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De crypto-industrie lijkt te bruisen van potentieel, gezien bevestigde en mogelijke benoemingen in de Biden-administratie.

Terwijl de Senaat van de Verenigde Staten begint met het bevestigen van leidende posten in de handel en de schatkist, is er als reactie een zinvol momentum in de cryptogemeenschap. Dit komt door de profielen van verschillende personen die naar verluidt zijn genomineerd, evenals door de verwachte economische maatregelen door de komende regering – die beide naar verwachting een positieve impuls zullen geven aan de groei van cryptovaluta.

Hoewel er een paar officiële benoemingen zijn gemaakt en er nog tal van bevestigingen in behandeling zijn, bevinden andere zich nog in de nominatiefase. Laten we een snelle lus door het moeras maken.

De schatkist

Janet Yellen , bevestigd met 84 stemmen, zal aan het roer staan ​​van de schatkist. Tijdens haar bevestigingshoorzitting schetste Yellen haar steun voor Biden’s agenda, die een waarschijnlijke verhoging van de belastingen voor de rijken omvat, ‚de dollar steunen‘ om de dollar te stabiliseren te midden van pogingen om de huidige waarde te ondermijnen door middel van marktmanipulatie in het buitenland, en de stabilisatie van de Amerikaanse economie te midden van de huidige wereldwijde COVID-19-pandemie. Wat crypto betreft, heeft Yellen tijdens haar bevestigingshoorzittingen niet direct ingegaan op haar benadering van regulering in de ruimte; Ze zei echter wel dat legitiem gebruik van cryptocurrency moet worden aangemoedigd, zoals middelen om dit soort gedecentraliseerde financiering te gebruiken om „de efficiëntie van het financiële systeem te verbeteren „.

Beveiligingen en Uitwisselingen Commissie

Een afspraak waar de cryptogemeenschap bijzonder enthousiast over is , is Gary Gensler , die eerder onder president Barack Obama voorzitter was van de Commodity Futures Trading Commission en onder president Bill Clinton als Treasury-functionaris. Nadat hij blockchain-technologie eerder „een katalysator voor verandering“ had genoemd, was Gensler openhartig over het belang van cryptocurrencies en heeft hij verklaard dat er een „sterke reden“ is om XRP te classificeren als een beveiliging. Hij was ook zeer uitgesproken over hoe blockchain-technologie betalingsproblemen in de Verenigde Staten zou kunnen oplossen.

Als de verwachte voorzitter van de Securities and Exchange Commission, zal Gensler in een uitstekende positie verkeren om steun te verzamelen achter een digitale valuta van de Amerikaanse centrale bank, met name gezien de institutionele belangstelling voor dit product. Gensler zou ook een belangrijke rol spelen bij brede overheidsmaatregelen op crypto en blockchain, zoals de overweging van een Bitcoin ( BTC ) exchange-traded fund, en hij zal naar verwachting het sentiment in zijn voordeel veranderen. Momenteel is hij professor in de praktijk aan het Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, doet Gensler onderzoek en doceert hij blockchain-technologie, digitale valuta, financiële technologie en openbaar beleid.

Bovendien wordt het vertrek van SEC-voorzitter Jay Clayton ook verwelkomd door cryptoliefhebbers, aangezien hij berucht was om zijn scepsis tegenover de digitale financiële sector. Nu Clayton een stap opzij zet, in combinatie met zijn anti-crypto-vooroordelen, ligt de weg open voor Bitcoin ETF’s om werkelijkheid te worden.

Er is al een reeks financiële instellingen onder leiding van Fidelity en beleggingsondernemingen die aanvragen voor Bitcoin-fondsen in behandeling hebben bij de SEC en die druk zullen uitoefenen op Gensler wanneer hij aantreedt.

After Ethereum’s absolute historical highs, today sees a clear prevalence of red signs.

There is confirmation of further profit-taking accompanying prices downwards.

A decline that is not worrying at the moment but that is starting to give signals, especially for Bitcoin, that traders have taken advantage of the climb above $40,000 to take profit.

The descent comes less than 24 hours after new all-time highs for Ethereum, which yesterday updated its absolute all-time high to $1,439 (Bitfinex data), albeit by a few dollars. It is an all-time high that sees the third highest volume peak in Ethereum’s history with Bitcoin Loophole over $11 billion traded.

In contrast, for Bitcoin, as well as most other altcoins, yesterday was not a particularly busy day with Bitcoin trading just over $8 billion. This is a sign that generally indicates a time for reflection.

