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CRYPTO FEAR AND GREED INDEX The Fear & Greed Index for bitcoin and other large cryptocurrencies inched two point higher bringing the sentiment gage into a neutral position at 47. Over the past 30 days the index has held within a range of 38 to 52 following its dramatic drop from 80+ levels to begin the month of September. OCTOBER 15 IS COMING The upcoming date of October 15th is garnering...

THE HEADLINES [Members Area Crypto] SEC CHAIRMAN OPEN TO TOKENIZED STOCKS www. decrypt. co SEC Chairman Jay Clayton sees stocks becoming tokenized in the future and says he is open to tokenizing an exchange traded fund, announcing that the SEC is “willing to try that; our door is wide open. If you want to show how to tokenize the ETF product in a way that adds efficiency, we want to...

REGULATORY WARNINGS This week saw major announcements from US regulators taking action against unregistered crypto projects. The SEC won a summary judgement against social-messaging platform Kik for its 2017 ICO, and settled charges against Salt Lending for its unlawful raising activities around the same time. And the week ended with a major announcement as the CFTC filed charges against BitMEX for operating an unregistered trading platform (see below). While the crypto industry continues to request greater clarity...

For a full copy of this report in PDF format, click this link. HORIZEN (ZEN) (“Horizen”) is a next-generation internet platform structured as a publicly traded Distributed Ledger Technology (“DLT”) cryptonetwork that was launched in Q2 2017. Horizen gives users control over their online data with its blockchain cloud computing platform for money, messages, media, and third-party decentralized applications (“DApps”). Web 3.0 decentralized internet alternatives like Horizen have the potential to...

Highlights from the North American listed crypto, blockchain and mining stocks:A week after announcing plans to increase its PR efforts, Marathon Patent Group (NASDAQ: MARA) posted the top return this week with a 19.5% price jumpHive Blockchain (TSXV:HIVE) announced record production for ethereum and ethereum classic mining (32,000 ETH and 121,000 ETC) during the quarter at an approximate cost of $150 per each ETHEbang International Holdings (NASDAQ: EBON) was approved by Canadian regulators to...

THE HEADLINES [Members Area Crypto] FINCEN TELLS BANKS TO ASSESS THEIR CRYPTO EXPOSURE www. fincen. gov Good morning. It is a pleasure to be joining you all and I would like to thank Kieran Beer for inviting me to be a part of today’s virtual event. In our time together today, I would like to: [Members Area Crypto] SEC WON'T TAKE ACTION AGAINST COMPLIANCE-FOCUSED DIGITAL SECURITY EXCHANGES www. coindesk. com...

For a full copy of this report in PDF format please click HERE. MARKET ANALYSIS This week, Bitcoin gained some ground but largely still exhibited choppiness as it consolidated above $10,000. As of yesterday, Bitcoin has closed above the key level of $10,000 for 64 consecutive days, which is an all-time high. The previous all-time high was 62 consecutive days back in 2017-2018. At time of writing, Bitcoin is currently trading...

CRYPTO FEAR AND GREED INDEX The Fear & Greed Index for bitcoin and other large cryptocurrencies has reverted back to a more neutral level gaining 6 points from last weeks “fear” indication. Market volatility especially among DeFi protocols appears to be subduing sentiment as the crypto market cap remains in the green and has seen bitcoin rise back to $11,000 resistance levels. THE HEADLINES [Members Area Crypto] ESTONIA’S E-RESIDENCY PROGRAM LINKED...

I decided to change up the daily crypto pricing chart again and have added Polkadot (DOT), Cardano (ADA) and Chainlink (Link) – all three are now top 10 coins in terms on total market cap.. The total group identified above now equates to over 85% of the total market value of digital currencies. THE HEADLINES [Members Area Crypto] SAND DOLLAR TO BE RELEASED IN MID OCTOBER www. centralbankbahamas. com The Central Bank of The Bahamas announced...

Note: _My API to Coinmarketcap. com is not linking this morning, sorry._ Bitcoin is trading at 10,604, up 2.67% Ether (ETH) is at $340 up 3.91% XRP (XRP) is at $0.23 up 3.5% Bitcoin Cash (BCH) at $211 up 0.28% Today is the 750th edition of the newer public format of Bitdigest –it was published as a basic email for the first year – and as I read through the news...