Overall, BTC still remains in price fluctuations. There are no new lows appear, so anticipations for price variety do not expand. Buying in low positions is quite necessary. Buying with lower prices will have more competitive edges when the BTC price goes down. In fact, between $7,500 and $9,000, the battle does not end. According to the daily BTC candlestick chart below, between the 4/1 Gann Fan and the 3/1 Gann Fan, BTC is in the lower limit, which means that if price fluctuations last, price fluctuations will spread in both directions. Even BTC may go down near the 4/1 Gann Fan, the corresponding rebound will appear.
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Ripple Labs, the fintech company most often associated with popular altcoin XRP, has made a dramatic move: to launch a new office in Washington, D.C. to appeal to regulators and improve the reputation of the blockchain industry. Revealed in a blog post published on Oct 22, Ripple has "expanded our global regulatory team and is the first major blockchain company with a dedicated GR office in Washington D.C."

As observed by CoinNess.com, statistics by CoinTrendz.com show BTC was mentioned 90 times on Twitter in the last hour, holding the first position.
The top 10 mentions of cryptocurrencies are as follows: BTC (90 mentions), ETH (36), XRP (32), THETA (20), LTC (20), LINK (18), TRX (16), USDT (15), BCH (13), and BAT (13).

Chainstack, a blockchain Platform as a Service (PaaS), has announced the release of its managed Corda service. Chainstack's platform enables enterprises to deploy multiple cloud-based Corda nodes quickly and efficiently, reducing the time to deploy a blockchain node to a matter of minutes. R3 partners, enterprises, and governments can now deploy Corda networks in three clicks, enabling them to build and scale solutions on Corda with significantly less time, effort, and resources.

Citing statistics from alternative.me, the Fear & Greed Index currently reads 33, six units fewer than yesterday's, indicating the crypto market is in aggregated "Fear". As per the index, a value of 0 means "Extreme Fear" while a value of 100 represents "Extreme Greed".

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Monitored by CoinNess, BNB marks 17.82 USDT (-2.76%); HT marks 3.23 USDT (-4.54%) and OKB marks 2.41 USDT (-3.93%).

Binance CEO ZHAO Changpeng tweeted, "bnblotto_com has zero relationship to Binance. But someone put a lot of effort on that. Even registered a gambling license in Curacao. Should we allow them to use our logo? We trademarked it, but the decentralized part of me says just let them do it, no?"

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As of 03:00 (UTC) on October 23, the global price index of Bitcoin (BTC) has been trading above the $8,000 level. At present, the coin marks $8,085.36 with a decrease of 1.69% in the past 24 hours.
The CoinNess.com Bullish vs. Bearish Indicator shows our four-hour technical bias on BTC is "Strong Sell" with 14 indicators sending out selling signals, three showing neutral signals, and one indicating buying signal.
The broad market becomes downward momentum, with 22 out of Top 100 cryptos by market cap rising.
The global market cap reads $219.61 billion, and the 24-hour trading volume is $58.16 billion.
Major Coins
1. BTC quotes show 8,031.63 USDT on Binance, $8,058.90 on Bitfinex, and $8,039.58 on Coinbase Pro;
2. CoinNess.com Market Index presents quotes for major cryptocurrencies besides BTC as following: ETH marks $172.07 (-1.75%); XRP marks $0.2921 (-1.81%); BCH marks $227.93 (-2.39%); LTC marks $53.70 (-2.38%); EOS marks $2.92 (-0.97%); ETC marks $4.49 (-3.10%).
Top 3 Gainers and Losers in Cryptocurrencies
1. Top 3 gainers among Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap: THETA (+12.04%), BAT (+10.50%), and NEX (+6.35%);
2. Top 3 losers among Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap: BCN (-8.23%), VSYS (-7.73%), and CRPT (-6.84%).
Top 3 Gainers and Losers in Categories
1. Top 3 gainers among 24 categories: Sharing Economy (+3.66%), and Social Communication (+3.06%), and Artificial Intelligence (+0.54%);
2. Top 3 losers among 24 categories: E Commerce (-12.51%), Side Chain Concept (-6.06%), and Contract Tools (-5.55%).
Cap Flows of Coins/Exchanges
1. Top 3 capital inflows within the last 24 hours: ZB (+$54.89 mln), BTC (+$17.33 mln), and ETH (+$15.51 mln);
2. Top 3 capital outflows within the last 24 hours: TUSD (-$75.92 mln), XRP (-$59.19 mln), and STEEM (-$26.23 mln);
3. Net inflows/outflows of exchanges: Binance (-$21.97 mln), Bitfinex (-$10.47 mln), and Coinbase Pro (-$8.40 mln).

