On today's episode of The Cryptoverse: Its national railway service may have already jumped on the bitcoin bandwagon, but Switzerland is taking a slower approach as it looks to regulate digital currencies and fintech. Please Support The Cryptoverse Podcast by visiting the Cryptoversity Store: https://www.cryptoversity.com/store Please Support The Cryptoverse With A Bitcoin Donation: 1Lak8zkQbUB5FgDD6ci6M82oTVBveuBxBT Subscribe to the podcast here: https://www.cryptoversity.com/podcast/ Today's episode is sponsored by TunnelBear, the simple VPN app that makes it easy to browse the web privately and enjoy a more open and secure Internet experience. [Try it for free here](http://click.tunnelbear.com/SH8n) Disclaimer: I personally use TunnelBear every day and if you decide to upgrade to a paid plan using my link it generates commission to help support the show. Sources: [The Original Article on CoinDesk](http://www.coindesk.com/switzerland-bitcoin-regulation/) [List ob LBRY Team Members](https://lbry.io/team) [Wikipedia Article on The Two Generals Problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals%27_Problem) [Dictionary Definition of Regulate](http://www.dictionary.com/browse/regulate?s=t) Produced by Cryptoversity.com the online school for learning about Bitcoin, crypto-currencies and blockchains. https://www.cryptoversity.com/ Please upvote to support the show, I really appreciate it. https://steemit.com/crypto-news/@marketingmonk/swiss-lawmakers-take-steps-toward-bitcoin-regulation-the-cryptoverse-136 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrRfveKjf7U

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Subscribe to my DTube channel and earn cryptocurrency rewards for your best comments at: https://d.tube/#!/c/marketingmonk and https://steemit.com/@marketingmonk Click on a video and then click 'subscribe'. On today's show: 1. We’ll check in on the growth of the Lightning network 2. We’ll look at the Bitcoin price pattern that is on the edge of breaking out 3. AND I’ll bring you my comprehensive report on the $500m worth of NEM that was stolen, how it happened and what’s happening next. **Story - Lightning Watch** 0:50 http://lnstat.ideoflux.com:3000/dashboard/db/lightning-network?refresh=5m&orgId=1 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14EN_vpbeLeQNFTNJ8DJbayZX33wlRINW-oQfJjveScI/edit?usp=sharing Today’s stats. 326 nodes and 846 channels. And a spike in Segwit: http://segwit.party/charts/ https://btc.com/ The Bitcoin backlog is clear and tx fees down to $0.15. **Story - Bitcoin Price Pattern** 13:21 Charts provided by Coinigy: https://www.coinigy.com/?r=16171fe8 We are reaching the end of this descending triangle pattern. **Story - 523m NEM Tokens Stolen** 13:23 https://coinmarketcap.com/ NEM is a top 10 cryptocurrency by market cap. https://nem.io/ NEM stands for new economic model and describes itself as a smart asset blockchain. The NEM foundation is based in Singapore, however I believe NEM has Japanese roots, don’t quote me on that. https://coincheck.com/ Anyway the story is that on Friday the 26th of January, Japan’s 2nd largest cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck, contacted law enforcement to report they had suffered a security breach. Someone stole 523m NEM tokens from the exchange. At today’s price of $0.96 that equates to just under $505m, making it the biggest cryptocurrency hack ever by dollar value. While that’s more the the famous Mt. Gox hack, it’s a much smaller proportion of the overall cryptocurrency market than the Mt. Gox hack. The question is how a hacker was able to steal this much money from Japan’s 2nd largest exchange. https://docs.nem.io/en/other-wallets/iphone-wallet/multisig Well the feature set provided by the NEM blockchain is quite comprehensive and includes a world class multi-signature wallet, meaning when the attacker proposed the transaction to send the 523m NEM out from the exchange, multiple staff members at Coincheck would have to co-sign that transaction. If you are watching the video version of today’s episode you can see a diagram of how this works. Making a wallet multi-sginature makes the private key for the wallet useless because it now depends on the keys of three separate people to authorise transactions. This is all fine, except for the fact that Coincheck didn’t bother to use this feature. So to be absolutely clear, in no way has the security or inte ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q2PGqeFEG0