🗞 Daily Crypto News, March 13th💰

Steemit Statistics & Big Data: 🚀 End of February 2018 Update 🚀;
John Oliver Tackles Cryptocurrency on Last Week Tonight ;
South African Google Searches for Bitcoin Spike Amid Economic Uncertainty ;
Japan's Third-Largest Electric Provider Is Testing Bitcoin On Lightning ;
Nasdaq-Listed Marathon Begins Bitcoin Mining Operations, Stock Up 32%
📑 Daily Crypto Calendar, March 13th 💰
STEEM Trading Update by @cryptopassion

Welcome to the Daily Crypto News: A complete Press Review, Coin Calendar and Trading Analysis. Enjoy!

🗞 Steemit Statistics & Big Data: 🚀 End of February 2018 Update 🚀

We reached 39.8 mn visits in February !

Let's face it! After the HISTORIC numbers in January, February looks like a small setback.

We have to continue to create great content throught the different tools we have. We can't give up!

Later, I will do another analysis on dTube which looks VERY promising, it could be the "Killer App" needed for STEEM.

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🗞 John Oliver Tackles Cryptocurrency on Last Week Tonight

On Sunday evening, John Oliver devoted 25 minutes to cryptocurrency on his eponymous HBO Show. The comedian and political commentator treated viewers to a whistle stop tour of crypto – the good, the bad, and the ugly – during Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on HBO. Topics included decentralization, Bitconnect, and blockchain.

🗞 South African Google Searches for Bitcoin Spike Amid Economic Uncertainty

Economic uncertainty appears to have spurred a significant spike in the number of South African citizens engaging with bitcoin and cryptocurrency. As of this writing, South African Google searches for bitcoin currently comprising the highest in proportion to country among the top 66 countries by search traffic.

🗞 Japan's Third-Largest Electric Provider Is Testing Bitcoin On Lightning

Japan's third-largest electricity provider is emerging as one of the first major companies in the world to trial a promising bitcoin payments technology.

Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, Chubu Electric Power Co. has entered into a proof-of-concept with local bitcoin and Internet of Things (IoT) startup Nayuta, one that finds it exploring how bitcoin payments can be made via the Lightning Network, an in-development protocol that promises to cut costs for bitcoin users.

🗞 Nasdaq-Listed Marathon Begins Bitcoin Mining Operations, Stock Up 32%

Traditional stock investors have just gotten another avenue for indirect exposure to the bitcoin market. A Nasdaq exchange listed former patent management company, Marathon, has changed its focus to ASIC mining and today started producing bitcoin.

Daily Crypto Calendar, March, 13th

Ripple (XRP)

Ripple will be at Money20/20 Asia in Singapore this March. Event will be on March 13-15, 2018.

Aion (AION)

Aion will organize a community Meet-up in Nairobi the 12th of March 2018.

NEO (NEO)

March 13 - 15 in Melbourne, Australia

Monaco (MCO)

Monaco is a speaker and an exhibitor at the upcoming Money 20/20 Asia, the hottest FinTech event.

HTMLCOIN (HTML)

Kucoin Exchange Listing - before or after March 13.

Read more & Source: @vlemon/daily-crypto-calendar-march-13th

Sources: Coincalendar.info, Cryptocalendar.pro, Coinscalendar.com, CoinMarketCal

STEEM Trading Update by my friend @cryptopassion

Here is the chart of yesterday :

Here is the current chart :

As you can see, we are staying around that support line in yellow, testing it for the third time but we still didn't break it really. I hope that we will do a real bounce soon from it because the more we test that line, the more this one is becoming weak.