Kategorie: Bitcoin

Efter MicroStrategy og Squares fodspor investerer Bitcoin-mineselskabet Marathon Patent Group nu en stor del af sin skatreserve i BTC.

Marathon købte 150 millioner dollars i BTC til lidt mere end 31.000 dollars pr. Bitcoin ifølge en pressemeddelelse fra virksomheden.

Siger Merrick Okamoto, Marathons formand og administrerende direktør

”Ved at købe Bitcoin til en værdi af 150 millioner dollars har vi fremskyndet processen med at opbygge Marathon til det, vi mener er det de facto investeringsvalg for enkeltpersoner og institutioner, der søger eksponering for denne nye aktivklasse.

Vi mener også, at det vil være en bedre langsigtet strategi at holde en del af vores egne reserver i Bitcoin end at holde amerikanske dollars, svarende til andre fremtidsrettet virksomheder som MicroStrategy. ”

Ifølge CoinMarketCap ejer MicroStrategy nu cirka 70.784 BTC til en værdi af mere end 2,25 milliarder dollars. Square har købt 4.709 BTC til en værdi af omkring $ 148 millioner.

Okamoto bemærker, at Marathon har indgået kontrakt med at købe 103.060 minearbejdere, der forventes at blive fuldt ud indsat i første kvartal

”Hvis alle minearbejdere var operationelle i dag, baseret på Bitcoin-netværks nuværende sværhedsgrad, ville vi producere cirka 55-60 bitcoins om dagen. Men ved at udnytte vores kontanter til at investere i Bitcoin nu har vi omdannet vores potentiale til at være en ren-play investering til en realitet. ”

The crypto banking and financial services platform Celsius Network (CEL) plans to insure its users‘ funds against unforeseen losses.

The today their co-founder and CEO Alex Mashinsky on twitter announced

“You asked about it and we listened. We’re going to have a self-insurance plan for all @CelsiusNetwork users that covers all of your coins, it will take a few months, but it will insure coins that are on loan to institutions and exchanges, „Mashinsky tweeted, adding,“ Nobody else has today such an insurance. “

Auto insurance is a risk management method whereby a company or individual chooses not to use third party insurance (which usually charge a premium in excess of the expected loss). For this purpose, a company sets aside a certain pool of funds that would be used in an emergency – and without paying any additional costs.

In the case of Celsius, this means the platform is likely to gradually amass a “rainy day fund” that will be used to cover unexpected losses that could affect its users

However, Mashinsky did not explain what damage would be considered „insured“. While hacking attacks are a prime example of an emergency that should be covered by insurance, there are many other risks associated with cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (See How to Buy Bitcoin ) or Ethereum .

The Celsius Network, launched in 2018, enables its users to receive returns – regular payouts and interest – on their cryptocurrency deposits and various other services such as wallet-style loans and payments.

Aside from being used in a number of internal functions, Celsius ’native token, CEL, can also increase users‘ returns if they pay for something with it.

Over the past 30 days, the CEL price has dropped all the way down to $ 4 from around $ 6 but has since stabilized around $ 5.

L’investitore miliardario Howard Marks nel suo promemoria agli investitori ha condiviso alcuni punti di vista caldi sulla Bitcoin e sulle valute crittografiche, rivelando che suo figlio Andrew „possiede una quantità significativa (di BTC) per la nostra famiglia“.

Con la generazione più giovane che da tempo si occupa di Bitcoin, l'“alto livello di scetticismo“ di Mark sta ora virando verso la neutralità.

L’investitore di valore che gestisce un patrimonio di 140 miliardi di dollari ha precedentemente definito il Bitcoin uno „schema a piramide“ e lo ha paragonato alla mania dei tulipani e alla bolla di internet.

Ma nella sua ultima lettera all’investitore, Marks parla dello scetticismo come dello stato naturale dell’investitore di valore –

„La nostra reazione di default è di essere profondamente dubbiosa quando sentiamo „questa volta è diverso“.

Ma con tanta innovazione che avviene a un ritmo così rapido, Marks dice che questa mentalità scettica dovrebbe essere abbinata a „apertura alle nuove idee, e la volontà di imparare prima di formarsi una visione“. Marks ammette che quando si tratta di crittografia,

„Probabilmente ho permesso che il mio modello di riconoscimento intorno all’innovazione finanziaria e al comportamento speculativo del mercato – insieme al mio naturale conservatorismo – producesse la mia posizione scettica“.

