Kategorie: Bitcoin

Bitcoin-Wale haben die Rallye auf $48.000 angetrieben und kaufen aggressiv, wie Daten der Binance-Börse zeigen.

Der Preis von Bitcoin (BTC) stieg am 9. Februar auf über $48.000 an und hat sich seitdem konsolidiert. Analysten von Material Indicators fanden heraus, dass Wale der primäre Treiber der Rallye waren.

Dies wird weitgehend als bullisches Zeichen betrachtet. Die Wahrscheinlichkeit eines Bitcoin Pro-Tops würde steigen, wenn Kleinanleger massenhaft in den Markt einsteigen, da sowohl der Spot- als auch der Derivatemarkt überhitzt werden.

Warum treiben Wale den Preis von Bitcoin nach oben?

In den letzten Monaten haben sogenannte „Mega-Wale“ große Mengen Bitcoin zwischen $33.000 und $40.000 verkauft. Aufträge von $1 Million bis $10 Millionen stiegen signifikant über große Kryptowährungsbörsen, einschließlich Binance.

Aber als der Preis von Bitcoin begann, sich nach der Korrektur von $40.000 über $33.000 zu konsolidieren, stieg die Käufernachfrage von Walen erneut an. Die Analysten von „Material Scientist“ sagten, dass die Wale ein ungewöhnlich großes Volumen aufwiesen, etwa $150 Millionen in 24 Stunden.

Diese Metrik zeigt, dass Wale nach der Nachricht, dass Tesla BTC im Wert von 1,5 Milliarden Dollar gekauft hat, konsequent Bitcoin anhäufen. Sie sagten:

„Und schließlich, Wale sind immer noch treibende Kraft dieser ganzen Sache und sind up big-time! Warum ist blau oben so viel, könnten Sie fragen. Weil die Wale ein ungewöhnlich großes Netto-Volumen haben ($150M in den letzten 24 Stunden)! Normalerweise machen sie nur einen winzigen Bruchteil des gesamten CVD aus, aber jetzt sind sie die Mehrheit. Also war diese Bewegung auf $50k fast ausschließlich Wal-getrieben!“

Warum jetzt?

Analysten sagen, dass die Aufregung um öffentliche Unternehmen, die Bitcoin besitzen, eine positive Marktstimmung um die dominante Kryptowährung schafft.

Filbfilb, ein pseudonymer Bitcoin-Händler, sagte, dass im aktuellen wirtschaftlichen Umfeld, Aktionäre wahrscheinlich verlangen würden, dass öffentliche Unternehmen ihr Engagement sichern, nachdem Tesla das Risiko, Bitcoin zu besitzen, gesenkt hat.

Zusätzlich betonte Raoul Pal, der CEO der Real Vision Group, dass Bitcoin noch früh in seiner Rallye ist.

In Bezug auf das Mainstream-Bewusstsein ist der Bekanntheitsgrad von Bitcoin bei Gelegenheitsinvestoren generell noch gering. Im Jahr 2017 stürzten sich viele Kleinanleger auf den Kauf von Bitcoin. Pal erklärte:

„Heute hatte ich einen Zoom-Anruf mit meinen ältesten, besten Freunden, die ich seit meinem 6. Lebensjahr kenne. Einige sind wohlhabend und einige haben es schwer. Nur 2 von 12 besitzen Bitcoin und ich habe ein Jahr lang gebettelt und gefleht. Auf der anderen Seite bittet mein Yogalehrer ständig um Zahlungen in bitcoin! Früh.“

En plötslig återkomst av Tesla och SpaceX CEO har bara ett fokus: ett memebaserat altcoin som nu maskerar sig som Lion King.

Meme-baserad kryptovaluta Dogecoin ( DOGE ) fick 25% på några minuter den 4 februari efter en ny godkännande från världens rikaste man.

DOGE i nya „Elon pump“

Data från Cointelegraph Markets och TradingView visade att DOGE / USD-rebound över $ 0,05 per token på torsdag, och steg mot nya all-time highs.

