As of 03:20 (UTC) on Jan 21, Bitcoin (BTC) continues trading sideways near $3,600, with quoted prices below $3,550 on major exchanges including Coinbase Pro, Binance and Bitfinex.
The broad market mirrors BTC's downtrend, with 86 out of Top 100 by the market cap dropping.
The global market cap marks $119.89 billion, and the 24-hour trading volume is $16.38 billion.
Major Coins
1. BTC quotes show $3,528.29 USDT on Binance, $3,583.40 on Bitfinex and $3,528.50 on Coinbase Pro;
2. CoinNess.com Market Index presents quotes for major cryptocurrencies besides BTC as following: XRP marks $0.32 (-2.71%), ETH marks $118.85 (-4.63%), BCH marks $123.76 (-5.04%), EOS marks $2.37 (-4.72%), LTC marks $31.22 (-5.19%), ETC marks $4.33 (-2.70%).
Top 3 Gainers and Losers in Cryptocurrencies
1. Top 3 gainers among Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap: PAY (+23.82%), PAI (+10.05%), GXS (+4.90%);
2. Top 3 losers among Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap: APL (-16.18%), R (-12.43%), WAN (-8.94%).
Top Gainers and Losers in Categories
1. Top 3 gainers among 49 categories: Real Estate (+28.92%), Bank Card (+15.63%), Agriculture (+9.29%);
2. Top 3 losers among 49 categories: Energy Service (-3.77%), Basic Currency (-3.76%), Crowdfunding (-3.18%).
Cap Flows of Coins/Exchanges
1. Top 3 capital inflows within the last 24 hours: DASH (+$343.98 mln), BTG (+$157.65 mln), LTC (+$61.30 mln);
2. Top 3 capital outflows within the last 24 hours: ETH (-$136.17 mln), EOS (-$78.00 mln), ETC (-$23.30 mln);
3. Net inflows/outflows of exchanges: Binance (+$8.09 mln), Bitfinex (-$32.94 mln), Coinbase Pro (+$5.15 mln).

Crypto bull John McAfee Apollo gave the thumbs-up to Apollo on Twitter. He said, "Apollo is solidly in 68th place in coin rankings. (I am obviously biased). Most privacy coins aren't private because your IP address is still available for all to see. Apollo has the best IP masking solution on the market, offering true privacy which equals true freedom."
CoinNess.com Market Index: Apollon (XAP), $0.0026, -7.34%.

Trace Mayer, the host of "Bitcoin Knowledge" Podcast, posted a tweet and said, "Will US government shutdown prolong Bitcoin bear market? This may become a great opportunity to pick up cheap BTC from US government workers not getting paid & have to sell part of their HODLGANG stack."

Bithumb announces that it plans to resume the deposit and withdrawal services of VET, HC, STEEM, LRC and CMT at 08:00 (UTC) on Jan 22.
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On February 11th, 2019, BitTorrent Foundation will initiate its first airdrop of BitTorrent (BTT) to TRON (TRX) holders. The snapshot will be taken when TRON's block height reaches 6.6 million. Based on this snapshot, BitTorrent Foundation will initiate its first airdrop of 10,890,000,000 BTT, corresponding to 1.1% of total circulating supply.
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On a darknet market called "Dread," a vendor going by "ExploitDOT" is attempting to sell user data from the know-your-customer (KYC) data top cryptocurrency exchanges ask for, required by most jurisdictions.
According to data shared with CCN, the hacker has an advertisement that has been online since July 2018, in which he claims to have hacked documents used in KYC checks, including identity cards and drivers' licenses from users of top exchanges like Bittrex, Poloniex, Bitfinex and Binance.
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Many people are asking an fundamental question: "What is Bitcoin?" In fact, that was the most searched definition in the U.S. and U.K. in 2018, according to Google Trends.
Bitcoin is not the only cryptocurrency Google users are interested in. "How to buy Ripple" was the fourth most-asked question, Google Trends data shows.

Citing data by DApp Review, as of 00:00 on January 21 (UTC), there are 1,524 ETH DApps, 332 EOS DApps and 163 TRON DApps.
1. Top 3 ETH DApps by trading volume in the past 24 hours are: CDP Portal (7,909 ETH), FCK (4,163 ETH) and IDEX (1,299 ETH).
2. Top 3 EOS DApps by trading volume in the past 24 hours are: BetDice (3 mln EOS), EOSHASH (2.08 mln EOS) and Poker EOS (1.49 mln EOS).
3. Top 3 TRON DApps by trading volume in the past 24 hours are: TRONbet (834 mln TRX), TronTrade (46.7 mln TRX) and ALLBET (42.85 mln TRX).
4. New DApps: ETH DApps (0); EOS DApps (1); TRON DApps (0).

