I et nyligt interview med Andy Serwer, Yahoos chefredaktør for finanser, sagde Ray Dalio dette til Andy Serwer:

„Ethvert land værdsætter sit monopol på at kontrollere udbud og efterspørgsel. De ønsker ikke, at andre penge skal operere eller konkurrere, fordi tingene kan komme ud af kontrol. Så jeg tror, at det ville være meget sandsynligt, at man under visse omstændigheder vil få det forbudt på samme måde, som guld blev forbudt.“ Det „det“, han henviser til, er naturligvis Bitcoin.

Er Dalio’s punkt bære nogen vægt?

Teoretisk set, ja. I virkeligheden, nej. Her er hvorfor. Den 5. april 1933 underskrev Franklin D. Roosevelt en aldrig tidligere set lovforslag i kraft. Med titlen Executive Order 6102 forbød den strengt „hamstring af guldmønter, guldbarrer og guldcertifikater inden for det amerikanske fastland“. Enhver, der nægtede at overholde den, risikerede en „straf på 10.000 dollars og/eller op til fem til ti års fængsel“.

OK, men hvad har en mystisk lov fra USA at gøre med en artikel om kryptovalutaer?

Alt. Enhver regering hvor som helst kan underskrive en bekendtgørelse, der træder i kraft. For eksempel er en bekendtgørelse en type lovgivning, der gælder for Commonwealth-lande. I Det Forenede Kongerige har dronning Elizabeth beføjelse til at underskrive en sådan bekendtgørelse. Selv om terminologien kan variere fra land til land, kan gennemførelsesbekendtgørelser helt sikkert gennemføres.

1930’erne var dog en helt anden tid. Dengang havde USA, ligesom de fleste andre lande, langt mere kontrol over sine borgere. Det var en tid med hypercentralisering, hvor regeringerne havde en fast kontrol med banksystemet. I dag har decentraliserede kryptovalutaer og internettets allestedsnærværelse vendt fortællingen om. I modsætning til guld er Bitcoin uhåndgribelig. Det kan flyttes fra tegnebog til tegnebog på få minutter. Desuden kræves der en privat nøgle for at konfiskere Bitcoin fra en person.

Indehaveren skal give denne til regeringen, ellers vil kryptovalutaen forblive utilgængelig. Bruce Lee har berømt fortalt sine tilhængere af hans at „være vand“. Med dette var han fortaler for anonymitet, fleksibilitet og evnen til at være meget undvigende. Bitcoin, ligesom vandets strøm, opfylder alle disse krav.

Så er BTC-fællesskabet godt forberedt på regeringsindblanding

Apropos evasive evner, så er BTC-fællesskabet godt forberedt på regeringsindblanding. Hvert år, den 3. januar, finder Proof of Keys-dagen sted. Oprettet af Trace Mayer, en cryptocurrency-investor og podcaster, er budskabet enkelt: millioner af brugere opbevarer deres Bitcoin på udvekslingsplatforme. Ved at gøre det, afgiver enkeltpersoner fuld kontrol over deres private nøgler til en anden myndighed end dem selv. Lidt ironisk, synes du ikke?

Proof of Keys dag blev designet specifikt for at forhindre afhængighed af udvekslinger til opbevaring. Når alt kommer til alt, hvis du ikke har kontrol over dine nøgler, hvem ejer så egentlig „din“ Bitcoin? Ikke dig.

Selvfølgelig, for kryptovalutaer som Bitcoin til at blive virkelig mainstream, vil yderligere regler skal implementeres. Men et direkte forbud er meget usandsynligt, især nu store spillere som Tesla og PayPal er at komme om bord.

Som Jean Galea, en indflydelsesrig kryptokommentator, for nylig bemærkede, er disse børsnoterede virksomheder „meget tættere på regeringerne i magtkæden end din typiske detailinvestor“. Med andre ord, de har pengene, og de bestemmer.

Bitcoin er bestemt ikke „for stor til at fejle“, men det ser bestemt ud til at være for stort til at forbyde. Endelig, for at krypto-giganten kan blive helt forbudt, skal landene mødes i enighed, og chancerne for det er ikke-eksisterende.

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Polkadot (DOT) heeft de XRP van Ripple omgedraaid in termen van marktkapitalisatie na een enorme stijging van 31% in de afgelopen 24 uur. Dit maakt het de nieuwe vierde grootste cryptocurrency op basis van marktkapitalisatie.

Bitcoin (BTC) maakt dit jaar misschien aanzienlijke vooruitgang, maar Polkadot blijft een van de sterkste presteerders in 2021 en zet elke dag constant nieuwe recordhoogtes neer

De Polkadot-prijs is meer dan 85% gestegen in 2021 en 84% in de afgelopen zeven dagen, waardoor Ripple (XRP) naar de vijfde plaats op de Coinmarketcap-tafel is gestegen.

Het Polkadot-token steeg van intraday-dieptepunten van $ 12,68 naar een recordhoogte van $ 20,05. XRP daarentegen kon in de afgelopen 24 uur slechts 1,9% stijgen, wat niet genoeg was om het token voor grensoverschrijdende overdrachten boven de $ 0,28 te brengen. De marktkapitalisatie ligt momenteel iets onder DOT op $ 13,1 miljard.

