Kategorie: Bitcoin

Verdipapirtilsynsmyndigheter ‚under under sa at de er åpne for en Bitcoin ETF, så lenge investorer er beskyttet av de riktige reglene.

Den australske verdipapir- og investeringskommisjonen har avklart sin posisjon angående Bitcoin ( BTC ) -bundne børshandlede fond

I følge en 12. februar- rapport fra Australian Financial Review adresserte kommisjonen temaet etter å tidligere avvise et Bitcoin ETF-initiativ fra det lokale selskapet Cosmos Capital.

I henhold til rapporten hevdet konsernsjef James Manning at ASIC „har en policy – som de ikke har gitt ut – som sier at de ikke vil ha et børshandlet produkt, en MIS, notert på en børs.“

ASIC-kommisjonær Cathie Armor fortalte imidlertid senatets utvalgskomité for finansiell teknologi fredag ​​at en Bitcoin ETF er mulig, så lenge det er passende regler på markedet der det handles:

“For at alle produkter skal bli sitert på børser i Australia, må det bestemte markedet ha regler som letter tilbudet av produkter […] Ikke alle markeder har regler som gjør det. […] Disse produktene kan gjøres tilgjengelig for australiere gjennom et administrert investeringsregime, og australiere kan investere i disse produktene på den måten. “

Armor sa at en Bitcoin ETF kan falle inn under Australian Securities Exchange AQUA Rules, som er spesielt designet for investeringsordninger som forvaltede fond, ETFer og andre produkter.

Armour bemerket at National Stock Exchange of Australia, som Cosmos forsøkte å notere sitt produkt på, ikke har slike regler.

Australske Securities Exchange-sjef Dominic Stevens sa at ASX har tatt en forsiktig tilnærming til kryptokurrerelaterte produkter, men vurderer dem. „Bitcoin-verdenen har endret seg siden forrige løp, og magefølelsen min domineres av mer virksomhetsaktiviteter og institusjoner,“ sa han.

Steve Vallas, leder av Blockchain Association of Australia, fortalte Cointelegraph at skiftet i regulatoriske holdninger representerer et stort signal for krypto-adopsjonen i landet:

“Det første trinnet mot adopsjon […] er åpen kommunikasjon og vilje fra myndighetene til å diskutere muligheten, implikasjonene og risikoen forbundet med oppføringen av produkter som en ETF. Meldingen som overføres fra ASIC er et veldig viktig signal til sektoren og er velkomne nyheter for alle involverte i sektoren. ”

Cosmos Capital planlegger nå angivelig å notere sin Bitcoin ETF på ASX, som potensielt kan bli Australias første ETF knyttet til Bitcoin. Cosmos svarte ikke umiddelbart på Cointelegraphs anmodning om kommentar.

Virksomheden til forvaltning af kryptokurrency har nu mere end fordoblet sit AUM på fem måneder.

Grayscale, en større kryptokurrencyfondsforvalter, har lige set sine aktiver under forvaltning klatre til 7,3 milliarder dollars.

Det meste af dets portefølje består af Bitcoin Future, men dets Litecoin-produkt klarede sig bedst i sin seneste opdatering.

Kapitalforvalteren har nu set sit AUM mere end det dobbelte siden maj

Grayscale Investments, et af de største kryptokurrency investeringsselskaber og kapitalforvaltere, har netop set sine aktiver under forvaltning (AUM) hoppe til over $ 7 mia.

I henhold til en Twitter-opdatering, der blev offentliggjort den 22. oktober, tilføjede Grayscale $ 300 millioner til sin AUM på en dag og har nu mere end 6 milliarder dollars i BTC i sin Bitcoin-tillid, mens Ethereum-tilliden nu ligger på $ 942 millioner.

Samlet set forvalter Grayscale nu tilsammen 7 forskellige milliarder dollars i ni forskellige kryptovalutaer: Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Ethereum (ETH), Ethereum Classic (ETC), Horizen (ZEN), Litecoin (LTC), Stellar Lumens (XLM), XRP og Zcash (ZEC).

PayPal’s overgang til krypto sender priserne skyhøje

Grayscales AUM er nu steget mere end 1 mia. $ I den sidste uge. Det falder sammen med et bullish rally på kryptokurrencymarkedet efter nyheden om, at PayPal vil begynde at støtte køb og overførsler af kryptokurrency , og er i forhandlinger om potentielt at købe BitGo – en digital formue for opbevaring af aktiver og firmaet bag Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) -produktet.

