The founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group and Grayscale Investments, Barry Silbert, took advantage of yesterday's 30% depreciation of Bitcoin to replenish his reserves of the first cryptocurrency.

"I'm buying. This is why Bitcoin was invented," wrote Barry Silbert on the social network Twitter.

The Google Play mobile application store once again cleaned up applications related to cryptocurrencies and blockchain. This time, news apps were banned. 

In particular, the Cointelegraph and CoinDesk applications were removed from the store.

Well-known cryptocurrency enthusiast Michael Novogratz was surprised to find that over the past week, stock market and Bitcoin rates have fallen simultaneously.

Asset Manager Charles Edwards, using a rare indicator called Bitcoin Energy Value, predicted a rise in the price of Bitcoin to $ 100,000 over five years.

The indicator monitors the price of Bitcoin using two metrics to determine the "value" - the hash of the network and the effectiveness of mining equipment.

US Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, speaking to Congress, said that the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is preparing to introduce new cryptocurrency regulations.

Mnuchin did not announce any details, he limited himself to the phrase: "We're about to roll out some significant new requirements at FinCEN". He added that the US authorities intend to seek a balanced approach in this area.

The Bitcoin symbol ₿ is now available on Twitter. It is displayed when writing the hashtags #Bitcoin or #BTC.

Jack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of Twitter, was the first who added the Bitcoin symbol to his Twitter message. The Dorsey entry demonstrates that now when a Twitter user writes the hashtag #Bitcoin or #BTC, a cryptocurrency symbol is displayed next to him.

Heath Tarbert, chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), again expressed confidence that there would be Ethereum futures on the market.

"We have seen bitcoin futures, both cash-settled as well as physically-delivered. My guess is we are going to see ether futures as well," said Tarbert in an interview with Bloomberg.

The shocking American businessman John McAfee, who was recently waiting for a $ 1 million Bitcoin exchange rate, changed his mind and now calls the first cryptocurrency "shitcoin".

More recently, McAfee said that he would cut off and eat his penis if, by the beginning of 2020, the Bitcoin exchange rate did not reach $ 1 million. It seems that McAfee quickly went over to the camp of "cryptosceptics" - or, rather, "altcoin worshipers".

One of the first Bitcoin developers, Gavin Andresen, believes that Satoshi Nakamoto could have misjudged the prospects for creating a cryptocurrency.

Andresen first heard about Bitcoin in 2010. He immediately became interested in the idea and soon became the leading curator of the development. In 2013, he "handed over authority" to Vladimir van der Laan, creator of Bitcoin-QT (Bitcoin Core).

Last year, transactions in total amount of $ 2.5 trillion made on the Bitcoin blockchain, and the average transaction size was about $ 23,000.

According to BitInfoCharts, the average transaction size on the Bitcoin blockchain was 2.75 BTC ($ 23,000), and the average transaction cost (made up of mining costs and commissions) was 0.029 BTC or $ 250.