De 9e grootste cryptocurrency, Chainlink (LINK), bereikte ook recordhoogtes van $ 22,95 om later in de prijsdetectiemodus te komen. Terwijl de koopdruk toenam, steeg de marktwaarde van het gedecentraliseerde orakels-token van de dagelijkse opening van $ 13,26 op 13 januari tot een nieuw record van $ 22,95 vandaag.

Polkadot handelt momenteel tegen $ 17,76, terwijl Chainlink op het moment van schrijven nog $ 20,20 heeft.

DeFi-tokens zijn de belangrijkste in de aanloop naar de cryptomarkt

Verschillende DeFi-tokens hebben de prestaties van Bitcoin en Ethereum overtroffen. Bitcoin en Ethereum zijn de afgelopen 24 uur amper 1,98% en 6,02% gestegen. Uniswap is de afgelopen 24 uur 27,83% gestegen en handelt sinds november 2020 in een enorme opwaartse trend. Synthetix is meer dan 550% gestegen sinds november 2020.

Evenzo heeft Aave sinds november ook een opwaartse trend laten zien, met een stijging van 24,56% in de afgelopen 24 uur en 69,31% op 7-dagenbasis om een ​​nieuw record te bereiken van $ 204,06 op Coinbase. Het DeFi-protocol is vervolgens in het prijsproces ingevoerd en zal op de lange termijn waarschijnlijk op zeer weinig weerstand stuiten.

Het aantal walvissen met tussen de 100.000 en 1.000.000 AAVE-tokens ($ 16.000.000 tot $ 160.000.000) is de afgelopen vijf dagen met vier toegenomen, wat aangeeft dat grote houders verwachten dat AAVE nog hoger zal stijgen.

Gegevens van TheTIE bevestigen ook een voortdurende stijging van het sentiment en de activiteit op sociale media in de afgelopen maanden.

El famoso capitalista de riesgo Fred Wilson dice que el sector de la criptografía se está convirtiendo en uno de los elementos más significativos de la economía mundial.

En entradas de blog consecutivas, el CEO de Union Square Ventures revisa el 2020 y hace sus predicciones económicas para el 2021.

Si bien Wilson lamenta la devastación económica que se ha producido tras la pandemia de Covid-19, también se refiere a algunos de los sectores de la economía que se han beneficiado del desastre viral en el último año.

„Si bien es indiscutible que el año 2020 fue un año terrible con una pandemia mundial, conflictos raciales y una fea política en los EE.UU., y una recesión económica que está afectando exactamente a las personas que ya han sido más perjudicadas, fue un punto de inflexión para los sectores de la tecnología, la puesta en marcha, el VC y el cifrado, y uno muy significativo. Estos sectores, que habían estado creciendo en su importancia global durante los últimos veinte años, de repente han surgido como los sectores más importantes de la economía mundial“.

Wilson destaca el crecimiento de la popularidad de Zoom, las empresas de vehículos eléctricos y las soluciones de comercio basadas en la tecnología como ejemplos de este rápido cambio en las valoraciones de la industria.

Aunque Wilson cree que este cambio ya estaba en el horizonte, dice que la pandemia del Covid-19 aceleró el proceso enormemente. Con mucha gente en casa y nada que hacer, con el dinero del estímulo, las acciones de tecnología y los activos criptográficos en aumento.

El famoso inversor sugiere que aunque Tesla y Bitcoin pueden estar actualmente en burbujas especulativas, la atención que han ganado ayudará a que esos y otros activos de rápido crecimiento logren una adopción generalizada mucho más rápido de lo que lo hubieran hecho de otra manera.

„No hay duda de que Crypto está en otra burbuja especulativa más, pero como dije, son las burbujas especulativas las que permiten que las tecnologías emergentes se generalicen y se financien por sí mismas. Por extraño que parezca, mucha más gente quiere comprar Bitcoin a 28.000 dólares que a 5.000 dólares. Así son las cosas. Y es importante entender eso“.

En cuanto a las predicciones de Wilson para el 2021, cree que la pandemia de Covid-19 terminará en algún momento del segundo trimestre, pero muchas de las tendencias que se hicieron populares durante la cuarentena, como trabajar desde casa, pedir y consumir medios de comunicación en la comodidad de las salas de estar de la gente seguirán prevaleciendo.

Además, Wilson dice que aunque la principal amenaza del virus disminuirá, los EE.UU. estarán resolviendo las repercusiones económicas de la pandemia para la próxima década junto con la crisis climática que se avecina.

Wilson predice que el gobierno responderá principalmente a esos duraderos dolores económicos imprimiendo más dinero fiduciario y protegiendo instituciones financieras cada vez más irrelevantes, lo que acelerará la necesidad y el crecimiento del sector de las finanzas descentralizadas (DeFi), destacando la popularidad de proyectos como yearn.finance, Compound y Uniswap, que está respaldado por la firma de capital riesgo de Wilson.

