Die Fahrt durch das Leben

„Il bitcoin è neutro come il denaro e non può discriminare tra buono e cattivo“, ha detto Gladstein.

Alex Gladstein, chief strategy officer presso la Human Rights Foundation, mette in guardia gli americani sulla narrativa proveniente dai media che riferiscono su criptovalute e altri strumenti per la privacy

In un articolo per Time Magazine pubblicato oggi, Gladstein ha affermato che molti organi di informazione che trattano storie sull’app di messaggistica incentrata sulla privacy Signal o Bitcoin Code tendevano ad associarli a terroristi o organizzazioni criminali. Il dirigente della Human Rights Foundation ha respinto le narrazioni che dipingono la privacy e l’auto-sovranità in una luce negativa, dicendo che la prossima battaglia si sposterebbe sul denaro – in questo caso, le criptovalute.

„Le autorità incolperanno l’estremismo non solo su Signal e Telegram, ma anche su Bitcoin e su tutto ciò che non possono controllare“, ha detto Gladstein.

Ha aggiunto:

“Bitcoin è neutrale come il denaro e non può discriminare tra buono e cattivo […] Alcuni estremisti usano questi strumenti. Usano anche telefoni cellulari, posta elettronica e Internet. “
Gladstein ha affermato che la privacy finanziaria è essenziale per uno stato democratico sano quanto la privacy negli strumenti di comunicazione. Ha sottolineato come i giovani manifestanti a favore della democrazia a Hong Kong usassero contanti anziché carte di credito per recarsi alle manifestazioni in modo che le autorità avrebbero avuto più difficoltà a rintracciarli.

Nel frattempo, i funzionari del governo in Bielorussia, Russia e Nigeria sono stati in grado di „monitorare e congelare i conti bancari“ per chiunque fosse associato a movimenti simili. In questi casi, molti gruppi e individui a favore della democrazia sono stati in grado di utilizzare la crittografia per aggirare queste misure e ottenere comunque finanziamenti. Ad esempio, uno scambio di criptovalute con sede in Ucraina ha rifiutato di soddisfare una richiesta ufficiale del Dipartimento delle indagini finanziarie della Bielorussia di fornire informazioni personali su individui che potrebbero essere potenzialmente etichettati come dissidenti.

„La maggior parte degli americani potrebbe non comprendere ancora che la privacy finanziaria è importante tanto quanto la privacy delle comunicazioni per la nostra democrazia – che le tue abitudini di spesa dicono di te più delle tue parole“, ha detto Gladstein. „In una società aperta, la capacità di acquistare libri politici, disporre di procedure mediche discrete e creare comunità senza la sorveglianza del governo è essenziale“.

Il dirigente della Fondazione per i diritti umani ha avvertito che abbandonare strumenti finanziari come Bitcoin potrebbe potenzialmente portare a uno stato di polizia più grande negli Stati Uniti alimentato dalla „sorveglianza di massa per combattere l’estremismo“.

Geen XRP ondersteuning in deGeen XRP ondersteuning in de pijplijn pijplijn, zegt Bakkt’s Gavin Michael

De populaire crypto-exchange Bakkt kondigde onlangs zijn plannen aan om via een SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Company) naar de beurs te gaan, met Bitcoin Bank een eerste waardering van meer dan $2 miljard. Deze deal zou van Bakkt het allereerste beursgenoteerde crypto-bedrijf maken, een ontwikkeling die een belangrijke mijlpaal zou zijn voor de industrie.

Met de beursgang van Coinbase die binnenkort volgt, geloven veel analisten dat als deze trend zich blijft versnellen, crypto een belangrijk onderdeel van de Amerikaanse financiën zou worden.

De timing hiervan is echter voor velen als een verrassing gekomen

Tijdens de laatste aflevering van de Axios podcast, sprak Bakkt CEO Gavin Michael met het feit dat deze deal zou betekenen dat het bedrijf naar de beurs zal gaan, zelfs voordat de app naar de beurs gaat, zeggende,

„Het zorgt voor de financiering die we nodig hebben om de app verder uit te bouwen, en om nieuwe producten te blijven stimuleren en eventuele toekomstige overnames te financieren.“

Volgens Michael, als je kijkt naar wat Bakkt probeert te bereiken, „kwam de timing hiervan perfect overeen.“ In feite, in een investeerderspresentatie die gisteren werd vrijgegeven, schetste het bedrijf financiële projecties voor de komende 5 jaar, die een verwachte CAGR van 75% onthulden, gebaseerd op de verwachtingen van meer dan 30 miljoen gebruikers tegen 2025.

