15 feb: let crypto be free!

"Successful men become successful

only because they acquire the habit

of thinking in terms of success."

-Napoleon Hill

: $44,234.55 | Dom: 41.1% | : 220.248 EH/s

Major Support: $42,800/42,500 | Major Resistance: $44,000/$45,500

BREAKING

• president Alexander Lukashenko signs decree to support free circulation of crypto
• Trudeau invokes Emergencies Act to include transactions
• Client IRA Financial Hacked for $36M in Bitcoin and Ethereum: Report

JUST IN

• loses 97% of its purchasing power against Bitcoin in the last 5 years
• Island: A Crypto Paradise off the Coast of Vanuatu
• Hacker Helps Fix Security Bug and Avert Potential Losses
• Build Finance DeFi by "Hostile Takeover," $0.5 Million Goes to Tornado
• Crypto Founder Thomasg.eth Targeted in $125M Social Engineering Scam Attempt
• Smart Chain becomes BNB Chain

FOLLOW UP

• money laundering: Husband faces pre-trial detention, wife gets bail

• Former SEC Deputy Chief Economist Scott Bauguess Joins COINBASE as VP
• to hire 2,000 employees in 2022 citing ‘enormous’ opportunities in Web3
• Mastercard Plans on Hiring 500 More Cryptocurrency Specialists, Aims to Help Banks with Crypto Adoption
• YouTube is hiring for director to lead Web3 push

MARKET WATCH

• Market Back Above $2 Trillion as Bitcoin, Ethereum Recover
• hits $44K after Canada emergency powers accompany 6% BTC price increase

ALTCOINS

• announces the doubling of rewards for hackers to spot possible vulnerabilities

ANALYST'S CORNER

• Insists: S2F Model Points to $100,000 Bitcoin in 2023
• Finder’s Panel: Ethereum Will Hit $7k This Year? 
• Santiment: Ethereum (ETH) Has Big Chance To Bounce While Bitcoin (BTC) Active Addresses Make New High for 2022: Santiment
• Santiment: Cardano and Several Altcoins Still "Underbought" Amid Market Rebound 
• : These Two Altcoins Are Ready For Major Pullback, Says Crypto Analyst
• Bloomberg Analysts: Cite ‘Bullish Implications’ For Bitcoin and Ethereum as Markets See Meteoric Upsurge

NOTABLE VOICE

• Anthony Noto: SoFi CEO cautions businesses might be ‘left behind’ over failure to embrace crypto
• Lyn Alden: PoS Is ‘Legacy Tech’, ‘Outdated’, ‘Oligopolistic’

REGULATION/LEGISLATION

• ‘Wiped Out’ DeFi Lending Model with BlockFi Penalty?
• deputy governor Rabi Sankar: banning crypto 'most advisable choice' and likens it to a Ponzi scheme
• Payments Firms Face New Restrictions Under Blockade Crackdown
• Hungarian Central Bank Favors Crypto Ban

• Ministry wants to legalize Bitcoin in specific areas

• Counterfeit result in marketplace shutdown: Experts weigh in
• data site Solanalysis rebrands to Hyperspace and raises $4.5 million

FOLLOW DAT MONEY

• Blockchain platform establishes unicorn status after raising $35MM, mainnet launch impending