Cryptocurrency markets bounce back after this week’s losses, with Bitcoin recovering from lows it hadn’t seen since November.
- NewsCryptocurrency Markets Move Back Into Green After Substantial Selloff 
- NewsCanada: Regulators Approve Country’s First Blockchain ETF Harvest Portfolios has received approval to issue the first ever Blockchain-based Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) in Canada. 
- NewsTaipei Partners With IOTA To Become A Blockchain-Powered Smart City Taipei hopes to become a ‘leading’ smart city with the help of IOTA’s Tangle technology. 
- NewsOldest Chinese Bitcoin Exchange BTCC Acquired By Hong Kong Investment Fund BTCC has been acquired by Hong Kong-based fund, will focus on mining pool, wallet software and crypto exchange going forward. 
- NewsCoincheck To Refund All Customers Affected By Hack, Faced By Community Support Coincheck has promised to refund all 523 mln NEM stolen in recent hack, faced by support from local community. 
- NewsCoincheck: Stolen $534 Mln NEM Were Stored On Low Security Hot Wallet Coincheck exchange hack: 523 mln NEM were stored on a single-signature hot wallet, staff “deeply regret” what happened. 
- NewsRobinhood Mobile App To Launch Zero-Fee Crypto Trading In February Zero-fee cryptocurrency trades are coming in February through the Robinhood stock trading app. 
- NewsWorld’s First Cryptocurrency Airport In Brisbane Brisbane airport is partnering with TravelbyBit to become crypto friendly. 
- NewsVolkswagen Chief Digital Officer Joins Blockchain Non-Profit Board Volkswagen’s Chief Digital Officer Johann Jungwirth to join the IOTA advisory board. 
- NewsHuobi Offers Platform Utility Token, ‘Not An ICO’ Former exchange Huobi announces token creation for platform utility. 
- NewsLightning Network’s Pizza Day? First Ever Physical Purchase On Lightning Network The first ever physical purchase using a lightning network channel may have occurred two days ago, according to a Reddit post. 
- NewsBitcoin Laundering Less Than One Percent of All Transactions Recent reports indicate that less than one percent of Bitcoin transactions involve money laundering or illicit activities. 
- NewsIndian Banks Suspending Bitcoin Exchange Accounts Bitcoin exchange bank accounts are being closed or scrutinized in India. 
- NewsBitcoin Under Increasing Scrutiny on Island of Bali Indonesian government is carefully monitoring Bitcoin, asking citizens to not use it. 
- NewsBlockchain.info Wallet Opens Bitcoin Buy, Sell Features for Many US Customers UK-based Blockchain.info wallet announces US customer support for BTC buy and sell services, soon to add Ether and Bitcoin Cash. 
- NewsGDAX Starts BCH Trading, Users Angry About Focus GDAX begins BCH trading with few issues, except angry users waiting for SegWit implementation. 
- NewsIBM And Maersk Start Promised Blockchain Supply Chain Company IBM and Maersk make good on previous promises, announce the start of Blockchain supply chain platform. 
- NewsGerman Central Bank Director: Crypto Regulations Must Be International Crypto regulations should be global, according to the director of Germany’s Bundesbank. 
- NewsNew Report: Bitcoin Drug Money Laundering Is Highly Centralized A new report indicates Bitcoin transactions for drugs are centralized in just a few mixer and gambling sites. 
- NewsMetropolitan Bank Halts All Cryptocurrency-Related Wire Transfers Metropolitan Bank Holding Corp, known for providing services to a number of cryptocurrency companies, has halted all cryptocurrency-related wires. 
- NewsUS Treasury Secretary Addresses Anonymity, Sanctions And Digital Currencies US Treasury Secretary intends to keep Bitcoin from becoming the modern equivalent to an anonymous Swiss bank account. 
- NewsRussian Ministry of Finance to Legalize Cryptocurrency Trading on Approved Exchanges Russia to approve some exchanges for cryptocurrency trading. 
- SponsoredBitfury and First Block Capital Make Strategic Investment In Emercoin Emercoin price jumps as Bitfury and First Block Capital Invest in the Blockchain platform. 
- NewsWorld’s Largest Crypto Exchange Sees Exponential Growth Despite Market Lows Despite market lows this week, crypto exchange Binance reveals massive growth, adding 240K users in an hour 
- NewsRussian Ministry of Labor: Gov’t Workers Exempt From Declaring Cryptocurrency Gains Russian government workers don’t have to declare cryptocurrency they receive, according to updated regulations from the Ministry of Labor. 
- NewsWarren Buffet Admits Ignorance While Slamming Cryptocurrencies Warren Buffet believes there is no positive end in sight for cryptocurrencies, but admits he knows very little about them. 
- NewsMicrosoft Removes Bitcoin as Payment Option for Microsoft Store Microsoft has removed Bitcoin from its payment options in Microsoft Store. 
- NewsHarvard Professors Predict Bitcoin Collapse Due to Government Regulation Harvard econ professors see a future collapse for Bitcoin due to government regulation. 
- NewsAdvocate Files for Immediate Regulation of Bitcoin in India Calcutta advocate files for an immediate banning or regulation of the flow of Bitcoin in and out of India. 
- NewsLife Savings Stolen from Second-hand Ledger Hardware Wallet Reddit user reports he’s lost all his cryptocurrency after a second-hand Ledger wallet scam.