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Craig Wright vergleicht Bitcoin mit Bernie Madoffs Ponzi Scheme: „Irgendwann gehen die Leute“

Der selbsternannte Satoshi Craig Wright besteht darauf, dass er „wahnsinnig reich“ ist, während er Bitcoin schlecht macht

In einem aktuellen Interview mit der Times vergleicht der selbsternannte Satoshi Craig Wright Bitcoin mit Bernie Madoffs 65 Milliarden Dollar schwerem Schneeballsystem und behauptet, dass die Leute laut Anon System irgendwann abspringen werden:

Der Preis steigt, weil die Leute zahlen und der Preis steigt. Aber das hält nicht ewig an. Der alte Charles Ponzi hat das auch gemacht. Und Mr. Madoff … Irgendwann gehen die Leute.

Der nChain-Chef glaubt, dass Bitcoin – von seinen Befürwortern als das digitale Gold angesehen – als Zahlungsmittel gescheitert ist:

Digitales Gold ist langweilig. Der erste Abschnitt des [Papiers] spricht über Mikrozahlungen, die der heilige Gral waren.

Obwohl er keine definitiven Beweise liefert, behauptet Wright, dass er derjenige war, der die größte Kryptowährung der Welt mit der Hilfe einiger anderer Leute geschaffen hat.

Tatsächlich behauptet er, dass seine Familie jetzt eine der reichsten der Welt ist, obwohl er nie Zugang zu seinen mysteriösen „Tulip Trusts“ hatte.

Anfang dieses Jahres 2021 war Wright in den Nachrichten, weil er Bitcoin.org und Bitcoincore.org bat, das Bitcoin-Whitepaper wegen angeblicher Urheberrechtsverletzungen herunterzunehmen. Dies löste den Streisand-Effekt aus, mit prominenten Unternehmen und sogar Regierungen, die sich entschieden, das Bitcoin-Whitepaper zu hosten.

Der selbsternannte Satoshi Craig Wright sagt voraus, dass er mehr Patente haben wird „als Tesla und Edison zusammen“

Warum Bitcoin kein Ponzi-Schema ist

Im Gegensatz zu berüchtigten Ponzi-Schemata bietet Bitcoin niemals falsche Versprechen von konsistenten oder ungewöhnlich hohen Renditen oder Dividenden wie Aktien. Seine Wertsteigerung ist abhängig vom organischen Wachstum des Netzwerks und wird von den Marktteilnehmern entschieden.

Außerdem ist das Open-Source-Projekt, das von der Blockchain-Technologie angetrieben wird, das Gegenteil von Geheimhaltung.

Während die größte Kryptowährung ihren Marsch in Richtung $50.000 fortsetzt, steht ihre zweitgrößte Abspaltung, Bitcoin SV, kurz davor, die CoinMarketCap Top 20 zu verlassen.

Se você descontar a caminhada precipitada por Elon Musk, a última semana não foi exatamente ótima para o mercado de Bitcoin . Na verdade, aos olhos de muitos, mal tem sido bom – uma percepção relativa (obviamente), fomentada pelo desempenho excessivo da maior criptomoeda do mundo entre 12 de dezembro de 2020 e 8 de janeiro de 2021.

Bitcoin, por um período de dez dias, foi estritamente rangebound

E não era só Bitcoin também, com Ethereum muito distante logo abaixo de 2018-ATH nas paradas.

No entanto, ao contrário do que os maximalistas ou proponentes da ETH querem que você acredite, há mais no cripto-mercado do que apenas Crypto Bank ou Ethereum. O desempenho recente do mercado DeFi é um caso em questão, com o Uniswap especialmente “superando” na maioria dos parâmetros.

Uniswap , um dos pioneiros dos modelos Automated Market Maker (AMM), tinha um valor Total Value Locked de mais de $ 3,20 bilhões, no momento em que este artigo foi escrito, com o DEX segurando uma participação de mercado de mais de 40% também.

No entanto, a TVL sozinha muitas vezes não é suficiente para fornecer uma imagem completa

Na verdade, conforme observado por IntoTheBlock, embora TVL muitas vezes apenas dê uma visão sobre o lado da oferta da equação, ele pode ser usado para avaliar a liquidez da plataforma.