Musk, som är känd för att släppa Dogecoin och Bitcoin på Twitter men för bara några dagar sedan sa att han tog en paus „ett tag“, återvände för att lägga upp en bild av en raket och månen.

„Doge“, tillade han i en efterföljande kommentar , med senare tweet som läste „Ur välkommen“, åtföljd av en doktrerad bild av Dogecoin shiba inu-maskoten som Simba i Disney-filmen „The Lion King.“

Direkt därefter hoppade Dogecoin från 0,04 dollar till lokala toppar på 0,058 dollar, medan handelsvolymen också ökade med över 100% jämfört med onsdagen.

Hashtaggen #ThanksElon började också utvecklas i USA.

Bitcoin ser $ 40.000 motstånd

Som Cointelegraph rapporterade hade Musk redan hjälpt till att driva en Dogecoin-tjur genom att lägga till befintlig hype skapad av den ökända Reddit-gruppen, r / Wallstreetbets.

I en intervju med Clubhouse beskrev han sina olika tidigare interaktioner med kryptovalutan som „skämt“, men ändå funderade han på att de bästa dagarna fortfarande kunde vänta.

”Dogecoin är uppenbart som ett skämt för att göra narr av kryptovalutor, men ödet älskar ironi,” sammanfattade han vid den tiden.

Musk träffade också rubrikerna efter att ha orsakat en Bitcoin ( BTC ) prishöjning genom att göra det till det enda objektet i hans Twitter-biografi. Det kom veckor efter ytterligare ett karakteristiskt backhanded komplimang, där han sa att Bitcoin var „nästan lika BS som fiatpengar.“

Coinbase IPO: News on pre-IPO contracts causes a stir

With Coinbase’s Wall Street debut looming, excitement is building. Now the platform is opening a secondary market for its own shareholders.

Just ahead of its Initial Public Offering (IPO), Coinbase, the largest crypto broker in the US, is causing a stir with an announcement to shareholders. It says that it is launching a secondary market for its Bitcoin Union private shares on the Nasdaq Private Market. Basically, there is nothing unusual about this move. Nasdaq Private Market is a trading venue for companies to use in the run-up to an IPO. Shareholders and investors are thus able to generate secondary capital before the actual IPO.

According to media reports, the shareholders received a message from Coinbase, according to which more precise details would be provided in an email on Monday afternoon. Coinbase filed its IPO application with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in mid-December last year. According to a report by the business portal Business Insider, the crypto exchange is working with the investment bank Goldman Sachs for this.

The IPO of a giant like Coinbase is naturally awaited with great excitement. The experts assume that Coinbase will enter the public market via a direct listing and not via a standard IPO. A great deal of investor interest seems pre-programmed. The pre-IPO contracts are already being traded on the FTX. The price is currently around 290 US dollars. The current valuation of The Block Crypto sees the stock market value of Coinbase at 70 billion US dollars, as the issue volume is to be 250 million units.

Coinbase presents impressive balance sheet

The pre-IPO contracts expire on the first day of trading, but can also be valid until 1 June 2022 at the latest. Just last Friday, the crypto trading platform published an absolutely impressive set of figures. New information on the Coinbase About page from last Friday shows that there are over 90 billion US dollars in assets on the platform as of today. In total, there are over 43 million registered users. The updated figures were collected as part of Coinbase’s 2020 Year in Review and are current as of 31 December 2020.

In this report, we take you on a comprehensive tour of the crypto asset class and share our unique perspective on how and why these institutions are engaging in the market,

wrote Brian Foster of Coinbase Institutional in the report’s cover letter.

Coinbase also has some institutional investors to thank for the huge rise in its assets. MicroStrategy and Ruffer Investment, for example, were among the institutions that used the prime brokerage service to significantly increase their bitcoin investments in recent months.

Bitcoin is over $ 40,000 after starting the new year under $ 30,000 and trading under $ 4,000 less than a year ago. The asset’s trajectory was “only up” – but could the collapse in Google search trends for the very first cryptocurrency be a sign that the bullish uptrend is about to end too?

Bitcoin’s unstoppable bull run – not unstoppable?