Bitcoin Too Strong for States? – The recent arrival of institutional investors in the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency market has not gone unnoticed. Neither in terms of price increases, nor with regulators around the world. It is even the former CEO of the mega-bank Goldman Sachs who says it!

When Bitcoin gives regulators a cold sweat

Lloyd Blankfein is the former CEO of multinational banking firm Goldman Sachs , which he led from 2006 to 2018. In an interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box show , the businessman was asked about the sassy success of Bitcoin (BTC).

Étant women passif très sceptique of Lloyd Blankfein concernant le roi des cryptomonnaies, on net pas qu’il utilize the conditionnel , but the ADMET tout de même que désormais Bitcoin „Stadium Walking“ .

He goes even a little further by acknowledging that the famous cryptocurrency could give a twist to the various government agencies:

“If I were a regulator, at the moment, I would be hyperventilating in front of the success of this project, and I would arm myself to better cope with it. “

Bitcoin may be a store of value, but …

The former CEO of Goldman Sachs explains that good currency is supposed to be a medium of exchange and a store of value .

Despite the high volatility of BTC prices, he wants to recognize – in part – this last quality of safe haven to the invention of Satoshi Nakamoto:

“It is a store of value, but a store of value which can even see its price move by 10% in one day (…). “

The fact of risking losing your private key , or having it stolen , also seems problematic. But the biggest problem for Lloyd Blankfein is that regulators are, with the growing success of Bitcoin, increasingly annoyed by the pseudo-anonymous nature of transactions on this network. A very thorough regulatory framework thus seems inevitable.

“You don’t know if we give money to the North Koreans, or to Al-Qaida, or even to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (…) [regulation] is conceivable, but it will undermine that freedom and that lack of transparency that people appreciate in the first place. So this is the whole puzzle that Bitcoin will have to face. „

The IOTA Foundation wants to come up with two global standards for the Internet of Things by the middle of the year.

IOTA is pursuing nothing less than becoming the future industry standard for the age of the Internet of Things (IoT). In order to lend teeth to this claim, the Foundation has therefore been a member of the Object Standardisation Group (OMG), a consortium that deals with the development of IT standards, for some time.

The OMG members meet quarterly to discuss IT standardisation issues for a week, submit proposals and issue requests for proposals (RFPs) for concrete programming issues. IOTA is part of the Blockchain Platform Special Interest Group (Blockchain PSIG), an interest group dedicated to standardisation issues in the field of distributed ledger technologies. With Mike Bennet, IOTA provides the chairman of the Blockchain PSIG.

On the IOTA blog, Bennet has now given an update on IOTA’s standardisation efforts. Specifically, it is about the last meeting of the OMG, which took place in December. Bennet focuses on four topics.

IOTA wants to deliver Coordicide specifications
First, there is news on IOTA 2.0 (aka Coordicide). The Foundation has developed several formal specifications to make the IOTA protocol stable enough to move into the post-coordicide era. A corresponding Request for Comment (RFC) is to be submitted in the middle of the year. The RFC procedure, which dates back to the times of the Internet’s predecessor Arpanet, is used, among other things, to define new Internet standards. Examples of RFCs are the Internet protocols IPv6, HTTP or TCP. It will be interesting to see whether IOTA will succeed in entering this league with its specifications.

Encrypted transaction flows
In addition to the announced RFC, IOTA also has a proposal for an OMG RFP up its sleeve. The RFP is about a standard for Linked Encrypted Transaction Streams (LETS). IOTA plans to submit its IOTA Streams solution, a framework for sending and receiving messages and data streams.

One-way digital identity
Digital identity is another hobbyhorse of IOTA. Specifically, it is about Self-Sovereign Identities, (SSI). These are (digital) identities that can be created, controlled and managed without an intermediary.

Within the OMG, a solution is currently being considered for the creation of single-use identities – SSIs that, as Bennet explains, „are created for specific contexts and then disposed of.“ The OMG is collecting ideas and information on the topic from its members through an RFI (Request for Information) until 31 March. The IOTA Foundation plans to contribute its expertise to the consultation.

Identifiers for crypto assets
Finally, a last IOTA-relevant topic was brought forward by the OMG’s internal Finance Domain Task Force (FDTF). This concerns the extension of a standard used to identify financial instruments: FIGI (Financial Instrument Global Identifier). The FIGI standard is used by numerous stock exchanges, including the New York Stock Exchange NYSE. It provides financial instruments such as shares, derivatives or government bonds with a unique 12-digit identification number. The French company Kaiko, a provider of crypto financial market data, has been tasked with extending the FIDI standard to the crypto sector in the future.