In quanto tale, non si sta formando una solida visione degli asset digitali fino a quando non sarà abbastanza informato e non si „sforzerà di imparare“ in merito.

Som det er blitt dekket mye av dette utsalgsstedet, har de siste månedene sett fremtredende institusjonelle investorer tildele kapital til kryptovalutaer for å sikre sine porteføljer mot den nåværende makroøkonomiske inflasjonen som skjer. Videre tror mange at Bitcoin vil spille en stadig viktigere rolle i finans.

For eksempel skrev Paul Tudor Jones i et investorbrev tidligere i år at han tror Bitcoin vil være den „raskeste hesten i løpet“ på grunn av den store monetære inflasjonen:

„Vi er vitne til den store monetære inflasjonen – en enestående utvidelse av enhver form for penger, i motsetning til noe den utviklede verden noen gang har sett.“

Andre investorer på Wall Street har delt lignende meninger

Disse uttalelsene har fått selskaper til å se etter å sikre sine investeringsporteføljer og statskasser ved hjelp av Bitcoin.

Dette begynte tidligere i år med MicroStrategy, som kjøpte BTC i august med $ 250 millioner i selskapspenger fordi den så den ledende kryptovalutaen som en sikring mot inflasjonstrender. Selskapet fortsatte å doble ned på BTC i månedene etter det, og er nå oppe med over 100 prosent på sitt opprinnelige kjøp.

Dette trekket har presset andre offentlige selskaper til å investere i Bitcoin med selskapspenger for å sikre seg mot devalueringen av den amerikanske dollaren.

Andre selskaper følger MicroStrategys dristige Bitcoin-trekk

I følge Twitter-kontoen „Deltaone“, som publiserer interessante Bloomberg-overskrifter til sin Twitter-feed, vil NexTech kjøpe BTC til en verdi av 2 millioner dollar med egne penger.

NexTech er et børsnotert selskap i Canada og har base i Vancouver. Det er en „ledende leverandør av virtuell og augmented reality (AR) opplevelsesteknologi og tjenester for e-handel, utdanning, konferanser og arrangementer.“

På investeringen skrev administrerende direktør i selskapet :

“Vår investering i Bitcoin er en del av vår nye kapitaldiversifiserings- og allokeringsstrategi med den hensikt å maksimere langsiktig verdi for våre aksjonærer. Denne innledende investeringen gjenspeiler vår tro på at Bitcoin er en langsiktig butikk med verdi og en attraktiv investeringsmiddel med mer langsiktig styringspotensial enn å ha kontanter, som for tiden gir 0,06%.

Ledelsen, Evan Gappelberg, la til at han tror Bitcoin vil få trekkraft mot gull de neste årene.

Denne kunngjøringen kommer bare en dag etter at Nasdaq-børsnoterte Greenpro Capital Corporation kunngjorde et lignende grep. Greenpro søker å samle opp til $ 100 millioner i 2021 for å kjøpe BTC med.

Det er bare fornuftig?

Det er blitt hevdet at selskaper som kjøper Bitcoin gjør sine respektive aksjer mer attraktive å ha.

Det fremtredende aksjeforskningsselskapet Citron Fund skrev i en novemberrapport at MicroStrategys MSTR-aksjer er attraktive og er den ledende måten å investere i BTC via aksjemarkedet.

“Når investorer prøver å lete etter måter å kapitalisere på bitcoin på aksjemarkedet, må du ikke se lenger enn til MSTR. Til disse prisene i dag får investorene det beste innen klassen programvarevirksomhet med rabatt og et gratis kjøpsalternativ på å eie en voksende skattkiste av bitcoins. ”

Am Grenzübergang Kapıkule zwischen Bulgarien und der Türkei wird Bitcoin als Zahlungsmittel für die obligatorische Visumantragsgebühr nicht akzeptiert. Die Taihuttus ließen sich jedoch nicht abschrecken.

Die fünfköpfige holländische Familie parkte ihren VW California T6-Wohnwagen mit Bitcoin-Marke auf dem Seitenstreifen der Bundesstraße D.100 und war entschlossen, einen Weg zu finden, ihre Passage mit der Kryptowährung zu bezahlen.

Vier Jahre lang hat die Familie allein von Bitcoin gelebt. Nachdem sie ihr Vermögen, von ihren Rentenkonten und Autos bis hin zu ihrer Kleidung und ihrem Spielzeug, liquidiert hatten, setzten sie alles auf die volatile Kryptowährung, damals, als sie 2017 900 Dollar pro Münze kostete.