Hoewel Bakkt een van de primaire handelsplatformen voor Bitcoin Futures is, is het ook populair geworden voor zijn digitale portemonnee. Gezien het recente onderzoek dat de zelfgekozen portemonneebedrijven hebben ondergaan nadat de voorgestelde regel van het Amerikaanse ministerie van Financiën vorige maand werd aangekondigd, zijn veel crypto-bedrijven er in het openbaar tegenaan gelopen.

In tegenstelling tot zijn collega’s uit de sector heeft de CEO van Bakkt echter commentaar geleverd,

Wij geloven in de noodzaak om te blijven streven naar regulering rond het gebruik van deze omgevingen als een soort „onramp“ voor het financiële systeem.

Hij wees er ook op dat Bakkt een zeer sterke AML- en KYC-aanpak heeft die „voldoet aan de regelgeving waar nu over gesproken wordt.“ Dat is niet verwonderlijk, aangezien Bakkt gesteund wordt door ICE, het bedrijf dat eigenaar is van de NYSE. Het bedrijf heeft naar verluidt een AML/KYC-beleid op bankniveau dat gepaard gaat met uitgebreide blokketenbewaking.

Gavin Michael besloot zijn punt door toe te voegen,

„We zien een concurrentievoordeel voor het platform dat we hebben samengesteld als we nadenken over de regelgeving waarbinnen we werken.“

Tot slot bevestigde de directeur ook dat, terwijl er in de loop van volgend jaar een groot aantal cryptocurrencies op het platform zullen worden aangeboden, XRP niet zal worden ondersteund en ook niet in de pijplijn is opgenomen.

Bitcoin is now ranked ninth asset in terms of market capitalization.

The main digital asset is getting closer to Alibaba and Tesla.

BTC continues to break all-time highs breaking above $ 35,000 for the first time.

Bitcoin continues a very strong rally that started at the end of 2020, briefly touching the $ 36,000 threshold before retreating.

As Bitcoin continues to set new record highs , it is also climbing the ranks of the largest assets in terms of market capitalization.

According to AssetDash , Bitcoin has overtaken the Taiwan Semiconductor Company to become the ninth largest asset in the world. The move follows last week’s news that the leading digital asset has overtaken Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway in terms of total market capitalization.

Bitcoin is climbing the ranks

With Bitcoin’s latest rally, it is quickly catching up to two other big global companies – Alibaba Group Holdings and Tesla. The two are respectively run by famous entrepreneurs Jack Ma and Elon Musk. If Bitcoin continues on its current trajectory, it should quickly overtake these two companies by market capitalization.

CME Bitcoin Futures

At the time of going to press, Bitcoin is only $ 10 billion less than to overtake Alibaba Group Holdings as the eighth asset in terms of market capitalization. This is growth that would represent only 2.6% of its current valuation.

If it outperforms Alibaba, Bitcoin would need to add an additional $ 36 billion in market cap to overtake Tesla, a move that would require additional growth of just over 7%.

Growing institutional interest

Many wonder if this bull run will follow in 2017’s footsteps, or result in as severe a correction as in subsequent years.

When it comes to Bitcoin in particular, one of the main differences between the two bull races is institutional interest. In 2017, the price was mainly carried by individual investors. With this current bull run, companies are buying for billions of dollars.

Companies and hedge funds that buy Bitcoin do so for a variety of reasons, but it mostly appears to be a way to preserve their cash reserves and act as a hedge against inflation. MicroStrategy and CEO Michael Saylor were among the first to set this precedent, investing more than $ 1 billion of MicroStrategy’s reserve holdings in Bitcoin.

Bitcoin’s total capitalization has exceeded that of Visa.

The capitalization of Bitcoin Profit is the 13th market capitalization or the 5th world currency.

The most famous cryptocurrency has become the thirteenth market capitalization in the world, overtaking Visa after crossing the symbolic threshold of 25,000 dollars

13 th world capitalization

Bitcoin’s total capitalization is $ 461.9 billion, which is two billion more than Visa’s capitalization at the time of writing.

The capitalization of BTC is calculated by multiplying its price by the total number of bitcoins in circulation. So if BTC wants to overtake Berkshire Hathaway then it will need to hit around $ 28,500.