IOTA: „On a good path“
Mike Bennet is confident that important milestones in IoT standardisation can be reached this year:

IOTA is on a good path towards standardisation. In addition to our standard for Coordicide, we will also submit IOTA Streams as the basis for a standard this year. Our involvement in the Object Management Group continues to pay dividends.

Bennet concludes. If IOTA does indeed manage to submit the Coordicide RFC on time, it could be a hot summer for the IoT project.

Wraz z resztą rynku kryptowalut, bitcoin konsoliduje się dziś po kilku dniach intensywnych turbulencji.

Wiodąca na świecie kryptowaluta odzyskała równowagę po niedawnej masowej wyprzedaży, w wyniku której spadła poniżej 40 000 USD po tym, jak wkroczyły byki i pochłonęły napływ presji sprzedaży, umożliwiając BTCUSD gwałtowny wzrost.

W chwili pisania tego artykułu flagowy handel kryptowalutami za 40414 USD za dane z CoinMarketCap.

Nawet jeśli trend wzrostowy BTC do pewnego stopnia spowolnił, moneta królewska zaimponowała inwestorom swoją zwyżkową tendencją, dzięki której osiągnęła dwukrotnie swój poprzedni rekord wszechczasów.

Niedawna podwyżka tylko zapewniła, że więcej oczu zwraca się na Bitcoin , rozciągający się od Wall Street do handlu detalicznego. Wydaje się, że wartość BTC wzrośnie jeszcze bardziej w nadchodzących tygodniach i miesiącach, ponieważ jego zakodowana na stałe rzadkość nadal powoduje szok podażowy w obliczu rosnącej globalnej inflacji.

Altcoiny zyskują na wartości w USD

Ponieważ bitcoin nadal rośnie w górę w pełnym parabolicznym rajdzie napędzanym rosnącą presją kupna, wielu inwestorów zwróciło się w kierunku tańszych altcoinów.

Wynikiem większego napływu kapitału do alternatyw BTC był widoczny trend wzrostowy i aprecjacja cen na parach głównych altcoinów w USD, takich jak ETH, ADA i LINK.

Trwający trend wzrostowy altcoin po nieustannym rajdzie BTC w niczym nie przypomina tego, co było świadkiem w poprzednich latach. Trend ten skłonił jednego analityka do stwierdzenia, że ​​rynek kryptowalut znajduje się obecnie na „niezbadanym terytorium”.

„BTC popycha rynek altcoinów na nieznanym terytorium. Pary USD zarabiają, podczas gdy pary BTC nadal osiągają najniższe wartości. Nie zdarzyło się to wcześniej w takiej skali makro ”- napisał na Twitterze analityk .

ETH Faces podniosło presję sprzedaży blisko 1300 USD

W międzyczasie cena ETH umocniła się i spadła nieco niżej po tym, jak byki walczyły o uzyskanie znacznego rozpędu poza regionem średnio 1200 USD. Każde dążenie do 1300 USD wywołało wielokrotne odrzucenia, a presja sprzedaży okazała się intensywna.

To powiedziawszy, jeden z analityków przewiduje, że byki mogą być dobrze przygotowane do katalizowania dalszych wzrostów w nadchodzących dniach i tygodniach.

Trader SmartContractor niedawno przedstawił argumenty przemawiające za celowaniem ETH w region o niższych wartościach 2000 USD w średnim okresie, dodając, że nie byłby zaskoczony, gdyby moneta wspięła się znacznie wyżej.

Apple has always been hostile to applications dedicated to cryptocurrency. On its App Store, the American firm imposes a battery of very strict rules on crypto services available on iOS under the pretext of protecting users. But for Coinbase, the iPhone maker mainly seeks to protect its own financial interests. And Apple is not alone in the case. Explanations.

Coinbase accuses Apple of slowing down cryptocurrency adoption

On September 11, 2020, Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase , posted a broad rant against Apple on his Twitter account. The founder of the exchange accuses the smartphone maker of wanting to curb the adoption of cryptocurrencies .

For the leader, the smartphone giant is preventing application developers, as well as iPhone and iPad users, from generating money with cryptocurrencies for no good reason.

“Why would Apple want to prevent people from making money during a recession? They seem to disagree with it if people go through Crypto Bank, ”Armstrong regrets.