Sie gelobten auch, nie wieder für eine weitere Dienstleistung oder Ware zu bezahlen, es sei denn, die Transaktion wurde irgendwie in Bitcoin getätigt.

„Wir warteten, bis wir eine Person fanden, die bereit war, Bitcoin anzunehmen“, sagte Didi Taihuttu, der Patriarch der so genannten Bitcoin-Familie.

Nachdem sie diesen Reisenden über die Vorzüge der Kryptowährung aufgeklärt hatten, installierten sie eine Bitcoin-Brieftasche auf seinem Telefon und tauschten Bitcoin gegen Bargeld aus.

„Mit dem Bargeld kauften wir unsere Visa“, fuhr Taihuttu fort. „Das führte zu einigem Geschrei im Auto. Ich kann Ihnen sagen, dass meine Frau und meine Kinder nicht glücklich waren. Aber wenn man versucht, das Bitcoin-Leben zu leben, hat man seine Höhen und Tiefen.“

Die Bitcoin-freundlichsten Städte der Welt

Seit die Taihuttus im Jahr 2017 auf Bitcoin umgestiegen sind, haben sie vierzig Länder bereist. Die massenhafte Einführung von Kryptowährungen in den letzten Jahren hat es für die Familie einfacher gemacht, ausschließlich mit Bitcoin zu handeln, aber um über die Runden zu kommen, mussten sie kreativ werden.

Durch eine Kombination aus Tauschhandel, Feilschen, Bitcoin-Debitkarten und dem Überzeugen von Verkäufern, die Kryptowährung zu akzeptieren, ist es der Familie gelungen, einen Großteil Europas, Asiens und Ozeaniens zu durchqueren.

Aber es heißt, dass es zwei Orte auf der Welt gibt, an denen man buchstäblich alles mit Bitcoin bezahlen kann: die slowenische Hauptstadt Ljubljana und ein kleines italienisches Dorf namens Rovereto.

In Ljubljana bezahlten sie Dinge wie Autoreparaturen und Kinokarten in der Kryptowährung, und in Rovereto kann man mit Bitcoin ein Motorrad kaufen, Steuern zahlen oder sich die Haare schneiden lassen.

„Ich habe den Leuten immer gesagt: ‚Ich werde meine Haare nie schneiden, bis ich einen Friseur finde, der Bitcoin akzeptiert‘, sagte Taihuttu. „Und dann ging ich zu diesem Friseur, und er nahm Bit-Münze an“, sagte Taihuttu. Ich dachte: ‚Oh, nein, ich muss meine Haare schneiden!'““

Für Didi war die Tatsache, dass sowohl ein sehr kleines traditionelles Dorf als auch die Hauptstadt eines Landes Bitcoin von ganzem Herzen angenommen hatte, für ihn ein Zeichen dafür, dass es überall möglich war.

„Meiner Meinung nach kann jedes Land, jede Stadt auf der Welt Bitcoin als Wertaufbewahrungsmittel, als Zahlungsmittel oder als Peer-to-Peer-Bargeld annehmen“, erklärte Taihuttu. „Das ist es, was uns immer wieder antreibt, die Welt zu erforschen.

Ausgaben vs. Sitzen auf Ihrer Bitcoin

Der Preis für Bitcoin erreichte am Montag ein Allzeithoch, als er bei 20.000 Dollar schloss, und einige Analysten sagen, dass die Kryptowährung noch viel Spielraum hat, um höher zu laufen.

Mike Novogratz, CEO der Investmentfirma Galaxy Digital, glaubt, dass diese Comeback-Rallye gerade erst begonnen hat. Er sieht die Bitcoin bis zum nächsten Jahr auf 60.000 Dollar steigen.

Tom Fitzpatrick, globaler Leiter von CitiFXTechnicals, sagte, dass die Charts signalisierten, dass Bitcoin bis Dezember 2021 318.000 $ erreichen könnte, in einem Bericht, der für die institutionellen Kunden der Citibank bestimmt war und von CNBC erhalten wurde.

Bei diesen himmelhohen Vorhersagen ist es nicht überraschend, dass sich mehr Anleger dafür entscheiden, ihre Bitcoin aufzubewahren, anstatt sie auszugeben.