Market capitalization ranking

That would surely irritate Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett, who called Bitcoin „rat poison“ . According to CNBC, he told his shareholders in 2018 that cryptocurrency trading was „madness.“

Bitcoin is currently the thirteenth largest asset in terms of market capitalization.

5th world currency

Today, Bitcoin’s total capitalization is around $ 462 billion. If we consider Bitcoin as an alternative to fiat money then BTC has its place in the top 10 largest currencies in the world.

Although the money supply of BTC and currencies do not have exactly the same method of calculation, we can roughly estimate the place of Bitcoin in the global currency rankings by comparing its total capitalization to the money supply of currencies.

The US dollar, euro, Chinese yuan and Japanese yen are the only fiat currencies with a total capitalization exceeding $ 1 trillion.

Thus, Bitcoin would currently be in fifth place ahead of the Indian rupee and the Russian ruble.

The main cryptomoney exchange, Binance, will start accepting deposits made with Bitcoin wallets using SegWit.

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The scalability problems in the Bitcoin Blockchain can cause many inconveniences to its users. Those who have to face high commissions and long waits to execute a transaction at BTC. This is why the SegWit protocol was created, as an attempt to reduce these problems. Making the news that the Binance exchange starts working with SegWit in the Bitcoin repositories, one of the most important in recent times.

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What is SegWit?
To understand the relevance of this news for the crypto world, we must start by understanding what SegWit is. SegWit is short for Segregated Witness, a protocol proposed by the cryptosystem company Blockstream and the Bitcoin Core team, as a new format for executing transactions in the Bitcoin chain.

SegWit was integrated as a soft fork into the Bitcoin chain. This means that it is an optional enhancement that may or may not be adopted by cryptomoney users. It aims to provide greater malleability to the transactions of the crypto-currency, and to address the problem of scalability in the same.

To solve these two problems, SegWit segregates the Bitcoins Scripts and the cryptographic signatures of the blocks with the transactions. This has the effect of providing an additional barrier to any attempt to manipulate BTC transaction serials. It also increases the speed of Bitcoin transactions, while lowering the fees paid, increasing the size of the blocks to 1.8 MB from the original 1MB limit.

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However, despite the advantages of SegWit, as it is an optional update it is not accepted by all users and companies. In fact, until now the largest cryptomoney exchange in the world, Binance, had not incorporated support in its platform for deposits with wallets that make use of SegWit. Although it did have support for withdrawals with the protocol.

This decision will allow all exchange users to send money to SegWit wallets (bech32) without any inconvenience. Despite this, Binance is responsible for clarifying that „if incompatible assets are incorrectly sent to the address, their funds will not be recoverable and will result in a permanent loss“.

The fact that Binance is starting to work with SegWit is one of the most important news of the last weeks for the crypto market. It opens new possibilities for the use of this protocol in the Bitcoin chain. And serving as a stimulus for its adoption, which could end up being the definitive solution for the scalability problem.

Bitcoin, la première et la plus grande crypto-monnaie par capitalisation boursière, a effacé les gains de la semaine précédente et est tombé en dessous de 18000 $ au milieu de sa plus forte baisse hebdomadaire depuis fin août. Le 1er décembre, BTC a atteint un nouveau sommet historique à 19915 $, mais l’élan à la hausse s’est estompé alors qu’il s’approchait de 20000 $. Actuellement, Bitcoin se situe dans une fourchette de prix relativement simple entre 17500 et 18500 dollars, car il fait face à une pression de vente.

La récente vente de Crypto Trader faisait allusion au fait que les mineurs vendaient de grandes quantités de Bitcoin sur les échanges. Cryptoquant a indiqué que l‘ indice de position des mineurs de BTC a atteint son plus haut niveau en trois mois, ce qui implique des prises de bénéfices. Le même scénario s’est déroulé en septembre, avant la chute de Bitcoin de 12000 $ à 10000 $.

Denis Vinokurov de BeQuant Exchange pense que la vente de BTC aurait pu être aggravée par la combustion de Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), ce qui signifiait que le BTC utilisé dans l’espace Defi a été vendu, deuxièmement en couvrant les flux sur le marché des options.

Voici ce que disent les analystes

Les participants au sondage Bitcoin Forecast Expert ont parié sur la consolidation de Bitcoin en dessous de 19000 $ et ne prévoient pas de passer à un nouveau sommet historique au cours des trois prochains mois.

