Had anyone noticed how drastically decreased the number of Bitcoin transactions in last 2 months?  In last 5 years with the exception of 2018 Bitcoin had between 9 million and 10 million transactions every month. In April and May there was around 8 million and this month seems to be even below 7 million. There was no such bad month in the last 4 years. Is this a clear sigh we are already yin bear market or reasons are more fundamental and more serious for Bitcoin than just price and speculation.

[Chainalysis Raises $100M, Underscoring Surging Demand for Blockchain Surveillance]

Chainalysis Raises $100M, Underscoring Surging Demand for Blockchain Surveillance

Chainalysis,  a blockchain tracking firm whose client base includes government investigators, crypto exchanges and even financial institutions, raised $100 million in a round that underscores surging demand for cryptocurrency compliance infrastructure.

Chainalysis is among the largest U.S. cryptocurrency investigation firms building software to untangle messy blockchain transaction histories. Crypto transfer records are publicly available but difficult for laypersons to decipher without context, such as flagged wallet addresses and blacklisted coins.

https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/chainalysis-raises-100m-underscoring-surging-133002566.html

Blockchain analysis is becoming one of the biggest crypto industries. Numerous companies are fighting for talent and offering their services to companies and institutions. Wide use of transparent ledger cryptocurrencies make this  surveillance possible.  

What is the cause for 10 times growth of BCH transaction in last month? When we check other coins their number of transactions is mainly as it was in past year. LTC had x4 growth half a year ago since its blockchain was used for one blockchain game. Now is almost back on previous levels. Monero, that is experiencing growth of transactions in past year have about 10% growth per month. BCH had a monster 1000% growth in a single month.

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactions-ltc-bch-xmr-doge-dash.html#6m

Why?


I made teh same post on r/btc subbreddit. Lets see if someone finds causes. Will post them here.

https://twitter.com/SEC_News/status/1341477833810522114

Press Release SEC Charges Ripple and Two Executives with Conducting $1.3 Billion

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-338


It took them so long but after so many years the biggest scammers in crypto will finally pay their debts.

A year and a bit after Verge bought its way onto Pornhub and not sure how many months after Tron bought its way onto Pornhub it finally happened. Visa stopped offering its services to Pornhub, so they were forced to seriously looking into cryptocurrencies and finally add Monero as a payment option.  I will not be surprised if after a year Monero become most used payment option on Pornhub. Why would people want their neighbours know they use Pornhub?

China and 14 other countries have agreed to form the world’s largest free trade bloc, encompassing nearly a third of all economic activity.  Without USA, EU or Russia.

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2020/11/15/rcep-15-asia-pacific-nations-set-worlds-biggest-trade-pact

One third of worlds economy can work on their own by itself. If we add influence they have over Africa, this is by far strongest free trade bloc that will be almost impossible to challenge in the future.  

NASA to Announce New Science Results About Moon

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-announce-new-science-results-about-moon


What will it be? Can 2020 give us a break? Can this be this the biggest 2020 event? Will it be positive or negative?

https://twitter.com/NomiChef/status/1304442495342796800




To everyone. I fucked up. And I am sorry.
$SUSHI migration went successfully and the journey of @SushiSwap began. I was fortunate to have a chance to help in the background and it was a very enjoyable moment in my life. Congrats for the successful migration!
I would like to apologize to everyone who I have caused troubles to. I was emotional, I was greedy, I was afraid. I made bad controversial decisions under pressure. And it hurt everyone. I failed your expectation and I am sorry.
@0xMaki @zippoxer @Sushi__ninja The early believers in the project. Thank you for joining the journey with me early. And sorry if I made you feel betrayed. I really appreciated your help bootstrap the project and push it forward.
@lawmaster @scott_lew_is @danielque @tomhschmidt @rleshner and other Crypto OGs. @DegenSpartan @mewn21 @intocryptoast and other degen friends. I failed your expectation. I am sorry.
@AndreCronjeTech Thank you for helping with some ideas and code. And very sorry for bringing a bad reputation to the DeFi movement.
@binance @cz_binance @nomorebear I am sorry that I may have caused you trouble. @haydenzadams @brendan_dharma sorry for being cocky. You guys are awesome builders.
Most importantly @SBF_Alameda. Thank you for your help getting SushiSwap back when I almost destroyed it. Same goes for other signers @AdamScochran @mickhagen @cmsholdings @sinoglobalcap
And there are probably hundreds of other people that I did not mention here, but well deserve an apology from me.
I have returned all the $14M worth of ETH back to the treasury. And I will let the community decide how much I deserve as the original creator of SushiSwap. In any currency (ETH/SUSHI/etc). With any lockup schedule you wish.
I will continue to participate in the discussion and technical implementation of SushiSwap in the background. But I will not have any control. Will not take any spotlight. Will not be part of the governance.
I hope that SushiSwap continues to evolve. Don't let my mistake deter it from being a 100% community-run AMM. The success of SushiSwap will set a precedent for many more community-run projects.
It has a lot of potential, don’t let my action alone fuck it up.