Die Zahl der Konten, die Bitcoin im Wert von mehr als einer Million Dollar kaufen und es dann von den Börsen abheben, ist laut Chainalysis, einer Blockchain-Forensik-Firma, von 2017 bis 2020 um 180% gestiegen. Und Daten von Glassnode zeigen, dass 95% der Marktkapitalisierung von Bitcoin in Brieftaschen mit mehr als einer Bitcoin enthalten ist.

Datenpunkte wie diese deuten auch darauf hin, dass wohlhabendere Investoren ihre Haut ins Spiel bringen. 2017′s Die Bitcoin-Rallye von Bitcoin wurde größtenteils durch Spekulationen im Einzelhandel angeführt, aber im Jahr 2020 sind es die Milliardäre und Unternehmen, die Bitcoin in großen Mengen kaufen und in einigen Fällen aus Sicherheitsgründen vom Markt nehmen.

„Ich sehe in diesem Jahr viel mehr Interesse [an Bitcoin] als 2017“, sagte der zertifizierte Finanzplaner Douglas Boneparth, Gründer und Präsident von Bone Fide Wealth. „Das ist kein Schlagwort mehr. Es erweist sich mehr und mehr als legitimer Vermögenswert sowohl für Investoren als auch für Institutionen“.

Ist es eine Währung oder eine Ware?

Da sich immer mehr Anleger dafür entscheiden, ihre Bitcoin zu behalten, stellt sich die Frage: Ist Bitcoin eine Währung oder eine Ware?

Sie kann zum Kauf, Verkauf und zur Preisfestsetzung von Gütern verwendet werden, und große Finanzakteure wie PayPal erlauben es Benutzern jetzt, für Käufe mit Bitcoin zu bezahlen.

Also ja, es ist eine Währung.

Aber Bitcoin verhält sich auch sehr ähnlich wie Gold und Öl. Ihr Wert ist sehr volatil, es gibt einen Marktplatz, auf dem sie gekauft und verkauft wird, und ähnlich wie bei anderen Waren kann man über den Derivatmarkt über den zukünftigen Preis von Bitcoin spekulieren. Außerdem hat die Commodity Futures Trading Commission bitcoin im Jahr 2015 offiziell als eine Ware in den USA eingestuft.

Bitcoin entspricht daher beiden Definitionen.

Sogar Taihuttu, der fast ein halbes Jahrzehnt damit verbracht hat, Bitcoin als einziges Zahlungsmittel zu verwenden, glaubt, dass sich die Rolle der Münze grundlegend ändert.

„Ich glaube, dass Bitcoin langsam mehr und mehr zu einem Wertaufbewahrungsmittel wird“, erklärte Taihuttu. „Wir sehen Bitmünze als einen Baustein aus digitalem Gold, der den Wert speichert und manchmal enorm steigert, aber Sie können diesen Baustein aus Gold auch in ein Geschäft mitnehmen und damit bezahlen.

Today at laBITconf, Julian Dragonosh taught us how to assemble a Bitcoin node and gave us reasons why we should do it.

The end of BITconf is approaching. Important topics are still being discussed there, such as the one we are covering in this article. Below we summarize what Julian Dragonosh said in his panel about installing a Bitcoin node and why it’s worth doing.

To start with his presentation, Julian tells us that a node is each of the parts that make up the blockchain network, interconnected by working in an equivalent way and sharing information with each other.

The nodes work simultaneously and run the software that makes the crypto currency work.
Julian Dragonosh performing his panel where he talked about how to install a Bitcoin node. Source: laBITconf. Julian Dragonosh performing his panel where he talked about how to install a Bitcoin node. Source: laBITconf.
How to mount your Bitcoin node

After a brief introduction, the speaker goes into a technical tutorial for the installation of a Bitcoin node, telling us that the basic requirements are currently:

• 250 GB of free space on the hard disk
• Computer with a recent version of Windows, Mac OS or Linux
• 2gb RAM memory
• Internet connection with speed of at least 50 kilobytes per second

Procedure

Open the wallet and wait for the Bitcoin network blocks to be downloaded and checked. This is a long process, because currently the total weight of the BTC blockchain is over 175 GB.

Download and run a Bitcoin client.

Direct your router’s port 8333 to the computer’s IP. To do this, access your router’s configuration by entering 192.68.1.1 or 192.168.0.1 in your browser. Go to the section “Port Forwarding“ or similar depending on your router. This may be the most complicated step, but don’t worry, this will not affect your browsing speed or anything else.

