Here's the proper link to the article:

https://news.bitcoin.com/fbi-claims-arrested-cyber-crime-syndicate-co-founder-medvedev-worth-800m-in-btc/

Looks like the arrest was made by Thailand authorities with cooperation of the FBI. It would be interesting to see whether the authorities can take custody of the coins, and how they'll split it. It could affect whether future regulations would treat Bitcoin as a currency or an asset.

I wouldn't be against having those coins lost forever either. 100k Bitcoins entering the market would certainly cause a splash, likely in a negative way.

Greetings!
  Recently I sent 399 trx from binance to MEW. I only got 198 trx now in mew. So i am guessing the rest were Binance fee??

Is it just because of those forks that give free money and it was december why we reached $20k? and do you think it will never happen again because people are now tired of forks??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYHFrf5ci_g

I stopped using Bitcoin since late November. I do not transact in bitcoin, only in LTC or ETH.

But I was watching today some videos trying to understand the lighting network better, and I came across this one - and the guy makes a point, that lighting network has to be pre-funded with the money. And he makes a conclusion, that it is somehow related to banks.
What do you guys think?

Yesterday morning, several banks in Australia started rolling out a new payment system they’re calling NPP, or “New Payments Platform.”

Until now, sending a domestic funds transfer in Australia from one bank to another could take several days. It was slow and cumbersome.

With NPP, payments are nearly instantaneous.

And rather than funds transfers being restricted to the banks’ normal business hours, payments via NPP can be scheduled and sent 24/7.

Across the world in the United States, the domestic banking system has been working on something similar.

Domestic bank transfers in the Land of the Free typically transact through an electronic network known as ACH… another slow and cumbersome platform that often takes 2-5 days to transfer funds.

It’s pretty ridiculous that it takes more than a few minutes to transfer money. It’s 2018! It’s not like these guys have to load satchels full of cash onto horse-drawn wagons and cart them across the country.

(And even if they did, I suspect the money would reach its destination faster than with ACH…)

Starting late last year, though, US banks very slowly began to roll out something called the Real-time Payment system (RTP), which is similar to what Australian banks launched yesterday.

It seems pretty clear they’re all playing catch-up with cryptocurrency.

The rapid rise of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies proved to the banking system that it’s possible to conduct real-time [or near-real-time] transactions, and not have to wait 2-5 days for a payment to clear.

Combined with other new technologies like Peer-to-Peer lending platforms, fundraising websites, etc., consumers are now able to perform nearly every financial transaction imaginable– deposits, loans, transfers, etc.– WITHOUT using a bank.

And it’s only getting better for consumers… which means it’s only getting worse for banks.

All of these threats from competing technologies have finally compelled the banks to innovate– literally for the FIRST TIME IN DECADES.

The Stellar Lumens Decentralised Exchange, Stellarport, is now up and running. The Stellar distributed exchange has been active for a while now and can be accessed in various ways (such as the StellarTerm interface), but Stellarport might be one of the more convenient all-in-one options, also offering a Stellar wallet.

At the time of writing, the bulk of Stellar trading looks like XLM:MOBI pairs, but all the native Stellar ecosystem tokens are present, including Smartlands (SLT), SureRemit (RMT) and fiat currencies in the form of CNY.

This is very stupid.  There are laws for it.

LAW: 'when man and wife quit, property is split'

Bitcoin is just property.  Even if you argue that it is 'intangible' property, it is still property.  You have to split it.  By law.  Bitcoin doesn't magically change things such that old laws no longer apply.  Fraud is still fraud, tax is still tax, divorce is still divorce.  Stop pretending the Bitcoin upsets all these well established principles.  That is precisely what caused Ross Ulbricht go to jail for the rest of his life.  He made the mistake to think that because Bitcoin was not technically 'money' that he somehow wasn't the biggest drug dealer ever known to the world.  Very fucking dumb.  Bitcoin doesn't magically make all laws go away.  Don't be an idiot and spend your life in jail next to Ross.  

The guy should give the bitch half his Bitcoin and then go make more.  Don't get married again.

Bitspark, MicroMoney and Bankcoin combined will offer remittances to nearly every major region of the world. It is estimated that over $6 trillion will be sent in remittances by 2030. Many of these remittances will be sent using the BitShares platform.

In the UK, a divorcing couple right now is quarreling over a stash of coins worth some $830,000. And there are no laws for it.

According to Business Insider, UK law firm Royds Withy King is currently advising no less than three divorce cases that involve cryptocurrency. The spouses are “seeking the disclosure and a potential share of cryptocurrency assets.” But no laws are governing such cases.

Only one of them, however, stands out, because of the value of the couple’s crypto stash. The husband invested £80,000 ($110,000) in cryptos, which are now worth £600,000 ($830,000). Did I say there are no laws to guide divorce lawyers in such matters?

However, the lawyers expect the number of cases to increase in the future. “These are the first cases we have seen, and we expect to see many more, Royds Withy King partner Vandana Chitroda said. “We believe that cryptocurrencies will be a significant feature in a large number of divorces. Whilst cryptocurrencies are volatile, they are not going to go away. It is important that if you believe your husband or wife has invested in or purchased cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, and you are separating, you tell your legal adviser.”

Several cryptographers working on the privacy-minded cryptocurrency zcash, as an example, have proposed BOLT, a new type of lightning-style micropayments tech that also preserves the network's anonymity. And project developers have hinted the technology is being worked on, even though it's not clear when it will launch.

It is not litecoin official fork and it doesn't have anything to do with litecoin. See the link below from litecoin developer.

http://bitcoinist.com/charlie-lee-labels-litecoin-cash-scam/

The 94-year-old vice chairman at Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway referred to bitcoin as a "noxious poison" Wednesday during a shareholder meeting for the Daily Journal, a publishing firm for which Munger serves as chairman and director.

"I never considered for one second having anything to do with [bitcoin]," Munger said, according to a report by Yahoo Finance's Julia La Roche. "I detested it the minute it had been raised. The more popular it got, the more I hated it."

Munger thinks the government needs to step up its game when it comes to regulating the cryptocurrency.

"Our more relaxed approach is wrong," he said. "The right answer is to step on it hard. It's the government's job."

Well, Chinese New Year has about 15 days duration so if you want to count last day of New Year, that would be 2nd of March 

This is an observation. It seems people who want extra money/passive income
engage with crypto not thru investing money but thru bounty and airdrop hunting.
I think this is not healthy for crypto market in general. Very few capital flowing in, but massive
cashouts.

What do you think?

Good news but the big one to be watching is in March, let's see what the outcome is and whether they agree, I think it would be a nice thing if they all just backed off for a couple of more years to see where it goes before trying to regulate everything.