• Bitcoin Cash has a bullish short-term and bearish medium-term trading bias
• The four-hour time frame shows that a bullish inverted head and shoulders pattern is forming
• The daily time frame shows that the cryptocurrency may start to target the $280 level

Bitcoin Cash is showing bullish bias as the fifth-largest cryptocurrency continues to firm above the technically important $200 level.

Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardoino sees cross-chain value transfers as the most critical issue facing the cryptocurrency sector for 2020. 

With over 4,000 digital assets in circulation and many of them confined to their own ecosystems, a lack of liquidity and interoperability plagues many tokens. Blockchain ecosystem diversity is harming the industry — locking value inside illiquid tokens and dampening the sector’s growth trajectory.

Virgil Griffith, the Ethereum Foundation research scientist arrested for allegedly aiding North Korea with sanction evasion, was released today on a $1 million bond just in time for the new year.

Griffith was charged for violating federal law after traveling to North Korea to deliver a presentation on using cryptocurrency and blockchain. Allegedly, his talk helped North Korea evade sanctions. He was denied bail on Dec. 26.

IOTA was unable to process transactions for 15 hours due to a bug with its “Coordinator,” a centralized node which determines which transactions are confirmed.

Social media censorship has become a pressing issue in the crypto world. Last week, YouTube banned several crypto-related channels. Though the site quickly rolled back its decision, other companies still apply harsh policies.

DLive is the latest in Tron’s string of acquisitions. The blockchain-based streaming platform will join Poloniex and BitTorrent in Justin Sun’s portfolio.

The cryptocurrency market traded mostly in the green on Monday, as the top 10 altcoins continued to build on the weekend’s strong gains.

Bitcoin SV posted gains of over 10%, and traded back into triple digits as the recovery from the $75 support level gathered traction. Litecoin was another notable gainer over the weekend among the larger coins, with the sixth-largest cryptocurrency gaining around 7.5%.

In theory, it should be easy to choose a cryptocurrency sign. Countless fiat currencies have popularized a single style — a letter with one or several strike-through bars, which should represent the stability of the currency.  It’s a design that has been used all around the world: signs for the euro, the pound, the yen, the franc, and the dollar can all be instantly recognized by almost anyone.

An Ethereum project migrating to the Tron blockchain was singled out and practically “erased,” highlighting inconsistencies in Tron’s supposed mission of decentralization and censorship resistance.

In February, POP Network, a startup building better decentralized peer-to-peer media streaming, chose to migrate from Ethereum to Tron to take advantage of its greater speed.

The CEO of Ren protocol, Taiyang Zhang, recently announced the launch of yet another DeFi liquidity solution for the crypto ecosystem. Keeper DAO looks to offer many of the same services of traditional underwriting services but will instead focus on non-custodial crypto markets.