⁠10% of Bitcoin's supply has been untouched for over 10 years: report Around 1.8 million bitcoin have been dormant for over a decade. https://ct.com/91q5

⁠PayPal to offer crypto payments starting in 2021 The rumors are now fully confirmed. https://ct.com/91nn

✅ The US stock market today is showing a roller coaster ride between the green and red zones. Investors do not know whether to believe the promises of politicians to receive the second aid package this week 🤷‍♂️ Wednesday news: 🔸 The crypto market continues to grow amid positive news from PayPal and Mode Global Holdings. Altcoins finally decided to support BTC 🔸 Inside: the EU is working on retaliatory sanctions for possible restrictions from the US and China 😱 🔸 From July 1, 2021, major US banks will be required to hold enough funds to meet their needs for a year. Preparing for a crisis? .. 🔸 Crypto exchanges: OKEx resumed trading (https://www.okex.com/support/hc/en-us/articles/360050830632-Resumption-of-P2P-Trading) on ​​the p2p platform in pairs with fiat, and BitMEX reduced verification time (https://blog.bitmex.com/accelerating-the-bitmex-user-verification-programme/) until November 5, 2020 🔸 The Bahamas became the first country in the world to launch a government digital currency. Sand Dollar coin became available to all residents on October 20 🥇 🔸 US oil reserves increased by 584 thousand barrels, instead of the expected decline by 1 million barrels. Black gold prices went down again Courses: 📉 S&P 500 - 3450 (↑ 0.20%) 🌐 Bitcoin - $ 12,789 (↑ 7.15%) 🌕 Gold - $ 1 929 (↑ 0.71%) ⚫️ Oil Brent - $ 41.77 (↓ 3.22%)

✅ Despite the positive markets from the expectation of the second bailout package, the S&P 500 index fell 17 points this week. But bitcoin has grown in price, but by only $ 78 🤨 Weekly digest: 🔸 China has conducted a pilot distribution (https://www.asiaone.com/money/shenzhens-2m-digital-currency-lottery-attracts-2-million-hopefuls) of digital yuan among the population in Shenzhen, there were almost 2 million people willing 🔸 The IMF improved its forecast for the fall of the global economy in 2020 from 5.2% to 4.4%. Growth of 5.2% is promised next year 🔸 Investment company Stone Ridge with assets worth $ 13.4 billion acquired (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nydig-raises-50m-in-growth-equity-funding-nydig-parent-stone-ridge-holdings -group-announces-more-than-100m-in-bitcoin-as-primary-treasury-reserve-asset-301151162.html) 10,000 BTC 👍 🔸 Banks: JPMorgan made profit (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-jpmorgan-results/jpmorgan-beats-profit-estimates-as-trading-booms-idUSKBN26Y1FI) above forecasts thanks to earned $ 6.6 billion in trading and Citigroup lost 34% of quarterly profit due to zero rates 🔸 Banks: Goldman Sachs doubled its quarterly net profit to $ 3.62 billion, while Bank of America and Wells Fargo reported a decrease in profits by 14.5% and 57%, respectively 🔸 The Central Bank of the Russian Federation issued a report on the feasibility of creating a digital ruble, which will become the third form of money along with cash and non-cash funds 🔸 IMF Head Kristalina Georgieva appreciated (https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2020/10/14/sp101420-we-must-take-the-right-actions-nowhttps://www.imf .org / en / News / Articles / 2020/10/14 / sp101420-we-must-take-the-right-actions-now) global production losses due to coronavirus in $ 28 trillion 🔸 In the III quarter of 2020, the Grayscale crypto fund attracted (https://grayscale.co/insights/grayscale-q3-2020-digital-asset-investment-report/) a record $ 1.05 billion 🔸 Crypto exchange OKEx has suspended (https://www.okex.com/support/hc/en-us/articles/360051090391) withdrawal of funds due to the inability to contact one of the private key holders 🔸Brexit: UK announced the actual completion of negotiations on a trade deal with the EU, because their opponents do not want to change their position 😡 🔸 Bloomberg: 2,000 Robinhood trading platform user accounts were hacked (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-15/robinhood-estimates-hackers-infiltrated-almost-2-000-accounts) by hackers Courses: 📉 S&P 500 - 3,483 (↑ 0.01%) 🌐 Bitcoin - $ 11 443 (↑ 3.50%) 🌕 Gold - $ 1,902 (↓ 0.31%) ⚫️ Oil Brent - $ 42.81 (↓ 0.81%)