Cobra voiced his concerns about WU Jihan, founder of Bitmain, via Twitter.
The tweet says, "Jihan has disappeared off Twitter. I'm the last person he replied too on here before his sudden disappearance. Very worried about him. I can't even imagine the stress he's going through right now. As one human being to another, I hope you're OK bro."
According to the previous report of CoinNess.com, Bitmain is set to name a new CEO for the firm.

Cobra, a pseudonym for the co-founder of Bitcoin.org and Bitcointalk.org, urges people to keep an open mind to altcoins. He said on Twitter, "The reason as to why most OG's don't have a wild irrational hatred of altcoins is because they are open-minded and curious. The same traits that led them to believing in Bitcoin early on in the first place, when the project was obscure and of dubious merit/value."

Chris Burniske, a partner at Placeholder Ventures, recently took to his well-followed Twitter page to convey his thoughts on the cryptocurrency market, specifically through the lens of the Bitcoin "HODL" meme.
While "HODL" has produced some nice results, with early purchasers of BTC raking in the dough, so to speak, Burniske claims that it is actually harming this nascent market. More specifically, he noted that until there is market completeness, a concept that states that bets on "future states of the world" should be frictionless, "hodlers will make crypto asset price stickier than anticipated."

Security firm PeckShield has reported an attack to the EOS gambling game idecefungame using the method of false EOS. The hacker has transferred the EOS stolen to Bitfinex and forced a shutdown of the game.
PeckShield advised developers to take all necessary security tests before launching a smart contract, where eliminating threats from existed attack methods is especially important.

Minnano, a Japanese electricity company, will commercialize its blockchain-based electricity trading platform in April this year, which will allow consumers to get access to the usage information of the reproducible energy resources. TBS and Marui Group have invested 1.18 billion yen (approx. $10.8 million) in this commercialization project, reported Nikkei.

Fraudsters tried to con tens of thousands of pounds from private school parents by inviting them to pay their fees in Bitcoin. Families at Royal Grammar School (RGS), in Jesmond, Newcastle, were warned of the scam in an email in December. Experts at the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) say it's among a number of "phising-type attacks" which have been directed at schools. RGS headmaster John Fern told families the cyber attack, through which their email addresses had been accessed, had been reported to the police.

Over the last 24 hours, the price of Bitcoin rapidly revived from $3,600 to $3,770. The entire rally continued under a half hour, implying that it was the automated tradings bots who fueled the pump.
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) then stood at the $3,700 level, which has been a prevailing resistance level since Jan 10. On January 20, Bitcoin moved down, all the way from $3,700 to $3,470 and had since then recovered to $3,546.66, according to CoinNess.com Market Index. Overall, Bitcoin (BTC) has dropped by 4.28 per-cent in the past 24 hours.
It appears that $3,500 is the support level to watch and $3,700 is the key resistance level, and these levels have been dominant for ten days. It is possible that the crash on Jan 20 is related to the CME Bitcoin futures contract, which expires on Jan 25.
Bitcoin's (BTC) price usually declines in the days leading up to a CME futures contract expiration. This pattern happens due to a practice called banging the close, where futures traders manipulate an asset to crash right before expiration to increase short-selling profits. For a fact, January has been dominated by short sellers, with short positions likely taken out at the $3,900 level just after the December futures contract expired.

Citing data from Coinhills, as of 22:21 (UTC) on Jan 20, 2019, the US Dollar retains the position as the most traded national currency in the BTC-to-fiat market with a 51.51% dominance, followed by the Japanese Yen (43.46%), the Korean Won (2.04%), the Euro (1.46%) and the British Pound (0.61%).

"Ready or not, a new world is upon us." So says Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum ahead of the Davos meeting. This year, "a global dialogue on financial and monetary systems will jointly shape our monetary and financial systems by not only leveraging new technologies, such as cryptocurrencies and blockchain, but also making the systems more resilient for achieving sustainable growth and long-term societal well-being."

As observed by CoinNess.com, statistics by CoinTrendz.com show BTC, ETH and TRX were the Top 3 most mentioned cryptocurrencies on Twitter in the last hour. The full list is as follows: BTC (110 mentions), ETH (49), TRX (46), XRP (38), LTC (34), HOT (33), XLM (24), ADA (22), NEO (20), and NPXS (19).