Today sees over 90% of cryptocurrencies in negative territory. Among the top 25 there is only one green sign, that of Vechain (VET), which is up 7%, the only counter-trend of the day today.

Hedera Hashgraph (HBAR) jumped up 39%, followed by Enjin Coin (ENJ), which rose 19%. Third place on the podium for Ren, which gained just under 10%.

Despite the weakness of the last few hours, the market cap remains above $1 trillion with Bitcoin confirming its 65% dominance, while Ethereum retains 14%.

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DeFi’s TVL retreats as the market steps back. Total Value Locked declines to just under $25 billion. Maker continues to confirm its leadership. Aave and Compound follow.

Bitcoin breaks the triangle that had been formed in recent days to the downside, with prices in these hours going to test the most important trendline, trendline that joins the rising lows from mid-December and that passes to today’s lows, dynamic support levels.

This is a technical signal to be followed carefully throughout the day. A further extension below 34,000 would begin to give the first sign of short-term weakness after 5 weeks of strong rises.

This is a technical signal that is only valid in the short term, while in the medium term there is room for a fearless descent to the $29,000 area. In the current situation, a bullish signal would only be given with prices below $40,000.

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Ethereum (ETH), falling after historic highs
Ethereum, after the new historical records, sees prevailing profit-taking that make the quotations retreat in the area of $ 1,300.

At the moment, there are no danger signals even in the short term. They would only develop with quotations below 1,100 dollars.

Der Bitcoin Core 0.21.0 ist nun live, wie ein Update am 15. Januar gezeigt hat.

Eine sichere und private Grundlage für Bitcoin schaffen

Die neueste Iteration der Bitcoin-Implementierung führt mehrere Änderungen ein, die das Fundament für ein sichereres, privateres und robusteres Netzwerk legen.

Nach der Veröffentlichung von 0.21.0 können Betreiber von Full Nodes und Miner nun feststellen, dass diese Version das neueste Adressformat von Tor unterstützt und Gebühren manuell in Satoshi gesetzt werden können. Damit entfällt die Notwendigkeit, einen Gebührenschätzer zu verwenden.

Es steht ihnen auch frei, den Taproot-Code auf dem Bitcoin-Signet zu testen, obwohl zwei Monate nach der Einbindung des Quellcodes noch einige Änderungen vorgenommen wurden.

Taproot Code zum Testen verfügbar

Verständlicherweise macht der Zustrom von neuen Nutzern, hauptsächlich Investoren, die ein sichereres und privateres Netzwerk fordern, Änderungen am Kern notwendig.

Eine der am meisten erwarteten Änderungen im Bitcoin-Kern ist Taproot.

Es soll über einen Soft Fork aktiviert werden und soll die Funktionsweise der Bitcoin-Skripte verändern, vor allem im Hinblick auf die Privatsphäre.

Vorteile von Taproot

Ohne Taproot wird es einfacher sein, Transaktionen mit komplexen Vorgängen zu verfolgen.

Allerdings werden diese speziellen Transaktionen getarnt sein, was bedeutet, dass es für Dritte schwieriger sein wird, Änderungen zu verfolgen, da sie homogener mit anderen Transaktionen sein werden. Das macht es für Parteien praktisch schwieriger, zu wissen, ob das Skript überhaupt läuft.

Zusätzlich wird Taproot weitere Änderungen einführen, die Bitcoin skalierbarer und sicherer machen, ohne umstrittene Layer-2-Optionen. Zum Beispiel werden mehr Transaktionen in einen Block gepackt, was zu einer Verbesserung des Durchsatzes auf der Basisschicht führt.

Taproot soll im Laufe des Jahres implementiert werden.

Es wird im Wesentlichen das erste große Upgrade in Bitcoin seit über drei Jahren sein, nachdem die umstrittene SegWit 2X Hard Fork Bitcoin Cash hervorgebracht hat.

Kombiniert mit Bitcoins Unterstützung von Tor V3 Adressen, legen die Entwickler eine solide Grundlage, die Bitcoin letztendlich zum sichersten und privatesten Bitcoin machen wird.

Zunehmend wird die Macht vom Volk verlagert. Die Verfügbarkeit einer besseren Alternative, die von den Massen beherrscht wird, bedeutet jedoch Freiheit von der Kontrolle durch Dritte.

Wie BTCManager berichtet, ist die Krypto-Gemeinschaft zuversichtlich, dass die Preise weiter steigen werden, wenn Joe Biden die Zügel in die Hand nimmt und die Wirtschaft mit Milliarden an Stimuli ankurbeln wird.

Another complaint has been made about XRP.

The complainant claims Coinbase owes him commissions because the platform knowingly sold a security.