Considere o seguinte – por dois meses, os provedores de liquidez receberam recompensas da UNI de acordo com o programa de recompensas de mineração de liquidez da Uniswap. O que aconteceu depois? Pois bem, assim que terminou o programa de incentivos, a liquidez caiu 58%.

Forskningsföretaget Cybersecurity Gemini Advisory fann att Joker’s Stash, en mörk webbkortsmarknad enligt uppgift kommer att stängas till nästa månad.

Deras blogg innehöll en anteckning från den ökända marknadsplatsens administratör som hävdade att han nu går i pension.

Anledningen till det plötsliga beslutet att stänga forumet är fortfarande okänt. Gemini Advisorys forskargrupp trodde emellertid att administratören av Joker’s Stash var en tidig förespråkare för Bitcoin som tydligen hade alla intäkter i tillgången. Mitt i kryptos rally kunde den påstådda cyberkriminella ha vunnit tillräckligt med tjurflykt som gjorde det möjligt för skådespelaren att gå i pension.

Enligt ett transkript hävdade administratören av det underjordiska betalningskortforumet:

Joker går på en välförtjänt pension. Joker’s Stash stängs. När vi öppnade för flera år sedan kände ingen oss. Idag är vi en av de största kort / dumpningsmarknaderna.

Operatören ropade till och med till „Stash-partners“ att kontakta skådespelaren för att samla in sina utbetalningar innan „vi lämnar för alltid.“

Marknaden har varit i drift sedan 2014, vilket gör den till en av de äldsta kända mörka webbenheterna. Gemini Advisory hävdade att Joker’s Stash under åren genererade cirka 1 miljard dollar i intäkter. Bara under 2020 tillfördes det påstås mer än 40 miljoner nya poster, och en stor del av dessa spårades tillbaka till större cyberattacker.

Forumet mötte problem då darknet-kunder klagade på den dåliga kvaliteten på stulna kortdata. En majoritet av dessa kort ”fungerade inte”.

Annat än en minskande användarlista förföljdes Joker’s Stash av US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), som beslagtog sina blockchain-adresser 2020. Men forumets operatörer kunde börja webbplatsen snart nog.

Dessutom hävdade administratören eller „Joker“ att ha pausat forumets aktiviteter efter att ha blivit sjuk av koronaviruset, vilket ytterligare påverkade webbplatsens popularitet.

Men slutet på kartningsforumet innebär inte att sådana aktiviteter kommer att sluta med det. Dessutom har till och med krångel på sådana marknadsplatser haft liten inverkan på olagliga mörka webbaktiviteter tidigare. Forskare tror att Jokers Stash-användare kanske inte påverkas av denna utveckling och kommer att fortsätta att bedriva sin handel någon annanstans.

Nyligen togs ned en annan mörk webbmarknad som handlade stulna kortuppgifter bland andra olagliga varor. Tysklands centrala cyberbrottsmyndigheter stänger av DarkMarkets server och håller nu sin operatör i förvar.

The extension of the comment period not only buys time for the industry, but also a completely new basis for negotiations.

After a flood of feedback, the US Treasury Department’s anti-money laundering agency has now extended the comment period for its proposed law on the supervision of crypto transactions

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has accordingly last Thursday announced that the time window is extended for further feedback. The bill in question was two days before Christmas and just under a month before the upcoming change of government input , which in addition to the content, criticism of the proposal also fierce headwind triggered the timing with respect.

The change in the law provides that the threshold for reporting obligations for crypto payment service providers, such as crypto exchanges, will be lowered for transactions with self-managed crypto wallets. This would make the interaction with such wallets more difficult or unpleasant, which is why the crypto community sees it as an attack on the peer-to-peer (P2P) basic idea of ​​Bitcoin Up.