The world looks in amazement at the latest Bitcoin rally . Going from under $ 4,000 to over $ 40,000 in just one year is no easy feat and has required an influx of over $ 500 billion worth of capital.

Institutions seem more than happy to pay tens of thousands of dollars per coin. Throughout 2019 and early 2020, analysts used a certain signal to decipher whether a bull market had started or not – Google Trends.

In the last few months, more and more people searched for Bitcoin on Google, but now the trend has apparently started to weaken, the search queries, e.g. for buying Bitcoin cheaply, will be fewer.

Is Google Trends a „poor man’s sentiment indicator,“ as a certified financial analyst and crypto investment manager claims?

Could falling Google interest be a sign of a BTC correction?

Timothy Peterson of Cane Island Global Macro believes that if the trend on Google Trends breaks, the price of Bitcoin will soon follow suit.

The cryptocurrency is in its historically second strongest upward trend and has easily left 2017, which put the asset on the map in the first place.

The latest rally has the potential to dwarf everything 2017 was capable of and has already doubled its previous all-time high from this year. Even if the short-term trend breaks, the long-term trend is still up.

There could also be more to the collapse of Google Trends than Peterson realizes. Using Google as a sentiment barometer will become less and less effective over time.

And why? Because more and more people know exactly what Bitcoin is and what it means – there is less need to look for information about it.

Just because people stop searching for terms like „how to send an email“ doesn’t mean email is suddenly dead. At some point, technology and the search for new information about technology diverge and don’t look back any more.

At that point the technology will be widespread enough to last for the long term. Is this where Bitcoin is now – or are things about to turn around?

Un tesoro de Bitcoin creado hace más de diez años, con un valor de millones de dólares, está en marcha aparentemente de la nada.

El alijo consiste en 1.000 BTC con un valor aproximado de 26,6 millones de dólares en el momento de escribir este artículo.

Los 1.000 Bitcoin de la era Satoshi se gastaron en 20 transacciones separadas de 50 BTC cada una, por cada cadena de seguimiento de datos de los botes BTCparsers.

Las fechas de creación del BTC van del 31 de agosto al 8 de octubre de 2010. La última actividad del creador anónimo de Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, en el foro de Bitcointalk fue el 12 de diciembre de 2010.

De acuerdo con la firma de datos Glassnode de Blockchain, alrededor del 94% de los Bitcoin que están actualmente inactivos fueron minados hace más de 10 años. Glassnode revela que hay aproximadamente 1,78 millones de Bitcoin inactivos. Con 18.584 millones de Bitcoin circulando actualmente, el porcentaje de monedas inactivas es de alrededor del 9,6%.

Esta no es la primera vez este año que se ven Bitcoin de la era Satoshi en movimiento. En octubre, se gastó otro alijo de BTC de la era Satoshi que actualmente valdría algo más de 28 millones de dólares.

Un alijo más pequeño de 50 BTC minados durante la misma época también se trasladó a una bolsa de criptodólares en octubre. Algo similar ocurrió en mayo cuando 50 BTC minados en febrero de 2009 también fueron trasladados.

El 23 de abril de 2011, Satoshi reveló que se había „movido“ de Bitcoin. Se cree que él, ella o el grupo detrás de BTC ha extraído entre 600.000 y poco más de 1 millón de BTC. El movimiento de Bitcoin creado durante los primeros días se vigila de cerca ya que es un hecho poco frecuente.

El analista criptográfico Michaël van de Poppe dice que el etéreo está listo para moverse por encima de los 1.500 dólares.

El criptoinversor y analista Michaël van de Poppe está actualizando su perspectiva sobre Ethereum y compartiendo su predicción sobre cuándo la plataforma líder de contratos inteligentes alcanzará un nuevo máximo histórico.

En un nuevo vídeo, Van de Poppe dice a sus 93.000 seguidores que la ETH sigue teniendo una fuerte y constante tendencia al alza.

