Glaciers, Novogratz, Fraudsters and 20 Crypto Jokes

We are back with another crypto summary and jokes article to start this new crypto year. First, let’s see what happened at the very end of 2019 and beginning of 2020.

Ethereum’s unplanned Muir Glacier upgrade was two days away when 74% of the clients were ready for it, and finally the network saw a successful upgrade on the mainnet on Thursday, with ETH rising 4% in a week leading up to it. Meanwhile, blockchain-based content sharing platform DLive has become a part of the BitTorrent ecosystem, and the market wasn’t interested. Coinbase is looking to recruit an office manager with accountancy, HR and building management skills, who’d be based in Tokyo, which might suggest it’s set to ramp up its presence in Japan. Also, BlockFi aims to develop a BTC rewards credit card, which they might roll out this year. And while Mike Novogratz believes that Bitcoin will finish 2020 above the USD 12,000 mark, his previous predictions show just how unpredictable the crypto market really is.

Opinion in Venezuela is divided on the Petro, as citizens continue to queue around the block for “up to seven hours” at crypto-friendly stores. In South Korea, lawyers and politicians have been debating the legality of the tax service’s recent decision to serve crypto exchange Bithumb with a USD 67 million tax bill. In Japan, Osaka prosecutors have charged Meijo Gakuin Educational Corporation executives with embezzlement, claiming they misappropriated local education authority funds to buy crypto. And in Russia, a programmer says he was tricked into handing over its entire assets of USD 450 million worth of crypto to fraudsters posing as the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation agents. Meanwhile, Bitcoin as a safe haven narrative is being tested again.

And now, the first batch of jokes in 2020 for your viewing pleasure.

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Welcome to the new year. First let’s take a quick look at the decade past.

A decade of Bitcoin history in a quick slide show from r/Bitcoin

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Ahem!

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Now, what do you think 2020 will look like, Nemanja Matic (a football player)?

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Any other opinions?

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A nuclear exchange!

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Some things will never change, I guess.

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And that’s how it’s done. Simple.

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When that iSh looks right.

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We all recognise that look.

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

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There are things that stay with you.

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Contemporary artwork.

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When you can’t believe a type of people actually exists.

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Ouch… Remember! Remember!

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Priorities at work.

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“The market is always right!”

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Speaking of education, parents have always warn us about strangers in the schoolyard.

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Safety first.

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Pfft, we see bears in crypto all the time… 🤕

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And it’s never ending.