Citing statistics from alternative.me, the Fear & Greed Index currently reads 39, two units more than yesterday, Oct 14, indicating the sentiment in the crypto market is still holding the status of "Fear."
As per the index, a value of 0 means "Extreme Fear" while a value of 100 represents "Extreme Greed."

According to the official announcement, Gate.io has distributed the compensation for GT holders.
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A new study has discovered that investors who trade crypto's are generally prone to take more risks in the stock market as well. The study also concluded that these investors are seeking more than just diversification when they come to the crypto market, they are seeking thrills.
The new study, which was published in the September issue of Economic Letters, affirms that crypto traders are possibly driven by excitement most of the time. The paper affirms that people who engage in crypto trading seek risks and want intensive trading activity.

Citing TRON's Weibo, TRON has reached cooperation with Information Center of State Key Laborary of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in the areas of smart contract based on Zero-Knowledge Proof and dynamic password.

As of 03:10 (UTC) on Oct 15, the global price index of Bitcoin (BTC) fluctuates above the $8,300 level. At present, the coin marks $8,368.81 with an decrease of 0.46% in the past 24 hours.
The CoinNess.com Bullish vs. Bearish Indicator shows our four-hour technical bias on BTC is "Buy" with three indicators sending out selling signals, six showing neutral signals, and nine indicating buying signals.
The broad market turns bullish, with 64 out of Top 100 cryptos by market cap rising.
The global market cap reads $227.23 billion, and the 24-hour trading volume is $53.84 billion.
Major Coins
1. BTC quotes show 8,320.30 USDT on Binance, $8,347.30 on Bitfinex, and $8,330.00 on Coinbase Pro;
2. CoinNess.com Market Index presents quotes for major cryptocurrencies besides BTC as following: ETH marks $186.57 (+1.82%); XRP marks $0.2967 (+4.55%); BCH marks $227.42 (+0.85%); LTC marks $57.14 (+032%); EOS marks $3.14 (-0.07%); ETC marks $4.78 (-0.13%).
Top 3 Gainers and Losers in Cryptocurrencies
1. Top 3 gainers among Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap: EKT (+16.23%), ZRX (+7.07%), and AE (+6.66%);
2. Top 3 losers among Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap: BCN (-11.40%), RIF (-9.68%), and CRPT (-9.35%).
Top 3 Gainers and Losers in Categories
1. Top 3 gainers among 24 categories: Side Chain Concept (+4.13%), Platform Currency (+3.96%), and Smart Economy (+3.87%);
2. Top 3 losers among 24 categories: Cross Chain Technology (-9.91%), Decentralized Transactions (-4.58%), and E-Commerce (-2.10%).
Cap Flows of Coins/Exchanges
1. Top 3 capital inflows within the last 24 hours:
ZB (+$65.46 mln), POWR (+$18.87 mln), and BTC (+$18.09 mln);
2. Top 3 capital outflows within the last 24 hours: BCH (-$30.58 mln), TRUE (-$16.68 mln), and ABT (-$15.18 mln);
3. Net inflows/outflows of exchanges: Binance (-$16.76 mln), Bitfinex (-$1.60 mln), and Coinbase Pro (+$1.97 mln).

Citing the Bitcoin (BTC) analysis of Jins, the in-house crypto analyst at CoinNess.com, although BTC price has not experienced significant fluctuations, the transaction changes of whales are undoubtedly worthy of our attention.
The figure shows that two addresses which start with 3Gh8vt and 3DGxAY traded BTC frequently, the number of recent BTC transactions is as many as 1,967 and 2,962, respectively. In terms of the number of BTC held, the two accounts hold 10,325 and 10,056 BTC respectively, ranking as 88th and 90th between the BTC whales. It can be seen that the transaction changes of these two accounts are most worthy of investors' attention.
It is worth noting that when BTC amount held by the account starting with 3Gh8vt decreased on Sep 24, it coincided with the time when the BTC fell sharply. In addition, the BTC amount held by the address beginning with 3DG has increased significantly since Sep 28. Its significant growth in the number of coins is also coincided with the rebound of BTC.
Therefore, it is possible that the trading of two whales may influence the direction of BTC price in the short term.