Finish by restarting your router and Bitcoin client.

Wait a couple of minutes when you turn everything back on, and verify that all the lines in the signal indicator of the wallet, located at the bottom, are active.

Mining Bitcoin with CPU, why is that a bad idea?

The good thing about having your own node

Sovereignty stands out as the main advantage of running your own Bitcoin node, since it’s possible to connect it to your own wallet, giving you the key to the network. Nobody has to tell you if what you did got to where you sent it, you can verify and validate it yourself, assures the panel speaker.

In addition, you avoid giving information to third parties which increases your privacy. Not depending on anyone is the vision of Bitcoin.

When you enter this ecosystem trying to escape the habit of having to depend on institutions that give you access to the system, it wouldn’t make sense to use third-party cryptographic services that run a node for you.

Bitcoin (BTC) and the new generations

Basic commands to execute in your node

To finish with the panel, Julián shared with us some basic commands that you can run in Bitcoin Core.

The node protocol offers an interface through which you can execute commands, useful to perform validations, operations or any other type of administrative nature. They can be executed from the Bitcoin console, or from the command terminal on your computer.

Recently, Bayer announced that it has launched a new network together with BlockApps, a provider of block chain platforms. The network is designed to change the way agricultural products are managed.

On November 18, Bayer published a report on the collaboration. The new platform called „TraceHarvest Network“ offers users the possibility to track the complete supply chain of agricultural products in real-time. The aim of the block chain-based platform is to optimise processes and thus create access to new markets.

Blockchain technology is already revolutionising Immediate Edge agriculture and we are leading the way thanks to our partnership with Bayer’s Crop Science Division, which has taken this concept from idea to reality.

said Kieren James-Lubin, President and CEO of BlockApps. In this context he spoke of new standards that would shape the future of the industry. Another advantage of the platform, he said, was that it could also be used for consumer protection because of its transparency. Sascha Israel, Bayer Crop Science CIO and Head of Digital Transformation, said the following:

By providing traceability of products throughout the food supply chain, TraceHarvest provides a basis for new solutions and services on food quality and transparency issues of paramount importance to farmers and consumers.

Bayer has already been using BlockApps‘ network for two years to track agriculture in different countries. According to BlockApps, the company’s Blockchain would have revolutionised the agricultural industry by now. However, it is also stressed that this was only possible with the support of Bayer.

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Despite its own record run, gold is losing ground to Bitcoin and has dropped to a year-long low in comparison.

Bitcoin ( BTC ) has risen to a price of 7 ounces of gold for the first time in more than a year after the precious metal began to plummet again.

As data from CoinGecko for BTC / XAU, i.e. the currency pair consisting of Bitcoin and gold, show, the important 7 ounce mark was reached again for the first time on October 25. At the time of going to press, the Bitcoin Fortune price, measured in gold, could even advance to 7.02 ounces.

Gold is losing to BTC

Although Bitcoin is currently on the downside again after the $ 14,000 mark was scratched, things continue to look good for the market-leading crypto currency compared to the precious metal, as the latter has lost again due to the returning uncertainty of the corona crisis .

The last time the sound barrier of 7 ounces was broken was in September 2019.

Crypto-analyst PlanB , who is known for using the popular stock-to-flow forecast model on Bitcoin, emphasizes the importance of this development and calls it „significant“.

„It looks like #Bitcoin is getting ready to cut a bigger slice of the market capitalization pie of gold,“ crypto expert Ecoinometrics replied. So he then formulates a downright challenge to the crypto currency:

“Right now #BTC is only 2.4% of the market capitalization of gold. So this is just the beginning. „

The assessments of the two experts coincide with the latest thesis by Real Vision CEO Raoul Pal , who is convinced that gold is losing more and more to Bitcoin . So he writes:

“As expected, gold is losing to Bitcoin. Next, I expect Bitcoin to be able to outperform the US dollar and the stock market as well … let’s wait and see. #Bitcoin “

Ship renews criticism

Gold advocate and Bitcoin critic Peter Schiff sees the soaring of the cryptocurrency meanwhile as an occasion to strike against it again. Although the previous record high of 20,000 US dollars is still a long way off, Schiff once again describes Bitcoin as a „speculative bubble“.

