• BCH/USD broke out and retested a long-running descending trend line, but has failed to capitalize on this further.
• George Hotz, also known as Geohot, says “Bitcoin Cash is the real Bitcoin.”
• CoinText.io expands its Bitcoin Cash payment SMS service to Brazil and further European countries. 

“Bitcoin Cash is the Real Bitcoin”

George Hotz, also known as Geohot, an American entrepreneur and hacker, was recently commenting on Bitcoin Cash. Following the BCH Devcon in San Francisco he attended, Geohot demonstrated how to generate a BCH private key from scratch using python coding.

During his python video, George spoke highly of Bitcoin Cash. He said, “I’m using Bitcoin Cash because it’s the real bitcoin.” His reasoning for the preference of BCH over BTC was due to it having significantly lower transaction fees. Stating, “Transaction fees are super low on bitcoin cash.”

Bitcoin Cash Being Used in Brazil with CoinText.io

SMS cryptocurrency payment service, CoinText, has launched their services in Brazil and three other European countries – Poland, Romania and Croatia. CoinText doesn’t require apps, logins or Internet, and users can send Bitcoin Cash via SMS. A new wallet is automatically created when people have received Bitcoin Cash via SMS.

Specifically commenting on the Brazilian expansion, CoinText founder and CTO said, “Brazilians have been suffering from corruption and bad monetary policy,” says CoinText founder and CTO Vin Armani. “Cryptocurrency offers a way for them to peacefully opt out of a corrupt system.”

A move in which is further helping the adoption of Bitcoin Cash, via the CoinText service, he further noted, “Adding Poland, Croatia and Romania brings us closer to connecting the entire continent of Europe,” Armani added. “CoinText’s end-of-year goal is to enable all 740 million European residents to text money to each other’s phones for pennies.”

Technical Review – Daily Chart

BCH/USD daily chart

BCH/USD price action of late has been very much mundane following a promising breakout from a long-running descending trend line. It had been contained below and rejected on several occasions, from the back end of July. Bulls managed to pull off a decent breakout to the upside, which took place between 26-27^th September.

After observing the break above, then pullback for a retest of the breached trend line, it looked very promising. This as such played out to the textbook, however bulls failed to capitalize and drive further north. Instead, the price remained within a consolidation nature, a lack of commitment in either direction. Perhaps the bulls are sitting on the launchpad, ready to send this into orbit, time will tell here.

Looking at technical areas of interest, to the upside, resistance has capped upside well into $500 territory. Tracking from $455-80, which has been evident the past few sessions. A firm push higher, will allow $550 region to come back into play. In terms of buyers, they can be found from the current price, all the way down to $400 the round figure.

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• Litecoin fees are set to be largely reduced in the forthcoming upgrade, in an attempt to boost adoption.
• LTC/USD remains heavily dictated by triangular pattern, behavior suggests a breakout is imminent. 

Litecoin Fees to lower by 10x in next Core Release

The Litecoin foundation will be updating the Litecoin protocol to version 0.17, following an announcement via Twitter. This update will ultimately reduce the network’s fees drastically compared to its already nominal costs.

It is reported that with this upcoming upgrade, the network fee will go down to $0.005. Their goal is to encourage greater adoption of Litecoin. Currently, the average transaction fee is floating around $0.05. Bitcoin’s transaction fee is currently seen around $0.10.

At the back end of 2017, a large bull market was observed. Bitcoin prices were up at heights around $20,000. Users as an alternative started to use LTC, given its inexpensive nature, in comparison to Bitcoin. It is interesting to note also that Bitcoin transactions were as much as $55 during those highs. However, Litecoin remained by far competitive, facilitating lower transaction fees, less than $1. During the peak, LTC fees reached $1.5.

Litecoin’s Core lead developer, Adrian Gallagher, was commenting on the upgrade intentions, saying: “To encourage more adoption and usage of Litecoin, I think lowering the fees are a good thing. We’re not even close to block limits and the block size on disk is pretty small (20GB) relative to other coins. Technically people can already adjust their fees right now to the one above, because of the more relaxed min relay/dust relay fee.”

Elsewhere, he was speaking about the current market conditions, believing that the bear market being observed, will not last. Predicting that in the next three to six months, prices could start to rise again. He stated: “With lower fees, it would be possible to lay down the foundation for a fee rate, that can grow proactively rather than re-actively.”

Technical Review – Daily Chart

LTC/USD daily chart

Looking via the daily time frame, LTC/USD price action remains trapped and dictated by a triangular pattern. This is seen across several of the other cryptocurrencies. The calls of an imminent breakout make much sense, with this type of price behavior seen.

Over the past few days, upside has been capped around the $55 mark. Further north, resistance is seen at the $56.50-60, the upper part of the triangular pattern formation. A breakout higher should allow a run well into the $60 territory. Testing the 27^th September high ($65.85) would be probable. Supply is seen running from that high up until $70, where the price faltered on 4^th September.

In terms of support, $53 has proven to be an area of comfort, over the last five sessions. The lower trend line of the above-mentioned pattern is seen tracking at $51.50. Finally, a demand zone is seen just below running from the big $50 mark, down to $0.47.

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• Monero community members are sharing their delight with the instant impact of the recent update.
• XMR/USD bulls will be looking at another retest of the breached Aug-Oct ascending trend line.

Latest Update from Monero Developers Sees Huge Reduction in Fees

The Monero community are sharing their excited observations of the benefits from the Beryllium Bullet update. Earlier this week, the foundation had another hard fork going live. The release was known as, “Monero 0.13.0 “Beryllium Bullet,”. The goal was for greater efficiency of their protocol, to facilitate stronger privacy, faster and more cost-effective transactions. In addition, more resistant ASIC miner protection, as previously reported via the last Monero article.

The update has instantly demonstrated its enhanced performance and new features. Monero users have been taking to the social space to express their delight, with the changes being very noticeable.

Members of the Monero community via the Reddit social page were sharing their photos, providing examples of how low the fees are for processing transactions are now.

Technical Review – 60-minute Chart

XMR/USD 60-minute chart

XMR/USD can be seen moving within a triangular pattern set up, via the 60-minute chart view. This coming after much stabilization has been seen with the price since the overly aggressive movement on 15^th October. That’s when prices spiked higher in line with the rest of the market, before quickly retreating. The price behavior would suggest another breakout is very much imminent as it is currently moving within an extremely narrowing nature. Looking to the upside, resistance can be seen just ahead at $108.50, or the upper part of the pattern. Further ahead, a choppy supply area is seen running from $110-112 region. In terms of support this can be eyed not too far below, $106.50, lower part of the triangle.

Technical Review – Daily Chart

XMR/USD daily chart

Looking via the daily chart, there is room for upside and another retest of the breached ascending trend line. This had originally been supporting the price from 13^th August up until early October. XMR/USD bulls could run up the price to $124 territory, before being met with a test of hard sellers. During the big spike on 15^th October, the upper wick can be seen having attempted to break back above the mentioned trend line.

If the bulls can maintain their course of upside momentum and break back above the original supporting trend line, a price towards $150 could again be reclaimed.  In terms of support on the daily, this looks firm around $104, a secondary running ascending trend line. Further south, a demand zone is seen sub-$100, running from $86 – $76 region.

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