Daniel Larimer, also known as BM, released an article on a blockchain governance proposal on Medium. Citing the article, BM proposes the creation of 6 staking pools: 3 month, 6 month, 12 month, 2 year, 5 year, and 10 year.
"Therefore, I propose the creation of 6 staking pools: 3 month, 6 month, 12 month, 2 year, 5 year, and 10 year. In a network with a token supply of 1B, each pool will receive 5M tokens per year on a minute by minute basis (assuming network is operating at 100% reliability). Users can buy into the pool to receive their pro-rata share of that pools income. A user's vote-weight is based upon the sum of their percentage ownership of each pool. This represents a 3% annual inflation paid to the different staking pools," BM stated.
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The tweet by EOS New York reads, "A Possible Future for EOS Governance: Uniting Stake-holder Incentives to Maximize Decentralization & Chain Performance."
Brendan Blumer (BB), co-founder and CEO, wrote a comment, "I largely agree with the general direction of this proposal. I think the model can be simplified further, and some perceived threats are already protected by the current alignment between stake and network operation. @bytemaster7 and I are discussing further. Exciting stuff."

Monitored by CoinNess.com, from 00:00 to 02:00 (UTC) on October 15, BTC registered a net inflow of $10.91 million in the past two hours.
1. The Top 3 net cap inflows in the crypto market are: BTC (+$10.91 mln), XRP (+$1.30 mln), ETH (+$894.34 k);
2. The Top 3 net cap outflows in the crypto market are: EOS (-$5.47 mln), CXC (-$2.02 mln), BCH (-$1.50 mln).
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Citing from Ant Financial, Alipay, cooperated with finance department of Yunnan province, China, issued the country's first blockchain digital bill. In the future, blockchain digital bill will be used in traffic fine, medical treatment, donation and other areas including school fees in Yunnan province. By August 2019, Alipay's blockchain technology has been applied in more than 40 scenarios including commodity traceability, public welfare traceability, cross-border remittance, supply chain finance and digital bills integrating with multiple industries.

On Oct 14, the BBC wrote that Jen McAdam, a duped OneCoin digital currency investor, reported a slew of messages she received, threatening her with death and violence, to the police in Scotland.
McAdam claims that the threats are part of a coordinated attack by OneCoin supporters, adding: "It is horrible, the abuse is vile and the threats feel very real to me, I'm always looking over my shoulder now. It is taking its toll on my health but I will not give up until me and the thousands of other OneCoin victims like me see some form of justice."

Cryptopia was the first exchange to be hacked in 2019 and has arguably handled the situation worse than most exchange platforms, leaving customers in limbo for weeks while those in charge struggled to identify what went wrong.
Cryptopia still has not revealed exactly how their wallets came to be compromised, nor have those behind the platform elaborated on how much was stolen, or how they plan to repay affected parties, despite revealing this information back in May.

Brian Armstrong, Coinbase CEO, tweeted, "Doesn't matter what you think of Libra. If it's not a useful tool or innovation, people won't use it. Why the need for the intimidation tactics? This would be called anti-competitive/monopolistic behavior if any private company did it."
He also wrote in the comment below, "Do we want to have a centrally planned economy, or let 1,000 ideas be tried in a free market to see which ones break through and deliver real value? Breakthroughs are by definition contrarian ideas, otherwise they would have already have been tried."

HSBC Bank announced the first-ever live pilot blockchain letter of credit (LC) transaction in Malaysia.
The transaction involved the import of resin by Malaysia's Simply Packaging Sdn Bhd (Simply Packaging) from a Singaporean company, both active players in the packaging and chemicals industry respectively.

Ran Neuner, a host of CNBC, tweeted, "Update on Telegram: 1. Investors being called, asked to agree on a 1 year extension on release of tokens; 2. Minimum 50% have to agree or a refund of the money-31 Oct; 3. Attempting to settle with SEC; 4. SEC see an opportunity to stop this before it starts unlike block one which was in mkt."

Monitored by CoinNess.com, as of 00:00, October 15 (UTC), 1) the number of Bitcoin active addresses is on a day-to-day increase of 19.50%, marking 560,500.
2) The number of Bitcoin on-chain transactions is 302,900 with a day-to-day increase of 0.46%.
3) The number of BTC whale transfers (over 100 BTC each) is 345 with a day-to-day increase of 41.98%.
4) Active addresses on Ethereum report 319,000 with a day-to-day increase of 13.68%.
Note: On-chain transactions and active addresses of a cryptocurrency have a positive correlation with its price.