The original feedback period was only 15 days, many of which were holidays, which made the criticism of the input even more critical

Yesterday’s expansion is therefore a first partial success for the crypto industry in the debate about the controversial law. For its part, the authority writes: „FinCEN welcomes the amount of feedback and has already checked more than 7,500 comments that have been submitted so far.“

With the change of government from Trump to Biden only five days away, there will also be a change in leadership for FinCEN. All signs point to Janet Yellen taking over as new Treasury Secretary from Steven Mnuchin. Although some voices suspect that Yellen could be just as restrictive as its predecessor towards the crypto industry, the extension of the comment period is not only a partial success in terms of content, but also a temporal one, because with the new government a new direction of the Ministry of Finance and of whose authorities go hand in hand.

In its extension, FinCEN seems to take into account that a distinction should be made with regard to the type and manner of crypto transactions. In its proposal, for example, it demands that information about the respective transaction must be obtained or passed on to the authorities for all deposits and withdrawals over US $ 10,000. In the case of international payments that flow into or out of the USA, the obligation to obtain and pass on information applies from 3,000 US dollars.

For the threshold of 10,000 US dollars, FinCEN allows 15 additional days for feedback, while for the threshold of 3,000 US dollars, 45 additional days can be submitted for comments:

“FinCEN grants feedback for a further 15 days for crypto transactions that are higher than US $ 10,000 or collectively greater than US $ 10,000 and concern self-managed wallets and wallets that fall within the scope of FinCEN. In addition, FinCEN provides 45 additional days of feedback on the requirement that banks and payment service providers obtain and store information about international payments. „

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is taking legal action against Ripple for the sale of unregistered securities for $ 1.38 billion, via XRP. As a direct consequence, the price of XRP collapses and the delisting of cryptocurrency begins on some platforms.

SEC goes to war with RIPple

It’s now official, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is taking legal action against Ripple and its cryptocurrency, XRP . Ripple CEO, Brad Garlinghouse , had already informed the community about this yesterday , saying that the SEC is wrong.

The SEC therefore files a lawsuit against Bitcoin Pro, its CEO Brad Garlinghouse and its co-founder Chris Larsen . The latter are accused of having carried out an unregistered sale of securities for an amount of 1.38 billion dollars , via XRP .

“Ripple has raised funds, starting in 2013, through the sale of digital assets known as XRP in an unregistered securities offering to investors in the United States and around the world. Ripple is also said to have distributed billions of XRP in exchange for non-monetary consideration, such as labor and market making services, ”the complaint alleges.

The SEC also adds that Brad Garlinghouse and Christ Larsen have reportedly failed to record their personal XRP sales, estimated at $ 600 million . Ripple had been in the SEC’s sights for a long time, with the company even receiving warnings even before the public rollout of its project:

“Ripple engaged in this illegal offering of securities from 2013 to present, although Ripple received legal advice as early as 2012 that in certain circumstances XRP could be considered an ‚investment contract‘ and therefore as a security under federal securities laws. “

For his part, Brad Garlinghouse believes that this is not only an attack on Ripple, but against the entire cryptocurrency industry. He believes that the SEC is doing everything to curb innovation in the United States in terms of cryptocurrencies, and that this action could be followed by others affecting various companies in the ecosystem.

Is this the end for Ripple and its XRP?

The impact on XRP is already considerable. The price of the cryptocurrency has been in free fall since yesterday and is approaching the levels of last November, with the bull run of the market. At the time of writing these lines, the XRP loses -40% over the last 24 hours , from $ 0.50 to $ 0.30 :

As a direct result of the SEC’s attack on Ripple, the Hong Kong-based exchange OSL has suspended all trading markets including XRP until further notice. For the moment, it is impossible to know if other trading platforms will also make this decision.

However, many believe that all exchanges with branches in the United States are likely to delist XRP, so as not to offend the regulators .

The battle between the SEC and Ripple is likely to be fierce and full of twists and turns. Obviously, Ripple plans to fight with all the means at its disposal. Regardless, and even if the outcome of this case is favorable to Ripple, the reputation of the company and of XRP is once again tarnished.

XRP will be hard pressed to recover, and if further delistings occur in the coming days on larger platforms like Coinbase or Binance , the result would be catastrophic for the cryptocurrency.

The MicroStrategy boss offers to tell the Tesla CEO about his Bitcoin investment strategy.

Michael Saylor, the CEO of MicroStrategy, a major software maker, who has invested $425 million in Bitcoin this year with his company, advises Elon Musk to bet on the cryptocurrency as well.

