Bitcoin Rising, Satoshi Discoveries, & Google Enters the Race: Bad Crypto News of the Week

Technical analysts expect Bitcoin to continue rising based on the liquidation range of short positions, a discussion of cryptocurrency in Goldman Sachs's client call, and a lack of funding in the futures market.

The entry of Google into the blockchain space might help soak up some that extra supply though, if it exists.

Blockchain company Theta Labs has partnered with Google Cloud to let users deploy and run nodes.

Google Cloud will also act as a validator serving Europe.

While Google prepares to validate, other Bitcoin owners have been in-validating.

Laszlo Hanyecz, the "Bitcoin pizza guy" who worked with Satoshi to develop Bitcoin, has said that Satoshi only worked on Windows.

Kenneth Blanco, Director of the United States Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, warned in an interview with Chainalysis against bad actors as well as rogue nations hijacking blockchain technology.

The Bank of Lithuania has completed research into its blockchain project, LBChain.

Hedera wants to build an enterprise-grade blockchain platform to benefit businesses and consumers.

Joel Comm is an internet pioneer, New York Times best-selling author, futurist speaker and co-host of The Bad Crypto Podcast.