Its been a good week for Bitcoin. The halving doesnt seem to have done the top cryptocurrency any harm at all, with the dollar value up more than 8 percent over the previous week. Ethereum is up more than 10 percent which just shows that the opportunity for blockchain-based solutions are still red-hot. If youre taking that opportunity to issue tokens or digitized assets and seeking legal counsel with respect to securities and regulation then you should speak to Josh Lawler at law firm Zuber Lawler. They sponsor the Bad Crypto podcast and theyre specialists in developing technology, including the blockchain.

One person who understands the blockchain better even than Josh Lawler is Satoshi Nakamoto, and it looks like the mystery inventor has been busy. Fifty Bitcoins mined as early as a month after the launch of the Bitcoin mainnet have just moved to two different Bitcoin wallets. Its not certain that the coins are Nakamotos stash but few people were mining with the original Bitcoin client eleven years ago. Craig Wright said that he didnt move the coins, which is a problem because he also told a US court that the address belongs to him. Oops.

In another mystery move, about $6 million worth of STEEM has been rescued in an anonymous transaction on the Bittrex exchange. The tokens, from 64 Steem accounts, were supposed to move to an account called community321 as part of a hard fork designed to stop malicious attacks on the network. The account has asked Bittrex to give them back.

And in an even stranger move Crypto YouTuber Vin Armani has packed his family off to the Northern Mariana Islands. Hes preparing for the zombie coronavirus apocalypse.

With all of that strange movement, its refreshing to read a move that didnt happen. Crypto lender BlockFi has reported a data breach. But no customer funds were lost, it says, which is more than Steems hard fork can say. And it turns out that ISIS isnt really moving Bitcoin around to fund its evil ways. It doesnt even have $300 million in a secret crypto war chest.

In Congress, the Advancing Blockchain Act is asking for a survey of the technologys uses and its adoption in the US.Representative Brett Guthrie (R-KY) who introduced the bill, says that hes worried about China taking a lead in the new technology.

Congress isnt the only place where the blockchain is getting political. The World Economic Forum Global Blockchain Council has launched its Presidio Principles, a kind of Bill of Rights for the blockchain. The sixteen principles include ensuring that participants can understand the risks and benefits of blockchain technology; that they can create, manage, and independently store cryptographic secret keys; and that they can be certain that their data is protected. It would certainly be nice to see China adopt a Bill of Rights.

The principles might just help to protect buyers and sellers on Shopify. The ecommerce platform now accepts cryptocurrency transactions using CoinPayments.

In other news, Ben Mezrich, the author of Bitcoin Billionaires, a book about the Winklevoss twins, has written an episode of the show Billions. The episode focuses on a mining farm in a boarding school. That boarding school, though, is not Hogwarts. J.K. Rowling still doesnt get Bitcoin, though she has been trying.

And finally, Philip Euphrates Roqueforte (were pretty sure thats not his real name), the Principal Operating Officer, or POO of Coinstool (and were pretty sure thats not his real title), has announced the first part of the Coinstool 50. Its just a start so it looks like Roqueforte will be pushing them out for a while.

Joel Comm is an internet pioneer, New York Times best-selling author, futurist speaker and co-host of The Bad Crypto Podcast. Thats a fancy way of saying he writes words, says things and loves to play with cryptos.

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