✅ The US Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Google (https://apnews.com/article/google-justice-department-antitrust-0510e8f9047956254455ec5d4db06044) for abuse of market dominance. Who's next, Facebook? 😇 Tuesday news: 🔸 Research: Bitcoin entered the top 5 financial instruments of Russian private investors, overtaking gold 🔸 Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said that the United States is in no hurry to develop a digital dollar until it examines all possible risks 🤔 🔸 Leading Swiss bank UBS increased profit by 99% to $ 2.1 billion in Q3 2020 🔸 According to Arcane Research, the weekly volume of P2P transactions in bitcoin increased (https://twitter.com/VetleLunde/status/1318271989056999424) to $ 60-90 million, which indicates an increase in the adoption of the first cryptocurrency 🔸 IBM intends to split its business (https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54473828), leaving behind the most profitable cloud segment, and the rest of the areas will be transferred to the new company NewCo 🔸 Precedent: FinCEN USA found the founder of BTC-mixer Helix Larry Dean Harmon guilty of money laundering and fined him $ 60 million 😱 🔸 At the meeting of the OPEC + countries, a decision was made to continue the deal to reduce oil production in full on the basis of the existing agreements Courses: 📉 S&P 500 - 3,464 (↑ 1.08%) 🌐 Bitcoin - $ 11,944 (↑ 1.82%) 🌕 Gold - $ 1,916 (↑ 0.22%) ⚫️ Oil Brent - $ 42.84 (↑ 0.52%)

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✅ Negotiations: The US is again left without a second aid package due to Trump's accusations against the Democrats, and the UK and EU have resumed dialogue on a trade deal after Brexit 😇 Thursday news: 🔸 Launched a gateway for accessing Waves cryptocurrency on the Ethereum blockchain in ERC-20 format 🔸 Research: Credit Suisse found (https://www.credit-suisse.com/about-us-news/en/articles/news-and-expertise/global-wealth-report-2020-households-resistant-to-covid -19-202010.html) that the income of Russians during the pandemic decreased by 10% 🔸 Bitcoin rose above $ 13,000 three times today. Altcoins are actively catching up, so Ethereum is again more expensive than $ 400 🤑 🔸 An application has been submitted (https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/82003/ey-consortium-bids-korea-cbdc-pilot) to test the digital won, Ernst & Young, Samsung and Line will participate in it 🔸 Raiffeisen Bank is working on a platform (https://twitter.com/bitpanda/status/1319195293838180353) tokenize national currencies, which will ensure the interaction of assets on various blockchains 🔸 Tesla reported its fifth consecutive quarter with profit, the company increased revenue by 39% to $ 8.77 billion ⚡️ 🔸 Crypto exchanges: Deribit will introduce mandatory verification (https://twitter.com/DeribitExchange/status/1319003303485820928) Deribit before the end of the year, and Kraken has returned (https://twitter.com/krakenfx/status/1319082134271713280) to the Japanese market 🔹 Courses 📉 S&P 500 - 3,454 (↑ 0.55%) 🌐 Bitcoin - $ 13,021 (↑ 2.09%) 🌕 Gold - $ 1,906 (↓ 1.21%) ⚫️ Oil Brent - $ 42.46 (↑ 1.75%)

​​PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shopping on its network. According to Reuters PayPal customers will be able buy, sell, hold and to use cryptocurrencies to shop at the 26 million merchants on its network starting in early 2021. In the second quarter of 2020, there were 346 million active PayPal accounts worldwide.

