin become bullish after Bitcoin attained it peak on its rally, and the current altcoin nhad not changed at all since last year.

This is really an important aspect to study before entering the cryptocurrency markets. Always being updated to the latest news makes us understand the real-time price and also enables us to understand the current market demands which might affect the prices for each of the related coins so it is actually a good habit to always go through such news.

I personally found some of your above mentioned news beneficial though I already went through most of them. It is good to share recent news here as many of the peoples who do not take efforts to check for the news sites might gain some interest and might start staying updated to the markets. News platforms are always beneficial for the one's who actually are interested into.

Market is still in sideways and news can bring positive impact into market movement, the problem is fundamental often used as manipulation. In this part whales always take part and many small trader will lost their money because eating bait. I think you should include strategy/ method how to read market sentiment using news because many post like this already release and we don't know how to use it?. I hope next post will include the method and stay positive with crypto.

It’s a casual happening that market rises and falls so does with bitcoin. When more people buy it rises and when sell so it falls the whole matter is about demand and supply. According to my current analysis bitcoin is increasing and altcoins will come to the track very soon we should keep holding and waiting for fully bullish market, good time is not so far.

Presently bitcoin keeps surging over 8500$ and i hope it will keep surging even if it's bit by bit till halving season arrives and there will be a huge positive impact on bitcoin market, this year will definitely be different

As of my knowledge I guess Quatar is on the edge to ban cryptocurrencies. I did not yet go through any of the official news but I think there might be a legal circular soon. Also it would be good for you if you could spend some time in checking the news yourself because it would always boost your knowledge and make you more closer to the current market affairs going in between the centralized as well as decentralized monetary systems.

I do agree with you that there might be few negative news about the crypto markets and OP perhaps did not tend to mention them here but I know that no matter how bad the market news are, cryptos will always recover from those.

It seems that most of the news you have gathered are good which is related and talking about cryptocurrency adaptation as well as recognition. It seems to be that this year 2020 is really making a good start for the crypto community. We are still into the start of the journey of cryptocurrency and we are still having a long run before this year ends. Surely, there will be more great news to come about certain improvements concerning the usage o cryptocurrencies now that we are already getting into the edge of the rising of the prices of cryptos most specially the Bitcoin itself. If this will continue, we will be expecting a lot more news to come over which will talk about project launches about crypto, the upcoming Bitcoin halving which we are all expecting its effect on the cryptocurrency market. As long as good news are coming, we will be expecting a lot of new members that will engage into cryptocurrency that can also be potential investors which will be good for this industry of course. May we expect and hope for the best and greatest thing to come this year 2020.

we cannot know in advance what will be the impact of bitcoin halving on the cryptocurrency market. In 2019, many people were expected very much of the LTC halving will be a very strong event, but it did not affect the price of this coin in any way. and if we look at the graphs you will see that the price has fallen. do not hope that this is a strong event

Institutional money is flowing rapidly. I was also wondering by seeing the scholarship news!

The institutional demand part is definitely the biggest news coming out.

I think that JPMorgan will continue to try to enter the crypto market especially in this climate where bullishness is back to a substantial degree.

Expect other institutions to follow suit as well. However, just be aware that these institutions are not supporters of BTC. They are merely here to make profit off of BTC. But even then, they could potentially drive the next bull market with institutional demand that the bring.

I believed that that JPMorgan has been in the crypto sphere as early as 2017, and so are other institutions. So this news does not come a surprised to me. They've been making money in the market in the last couple of years and this news just validate it.

I'm sure that when we go on a bull run, those money that will flow will be coming from institutions. As you have said, they are here to to profit and since they have the capital in the first place, they can do it anytime they want.

Biggest investors will soon come and join with other whales to help bitcoin community to grow gracefully. They all had the desired amount that they wanted, and by using that money; huge gains will come out. We need them for a good start and when that happens, keep riding on their wave of financial success.

in my opinion with the acceptance of cryptocurrrency as a means of payment or donations at several charities will increase the use of bitcoin in the real world. and the presence of cryptocurrency made in China can make the crypto market more crowded and the number of cryptocurrency users can also increase. I hope this good news can push the crypto market to bullish.

It is great to have such news at this early stage of this year 2020 that most of the news you have gathered and mentioned are mostly tackling about cryptocurrency on a good manner. Only one news have been into the other side which is not so good to hear. Well at least good news have started up this year which is a good indication of a great year for cryptocurrency ahead of us. It is so nice that the world is already recognizing the real importance of the cryptocurrency existence and I do hope that a lot more great news related to cryptocurrency will come that will bring back the credibility and reliability of the crypto community which can also attract more potential investors to come engaging into this industry we are all into.