On Oct 14, the payment provider BitGo has published a post on the integration of TRX into its services. Therefore, all BitGo clients will be able to use TRX through BitGo with this new feature.
According to representatives of BitGo, the decision to add TRX was made in connection with the growing demand for the asset.
"We worked with the TRON development team to develop their first institutional multi-currency wallet," said Benedict Chan, technical director of BitGo.

According to on-chain monitoring system of Beijing-based blockchain security firm Chainsguard, at 13:49 (UTC) on October 14, 107,848 BTC in Bitstamp cold wallet was transferred to the address beginning with 3ECJwv of custody service provider Xapo. And then at 17:53 (UTC) on October 14, 111,857 BTC was moved to the address beginning with 3CgKHX. On October 9, Bitstamp officially announced that BitGo would offer custodial service for it, and its relevant asset would be transferred starting on October 10. Therefore, these two large transfers should be part of the custodial work planned by BitGo.

According to The Block Crypto, 49% of active cryptocurrency exchanges were launched after 2016 after they aggregated and filtered data from 159 cryptocurrency exchanges to examine trends in the business vertical. What's more, the three countries that have launched the most exchanges were the U.K., China, and the U.S.

Blockstack announced its partnership with Blockchain.com in which it plans to airdrop Stacks tokens to Blockchain.com users
Within Blockstack's SEC filings, it notes that Blockchain will distribute up to 40 million tokens (which Blockstack values at $10 million), and in return, Blockstack will pay blockchain fees between $750,000 and $3.85 million.

CoinShares, Blockchain, and MKS (Switzerland) SA, after two years in development, has launched the DGLD network with more than $20M in gold digitized.

French crypto artist Pascal Boyart spreads the Bitcoin word in Venezuela. Pascal Boyart has been working with the website SatoshiEnVenezula to help artists local to the South American nation monetise their work using the crypto asset.

1. Huobi DM will go through a system upgrade at 07:00 UTC;
2. Poloniex will be disabled the trading of PASC, STEEM, NAV, GAME, LBC, and CLAM;
3. Indian Supreme Court will hear the crypto case;
4. CoinField will announce more information about the XRPL project.

[Policy]
1. The G7 group of nations has reportedly drafted a report which says that "global stablecoins" pose a threat to the global financial system.
[Cryptocurrency]
1. New report shows crypto "sextortion" scammers are being forced to shift from Bitcoin to Litecoin in order to avoid email filter detection;
2. Telegram could delay the original plan of issuing its own cryptocurrency on the Telegram Open Network by Oct 31;
3. 21 initial members of the Libra Association formally signed onto the Libra Association charter and formalized the Libra Association Council.
[Exchange & Wallet]
1. UPbit's operator Dunamu will launch a comprehensive OTC platform.
[Others]
1. Five major auto manufacturers, namely BMW, GM, Honda, Ford, and Renault, will jointly develop car auto payment with blockchain technology;
2. Grayscale investments announce the approval of public quotation for eligible shares of Grayscale digital large capital fund.

Monitored by CoinNess.com, a total of 3,000 BTC moved in two batches on Oct 14. Transaction details are as follows:
At 23:18 (UTC), an address of Gemini sent 1,502 BTC to another address starting with 3Kzh9q, and the transaction hash read aa3a3f7c24b54b02816d3e05d4fe352a1d71a7351c818dc0d6fff859b4c15a7a.
At 23:18, the second transfer includes 1,498 BTC, which were sent from Gemini to OKEx, and the transaction hash was aa3a3f7c24b54b02816d3e05d4fe352a1d71a7351c818dc0d6fff859b4c15a7a.

21 organizations have signed the Libra Association charter, days after a slew of high-profile defections from the cryptocurrency project started by Facebook.
"21 initial members of the Libra Association formally signed onto the Libra Association charter and formalized the Libra Association Council today," said the Libra Twitter handle.
21 members have now signed onto the Libra Association charter, including Coinbase, Xapo, Anchorage, Bison Trail and others.

With the launch of a new payments gateway called PetroPago, Venezuela's government says citizens can now use the petro to buy products across the country where the number of petro-friendly retail stores has swelled to 93.