Two months have passed after the BCH hard fork on November 16, 2018. CoinNess.com has summarized the recent developments of BCH and BSV. Before the hard fork, the price ratio of BCH and BTC is 0.075:1. As of now, the price of BCH and BSV combined is 0.055 of BTC price, a 25% fall after the hard fork. The hashrate of BCH has also shrunk by 25%. The price and hashrate are two major components to evaluate the performance of a cryptocurrency and its community consensus. As we can tell from that, both BCH and BSV are impoverished after the war.
Post-War BHC
Backed by the majority of exchanges and the Coinmarketcap, BCHABC won the BCH logo. Bitmain, Roger Ver, JIANG Zhuoer are the prominent supporters of BCH. However, since the market went bear, Bitmain has been having a rough time. Bitmain laid off employees in large scale in December 2018; and closed its Israeli research center established in 2016. Bitmain Amsterdam office was closed in January 2019. The IPO, applied in September 2018, which has called extensive attention, has gone silent. According to the Bitmain's IPO prospectus, 1/3 of its assets are in cryptocurrencies and BCH is a major part of the company's crypto assets. The plunge due to the Hash War has led billions of dollars asset shrunk in Bitmain.
BCH Development Team
The BCH developers have revealed a new project that would allow a Bitcoin Cash-based bi-directional payment channels. However, this proposal draws two major uncertainties. The IPFS has not yet launched its mainnet, and bi-directional payment channel contradicts with BCH's original idea of "bigger blocks, faster transactions and lower transaction fee."
The team also announced Xthinner; the scaling protocol which they claim to compress blocks by 99%. This proposal is still under discussion in the community. But if the team were successful, it would be a significant improvement for the BSV blocks stability and speed.
Post-War BSV
BSV gave up the BCH logo and started with another name as 'Bitcoin SV'. The team revealed the new logo and a light wallet - Electrum SV. Main supports of BSV are Craig Steven Wright, nChain, CoinGeek. The performance of nChain wasn't so bad so far. The company has been granted a patent approved by the European Patent Office in December 2019.
BSV Development Team
CoinGeek has spent 50 million and won the right to launch its token system 'Tokenized' on BSV chain. Its direct competitors are BCH Wormhole protocol and Ethereum.
Teranode is an institutional supernode, a collaboration project between CoinGeek and nChain. The project was revealed in May 2018. It is no longer applicable for BCH after the Hash War. Teranode is also a scaling plan to support transactions of international companies.
It is very much clear that BSV technologies are targeting the business and institutional levels.
CoinNess.com Market Index: BCH, $120.72, -5.28%; BSV, $73.87, -2.98%.

U.K early Bitcoin investor Alistair Milne said on a Twitter post that "We used to speculate about how it was an 'asymmetric investment opportunity' ... i.e. you could lose 80% OR make several multiples on your investment."

As of 18:00 (UTC) on Jan 20, Bitcoin (BTC) continues the bear trend and drops quickly from the $3,700 level to the $3500, with its global average price marking $3,526.94, down by 5.49% in the past 24 hours.
The broad market is in line with the BTC's downtrend, with 85 out of Top 100 by the market cap dropping.
The global market cap marks $138.27 billion, and the 24-hour trading volume is $20.93 billion.
Major Coins
1. BTC quotes show $3,526.47 USDT on Binance, $3,577.90 on Bitfinex and $3,522.61 on Coinbase Pro;
2. CoinNess.com Market Index presents quotes for major cryptocurrencies besides BTC as following: XRP marks $0.31 (-4.29%), ETH marks $117.07 (-5.78%), BCH marks $121.09 (-4.89%), EOS marks $2.31 (-7.67%), LTC marks $30.41 (+6.51%), ETC marks $4.19 (-5.93%).
Top 3 Gainers and Losers in Cryptocurrencies
1. Top 3 gainers among Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap: APL (+15.51%), HOT (+14.78%), R (+11.84%);
2. Top 3 losers among Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap: WAN (-10.89%), LRC (-10.35%), AION (-10.16%).
Top Gainers and Losers in Categories
1. Top 3 gainers among 49 categories: Market Prediction (+3.51%), Stable Coin (+0.12%);
2. Top 3 losers among 49 categories: Artificial Intelligence (-10.42%), Super Computing (-9.99%), Notarization (-9.24%).
Cap Flows of Coins/Exchanges
1. Top 3 capital inflows within the last 24 hours: DASH (+$169.65 mln), BTG (+$148.94 mln), XMR (+$37.54 mln);
2. Top 3 capital outflows within the last 24 hours: ETH (-$146.67 mln), EOS (-$73.81 mln), ETC (-$26.27 mln);
3. Net inflows/outflows of exchanges: Binance (+$3.59 mln), Bitfinex (-$27.55 mln), Coinbase Pro (+$7.1 mln).