OpenEthereum 'stable' release had a critical bug for months. Today they decided to downgrade to a release from 2019.
Downgrading requires re-syncing from scratch. We all know how big problems Ethereum full nodes have with syncing the block chain. For some will take months. For some is maybe game over.

https://github.com/openethereum/openethereum/issues/11854#issuecomment-679001174



More about the bug: https://github.com/openethereum/openethereum/issues/11758

OrginTrail (TRAC) went from $0.005 to 0.07 in less then 3 months. The most amazing fact is that is not even listed on Binance yet.

https://origintrail.io/ is a supply chain coin. You may remember them after this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvpYGO0MenE



It seems price of this coin went so low. over past year that it needed x14 or 1400% to bounce back to normal.

The U.S. economy contracted at its fastest rate since the Great Recession.
GDP fell 4.8% in January to March, compared to the previous quarter.
Consumer spending fell sharply.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/the-u-s-economy-contracted-sharply-in-the-first-quarter-of-2020


But I dont understand why so much. USA went in lockdown only at end of March.  Europe started around 10th March. USA was at least 10 days latter. How can GDP drop almost 5% when Jan and Feb were positive?  How can be the 2020 predictions for USA around 5%?  Q2 GDP drop will be catastrophic!!! 

Satang pro is an exchange from Thailand. Happy trading.

https://satang.pro/exchange/market/XMR-THB


EDIT! and two more

Vitex:
https://twitter.com/ViteXExchange/status/1252529996133879808

Hotbit:
https://twitter.com/Hotbit_news/status/1253206665349918726

EDIT2:
https://twitter.com/latokens/status/1255895886460305408

EDIT3:
https://twitter.com/HuobiIndo/status/1260536322894073857

Tari is hosting a live discussion of use cases this upcoming Friday, March 20th at 16:00 UTC (9:00 PDT, 12:00 EDT, 17:00 CET, 18:00 SAST)*. Participate through either Telegram (https://t.me/tarilab) or #Tari on Freenode (there is a bot bridging messages in real-time). We would appreciate seeing the community there!

For background information, read today's Newsletter https://tari.substack.com/p/a-marketplace-for-certainty


Tari is asset platform secured by Monero network.

This guy solomined Monero block on his normal PC. How many other coins let you do that? 
Monero fee is 0.1 cent. You can easily mine your own fees to use Monero freely.

https://twitter.com/_geonic/status/1218317340925808640

Can ISIS resurrect after great fighter against ISIS, General Qasem Soleimani was assassinated?   I know one guy usually cant move hills, but he was capable man and was working hard to achieve ISIS demolish all over Iraq in last 10 years.

Is day trading for a living your dream job? Get another one – study says 97% of day traders lose money.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3423101


Only 0.4% earned more than a bank teller.


You can thank me latter.

I found this picture on reddit. Now it is clear to me why Trump wanted interest rate to decline more. He will have slim chances for re election if recession hit already this year. Sadly recession this or next year will not help Bitcoin at all. We might even see new bottom.

https://www.bug.hr/kriptovalute/hrvatska-posta-kroz-pilot-projekt-postaje-mjenjacnica-kriptovaluta-10655


U zadarskim poštanskim uredima od prošloga je tjedna moguće zamijeniti pet najčešće korištenih kriptovaluta u kune

Is Libra the Ethereum + Ripple + EOS + TRON + ....   killer?

https://developers.libra.org/docs/assets/papers/the-libra-blockchain.pdf

From paper we see what they try to do and is a combination of coins I mentioned. Can they survive in a war against Facebook?

They collected $40 millions to fork older version of Monero what anyone can do for free. It seems Richie mission is done. So as his forum collaborators contraband https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=251138 and  BlackWidow https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=324672