Accordingly, Saylor recommended on Twitter today that the prominent Tesla CEO convert the electric car maker’s corporate assets from U.S. dollars to Bitcoin (BTC). According to AssetDash, Tesla’s market value currently stands at a substantial $658 billion, even a fraction of which would have a massive impact on the crypto market. Rather, Musk would be sending a strong signal to „all the other companies listed in the S&P 500,“ according to Saylor.

To make this move palatable to the Tesla CEO, the MicroStrategy boss offered to tell him his „strategy.“ „From rocket scientist to rocket scientist,“ as he adds with a wink to that effect. Indeed, Saylor has a degree in rocket science from the prestigious U.S. university MIT, while Musk is researching rocket science with his second company, SpaceX.

Musk’s personal wealth is estimated to be more than $153 billion, however, as of February 2019, he had stated that he nonetheless owns only 0.25 BTC.

Although Saylor’s personal wealth is 300 times smaller at $500 million, the MicroStrategy CEO seems significantly more risk-averse when it comes to Bitcoin, as his company made arguably one of the largest investments in the cryptocurrency ever this year. And that boldness appears to be paying off, as the equivalent of the $425 million the software maker has invested in Bitcoin is expected to have nearly doubled to $24,000 as a result of the cryptocurrency’s recent surge.

When Musk asked in response to Saylor’s tweets whether a transaction of that magnitude is even possible in Bitcoin, several voices in the crypto industry spoke up at once.

Sam Bankman-Fried, the chief executive of Hong Kong-based crypto trading platform FTX, responded that Musk could „unwind such an investment over the course of a week,“ while Gemini co-founder Tyler Winklevoss interjected that there is „enough liquidity to make it happen.“

However, gold advocate and bitcoin critic Peter Schiff warned Musk against investing in the cryptocurrency’s „Ponzi scheme.“ He said the Tesla CEO should not blacken his shareholders the same way MicroStrategy did.

Since the software maker initially invested $250 million in Bitcoin in August, Saylor has become a big proponent of Bitcoin. Accordingly, he calculated, for example, that a tech company like Apple could gain more than $100 billion in market value just by investing in the cryptocurrency.

„The big tech companies need to incorporate Bitcoin into their products to stay competitive,“ as Saylor opined this Friday. To which he added, „All companies need to convert their assets into Bitcoin to remain solvent in the future.“

The increase in crypto-derivative trading is likely to continue in the midst of the bull market.

Some of the biggest names in the blockchain space have supported a new exchange of cryptomoney derivatives, indicating that the next bull market could be driven by institutional investors.

DeFi tokens record triple-digit gains as Bitcoin price seeks support
The Globe crypto-derivative platform raised USD 3 million in initial investments to launch its Globe Derivative Exchange. The new platform aims to attract institutional investors to the world of crypto currency. Early stage investors in the new Bitcoin Revolution company include billionaire Tim Draper, blockchain investment fund Pantera Capital and venture capital firm Y Combinator.

Pantera executive Paul Veradittakit cited the growing institutional interest in cryptomonies as one of the main reasons his company decided to invest in Globe.

In a quote shared with Cointelegraph, Veradittakit said:

„We are seeing a wave of interest in crypto assets from major banks, financial technology companies and portfolio managers. Globe has created the platform and products that these sophisticated market players need and expect (…) We are excited to support the Globe team in delivering a next generation platform for the crypto financial system“.
Globe has developed its own matching and risk engine, which it calls Thor. The company says Thor was built by engineers from leading financial services companies, including JP Morgan, BAML, Citibank, UBS and Getco.

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Crypto-derivative trading has soared this year, with BitMEX, HuobiDM, OKEx and Binance futures all experiencing large increases in volumes. The increase in derivatives is just one of the many ways the digital asset industry has evolved over the past three years.

A recent report from the Kraken cryptomoney exchange found that derivatives are „now at least 4.6 times the size of the spot volume“ and this trend is expected to continue.

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Kraken says that the use of leverage is one of the greatest attractions of derivatives platforms. On its official website, Globe claims to offer free leverage of up to 100 times.