Warren Buffett: Cryptocurrencies Will Come to a 'Bad Ending'

News:
South Korea to Inspect Six Banks over Virtual Cryptocurrency Accounts
https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/south-korea-inspect-six-banks-virtual-cryptocurrency-accounts/

CoinMarketCap Excludes South Korean Prices, Crypto Market Cap Drops by $50B
https://themerkle.com/coinmarketcap-excludes-south-korean-prices-total-market-cap-drops-by-50bn/

US Government Set to Sell Seized Bitcoins from Dark Web Racket
https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/us-government-gets-approval-sell-seized-bitcoins-dark-web-racket/

Trading Accounts Are Selling for Thousands of Dollars
https://themerkle.com/trading-accounts-are-selling-for-thousands-of-dollars/

SEC Suspends Trading of Hong Kong Blockchain Firm’s Stock
https://www.coindesk.com/sec-suspends-trading-hong-kong-blockchain-firms-stock/

The Electrum Wallet Has a Major Vulnerability
https://themerkle.com/the-electrum-wallet-has-a-major-vulnerability/

Allegations Surrounding Tron’s Whitepaper Spark Twitter Backlash
https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/allegations-surrounding-trons-whitepaper-sparks-twitter-backlash/

Nvidia Curbs Data Center GPU Use- But Crypto Miners Are Excluded
https://www.coindesk.com/nvidia-wants-to-halt-data-center-gpu-use-but-crypto-miners-are-excluded/

Wall Street Bonuses May Spark ‘Crypto Buying Spree of Epic Proportions’
https://bitcoinist.com/wall-street-bonuses-bitcoin-spree/

Jamie Dimon Regrets Calling Bitcoin a Fraud
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/09/jamie-dimon-says-he-regrets-calling-bitcoin-a-fraud.html

Kodak Is Launching a Cryptocurrency for Photographers
https://www.coindesk.com/kodak-launching-cryptocurrency-photographers/

Bitcoin ETF Proposals Withdrawn After SEC Pushback
https://www.coindesk.com/more-bitcoin-futures-etf-proposals-withdrawn-after-sec-pushback/

Report: South Korea Eyes Doing Crypto Regulations With China, Japan
https://www.ccn.com/korea-china-japan-swapping-ideas-cryptocurrency-regulation/

Venezuela’s Planned Petro Cryptocurrency ‘Illegal’ Says Congress
https://www.coindesk.com/venezuelas-planned-petro-cryptocurrency-illegal-says-congress/

Overstock Payments Glitch Mixes Up Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash: Report
https://www.coindesk.com/overstock-payments-glitch-mixes-up-bitcoin-and-bitcoin-cash-report/

Australia Creates Tax Taskforce to Monitor Crypto Traders
http://digitalmoneytimes.com/australia-creates-tax-taskforce-to-monitor-crypto-traders/

Warren Buffett: Cryptocurrencies Will Come to a ‘Bad Ending’
http://digitalmoneytimes.com/australia-creates-tax-taskforce-to-monitor-crypto-traders/

Axed List
IBM, Comcast Back New Blockchain Startup Fund- Good news for some startups. The focus is to bring enterprise blockchain solutions to scale more quickly.
https://www.coindesk.com/ibm-comcast-back-new-blockchain-startup-fund/

Big Pharma Seeks DLT Solution for Drug Costs- Pharma is looking to reduce costs by solving the data fragmentation the healthcare industry has. The goal is to be able to aggregate data “in guarding against the falsification of data, and allow the public and other researchers better trust in the systems being used to track data.”
https://www.coindesk.com/blockchain-day-big-pharma-seeks-dlt-solution-drug-costs/

30% of Millennials Prefer to Invest in Bitcoin, Key to Multi-Trillion Dollar Market Cap-
https://www.newsbtc.com/2018/01/08/30-millenials-prefer-invest-bitcoin-key-multi-trillion-dollar-market-cap/
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TD Ameritrade: Bitcoin ‘Great Opportunity’ to Get Millennials Trading – Millennials are turning to a different system since there is large discontent with the current one. That could be why you see Millennials opt into digital speculation rather than traditional stocks. It’s new and more in the Millennial tech savvy arena
https://www.coindesk.com/td-ameritrade-bitcoin-great-opportunity-to-get-millennials-trading/

Indian Lawyer Files Petition Demand Cryptocurrency Regulations- More clamor in India for regulation. Citing that Bitcoin is primarily driven by the dark web and money laundering, the lawyer is pushing for a ban or regulation.
https://www.coindesk.com/indian-lawyer-files-petition-demanding-cryptocurrency-regulations/

Brazilian Electoral System to Use Ethereum Blockchain Network –“ The Brazilian government is currently developing a mobile app powered by Ethereum to give citizens the ability to register their details online and submit a petition or sign one. The app will keep track of the number of votes for each petition via the smart contract. The encrypted signatures are then hashed and added to the Ethereum blockchain so that Brazilians can check that their vote and signature is actually there.”
https://www.newsbtc.com/2018/01/08/brazilian-electoral-system-to-use-ethereum-network/

Bitcoin Futures Speculation Allowed in Thailand- Thailand has showed itself being more permissionable for the crypto environment.
http://bitcoinist.com/bitcoin-futures-speculation-allowed-thailand/

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