This topic enters controversial legal territory and needs to be watched closely.

A Coinbase customer filed a collective complaint alleging that the exchange should have known that XRP was a security. What does he hope to gain for himself and for all Bitcoin Cycle customers?

Coinbase: new trial for XRP

Client Thomas Sandoval hopes to recoup some of his losses from XRP by suing Coinbase. Since Ripple Labs announced it was being sued by the US government, the token’s price has fallen.

For their part, major exchanges, including Bittrex , have said they will remove XRP from their rating shortly thereafter. Coinbase similarly announced that the platform would stop trading in XRP on January 19, 2021. Presumably, it feared hostile reactions if the lawsuit ended with a judgment against Ripple.

New Trial in California Federal Court on Single Count Alleges Coinbase Violated State Unfair Competition Laws by Selling XRP, Reportedly Unregistered Security, and Charging Commissions on sale.

The original lawsuit alleges that XRP is a security under US law. This would mean that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has not legally approved the token’s sale and trading.

The lawsuit involves two executives of the Ripple company and claims they knowingly illegally sold more than $ 1.3 billion worth of securities. The SEC said:

Ripple engaged in this illegal offering of securities from 2013 to present, although the company received legal advice as early as 2012 that under certain circumstances XRP could be considered a […] security under the federal securities laws.

Mr Sandoval takes this idea a little further. Its lawsuit, filed in federal court, argues that Coinbase’s negligence should result in reimbursement of its trading fees .

Logic dictates that Coinbase is responsible for negligence in selling XRP, an unlicensed security in this scenario. Therefore, the commissions that Coinbase charged for the illegal sale should be returned to the customer.

Reimbursement of commissions for all?

In Sandoval’s complaint , the case against Coinbase is built on a technicality. The crypto was a security, which Coinbase should have known, as it understood that the nodes of XRP were under Ripple’s control.

As the company owned the nodes, the nodes were therefore part of Ripple and therefore not a commodity, according to the lawsuit.

This is a particularly interesting argument , given XRP’s reputation for being centralized and “in favor of the banks”. XRP is meant to be a money transfer vehicle (which by definition probably makes it a currency).

Cryptophiles nevertheless blamed it for being centralized, unlike Bitcoin (although most of the BTC mines are in China) or Ethereum .

I prezzi dei bitcoin sono aumentati a $ 28.000 la scorsa settimana, ma manca un elemento chiave del mercato.

Dov’è la vendita al dettaglio?

I dati suggeriscono che un driver critico del mercato delle criptovalute dal 2017 deve ancora entrare nei regni viziosi dello spazio famigerato, volatile e spesso atroce.

Il servizio di analisi skew ha twittato domenica che „l’interesse per la vendita al dettaglio non è tornato indietro“ nonostante i prezzi del Bitcoin Era abbiano raggiunto livelli record e altre criptovalute abbiano visto aumentare i prezzi durante il fine settimana.

Citando i dati di Google Trends, Skew ha rilevato che le ricerche al dettaglio di „Bitcoin“ sono rimaste ai livelli precedenti al 2017, un momento in cui Bitcoin è passato da meno di $ 1.200 a oltre $ 19.000. L’asset è sceso di oltre l’80% a meno di $ 3.500 all’inizio del 2019, dopo che il mercato ha ripreso a crescere.

Le istituzioni sono qui e vogliono Bitcoin

Quindi, se non al dettaglio, chi acquista? Secondo i dati di skew, sono le istituzioni. I dati per il gestore di fondi istituzionali Grayscale hanno mostrato che gli asset in gestione per i suoi vari e popolari fondi negoziati in borsa hanno raggiunto i 16 miliardi di dollari quest’anno.

GBTC, l’offerta di Bitcoin dell’azienda, rappresenta solo $ 13 miliardi di quel warchest. Il prodotto è scambiato da banco ed è un mercato molto liquido, con oltre 12 milioni di dollari scambiati ogni giorno. Ogni „quota“ GBTC contiene una piccola quantità di bitcoin spot, con scala di grigi che addebita un piccolo premio in aggiunta a quel valore per quella comodità.

Il prodotto, offerto da Grayscale Investments, è una delle poche offerte di Bitcoin quotate in borsa per i cittadini statunitensi e ha guadagnato popolarità in mezzo a un sentimento positivo più ampio per Bitcoin tra fondi istituzionali, società tecnologiche e family office nel 2020.