„If you compare the size of a speculative bubble with the confidence of investors in their investment, #Bitcoin is the largest speculative bubble I’ve ever seen,“ he wrote accordingly on Twitter . And further:

„Bitcoin investors are more convinced that they are right and cannot lose than investors in the dot-com bubble or before the financial crisis.“

I funzionari cinesi stanno prendendo provvedimenti contro i traffici di cavi. La borsa dei futures bitcoin dell’ECM si sta riscaldando, segnalando l’interesse istituzionale.

E il gettone di parentela di Kik continuerà a svilupparsi dopo un accordo con la SEC da 5 milioni di dollari.
Lo scaffale più alto

Ondulazione, dall’altra parte dello stagno

Il CEO di Ripple, Brad Garlinghouse, ha fornito maggiori informazioni sul possibile allontanamento dell’azienda dagli Stati Uniti, affermando che lo status legale della crittovaluta XRP è fondamentale. Parlando con la CNBC Friday, Garlinghouse ha detto che la sua società di infrastrutture per i pagamenti a catena di blocco potrebbe potenzialmente trasferirsi a Londra, dove il regolatore della nazione ha „chiarito“ che l’XRP non è una sicurezza ed è usato come valuta. Ripple è attualmente impegnata in una controversia legale con gli investitori statunitensi che sostengono che l’XRP è un titolo emesso illegalmente. La Securities and Exchange Commission non è stata chiara sulla questione. Anche la Svizzera, Singapore, il Giappone e gli Emirati Arabi Uniti sono sul tavolo per potenziali sedi centrali.

La repressione dei vincoli
Le autorità cinesi, compresa la banca centrale della nazione, hanno arrestato 77 sospetti e chiuso tre siti di gioco d’azzardo che si dice abbiano „imbiancato“ fondi illeciti usando lo stablecoin tether (USDT). Annunciato su WeChat, l’ufficio di Huizhou della PBoC ha detto che i sospetti hanno riciclato 120 milioni di yuan (17,95 milioni di dollari) ottenuti attraverso l’attività illegale di gioco d’azzardo online, in parte attraverso l’USDT. A luglio, diversi trader di crypto over-the-counter (OTC) sono stati arrestati al fine di assistere gli sforzi investigativi dello stato che coinvolgono attività economiche illegali. È „illegale aprire casinò e partecipare al gioco d’azzardo online“, ha detto il PBoC. „Non siate curiosi e fortunati. Qualsiasi „travestimento“ non può sfuggire alla supervisione ad alta pressione“.
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Interesse istituzionale
Il Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) è diventato la seconda piattaforma di bitcoin futures per numero di contratti aperti, segnalando un interesse istituzionale. A partire da giovedì, i contratti bitcoin futures del valore di 790 milioni di dollari sono stati aperti sulla CME, secondo la fonte dati Skew, superando il 15% dell’interesse totale globale aperto. „L’ascesa del CME è guidata principalmente dalla partecipazione istituzionale, poiché alla maggior parte dei partecipanti di quel segmento è proibito negoziare derivati non regolamentati quotati su piattaforme al dettaglio come BitMEX e Binance“, ha detto Matthew Dibb, co-fondatore di Stack Funds. Questo accade quando lo scambio di opzioni rivali BitMEX si rivolge a quotazioni di futures focalizzate su DeFi, incluso yearn.finance (YFI).

Whopping buy
Grayscale Investments ha aggiunto al suo bilancio 300 milioni di dollari in un solo giorno, l’amministratore delegato Barry Silbert ha twittato su Twitter giovedì sera. La somma aggiuntiva porta il totale tenuto in gestione a 7,3 miliardi di dollari. „La mossa arriva in un momento in cui l’ondata di pressioni che circonda l’incursione di PayPal nei mercati delle valute criptate ha attirato ulteriore attenzione da parte di grandi investitori, tra cui Paul Tudor Jones II“, riferisce Sebastian Sinclair di CoinDesk, e segue i migliori risultati trimestrali del digital asset manager annunciati la scorsa settimana. (Grayscale è la società sorella di CoinDesk, entrambe di proprietà di Digital Currency Group, di cui Silbert è uno dei fondatori).

Un ritorno a galla?