The CEO of Coinbase especially regrets that Apple prohibits users of crypto applications from generating crypto-assets with their devices . Apple thus prohibits applications that mine cryptocurrency by relying on the power of the iPhone processor. To be accepted on the App Store, the application must perform the calculations necessary for cryptocurrency mining on remote computers.

A few weeks earlier, Brian Armstrong already regretted that Apple was blocking decentralized applications (decentralized applications in English, abbreviated as dApps) from the App Store in another thread on Twitter. To comply with Apple’s policy on its store, Coinbase has also had to remove the decentralized applications browser (dApps) from Coinbase Wallet . Based on a blockchain, dApps are resistant to censorship. They offer a multitude of different offers to people interested in cryptocurrencies. For example, services like Maker allow you to borrow stablecoins .

“Apple told us that we can’t provide a list of decentralized apps (which are really just websites) to iOS users,” the Coinbase executive continued.

To better understand the bans put in place by Apple, Coinbase called the Californian giant to account. The firm’s response was terse: “Your application offers cryptocurrency transactions in software that is not integrated into the application, which is not appropriate for the App Store” .

Apple visibly refuses that iPhone users are relayed to services not included in iOS . Likewise, the firm prevents its users from installing applications outside of its App Store. True to its reputation, the firm founded by Steve Jobs seeks to control the user experience on its devices from A to Z.

The restrictions imposed by the App Store

In fact, Apple has set up ultra rigid regulations for developers wishing to offer applications on the App Store. Thus, Apple notably prohibits applications which are not finalized, which incite hatred, which do not sufficiently detail their operation or their usefulness or which request access to user data without a valid reason. Finally, the firm also excludes applications that highlight terms such as „free“ in a too ostentatious way. Apple believes that these terms could be used to mislead iOS users.

In order to protect its users from viruses, scams, or poor quality services, Apple requires developers to submit their apps to a team of moderators . These will ensure that all the rules of the App Store are respected. To verify that the submission is not from automated software, Apple then assigns an employee to contact the developers by phone.

“When users install an app from the App Store, they want to be sure that it is safe to do so, that the app does not contain shocking or offensive content, will damage their device, and cause no physical damage when in use, ”Apple argues in the list of rules imposed on developers.

Los precios de Bitcoin cayeron casi 1000 dólares en la víspera del Día de Acción de Gracias, registrando sus peores caídas en tres semanas mientras los comerciantes se enfrentaban a condiciones de sobrecompra y rumores de regulaciones más estrictas.

La criptodivisa insignia alcanzó un mínimo intradía de 17.150 dólares en las primeras horas del lunes en Asia, más del 12 por ciento menos que el máximo del año hasta la fecha de 19.500 dólares establecido un día antes. La caída fue acompañada de menores volúmenes y un oscilador de impulso atenuado, lo que sugiere que el mercado se estaba simplemente enfriando después de haber subido implacablemente durante siete semanas seguidas.

Sin embargo, la venta del mercado de Bitcoin Machine se aceleró, especialmente después de que el famoso Brian Armstrong advirtiera sobre las regulaciones más estrictas de la criptografía en los Estados Unidos.

LAS CARTERAS FRÍAS EN PELIGRO

En un hilo de Twitter, el director ejecutivo dijo que su empresa „escuchó rumores“ acerca de los planes del Secretario del Tesoro de EE.UU. Steven Mnuchin de introducir nuevas normas para la „auto-custodia de carteras“ al final de su mandato.

La naturaleza abierta de las criptodivisas permite a cualquiera crear una cartera privada descargando software de terceros en sus ordenadores/smartphones o a través de dispositivos de hardware que almacenan activos digitales. Este tipo de soluciones de auto-custodia son más baratas que los servicios financieros tradicionales – y aseguran la privacidad.

Pero la regulación que se rumorea parece limitar muchas de esas características. El Sr. Armstrong señaló que, si el Sr. Mnuchin aprobaba la ley, tendrían que verificar la identidad de cada usuario que descargara su cartera de programas informáticos. Esto podría poner en peligro su privacidad financiera.

„El reglamento parece una idea razonable a primera vista“, explicó. „Sin embargo, es una mala idea en la práctica porque a menudo no es práctico recopilar información de identificación de un destinatario en la economía del criptograma“.

TOROS BITCOIN DEFENSIVOS

A pesar de la creciente incertidumbre del Tesoro de los EE.UU., Bitcoin ha tenido un atractivo repunte al alcanzar los 17.150 dólares.

