The Italian soccer team Juventus has a number of traditional collectibles available for purchase by its fans, but this week it’s taking them into the digital age. It will offer digital trading cards of its players through the blockchain-enabled platform Sorare.
By using Ethereum technology, Sorare will provide digital cards that soccer fans can collect and trade. The cards function like non-fungible tokens and will feature star players like forward Cristiano Ronaldo. Used in conjunction with the platform’s fantasy soccer game, the cards can be used to create teams, compete in tournaments for cryptocurrency prizes, and trade in secondary markets. According to Sorare, some of the rare cards have sold for over $2,000. 

According to an official announcement from UPbit, the company has yet to receive clear guidance from the tax authorities as to how the specific tax rules and rates apply to the industry, so the withdrawal service for foreign users can’t be resumed now.

Bitcoin Cash House Ghana has announced they’ve found a liquidity provider for converting between BCH and Ghanaian cedi, and are now preparing to furnish their building and move in, preparing for official launch on March 1. BCH House Ghana was inspired by the already operational BCH House Venezuela.

According to Baidu Index, the latest 30 days see blockchain’s search index reports 3389 a day on average, up 16% overall; BTC’s such index reports 23055, up 78%; Ethereum reports 3553, up 16%.

Justin Sun revealed the latest developments of TRON, saying the proposal No.32 has been launched. According to him, “after the proposal is approved, three new features of TVM (#TRON Virtual Machine) will be opened: support for parallel signature verification, multiple signature verification, and judge whether the address is the contract address.”

Block.one CEO Brendan Blumer, also known as BB, said via Twitter that EOS is built on the most advanced technology, the most aligned framework, and the most robust governance. "I believe #2020 will highlight this," he added.

According to the official release, Cardano OBFT hard fork has been successfully completed.
Cardano underwent a mainnet hard fork (software protocol update) on Feb 20, 2020, during epoch 176, to pave the way for the "Shelley" mainnet release.

Citing Chain News, the chat history in Telegram shows that Matthew Campbell, co-founder and CEO of Loom Network, is suspected to step down from the position. The company now is processing the work handover, and preparing to issue an announcement. At present, the chat history has been deleted by the administrator. According to Matthew Campbell's LinkedIn, he has founded an investment company called "Remote Ventures," and served as the CEO. Meanwhile, his personal profile shows he once acted as a core member of Loom Network between May 2017 and December 2019.

Citing the official announcement, since the ADA upgrade completed, Boboo.com has resumed the deposit and withdrawal of ADA.

Citing statistics from alternative.me, the Fear & Greed Index currently reads 44, the same as that of yesterday's, indicating the crypto market is still in "Fear."
As per the index, a value of 0 means "Extreme Fear" while a value of 100 represents "Extreme Greed."

According to an official announcement, the board of crypto exchange Tradesatoshi has decided to close the exchange. Limited by its financial ability, the team is no longer able to provide the required security, support, and technology. Do not deposit and the deposit will no longer be processed. Tradesatoshi.com will terminate all services on March 1, 2020 (UTC).

According to official news, in view of the rapid increase of user visits in the near term and ensuring normal services, BiKi adjusted the subscription data for its first IEO project in 2020, XB, as follows: BIKI special subscription time for users holding crypto is from 03:00 UTC to 06:00 on February 21; the special subscription time of BiKi partners is from 06:00 to 07:00 on February 21.

Citing the official announcement, the node upgrade of Zilliqa (ZIL) is complete. The deposit and withdrawal services of ZIL will resume at 04:30 on Feb 21, 2020 (UTC).

Citing Crypto Watch, Japan Virtual Currency Association (JVCEA), the self-regulatory agency approved by the Financial Services Agency of Japan, will alter its rules in accordance with the revised Fund Settlement Law. Based on the new rules, the name of 'virtual currency' will be changed to 'cryptocurrency.' Also, 'Japan Virtual and Crypto assets Exchange Association' will be adopted to replace the previous 'JVCEA.' In addition, the purpose of the association will be modified to ensure the proper and smooth implementation of the crypto assets exchange and crypto assets-related derivatives trading, which will help its healthy development and protect users and investors.