„Actualmente, tenemos un claro bloque que se sostiene como soporte que en realidad estamos sosteniendo como soporte y podemos ver que estamos haciendo bajos más altos, altos más altos. Había un nivel crucial para mantenerlo en 530 dólares… Lo que quiero ver que se mantenga en general es esta área alrededor de 530 dólares. Si perdemos eso, entonces tendremos la mejor zona de entrada que hicimos inicialmente aquí que está alrededor de $470, $490 a $450.“

Van de Poppe dice que la reciente fuga de Ethereum establece la segunda mayor criptocracia por encima de su máximo histórico de 1.432 dólares.

„Dado que actualmente estamos buscando aún más, tengo que rehacer los niveles de Fibonacci y entonces podrás ver que la próxima onda de impulso muy probablemente, en algún lugar del 2021, tal vez en el Q1 2021 ya, veremos un rally hacia el máximo de todos los tiempos. Esa va a ser la siguiente“.

En cuanto a ETH/BTC, el operador dice que espera que el par continúe consolidándose antes de encender un monstruoso rally de más del 125% desde su valor actual de 0,0266.

„Vemos que el nivel crucial para mantener (0,024) se mantiene en realidad. Lo más probable es que tengamos unas semanas de continuación lateral antes de que empecemos a recibir la siguiente onda de impulso. Como en general, vemos más alto alto, más bajo, más alto alto, más bajo. Lo más probable es que obtengamos una alta más alta hacia el área a 0,06“.

2020 war ein produktives Jahr für Bitcoin und dies hat zu einem massiven Anstieg der Anzahl der aktiven Wallet-Adressen in diesem Jahr geführt.

Die Erkenntnisse stammen aus dem State of the Network-Bericht von Cryptocurrency Analytics Coin Metrics, in dem die wichtigsten Erkenntnisse aus dem Weltraum im Jahr 2020 dargelegt wurden

Während Covid-19 die Volkswirtschaften auf der ganzen Welt behindert hat, erlebte der Kryptowährungsraum eine Phase großer Wiederbelebung.

Nicht mehr so, dass Bitcoin, das sich aus seinen Fesseln gelöst hat, um 2020 neue Höchststände zu erreichen .

„Rückgabe von Bitcoin“

Der Großteil des Artikels dreht sich um das Comeback-Jahr von Bitcoin und den Einfluss institutioneller Investitionen, die schließlich auf sinnvolle Weise in den Kryptowährungsraum gelangen.

In dem Artikel wurden bedeutende Investitionen von Unternehmen wie MicroStrategy, Square, MassMutual und anderen etablierten Finanzinstituten und Investoren erwähnt, die den Wertanstieg von Bitcoin vorangetrieben haben.

Eine vom Coin Metrics-Forscher Nate Maddrey identifizierte Schlüsselmetrik war die Anzahl der aktiven Bitcoin-Adressen, die von rund 600.000 aktiven Adressen um 100 Prozent auf 1,2 Millionen gestiegen ist.

Maddrey bemerkte auch, dass sich die Belohnung für den Bergbau von Bitcoin im Jahr 2020 halbierte, da dies ein zufälliger Zeitpunkt war und die US-Regierung weiterhin fiskalische Anreize setzte.

Crypt-currency fraud is a common thing, and in 2019 alone it caused investors $ 4 billion in losses. Leon Fu of TaiFu Indexes almost lost a significant amount due to fraudulent three fake sites. Fortunately, he was saved by additional security measures.

On 19 November, Fu published a tweet describing how he accessed CoinDesk’s fake site without noticing the change in the „e“ in the domain name.

This fraudulent URL is almost identical to the real URL used by Bitcoin Method.

The fake site contained the bait co link by clicking on which the user was caught in the imitation of the Cardano Foundation website, although the word „fund“ was misspelled and the domain „.io“ was replaced by „.org“.

Ha this website offered users the AdaLite stacking.

„The only thing that saved me from losing all my ADAs was that I always perform a test transaction on the first transaction.

Fortunately, Fu’s error was limited to the loss of several hundred dollars. Although he did not notice any fraudulent domains or misprints, the security measures taken protected him from serious losses.

Cryptographic fraud is so prevalent that in 2018 the SEC launched its own fake ICO, taking people to a page with tips on how to avoid fraud.

