Subscribe to my DTube channel and earn cryptocurrency rewards for your best comments at: https://d.tube/#!/c/marketingmonk and https://steemit.com/@marketingmonk Click on a video and then click 'subscribe'. On today's show: 1. We are going to do our daily check on the growth of the Lightning network 2. We’re going to look at a double bottom pattern on the Bitcoin chart 3. AND the cryptocurrency gradings from the Weiss Rating agency have been released. **Story - Lightning Watch** 0:50 https://lnmainnet.gaben.win/# https://p2sh.info/dashboard/db/lightning-network?orgId=1 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14EN_vpbeLeQNFTNJ8DJbayZX33wlRINW-oQfJjveScI/edit?usp=sharing Today’s stats. Gaben.win site is down so wasn’t able to get a reading on the number of nodes. I have implied the number of nodes based on the increase on previous days. And just as mild curiosity today: https://btc.com/ The pool of unconfirmed transactions is sitting at a mere 100 MB and 35,000 transactions right now. The lowest I’ve seen it in a while. I know that mentioning it in the Lightning section of the show implies that transactions are moving over to the Lightning network but I honestly do not think that’s the case yet. **Story - Bitcoin Double Bottom Fractal** 3:15 Charts provided by Coinigy: https://www.coinigy.com/?r=16171fe8 The crash down from 20k formed a double bottom but the uptrend did not hold beyond 17,250. A smaller version of that pattern has just formed which would suggest breaking the last high of 13,017 before falling again. That would be purely on the basis that the chart follows a fractal pattern. Like I said yesterday, external fundamentals are also at play that can mess with your technical analysis at any time. We know the effect news can have in an instant. I’m not going to show any other charts today because they all have this similar double bottom pattern. A double bottom normally signals a reversal but like the one that appeared after the drop from 20k, it didn't result in a sustainable uptrend. **Story - Weiss Ratings Are Out** 8:06 First, a note on why there was a delay in the release. They say here in their launch email that they came under a Korea Cyberattack. In the second paragraph of this email it says their staff were up all night fending off denial of service attacks from Korea. And check out this quote from Martin Weiss, the founder of Weiss Ratings: “Earlier commentary on social media…”. Can you believe that? I can, because money literally makes people crazy. While we humans don’t like on the African savanna fighting for physical territory and material resources, the biological and psychological need for those things is still there. All we’ve done is mapped it over so territory becomes for ex ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auKnwcxrbwA

Subscribe to my DTube channel and earn cryptocurrency rewards for your best comments at: https://d.tube/#!/c/marketingmonk and https://steemit.com/@marketingmonk Click on a video and then click 'subscribe'. On today's show: I would like to share with you 5 good news stories about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies to help balance out all the negativity everyone seems to be focused on. So let’s focus on what we want, rather than on what we don’t want. If you do decide to go shopping for cryptos any time soon may I recommend Binance, my favourite exchange right now. https://www.binance.com/?ref=10890655 1:03 **Story - Past sell-off were follow by 150% rallies within 84 days** https://btcmanager.com/past-sell-offs-followed-rallies-150-percent-within-84-days-tom-lee-remains-bullish-bitcoin/ So there is fellow called Tom Lee who was JP Morgan’s top strategies for equities before he co-founded Fundstrat Global Advisors back in 2014. He is one of the few guys on Wall Street to be open and willing to make crypto price predictions. 2:42 **Story - Bitcoin ATM Installations Now Outpacing Regular Bank ATMs** http://bitcoinist.com/bitcoin-atms-installed-prices-plummet/ Key infrastructure to allow money to flow back in. The main downside to Crypto ATMs are the fees which can be as high as 10%. 4:17 **Story - CryptoKitties Coming To Mobile** http://bitcoinist.com/cryptokitties-bite-back-mobile/ The article is written with a strange tone, however they make one good point here. Also if you are into CryptoKitties: https://www.cryptokitties.co/my-kitties Kitty #500,000 is about to be born. 6:04 **Story - Australia’s Major Banks Confirm They WILL NOT Be Banning Bitcoin** http://bitcoinist.com/cryptokitties-bite-back-mobile/ 6:59 **Story - Hearings By The US Senate Today On Virtual Currencies** https://www.banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2018/2/virtual-currencies-the-oversight-role-of-the-u-s-securities-and-exchange-commission-and-the-u-s-commodity-futures-trading-commission This is due to be livestreamed so if you’re interested you can tune in to that. One person on Reddit… https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7vhs9u/the_dip_is_over_senate_testimony_posted_online/ Posted links to 2 documents that are pre-written testimonies that have been prepared for this hearing. The fact that the files are hosted on banking.senate.gov lead me to believe that these are authentic and give us a sneak peak into what they are going to say. As you can imagine they are quite length so I haven’t read them myself yet but this Redditor summarises them by saying the SEC intends to keep an eye on scammy ICOs but other than that no crazy regulation. I personally want to see if anything else comes out in the official hearing so we’ll see what happens ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu2rjmhnVNU

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