Citing data from Boboo, on Feb 20, the opening price of BTC marked 9,600.59 USDT, and the closing price was 9,599.51 USDT, down 0.01% within a day.
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Tom Lee, co-founder of investment fund Fundstrat, spoke at Coingeek Conference 2020, "Crypto as a percentage of traditional liquid assets is 0.1%. Until crypto gets larger, it's largely a retail market. What happens when institutions start buying crypto? Well FOMO is going to kick in."
To back this up, he referred to Tesla stocks, which recently shot up from $450 to $991 in a matter of months — briefly overtaking Bitcoin's market cap. "In four months, institutions went from an underweighted Tesla to a market exposure which is 0.7% exposure to Tesla, added a $140 billion market cap. The day institutions decide they want to be market weight crypto, you're going to see the same kind of parabolic move, almost in an instant," he added.

On the short-term chart, most cryptocurrencies are experiencing a slight correction in the macro sideways trend. The overall market remains stable. At this time, the downward space of Bitcoin (BTC) has not expanded. And its price changes mainly focus on oscillation, but it is hard to predict the whole price trend during the turbulence.
BTC began to enlarge the vibrations around 16:30 UTC on Feb 20 and it rebounded instantly after hitting $9,400, suggesting the short-term traders have swayed the price trend. At this point, cryptocurrencies still have the opportunity to rebound and rise.
On the daily chart, the short-term longs and shorts are well-matched in strength after the Doji pattern was completed. $9,542 releases a strong support effect for BTC. The closing price's failure to break below the support level indicates that the BTC price is expected to strengthen during the sideways shock. In terms of pressure, BTC is running between 3/1 and 2/1 Gann Fan, so the longs and shorts are prone to form a balance in this area. Looking at the direction of the biggest pullback, the lowest price can dip to $8,800 if the king coin breaks below $9,542. BTC will go up to reach the pressure level at $10,500 when it gets support successfully. Of course, along with the continuation of the sideways fluctuations, the pressure and support levels at different periods will move downwards together with the Gann Fan.

China's Center for Information and Industry Development [CCID] has released the 16th Global Public Blockchain Technology Assessment Index that ranks multiple cryptocurrencies based on its tech, application, and creativity. According to the revealed data, EOS, TRON, and Ethereum grasped the first three spots on the list, with scores marking 157.3, 139.6, and 136.1, respectively. Bitcoin got 106.4, ranking 11th place.

As of 03:00 (UTC) on February 21, the global price index of Bitcoin (BTC) has been trading above the $9,600 level. At present, the coin marks $9,636.18 with an increase of 0.42% in the past 24 hours.
The CoinNess.com Bullish vs. Bearish Indicator shows our four-hour technical bias on BTC is "Sell" with 11 indicators sending out selling signals, five showing neutral signals, and two indicating buying signals.
The broad market experiences upward trading, with 72 out of Top 100 cryptos by market cap rising.
The global market cap reads $279.95 billion, and the 24-hour trading volume is $164.43 billion.
Major Coins
1. BTC quotes show 9,627.33 USDT on Binance, $9,635.80 on Bitfinex, $9,625.91 on Coinbase Pro and 9,622.52 USDT on Boboo.com;
2. CoinNess.com Market Index presents quotes for major cryptocurrencies besides BTC as following: ETH marks $259.36 (-0.91%); XRP marks $0.2759 (-0.95%); BCH marks $378.50 (-1.33%); LTC marks $71.66 (+0.47%); EOS marks $4.10 (+1.88%); ETC marks $9.25 (+3.67%).
Top 3 Gainers and Losers in Cryptocurrencies
1. Top 3 gainers among Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap: ALGO (+27.30%), REN (+14.64%), and AION (+12.79%);
2. Top 3 losers among Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap: ABBC (-15.02%), MANA (-10.21%), and CENNZ (-8.85%).
Cap Flows of Coins/Exchanges
1. Top 3 capital inflows within the last 24 hours: BTC (+$125.90 mln), ETH (+$79.96 mln), and TRX (+$39.66 mln);
2. Top 3 capital outflows within the last 24 hours: BSV (-$10.93 mln), KCS (-$5.13 mln), and HT (-$4.89 mln);
3. Net inflows/outflows of exchanges: Binance (-$21.22 mln), Bitfinex (-$9.94 mln), and Coinbase Pro (+$3.11 mln).

Crypto brokerage firm Voyager (CSE:VYGR) announced on Feb 20 that it has added ChainLink (LINK) to the growing list of supported digital currencies on its trading App.

Citing Whale Alert, 1,000 BTC ($9,687,898 USD) were transferred from bitFlyer to ant unknown address starting with 16Ewum at 02:35:59 UTC on Feb 21. The transaction hash is 6029242eabdab4b1cd9523cfc2e0e7066104abbebb8ad26407deca96f2e8ffd3.