Aztec presented a new solution to improve the privacy and scalability of Ethereum Developers from startup Aztec today unveiled a platform for scaling Ethereum using zero-knowledge proof technology. They have previously used similar cryptographic techniques to increase the anonymity of the second largest cryptocurrency. Aztec 2.0 builds on the increasingly popular ZK roll-up technology. It uses zero-knowledge proofs like zkSNARK to roll multiple transactions into one, committing to the main blockchain, which can increase throughput to 300 transactions per second. Aztec claims that their design is superior to other similar solutions because it is able to provide "programmable privacy". The PLONK standard they created allows you to organize a two-tier system for processing transactions. Initially, using zkSNARK, the data of the sender, recipient, as well as the volume of transactions are hidden, which makes them private. These transactions are then grouped together, again with zkSNARK. The startup describes the end result as “zkSNARK inside zkSNARK”. The advantages of this method, according to the developers, may be of interest to users of DeFi services. Older systems based on the same principles, such as Zcash, are programmed to do the same operation many times. Each new application scenario requires a trusted installation ceremony, but with PLONK this can be avoided. Aztec also presented a new scripting language Noir, with which developers will be able to write zkSNARK transactions for the second version of the platform. Aztec is launching a private testnet for sending Dai and other ERC20 tokens this week, with a mainnet release scheduled for November.

Kik Agrees to $ 5M Fine in SEC Proceedings over $ 100M ICO The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and messenger developer Kik have submitted a joint proposal to resolve the ongoing dispute. Under the terms of the agreement, Kik must pay a $ 5 million fine for organizing an illegal ICO campaign, during which he managed to raise $ 100 million for the development of his cryptocurrency project Kin. Earlier, the judge supported the SEC's position in this case. Now he also has to approve the proposal of the participants in the proceedings. The SEC filed a lawsuit against Kik in May 2019. The regulator argued that ICO Kin was an illegal sale of securities since it was not registered. Kik, for its part, has promised to defeat the SEC in court, thus protecting the interests of the entire cryptocurrency industry. The lengthy litigation with the regulator, however, turned out to be too costly. Subsequently, the company laid off 80% of its employees and organized a $ 5 million fund to protect the interests of crypto startups affected by the actions of the SEC. Also, under the terms of the agreement, in the future, Kik must notify the SEC of its intentions 45 days in advance if it intends to make any transactions with reserves in the Kin vault. In September, Kik's legal representative said the SEC should have developed clear rules for the cryptocurrency industry rather than publishing "conflicting statements."

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The ERC-20 WAVES token is available on the Ethereum network as a result of the launch of a gateway on Waves.Exchange that will connect the two blockchains.

3.7 million BTC lost forever BTC supply is limited to 21 million coins, which means there will never be more than 21 million bitcoins in circulation. About 18.5 million BTC has already been mined (or 88.1% of the maximum amount). But since much of the Bitcoin supply has been lost beyond recovery, the actual amount of BTC available for use or trading is much lower than expected. Overall, a fifth of BTC hasn't moved in five years and there are three main reasons why. Bitcoin's mysterious creator Satoshi Nakamoto may have mined about 1.1 million BTC in the first few months after its appearance. Since then, Satoshi has not touched his stock, indicating the likelihood that he cannot or will not bring these coins into circulation. Thus, the available supply is reduced by about 5.9%. While it's impossible to say exactly how many bitcoins were lost due to negligence or just bad luck, it will likely be tens of thousands of coins. If we take a simplified approach and assume that any bitcoin that has not moved for more than 5 years is lost, then about 20% of all BTC falls into this category. According to a report by analyst firm Chainalysis, some 3.7 million BTC have not moved for at least 5 years and may never be moved again. A large amount of BTC was deliberately sent to one of the various “burn addresses”. Basically, these are Bitcoin addresses without a known private key, which means the loss of all coins sent to that address. A number of “burn addresses” have been used for various purposes over the years, including the 1CounterParty address that was used during the 2014 Proof-of-Burn event. To date, over 2,700 BTC has been sent to over 100 “burn addresses”, resulting in the withdrawal of about $ 30 million worth of bitcoins from circulation.