Thanks to the information provided, investors need to be particularly careful when clicking on links that involve entering financial data and making transactions. In addition, URL checking will help prevent losses.

Using a hardware wallet is also a good way to work with larger amounts. Finally, as Fu suggests, it is useful to make test transactions before transferring the entire amount – another good way to avoid fraud.

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However, there is no such thing as a free lunch.

Bancor is updating its protocol once again to overcome the insidious problem of impermanent loss, which it previously called „DeFi’s dirty little secret“.

Impermanent loss, also called divergence loss, affects exchanges based on automated market makers such as Bancor or Uniswap. It occurs when the prices of two assets in a liquidity pool diverge significantly, with one side rising or falling sharply in value.

The effect is a loss in value compared with a benchmark „buy and hold“ portfolio. Liquidity providers (LSPs) may make less money than they would have if they only had the tokens separately, even though they earn commercial rates from the protocols.

The next Bancor upgrade will solve the “Little Secret of DeFi“.
The problem is due to arbitrage traders, who are necessary for MMAs to bring their prices in line with those of other markets. However, their activity extracts value from the LPs that facilitate the exchange.

The loss was initially called „impermanent“ because if prices return to their initial state, the loss is reversed. However, even in the optimistic scenario, divergence losses reduce the additional gains that LPs would otherwise have made from price changes.

Bancor has made the elimination of the non-permanent loss Bitcoin Trader one of the key features of its second version. Its initial approach was based on oracles, which would read the actual prices of each token and make arbitrage largely unnecessary.

Report: The impermanent loss in Uniswap and other MMAs is always permanent
However, Nate Hindman, Bancor’s growth director, told Cointelegraph that this approach was finally revealed to be too risky. Oracles are slow to update and can be exploited by fast traders, he argued.

There has also been a growing realization in the industry that temporary loss is impossible to truly solve. Each solution has certain drawbacks or simply shifts the loss to someone else.

The latter approach is what Bancor is seeking with V2.1. It is introducing the concept of temporary loss insurance, which ensures that liquidity providers will receive up to 100% of their initial capital, plus accumulated commissions. The exact percentage is subject to an allocation schedule based on how long the user is providing liquidity, Hindman explained. Full coverage is reached after 100 days, but there is an initial 30-day window during which no payments will be made.

13,000 DeFi users have already claimed Uniswap’s new UNI token
The insurance claim itself is paid indirectly by the protocol and BNT holders by issuing new tokens on request, if necessary. The pools covered by this insurance and the exact vesting parameters are decided by the EU governance. The solution is somewhat similar to the way protocols such as Uniswap are currently subsidising some liquidity providers with new UNI tokens.

But in the case of Bancor, there is also a deflationary mechanism. Since all groups have NTBs as a second token, the protocol can offer liquidity provision from a single token; it simply coins the corresponding amount of NTBs required. The protocol then receives fees as a co-investor in the pool. When someone decides to supply only NTBs, the previously coined supply and accumulated tariffs are burned, resulting in a net supply restriction.

A new DeFi exchange claims to have solved an industry-wide problem
The expectation is that, with sufficient use and in periods of low volatility, tariff deflation will prevail and accumulate value for token holders.

„We consider this to be a liquidity squeeze 2.0: instead of paying LP arbitrarily to provide liquidity in our protocol, we are compensating for the individual impermanent loss incurred“.
As it is increasingly clear that loss from divergence is inevitable, future solutions may offer a spectrum of ways to spread risk across different market participants. Mooniswap, the DEX launched by the 1inch exchange team, works on a similar principle by limiting the profits that can be made by arbitrage traders.

Gangues de criminosos estão enviando atualizações falsas para proprietários de carteiras Electrum, instalando malware e roubando fundos de usuários.

Uma técnica simples ajudou gangues de crimes cibernéticos a roubar mais de US $ 22 milhões em fundos de usuários do aplicativo Electrum wallet; uma investigação ZDNet foi descoberta.