Monitored by CoinNess.com, from 00:00 to 02:00 (UTC) on October 23, XRP registered a net outflow of $2.49 million in the past two hours.
1. The Top 3 net cap inflows in the crypto market are: LTC (+$1.66 mln), OCEAN (+$668,12 k), and PGS (+$614.38 k);
2. The Top 3 net cap outflows in the crypto market are: XRP (-$2.49 mln), CXC (-$2.17 mln), ETH (-$1.78 mln).
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Blockchain platform TBCASoft, technology behemoth IBM and telecommunications conglomerate SoftBank announced on Oct 22 a collaboration to adopt a cross-carrier telecommunications blockchain payment solution.
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Suning announced the use of "blockchain traceability" technology to avoid Haitao logistics fraud. The traceability platform will put an "ID mark" for each cross-border imported goods. The users can track all-chain logistics information of their purchased goods, such as the mode of transportation, import ports, the list number of inspection and quarantine at the bonded warehouse, and the list number of customs declaration.

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Founder of Parity Technologies Gavin Wood tweeted, "Polkadot runs its first Substrate-based parachain: Cumulus is on its way... #substrate #polkadot @polkadotnetwork."

Gemini Exchange co-founder Cameron Winklevoss tweeted, "Because Bitcoin is open source software, its possibilities are boundless. I often talk about gold as a target market cap, but that's really just the beginning...it's digital gold, source of truth, etc..."

Bitcoin was trading above the $8,200 price mark for the better part of the day, but has dipped below $8,100 in recent hours. The world's largest cryptocurrency traded at an intraday high of nearly $8,300, before losing ground towards its current trading price of around $8,040. BTC is reporting a loss of almost two percent in the past 24 hours. For the second time, Bitcoin attempted to break above the $8,300 price point only to endure swift rejection. As Cointelegraph previously reported, BTC did not show any impressive price movements since the start of the weekend, when it managed to exit the $7,000 range.

Monitored by CoinNess.com, as of 00:00, October 23 (UTC), 1) the number of Bitcoin active addresses is on a day-to-day decrease of 1.46%, marking 633,200.
2) The number of Bitcoin on-chain transactions is 339,900 with a day-to-day decrease of 4.01%.
3) The number of BTC whale transfers (over 100 BTC each) is 475 with a day-to-day decrease of 7.41%.
4) Active addresses on Ethereum report 328,100 with a day-to-day decrease of 0.55%.
Note: On-chain transactions and active addresses of a cryptocurrency have a positive correlation with its price.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will try to convince US lawmakers to back the company's Libra project by pointing to threat of China developing its own cryptocurrency to influence the world's financial markets.
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Swiss crypto broker Bitcoin Suisse has purchased a minority stake of CoinRoutes Inc., a provider of pan-exchange smart order routing and algorithmic trading software.
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Crypto analyst Rhythm tweeted, "Argentina has $100 billion in debt; it's close to defaulting on. This would be the fifth time it's defaulted in the last 40 years and the eighth time since it got its independence. Bitcoin is protection from bankruptcy, specifically when your entire nation goes bankrupt."

ZHAO Changpeng, CEO of major cryptocurrency exchange Binance, named Russian President Vladimir Putin as the most influential person in the blockchain industry.
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On Ethereum Network, 25,000,000 USDT (25,024,383 USD) were transferred from Bitfinex to Tether Treasury at 22:46 (UTC) on October 22. And then, Tether Treasury newly issued 25,000,000 USDT to TRON Network. At 22:47, it was transferred back to Bitfinex.

1. The Maker DAO project is holding another vote to dramatically reduce stability fees. The vote, which ends on Oct 23, will have options to select a stability fee between 5.5% and 13.5%；
2. Huobi Global will launch SEELE/USDT at 07:00 (UTC)；
3. OKEx will list CRO/BTC at 07:00；
4. Gate.io Startup Discount Offer will be launching MultiVAC (MTV) as the next project between 4:00 - 6:00 UTC on Oct 23.

[Policy]
1. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Heath Tarbert believes the crypto world will see Ethereum futures contracts sometime in 2020;
2. The US SEC asked for an extension of time from October 21 to October 23 to file sealed documents for the case against the alleged unregistered securities offering of Telegram’s Gram;
3. Bank of Lithuania has become the first of market regulators to issue guidelines on STOs;
4. State probe of Facebook expands to 47 Attorneys General.
[Cryptocurrency]
1. The Opera web browser has added Bitcoin e-commerce and TRON integration to its Android App.
[Exchange & Wallet]
1. Binance joins council of Internet giant Kakao's blockchain project.
[Others]
1. Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), the third-largest bank by assets in Japan, is set to begin utilizing R3's Marco Polo trade finance blockchain on a commercial basis by the end of the year;
2. Pension funds put $50 million into Morgan Creek's new blockchain fund.

According to coinpage, Bank of Lithuania has become the first of market regulators to issue guidelines on STOs.
The new guidelines are focussed on the classification of security tokens, assessing specific cases and providing recommendations related to the issue of the security tokens and also clarify on applicable legal regulation. Furthermore, enterprises planning to use the STO method will need to comply with EU and national legislation regulating capital-raising activities.