Un analyste a noté que le graphique BTC dépeint une tendance à la baisse, comme le montrent des hauts et des bas plus bas. En outre, en déclarant qu’en général, une tendance à la baisse produira toujours des hauts et des bas plus bas jusqu’à ce qu’un fond clair soit trouvé. Basé sur de nombreux signaux baissiers, y compris la distribution potentielle de fonds sur le mont. Utilisateurs de Gox, un autre analyste pense que l‘ élan baissier de la BTC pourrait faire boule de neige vers la fin de l’année.

Au moment de la rédaction de cet article, BTC se négocie légèrement à 18321 $

Cependant, Denis Vinokurov de BeQuant a une opinion légèrement différente. Il estime que la baisse de BTC est limitée à court terme et que les perspectives pour décembre restent bonnes. Il a souligné que l’incertitude entourant le Brexit et la relance américaine soutiendra finalement Bitcoin alors que l’appétit pour les actifs risqués peut être rétabli:

«L’incertitude sur le Brexit et le plan de relance américain peut être dévastatrice au début, mais finalement positive. Attendez-vous donc à ce que la baisse soit limitée et que la stabilité se rétablisse. »

Guy Hirsch de l’échange eToro partage également un point de vue similaire sur les conséquences de la récente vente de BTC. Il a déclaré qu’historiquement, Bitcoin avait toujours affiché une forte performance en décembre, il s’attend donc à ce que les acheteurs accumulent du BTC lors de fortes baisses.

Par exemple, en 2017, Bitcoin a fait face à des turbulences vers la fin de l’année. Mais à la fin du mois de décembre, BTC a atteint un niveau record d‘ environ 20000 dollars. Bitcoin a depuis dépassé ce chiffre mais n’a pas réussi à rester plus élevé. Si la pression de vente sur BTC s’atténue dans les semaines à venir, la BTC pourrait bientôt terminer l’année sur une bonne note, a déclaré Hirsch. Hirsch a réitéré que les perspectives à long terme de la CTB sont optimistes, affirmant qu’il est logique que la CTB soit «significativement plus élevée» qu’elle ne l’est maintenant au cours des 12 prochains mois.

Les analystes soulignent qu’une cassure au-dessus de 18500 $ signifierait une cassure haussière à court terme et inciterait BTC à continuer de se redresser. Cependant, une autre baisse en dessous de 17 800 $ indiquerait qu’une tendance baissière à court terme pourrait émerger. La tendance au recul observée sur le marché boursier américain pourrait signifier que Bitcoin pourrait stagner pendant un certain temps.

The number of Bitcoins (BTCs) stored on exchange platforms is at its lowest.

And that’s rather good news for the rest of the bull run, if Glassnode is to be believed?
Investors are withdrawing their Bitcoins (BTCs) from the exchanges: why is this a good sign?
Investors are withdrawing their Bitcoins (BTCs) from the exchanges.

Figures from the Glassnode data aggregator show that the Bitcoin Evolution stored on the exchanges have reached a particularly low threshold. They had not been at this level since October 2018, more than two years ago. And as an analysis by Glassnode explains, this gives some indication of investor expectations.

Bitcoins stored on exchanges in 2020 BTC

When they want to sell, they tend to keep their Bitcoins on exchanges. Conversely, when BTC investors want to do HODL, they repatriate their Bitcoins to more secure spaces, such as „cold“ portfolios for example. This trend could therefore indicate that investors are willing to hold their Bitcoins for the long term, in order to take advantage of a possible sustainable rise in price.

Where this is particularly notable is that this was not the case during the last bull run. By 2017, the number of bitcoins stored on exchanges had soared:

Investors had sent their BTCs to the platforms to be able to sell quickly, which caused the price to drop in early 2018. The conclusion to be drawn is therefore rather positive, according to the analysis :

„The withdrawal of BTCs from the exchanges is therefore a „bullish“ sign for Bitcoin. This] suggests that investors believe that the asset still has growth potential, despite the fact that it has recently approached its all-time high. »

It is true that the market sentiment is on the whole rather optimistic. As is often the case in the midst of a bull run, analysts have gone for their predictions. A few days ago, Citibank management saw a $300,000 Bitcoin before 2022. Enough to attract big investors: we learned the same week that the 2nd richest man in Mexico had invested 10% of his liquid assets in Bitcoin (BTC)…