Essa técnica específica foi vista pela primeira vez em dezembro de 2018 . Desde então, o padrão de ataque foi reutilizado em várias campanhas nos últimos dois anos

A ZDNet rastreou várias contas de Bitcoin Code em que os criminosos reuniram fundos roubados de ataques que realizaram ao longo de 2019 e 2020, com alguns ataques ocorrendo no mês passado, em setembro de 2020.

Relatórios de vítimas enviados a portais de abuso de Bitcoin revelam a mesma história.

Os usuários do aplicativo de carteira Electrum Bitcoin receberam uma solicitação de atualização inesperada por meio de uma mensagem pop-up, eles atualizaram sua carteira e os fundos foram imediatamente roubados e enviados para a conta Bitcoin de um invasor.

Observando como os cibercriminosos estão roubando fundos, essa técnica funciona por causa do funcionamento interno do aplicativo de carteira Electrum e de sua infraestrutura de back-end.

Para processar qualquer transação, as carteiras Electrum são projetadas para se conectar ao blockchain Bitcoin por meio de uma rede de servidores Electrum – conhecidos como ElectrumX

No entanto, embora alguns aplicativos de carteira controlem quem pode gerenciar esses servidores, as coisas são diferentes no ecossistema aberto da Electrum, onde todos podem configurar um servidor de gateway ElectrumX.

Desde 2018, as gangues do cibercrime têm abusado dessa brecha para ativar servidores maliciosos e aguardar que os usuários se conectem aleatoriamente aos seus sistemas.

Quando isso acontece, os invasores instruem o servidor a mostrar um pop-up na tela do usuário, instruindo-o a acessar uma URL e baixar e instalar uma atualização do aplicativo Electrum wallet.

There is a metric that we report on regularly on the Journal du Coin.

It is the total balance of the exchange platforms in bitcoin (BTC) or ether (ETH). This amount has been steadily decreasing throughout the year, and we are reaching a new low.
Bitcoin, a less and less liquid asset?

One of the advantages of the traceability of the Bitcoin Machine blockchain is the transparency of the markets. Unlike traditional markets, it is possible to quantify many financial flows.

One of the metrics we are interested in is the total balance of the exchange platforms. It allows us to have an idea of the available supply, since most large exchanges have identified their cold wallets.

Since the beginning of 2020, this quantity has been constantly decreasing. We have just reached the lowest point of the year. Let’s take a look at the data from Glassnode Studio :

The foreign exchange platforms thus hold 2.55 million BTC in the first third of October 2020. This value has decreased by 14.4% since the beginning of the year. This is a level we had not reached since November 2018. This corresponds to the time when the price of bitcoin had broken its 6400 dollar support.

BTC trading balance (2017-2020)

This means that the supply of bitcoin is becoming scarce. And, unlike gold, it is not possible to mine more Bitcoin when supply is dwindling! This is therefore a sign that is considered positive for the price of Bitcoin. However, as we can see from the graph above, there is not really a clear correlation between the evolution of the balance of exchanges and the price of BTC.

Can we really interpret this metric?

Of course, making these data speak is primarily speculation. There may be several explanations for this phenomenon.

First of all, Bitcoin miners are producing half as much since the last halving. Although not all of these Bitcoins may end up on the platforms, this decrease in supply is a factor.

Second, investor behavior. They are probably more inclined to secure their Bitcoins themselves. They may use hardware wallets, or they may use custodial services for the wealthy. Similarly, early adopters have already taken large profits of between $10,000 and $20,000. These big wallets are certainly waiting for newer, higher ones to sell their leftovers. And those who bought after 10,000 dollars and are holding bravely are probably looking for a price in the tens of thousands of dollars.

Finally, Bitcoin holders are more open to decentralized finance (DeFi). Many protocols offer generous returns against BTC collateral. The Bitcoineurs have therefore probably taken advantage of the DeFi craze in recent months to make their dormant funds „fructify“.

So, is this metric really significant? Theoretically, with a constant or increasing demand, it bodes well for the course. But let’s not forget that the big traders, the whales, have an important impact on the price of Bitcoin. They regularly take a malicious pleasure in making the statistics lie.