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 | | | | | | Happy Friday everyone! I hope you're all doing well and looking forward to the weekend. The week has flown by, hasn't it? I just wanted to add a note to today's Inside Bitcoin newsletter to update you on my Top 100 Bitcoin Twitter list, which you can find here. Here are some of the people I've added this week: Jihan Wu, co-founder of Bitmain, a Bitcoin mining company, Matt Odell, a Bitcoin investor and entrepreneur, Arianna Simpson, early crypto investor and CEO and founder of investment fund Autonomous Partners, and Tyler Winklevoss, co-founder of the Gemini exchange. Let me know of any others that you think should be added as I'm always open to hearing about new people in the space. Also, is there anything that you'd like to see more/less of with the Inside Bitcoin newsletter? I'm happy to take any suggestions that will help to grow audience numbers and to keep frequent readers interested. |     | | 1. A would-be donor to the Amazon wildfires has seen their $100,000 donation rejected by crypto payments processor BitPay. The unknown donor tried to send the payment to Amazon Watch, a charity that is working at supporting the Amazon's ecology and its people. However, the payment failed to pass BitPay as it was too high, according to a tweet by Amazon Watch. The organization reached out to BitPay to help resolve the problem. The payments platform said that it would "escalate the issue to see if the donor can be contacted," and that Amazon Watch should upgrade their approved volume to accept funds higher than $100,000. The number of wildfires in Brazil, which environmentalists claim have been started by cattle rancher and loggers, are, reportedly, 80 percent higher than last year. –COINTELEGRAPH |  | | | | | | 
Earn money by sharing your space. Millions of travelers stayed in an Airbnb last year. Turn your extra space into extra money. Learn More | 3. Follow Friday: Didi Taihuttu In October 2017, Taihuttu and his wife Romaine, along with their three girls, Joli, Juna and Jessa, known as The Bitcoin Family, sold everything they owed all for Bitcoin. They then moved to a campsite in the Netherlands. Their venture couldn't have been better timed. The crypto market was going through a boom and Bitcoin was steadily creeping toward its all-time high of $20,000, which it achieved in mid-December. Since 2017, it has been a continual adventure for the family of five who, to this day, use crypto as a means of living and traveling. I interviewed Didi at the beginning of the year and he said that they had visited 40 countries, exploring the acceptance of crypto at them all. He also mentioned that they didn't sell everything to become crypto millionaires, but to change their way of life and that of their children, and to support the "crypto revolution." While the market hasn't been anything like it was in 2017, the family are still believers in where the crypto industry is heading. At the time of my interview with him, he indicated that Bitcoin may hit "$40,000, $100,000, and even $200,000" in the next five years. With just over 8,400 followers on Twitter, Didi regularly posts tweets. Some of his most recent include holding a poll as to whether Craig Wright is the real Satoshi Nakamoto? and where the family currently are on their travels, which may be in Turkey. Aside from investing and using crypto to fund their lifestyle, they also speak at conferences and have written a book, currently available in Dutch. |  | | | | 7. A1, considered one of the biggest mobile providers in Austria, is to accept crypto payments at certain store locations. According to Austrian news technology site Futurezone, the company is testing crypto payments in Ethereum, XRP, Litecoin, Dash, and Stellar. Speaking about the trial, Markus Schreiber, head of A1's business marketing, said that "cash is a discontinued model." Seven locations have been picked for the pilot program: Vienna Kärntnerstraße, ViennaMitte The Mall, Krems Bühl Center, Graz Herrengasse, Innsbruck Kaufhaus Tyrol, Salzburg Europark, and Linz Landstraße. –FUTUREZONE | | | | 10. Two Indian-Canadian nationals have been charged in a Bitcoin fraud case involving over $200,000. Karanjit Singh Khatkar, 23, and Jagroop Singh Khatkar, 24, are reported to have used Twitter to trick a woman from Oregon into transferring around $233,220 into their account. The two used a fake Twitter name, @HitBTCAssist, to give the impression that the victim was talking with a customer representative at Hong Kong-based online platform, HitBTC. Last July, Karanjit was arrested in Las Vegas; however, Jagroop remains at large. –NDTV | | | | | | | |