El BTC/USD recuperó alrededor del 4 por ciento de sus pérdidas inmediatamente después de la caída, dejando atrás una larga mecha famosa por llamar a la fuga falsa se mueve hacia fuera. Esto significa que los operadores siguen siendo optimistas a corto plazo en Bitcoin, creyendo que la criptodivisa seguirá subiendo en medio de un entorno macroeconómico favorable.

„La media de entrada de todos los intercambios aumentó hace unas horas“, dijo Ki-Young Ju, el CEO de la plataforma de análisis de datos CryptoQuant. „Indica que las ballenas, relativamente hablando, depositaron BTC en las bolsas. Pero los indicadores de largo plazo en la cadena dicen que la presión de compra prevalece. Sigo pensando que podemos romper los 20 mil en unos pocos días.“

Mientras tanto, algunos operadores esperaban que el precio siguiera bajando antes de encontrar un nivel de soporte para intentar un rebote hacia los 20K$.

IOTA is making progress. The development team conveyed this message last week in a blog post published on November 19. Jakub Chech, the Director of Engineering, spoke in the weekly Chrysalis update about the steps of phase 2. Let’s take a quick look at the IOTA news.

IOTA News: Update on Chrysalis from Jakub Chech

The transformation from IOTA towards IOTA 2.0 is a constant and long-lasting process. Therefore, the Foundation tries to present the state of affairs in regular IOTA news and updates.

Transparency and communication should maintain trust in investors and show which specific measures are being worked on.

After IOTA had already reached an important milestone with Chrysalis Phase 1 in the eyes of this year, the engineers are now working on the implementation of Phase 2.

In the current IOTA News it is now announced that significant progress has been made in developing a wallet for Chrysalis phase 2.

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Chrysalis Phase 2 brings new wallet and replaces Trinity

A new wallet is to be implemented with Chrysalis 2, which will replace the existing Trinity wallet.

We would like to provide a first alpha version for the community in the next few weeks.

The development work is currently still running on private test networks. However, they want to create public test networks and make them accessible as soon as possible.

The IOTA News emphasizes that you work with external auditing companies to ensure a high level of quality and to guarantee a smooth process.

Jakub Chech informs with the current blog post about the current state of affairs and confirms the self-declared goal of the so-called „Mission Coordicide“.

What is your opinion on the current IOTA news? – Are you still following the development of the project and what opportunities do you give the development of IOTA?

Dans sa lettre du 29 octobre aux institutions financières réglementées, Linda Lacewell, la surintendante du Département des services financiers de l’État de New York (NYDFS), a exposé ses attentes concernant l’atténuation des risques causés par la crise du changement climatique.

Outre les banques et les compagnies d’assurance, elle concerne également les entreprises de cryptologie monétaire, que Mme Lacewell invite à être plus transparentes quant à l’emplacement exact de leurs opérations et équipements miniers de Bitcoin.

L’algorithme de consensus de la preuve du travail (PoW) utilisé par Bitcoin, Ethereum et certaines autres cryptocurrences nécessite une puissance de calcul importante pour résoudre des tâches mathématiques complexes et trouver de nouveaux blocs.

La lettre fait référence à de nombreuses études qui ont estimé l’impact environnemental de l’exploitation minière. Selon l’une d’entre elles, les émissions globales de CO2 de Bitcoin sont égales à celles du pays de la Nouvelle-Zélande.

La première monnaie cryptographique produit également plus de déchets électroniques que le Luxembourg, avec 98 % des ASIC qui devraient devenir obsolètes.

Les entreprises de monnaie virtuelle devraient envisager d’accroître la transparence de l’emplacement et des équipements utilisés dans l’extraction du bitcoin afin de contribuer à atténuer ces préoccupations. On rapporte également que le coût de l’énergie pour l’extraction des monnaies virtuelles est considérable par rapport à la valeur des monnaies virtuelles.

Alors que 2020 s’annonce comme l’année de l’adoption par les entreprises, Lacewell avertit que les sociétés de cryptographie pourraient perdre des clients institutionnels si elles ne tiennent pas compte des risques liés au climat.
Cependant, elle note également que les sociétés minières se tournent activement vers les ressources énergétiques durables :

Des données suggèrent que certains crypto-mineurs font des progrès vers l’utilisation de méthodes alternatives et durables de production d’énergie pour atténuer ce risque.

Selon une étude publiée en septembre par l’université de Cambridge, l’énergie verte représente 39 % du total du hashrate de Bitcoin, l’Amérique du Nord utilisant le plus large éventail de ressources.