Alcuni gestori di fondi, come Harris Kupperman di Praetorian Capital, affermano che il GBTC di Grayscale rappresenta gran parte del movimento dei prezzi di Bitcoin anche nel 2020. In un blog all’inizio di quest’anno, ha detto che il GBTC crea un ciclo infinito di acquisti di istituzioni che acquistano le azioni, in scala di grigi che acquistano Bitcoin spot per coprire quelle azioni (facendo salire i prezzi) e i partecipanti al mercato acquistano ulteriormente più Bitcoin quando i prezzi aumentano.

Nel frattempo, le aziende di Wall Street hanno mostrato un maggiore interesse per Bitcoin e si stanno affrettando a capitalizzare i suoi guadagni in mezzo a prospettive economiche tetre e timori di inflazione. Questi includono Guggenheim Partners, che ad esempio, ha recentemente affermato che potrebbe investire fino al 10% dei suoi $ 5,3 miliardi di Macro Opportunities Fund in un trust Bitcoin.

Alcuni altri sono già sul carro. Il software player MicroStrategy ha raccolto $ 1 miliardo in Bitcoin in tre acquisti quest’anno, mentre il gestore del fondo Paul Tudor Jones ha dichiarato a maggio di detenere oltre $ 70 milioni di asset tramite futures BTC.

Security or not? The SEC investigated this question in the case of ShipChain’s SHIP token. In the opinion of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the startup has failed to register and must now face the consequences.

The fintech startup ShipChain is shipwrecked

The US Securities and Exchange Commission ordered on Mondayto cease operations. A US $ 2.05 million fine was also imposed. ShipChain allegedly committed a violation of securities laws in 2017. At that time, ShipChain had raised 27.6 million US dollars through the ICO of its SHIP token. The company accepted the sentence and thus avoided charges.

„The penalty represents essentially the entire net worth of ShipChain,“ according to the SEC ruling. ShipChain decided to “stop all operations”, it said.

With this, a token project comes to an abrupt end that has been under an unfavorable star for a long time. Everything had started very promisingly. Bitcoin Investor tried to build an automated ledger for international trading on the Ethereum blockchain. The start-up sold 145 million SHIP tokens to over 200 investors in late 2017 to early 2018. In an early whitepaper of the project, ShipChain stated, „The proceeds will be channeled into research, development, marketing, and legal.

SEC classifies ShipChain Token as a security

But the first regulatory problems arose shortly after the ICO. The supervisory authorities in the US state of South Carolina claimed that the SHIP token is an unregistered investment that also violates applicable law. ShipChain, which is based in South Carolina, was initially able to fend off the allegations. But the SEC took up the fight again, arguing that investors should expect returns based on business practice.“,

The SHIP tokens could not be meaningfully used or consumed with any ShipChain product at the time of delivery. As ShipChain demonstrated on its website, on social media and to the press, the funds raised through the ICO would rather be used for future product and technology development, among other things.

states the disposition. The token had to be registered with the SEC as an investment, but this never happened.

The SEC is also launching heavy artillery against Ripple these days . The cryptocurrency XRP is also classified as a security by the stock exchange supervisory authority and there is a risk of a legal dispute. However, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse is playing the ball back and accusing the SEC of failing to take into account the natural conditions of the crypto market in their regulations.

Alexander Vinnik alias „Mr. Bitcoin“ appeals his conviction

• Alexander Vinnik is appealing against his five-year prison sentence received on 7 December in Paris.
• He is accused of money laundering via the BTC-e encryption platform.

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On 7 December, the court in Paris sentenced Alexander Vinnik to five years in prison for money laundering via the BTC-e cryptomoney exchange.

Alexander Vinnik is appealing

According to a report by the Russian news agency Kommersant of 18 December, Frédéric Belot’s lawyer has appealed against the court’s judgement, arguing that the defendant was not involved in money laundering operations.

Citing the judgment accusing Vinnik of „money laundering as a member of an organised criminal group“, Belot stressed that no „criminal group“ consists of a single person. „The court did not mention a single name, even though he is supposed to belong to the group. He went on to say:

Vinnik was only a full-time trader and he did not participate, at least not consciously, in any money laundering operation.

International network

In the United States, Alexander Vinnik is accused of being the mastermind of an international money laundering system that allegedly processed more than $4 billion in capital flows through the BTC-e exchange. He is also said to have had connections with Semion Mogilevich, the godfather of the Russian mafia.
Alexander Vinnik

Known colloquially as „Mr Bitcoin“, Alexander Vinnik was arrested for the first time in Greece in July 2017 for allegedly participating in BTC-e operations. He allegedly operated the exchange until his arrest at the tourist resort of Halkidiki in northern Greece, which triggered a triple extradition battle between the US, France and Russia.