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George Samman encourages everyone to quickly go through the slide deck to check the pulse of the global economy. The macro environment looks like one of deflation rather than the inflation that central banks were trying to create.

PayPal co-founder and venture capitalist Peter Thiel believes Bitcoin has succeeded as a currency, but still lacks as a payment system.

Back in August, the New York Department of Financial Services pushed back the deadline for public commentary on its proposed BitLicenses. That deadline, October 21, is here.

Peter Gelardi Mikkelsen currently serve as the managing director of the Copenhagen Bitcoin Center. The center conducts a large range of activities, ranging from bitcoin trading, ATM services and educational initiatives seeking to promote public awareness of the crypto community and its developments.

Mattheus is an Austrian economist and writer. He has written a few articles, which were published by Mises Institute and Bitcoin Magazine.

Will Hammer is the Libertarian Party candidate for the 6th Congressional district in Virginia. “The only special interest Will will serve is you, the individual,” reads Will’s official website.

London-based Bitcoin exchange Coinfloor plans on raising funds for expansion and launch a Bitcoin exchange traded fund linked to traditional commodities. UK Bitcoin exchange platform Coinfloor announced it will start accepting deposits in USD, euros and Polish zloty.

On Monday, Coinprism became the first in the crypto 2.0 space to launch a standalone mobile wallet for Android phones and tablets that allows users to exchange digital assets as freely as they could transact in bitcoins.

UK-based BTC.sx, the world’s first Bitcoin-only trading platform, has announced its partnership and integration with itBit exchange to significantly increase its presence in Asia.

According to Coin ATM Radar’s data as of Monday, October 20, there are 273 live BTMs around the world, and that number is growing daily (and at an ever-increasing rate). Below are a few that were installed and began operations last week, starting with the United States, which average one new BTM per day last week.

On October 20, Chinese cryptocurrency mining venture Sfards Technology Ltd. announced its ambition in becoming a leader in the industry while officially starting to operate, stated the company in a release.

Not even a year old, San Francisco Bitcoin payment processing platform Bitnet announced on October 20th that it had closed a Series A funding round worth US$14 million.

Bitstamp, one of the largest exchanges in the world that deals with US dollars, is taking the customer ID verification requirement very seriously and has warned its users to complete the process or face potential seizure of their assets by the US government.

The week of October 19th Bitcoin Analysis by Tone Vays.

Taxi unions have unleashed oppression on ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft around the world. Now it seems that they’ve brought upon themselves the same fate that Hollywood eventually met when it used the state to crush Napster: a decentralized version of their original target.

New Weekend Roundup from Cointelegraph

An interview with Brian Hoffman, Project Lead at OpenBazaar, on the new and first-ever decentralized online marketplace.

This week, we had the opportunity to talk with Cailen Sullivan, CEO and co-founder of ZenBox, the largest BTM (Bitcoin automatic teller machine) operator and distributor in the world. We asked Cailen how his company managed to leapfrog the competition in a span of just a few months, his partnership with BitAccess, plans for the future, and on the state of the growing BTM industry as a whole.

Ghostcoin markets shut down as currency killing bug is taken advantage of, Sterlingcoin forces itself back into the column with more news, new qualifications for coins on Bittrex and Reddcoin gets some sight.

The recent happenings around BitNation illustrate how simply creating a coin and starting a crowdsale is not enough. We need due diligence around projects and an engagement mechanism that ensures that project owners actually follow through with their intentions.

Russian Deputy Finance Minister Aleksey Moiseev informed a reporter that the Russian government would be banning Bitcoin within one year. That was in September, only a month ago, and it seems that they are moving forward much more rapidly. The Russian news blog, bitmakler.com, announced on October 5th that the Finance ministry has proposed a fine of up to 1 million rubles for the “production and use of money surrogates in Russian”.

Brawker is looking to expand the playing field for Bitcoin by becoming the first online marketplace that allows users to quite literally buy anything online. Customers also have the option to use a credit/debit card or PayPal as well.

The new site is also providing information about the game, especially for fans that are traveling to the game from other areas,news about the game itself and, as the season progresses, the teams that will play in it.

Award-winning Czech guerrilla artist collective Ztohoven, opens up the Paralelní Polis in Holešovice, a space serving as a hacker space, a hub, with a Bitcoin-only coffee shop.

Cobaltskky is a growing name in the NXT community. She has been called “The Butt That Saved Bter” for her role in that exchange’s negotiations

CANN is based on the Bitcoin protocol but slightly different in that it can be efficiently mined with consumer-grade hardware since it is the “only X11 Coin that is cannabis specific,” according the CannabisCoin Dev team.

Notably absent from the earlier interview was Bitnation co-founder and CEO Susanne Tartowski Tempelhof. Now, she speaks to Cointelegraph about the crowdsale, which despite many obstacles has launched, and focuses attention on the future prospects of Bitnation as a unique tool in cryptocurrency.

The recent shake up and then crash of Moolah, and apparently everything connected with it, has led to a great deal of speculation in the cryptocurrency community. Moolah CEO “Alex Green” has issues several statements on the issue, officially resigning in his latest blog post. He also vehemently claimed that Moolah was not a scam and that the failure was simply caused by bad management.

Satoshi Nakamoto family calls him a brilliant but very private man and this could very well be the reason for his lawsuit against Newsweek.

In this piece we will be looking at Ichimoku Clouds, which is a very popular indicator and works particularly well with currencies and assets that track currencies.