✅ S&P 500 is trading in the red again, while bitcoin is down to $ 12,800 😳 Friday news: 🔸 The founder of IOST has shared (https://medium.com/iost/korea-meetup-qa-iost-cofounder-terry-talks-about-iost-in-china-japan-defi-watermelon-more-1b92867306b3) coin issue plans HT and HUSD Huobi on IOST, as well as the launch of the DeFi Watermelon project 🔸 Waves partnered (https://t.me/WavesNewsRU/866) with Matic's second level solution for Ethereum and connected it to the Gravity gateway 🔸 USA: In October, the economy showed the largest growth in the last 20 months, and mortgage rates for the 11th time in a row renewed their historical low 🔸 Bloomberg: PayPal intends to buy (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-22/paypal-said-to-be-in-talks-to-buy-crypto-firms-including-bitgo ) several crypto companies and are now eyeing the custodian of BitGo 😱 🔸 Reporting: Barclays recorded a 6% decrease in quarterly revenue to 5.20 billion pounds, American Express lost 40% of profits due to a drop in spending on credit cards, and Intel received minus 28% in profit and earned only $ 4.3 billion 🔸 UK signed a trade agreement with Japan that will take effect after leaving the EU ✅ 🔸 Research: Messari Predicts (https://twitter.com/RyanWatkins_/status/1318922148606545920) $ 1 Trillion Transferred Value Through Ethereum Blockchain This Year Courses: 📉 S&P 500 - 3 453 (↑ 0.01%) 🌐 Bitcoin - $ 12 796 (↓ 1.41%)) 🌕 Gold - $ 1,904 (↑ 0.01%) ⚫️ Oil Brent - $ 41.74 (↓ 1.70%)

⁠PayPal might issue its own cryptocurrency soon, says CoinShares exec The CSO of CoinShares thinks that a payments-focused PayPal token could be forthcoming. https://ct.com/91t5

⁠Ethereum 2.0 deposit contract to launch this week: ConsenSys dev An Ethereum 2.0 developer predicts the protocol’s deposit contract will be released in a matter of days, and that ETH 2.0 staking will go live this year. https://ct.com/91id

📌 #BTCUSDT Market update: https://www.tradingview.com/chart/BTCUSD/BtX07Eny-Bitcoin-what-next-after-major-breakout/

OKEx has stopped withdrawing all cryptocurrencies amid arrest of founder Cryptocurrency exchange OKEx this morning indefinitely suspended the withdrawal of all assets. As an explanation, she referred to the “unavailability” of one of the key holders and his “ongoing cooperation with the public security bureau in the investigation”. According to OKEx CEO Jay Hao, the reason for the investigation was a "personal question" of the key holder. As the company explains, in his absence, it is impossible to authorize the withdrawal of cryptocurrency from exchange wallets. “Other OKEx features are available as usual and the security of your assets on OKEx will not be affected,” the company said. "We will resume the withdrawal of cryptocurrencies as soon as the mentioned private key holder is able to authorize the transaction." According to CoinGecko, OKEx is currently the second largest cryptocurrency exchange in terms of trading volume in the spot and derivatives markets. Within 30 minutes of its announcement, the bitcoin price dropped 3%, but has since recovered partially. According to Red Lee, co-founder of Chinese crypto-news portal 8btc, at the same time there were "rumors" that "over 800 accounts on a" certain "exchange were involved in cross-border money laundering operations. UPD: Local news agency Caixin, citing sources, writes that the detained employee of the exchange is its founder, Mingxing Xu, better known as Star Xu. The reasons were not specified. This information is also indirectly confirmed by the comments of Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao. He wrote that the storage system on Binance is designed in such a way that it is not "dependent on CZ", thus drawing a parallel with OKEx problems. Other market participants report that the identity of the detainee was known to those close to him even before its public disclosure in the media.

Crypto exchange OKEx confirms moratorium on withdrawal of funds The administration of the OKEx cryptocurrency exchange has confirmed that on the morning of Friday, October 16, a moratorium on withdrawals was established. The trading platform's blog did not specify how long traders will not be able to withdraw their assets. However, they said that the decision was made due to the unavailability of one of the key holders. Allegedly, this user is collaborating on an important investigation with the Public Security Bureau. The investigation may be related to the legalization of criminal proceeds, suggested journalist Colin Wu. OKEx CEO Jay Hao did not disclose the user's data, but stressed that due to the absence of this entity, it is impossible to adhere to the mode of withdrawing funds from exchange addresses. At the same time, the head of the trading platform emphasized that all other options are available to traders as usual. As soon as the missing user logs in, we will immediately resume the withdrawal of funds, added the CEO of the exchange. Note that OKEx is included in the list of the largest cryptocurrency platforms. In the first half of 2020, she topped the ranking of exchanges for the largest bitcoin transactions.

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