According to data from skew. markets, the stablecoin saw its volume increase by over 190 percent from over $550 million to $1.8 billion in an unprecedented move, that has gone under the radar. However, the volume started coming down post the sudden spike and is currently at $1.7 billion, which is still a significant rise.
Data by Bravenewcoin suggested that the huge volume came from Hong Kong-based exchange Bit-Z alone; 93.48% of the total TUSD volume was concentrated in this exchange. Additionally, Bit-Z's exchange volume testified the same. Data from CoinGecko revealed that Bit-Z had 28.48 percent of its total volume come from TUSD. Furthermore, the liquidity of TUSD on Bit-Z is also a mismatch. At the press time, TUSD/USDT trading pair had a spread of 1.19 percent, significantly higher than the rest of the field.

Citing data from Tokenview, the sum of Bitcoin transferred in the past 24 hours marks 1.03 million (-25.52%) and the number of on-chain transfers is 335,200 (-2.54%). Bitcoin deposited to the crypto exchanges marks 12,477 BTC, slumping by 78.28% compared with the previous day. Bitcoin withdrawn from the exchanges are 10,104 BTC, down 81.75%.
As for the mining data, the seven-day average hashrate of Bitcoin marks 110.12 EH/s and the average figure in the past 24 hours reads 104.85 EH/s.

Since Jan 24, Gate.io has continued to follow up the changes in the epidemic situation (COVID-19), and allocated global resources for the collection and distribution of materials in severely affected areas. Among them, two batches of medical supplies have been successfully delivered to the front-line personnel in the severely affected areas like Wuhan and other cities in Hubei province. At present, medical supplies collected by Gate.io from home and abroad include 8,000 medical masks, 60,000 medical gloves, 200 medical safety goggles, 240 sets of protective clothing, 1,625kg disinfectant, etc.
In addition, due to logistics reasons, some medical materials are still being transported, and are not covered by the above data.

The Central Bank Of Brazil has started testing a new payment network with the promise to offer Brazilians near-instant transactions and many new services. Portrayed as a response to Bitcoin, the Pix system will be mandatory for major financial institutions to ensure wide coverage. The project aims to limit the use of paper money and plastic cards to reduce the costs of the national financial system.

Block.one's Voice posted a tweet, stating, "Paid bots influence what you see. That's why we got rid of them, to keep the content real and what you're reading authentic to you."

Liam Hunt, a market analyst at SophisticatedInvestor.com, talked about crypto with AMBCrypto and claimed, "For a football club to incorporate cryptocurrency payment processing would allow international fans to support their favorite club without having to bear the cost of an exchange rate or pay transaction fees, surcharges, or government-imposed levies. Cryptocurrencies also provide stronger security and anonymity for international buyers."

Monitored by CoinNess.com, from 00:00 to 02:00 (UTC) on February 21, LTC registered a net inflow of $13.21 million in the past two hours.
1. The Top 3 net cap inflows in the crypto market are: LTC (+$13.21 mln), ETH (+$7.09 mln), and BTC (+$6.96 mln);
2. The Top 3 net cap outflows in the crypto market are: XTZ (-$443.77 k), POWR (-$307.19 k), and NEO (-$224.88 k).
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During the last couple of weeks, Bitcoin has undergone some considerable change to its otherwise constant metrics. Take, for example, the Bitcoin hashrate, which has declined after reaching a new all-time high record recently; the dominance, which had stayed near the 70% has now dropped very close to the 60% zone. All of these factors play a very decisive role in the 3rd halving.
Elias Simos, a senior research analyst at Decentral Park, tweeted: "A lot of reshuffling in the $BTC mining game since July 2019 and as we approach the halving. Particularly, it seems that since Jan 2020, we have new pools in the lead (in terms of USD revenue), in @officialpoolin and @f2pool_official." A sharp sell-off of the mined Bitcoin from the miners can negatively affect the price of Bitcoin.

KuCoin, an IDG-backed global crypto exchange, on Feb 20 announced the debut of its one-stop cryptocurrency trading platform solution product – KuCloud.
With the top-tier white-label solution offered by KuCloud, partners will be able to set up their own crypto exchange in 72 hours in their local market with features ranging from spot trading, margin trading, staking, fiat gateway to up to 150x leverage futures trading.