Today marks the second anniversary of the User-Activated Hard Fork, which split the Bitcoin community into two competing currencies. While there have been many forks since then, none have been as successful or long-lived as Bitcoin Cash (BCH). 

If your data were exposed by the Equifax breach, it may already be too late to claim your payout. Victims of the hack are unlikely to see the $125 which the company promised as part of its settlement, due to the sheer number of claimants. 

In a surprisingly informal message to consumers yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission advised American consumers to stick with the consolation prize:

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, as everybody knows. Except it’s not true — at least not outside of a Euclidean universe of mathematical abstraction.

Everyone who’s watched lightning knows that it doesn’t travel in a straight line. Instead, lightning travels from one point in space to the next depending on the resistance it encounters, automatically finding the most efficient route, one infinitesimal segment at a time.

• Bytecoin is bearish in the short-term with price creating bearish lower lows and lower highs
• The four-hour time frame shows that a bearish head and shoulders pattern has been triggered
• A daily time frame shows that the 50-day moving average is close to crossing over the 200-day moving average

Bytecoin has a bearish short-term trading bias, with the BCN / USD pair creating bearish lower lows and lower highs on the four-hour time frame.