Il regolamento della Securities and Exchange Commission da 5 milioni di dollari di Kik non ucciderà i parenti, il no-profit dietro il gettone annunciato. La „nuvola di incertezza si è dissipata“, ha affermato la Kin Foundation in un post sul blog. Con il tesoro rimanente di Kik e le riserve di Kin, i leader del progetto intendono continuare lo „sviluppo attivo“ dell’open-source Kin SDK, il nuovo portafoglio Code e il passaggio alla catena di blocco Solana. La fondazione ha anche sostenuto che la SEC non considera Kin una sicurezza e il giudice non ha trovato il gettone in violazione delle leggi sui titoli. Pertanto, Kin „dovrebbe essere libera di commerciare in borsa“.

The U.S. presidential election is just around the corner. Under this scenario, it is expected that the reaction to the crypto-currency and Bitcoin will be very strong.

This November 3 is the date of the presidential elections in the United States. Donald Trump, the current president and the Republican Party candidate, is facing Joe Biden, the Democratic Party candidate, mainly known for being Barack Obama’s vice president from 2008 to 2016. The voters in the United States will decide whether Donald Trump stays in the White House for four more years or not. What does a possible re-election of Donald Trump mean for the economy, and what does it mean for the crypto coins and Bitcoin?

Although crypto currencies were created to separate themselves from the financial system, Bitcoin and the rest of the digital assets do not move outside the economic system of the dominant countries. In the sphere of cryptomonies and blockchain, it is difficult to get rid of politicians and vice versa.

The economic events are not only affecting traditional economies and all eyes are on the US presidential elections in 2020. But despite the immense benefits of blockchain and digital currencies, not everyone is prepared to make use of them or believe in their potential.

The decentralized nature of crypto and blockchain has always been a hard pill to swallow for most governments, and the United States is no exception.

Donald Trump crypt coins and Bitcoin What to expect?

The 45th President of the United States is well aware of Bitcoin and doesn’t like it. In July 2019, Trump unleashed a scathing attack on the leading crypto currency in a tweet that came days after the launch of Facebook’s Libra crypto currency project. He stated categorically that he was not a Bitcoin fanatic, that crypto currencies are not money and that their value is very volatile.

The Trump administration has failed to create a clear regulatory framework on digital coins and blockchain. However, in March, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency announced the appointment of Bitcoin’s Brian Brooks as its chief operating officer. The appointment was seen as an endorsement of blockchain technology by the Trump administration.

Joe Biden

However, the former US vice president and the only Democrat competing for a presidential post after Bernie Sanders retired is presumed to be a Bitcoin supporter. In one article, Joe Biden was portrayed as „the Bitcoin candidate“.

While he has not gone public to support cryptosystems, Biden is a strong supporter of technology and innovation. In 2011, he commented on the internet and called it a neutral source: „The internet itself is not inherently a force for democracy or oppression, for war or peace. Like any public square or any trading platform, the internet is neutral.

In addition, the Political Action Committee, which was campaigning for Biden’s presidential candidacy, began accepting donations from Bitcoin in 2016. According to the CAP director at the time, the move was in line with Biden’s „support for technology and innovation throughout his career“.

But how do the two candidates influence cryptomoney and Bitcoin?

Kryptomone macro-analyst Alex Krüger fears that the election of Joe Biden could lead to higher taxes and more regulation. Both factors could increase pressure on the economy and the stock market.

In addition, Biden, together with the US Federal Reserve, could continue to pursue a flexible monetary policy and thus send the US dollar lower. This could benefit precious and base metals and Bitcoin in particular, which are valued against the dollar, Krüger said.

On the other hand, a re-election of Donald Trump could mean a different, although more optimistic, scenario. According to Kruger, a Trump victory „would require some adjustments, but would lead to an even stronger bullfight. Everybody wins“. A senior executive at Credit Suisse shares Krüger’s opinion.

According to Suresh Tantia, the stock market could experience a 5% decline after the elections. He also stressed that the Fed’s fiscal policy has not had any noticeable effect, either on the stock market or on the dollar. The continued downward trend of the dollar and the stagnation of the stock market could boost sentiment around Bitcoin and gold in the long term.

The future of the crypt coins in your hands

However, as Krüger also pointed out, a new economic stimulus package could have an even greater impact on the price of Bitcoin. According to the expert, it is rather unlikely that another package will be approved before the elections. Instead, he expects it to be approved in the first half of 2021.

According to Krüger, this could have an even greater macroeconomic impact on Bitcoin and gold. A second stimulus package would relieve the considerable pressure on all asset classes and have a positive impact on Bitcoin.

As the crypt coin market continues its highs, the Bitcoin world is looking very closely at what will happen next November. Without intending to, Trump and Biden have the future of the assets in their hands.