Jerry Yang, the co-founder of Yahoo, says, despite crypto hype having yet to turn into reality, that blockchain and finance are a natural fit, according to comments first reported by Finews Asia.
"Blockchain is a natural technology for banks and trading. If you look at U.S. institutions and banks, the kind of infrastructure that is being developed has long-term implications. For the technology to succeed, the question is can there be trust built? That can open a huge number of doors," Yang predicted.

In a new development to a year-old crypto theft case, Michael Terpin, the founder of BitAngels investment group has filed a lawsuit seeking $81 million as compensation.
Terpin has filed a civil suit against a man from New York, who allegedly stole $24 million worth of cryptocurrencies from Terpin last year.

du, part of Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), is set to work alongside some of the world's leading multinational telecommunications firms, as a member of the Carrier Blockchain Study Group (CBSG) - a global consortium of leading telecommunications companies building the next-generation of blockchain technology and innovations.

Pete Hoekstra, the Netherlands' Minister of Finance, has received official advice that a licensing system should be introduced for crypto services. Hoekstra reportedly requested advice about cryptocurrencies from the Netherlands' Authority for the Financial Markets and the local central bank, De Nederlandsche Bank, at the beginning of last year.
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Cheng Fend, the sales director at cryptocurrency mining giant Canaan, has recently revealed the firm would be able to survive a bear market in the crypto and that for most crpyot mining machine manufacturers, surviving is "good enough." During an interview with ChainDD, which recently released its market insight-focused cryptocurrency wallet, Feng noted that the company stored up on "ammunition" to be resilient for a market downturn. He was quoted as saying: "A couple of years ago, we stored up enough 'ammunition' so the company is resilient now. If the bear market goes on for three years, it is not a problem. After all, the cost is quite low and we are also doing business in the field of AI chips and other investments."

CoinNess Market Index shows that BTC dropped by 2.07% within 5 minutes. BTC currently marks $3501.33 on Binance.
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[Policy]
1. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates jointly announced a plan of a digital coin to boost cross-border transactions;
2. Chile will start taxing cryptocurrencies in April when taxpayers pay their yearly income taxes;
3. Wyoming has introduced a bill that aims to define cryptocurrency and other digital assets.
[Exchange&Wallet]
1. BitMEX sent out a warning to Chinese crypto investors regarding phishing websites;
2. Turkish crypto exchange Sistemkoin's disturbing security flaw reveals major withdrawal complaints.
[Others]
1. 27-year-old rapper Soulja Boy asserts that the cryptocurrency's glory days have passed by;
2. Overstock's tZERO is approaching 60 companies for cooperation;
3. Two-week-old Bitcoin Baby Izabella Bowles receives around £3,000 worth of Bitcoin in donation to her fund for colleague.

CoinNess Market Index shows that BTC dropped by 2.67% within 5 minutes. BTC currently marks $3576.95 on Binance.
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As of 11:00 (UTC) on Jan 20, Bitcoin (BTC) dropped the $3,700 level, with its global average price marking $3,730.91, down by 0.08% in the past 24 hours.
The broad market is experiencing mixed tradings, with now 42 out of Top 100 by the market cap dropping.
The global market cap marks $124.27 billion, and the 24-hour trading volume is $15.51 billion.
Major Coins
1. BTC quotes show $3,734.63 USDT on Binance, $3,768.00 on Bitfinex and $3,690.00 on Coinbase Pro;
2. CoinNess.com Market Index presents quotes for major cryptocurrencies besides BTC as following: ETH marks $124.22 (-0.51%); XRP marks $0.331 (-0.08%); BCH marks $129.60 (-0.65%); EOS marks $2.47 (-1.72%); LTC marks $32.99 (+0.99%); ETC marks $4.45 (-2.02%).
Top 3 Gainers and Losers in Cryptocurrencies
1. Top 3 gainers among Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap: HOT (+40.80%), APL (+28.04%), R (+19.95%);
2. Top 3 losers among Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap: STRAT (-5.49%), SNT (-4.00%), AE (-3.85%).
Top 3 Gainers and Losers in Categories
1. Top 3 gainers among 49 categories: Agriculture (+11.67%), Advertising Concept (+8.24%), Bank Card (+7.17%);
2. Top 3 losers among 49 categories: Decentralized Transactions (-30.32%), Artificial Intelligence (-8.88%), Distributed Computing (-7.84%).
Cap Flows of Coins/Exchanges
1. Top 3 capital inflows within the last 24 hours: BTG (+$148.88 mln), DASH (+$147 mln), BTC (+$97.74 mln);
2. Top 3 capital outflows within the last 24 hours: ETH (-$94.20 mln), EOS (-$48.85 mln), ETC (-$27.71 mln);
3. Net inflows/outflows of exchanges: Binance (+$4.42 mln), Bitfinex (-$7.16 mln), Coinbase Pro (-$428.73 k).