„Creo que los gobiernos responderán a todos estos desafíos económicos continuando la impresión de dinero fiduciario sin restricciones y gravando y regulando las nuevas empresas innovadoras para proteger a las empresas viejas y moribundas. Esto llevará a los inversores a seguir asignando capital a nuevas formas de dinero (cripto) y a nuevas formas de crear y financiar la innovación (proyectos y organizaciones descentralizadas).

Ya estamos viendo que eso sucede en el sector financiero, con proyectos de ruptura en las finanzas descentralizadas en 2020 como Compound, Yearn y Uniswap (un proyecto financiado por el USV). Veremos cómo este enfoque se acelera en 2021 y se expande a áreas más allá del sector financiero. La idea de financiar y ejecutar la innovación dentro de una organización autónoma descentralizada global es una idea tan poderosa y cuyo momento ha llegado„.

The Indian man is said to have defrauded investors with a fraudulent cryptocurrency by 25 million rupees.

A 60-year-old man was on Thursday at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi arrested . He is accused of being the mastermind of a 25 million rupee ($ 340,000) crypto fraud project.

Former jewelry and postcard maker Umesh Verma was arrested by the Delhi Police Department’s Economic Crimes Division after returning to India from Dubai

Verma and his son Bharat are believed to have persuaded hundreds of people to invest in a fraudulent crypto project called Pluto Exchange, which has promised monthly returns of 20-30%.

To this end, the project issued a supposed “cryptocurrency” called Coin Zarus, which investors bought in return for their investments. Shortly after the pyramid scheme started operating in November 2017, however, no more returns were paid out and Verma disappeared from the scene. In 2018 he reappeared in Dubai.

The Delhi Police filed a money embezzlement charge against Verma in September 2020, on the basis of which he was arrested on New Year’s Eve

According to a report in the Hindustan Times, the Pluto Exchange had also launched India’s first trading app for cryptocurrencies, which supposedly allowed Bitcoin ( BTC ) to be traded via smartphone.

Verma was already in custody for gold smuggling in December 2017, but this is not related to the current case.

The legal use of cryptocurrencies is currently still in a difficult position in India, because although the Indian Constitutional Court lifted a possible crypto ban by the country’s central bank in 2020 , many investors still see considerable hurdles for entering the crypto market.

Although Bitcoin was able to climb back up to 18,000 US dollars at the weekend, the experts urge caution.

Bitcoin (BTC) jumped over the $18,000 mark today, November 29, with an interim high of $18,209 on the major crypto exchange Binance. Despite the upswing over the weekend, investors remain cautious.

At USD 18,200, the crypto currency is facing resistance in the form of the moving average of the last 10 days (10-Day MA). As Cointelegraph reported yesterday, some experts believe that The News Spy will continue to decline before the uptrend can continue at a later date.

Bad sign?

The trader under the pseudonym „Crypto Capo“ had already predicted when Bitcoin had already slipped down to 16,000 US dollars that it would initially go back to 18,000 US dollars, which has now come true.

However, this is not good news, because as he told his followers on November 27, when Bitcoin was still at $16,700, he wanted to sell immediately as soon as the market-leading crypto currency was back at $18,000.

When the recovery to $18,000 did indeed follow today, he made a small change of plan by buying new Bitcoin, thereby creating a hedge in case the rate goes up against expectations. A first confirmation of his original thesis that Bitcoin will fall sharply after the jump to $18,000 would be a drop to $17,400.

If the price were to slip below this mark and then even fall below the $16,800 mark, a crash down to just $14,000 would be all the more likely.

However, if Bitcoin were to climb above $18,400 and then settle at $18,200, this would refute his negative forecast, which he considers unlikely but possible. For this reason, he himself is pursuing a double-track approach.
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Another trader under the pseudonym „Loma“ takes the same score. After the latter had still been positive at a price of 17,500 US dollars, he now claims to have sold almost half of his long position.

The trigger for this step is that Bitcoin is, in his opinion, running into fierce resistance in the range of 18,200 – 18,400 US dollars. Accordingly he writes:

„At $18,080 I have closed half of my long position. I don’t want to have too much on the books at the end of the week/month. As soon as we climb above $18,400, we will have enough buying opportunities again, but if it goes down, we won’t have many good opportunities to sell“.

There’s still hope…

A technical analyst called „CryptoBirb“ adds that Bitcoin usually has two types of returns, either 15% or 30%.

He himself expects a downturn to $14,000, but, like his colleagues, does not believe this is set in stone. To this end, he refers to several technical indicators that support his assumption. For example, Bitcoin would find itself in the oversold territory for the first time in their several-week climbing campaign:

„There are two types of downturn at BTC: either -15% or -30%. I am betting on a decline to $14,000. This is the first time we’ve come back to the middle and the first time we’ve been back in the oversold territory since the climb began. These are two VERY strong signs. However, I would be very happy to see a new record high before Christmas. And you?“

In order for the „desired“ upswing to a new record high to become a reality in the near future, Bitcoin would have to climb over $18,400 at first, and then consolidate above that mark. Only then could it go even further upwards.

The popular trader filbfilb therefore admits that he is at first predominantly out of Bitcoin again, because the current uncertainty requires increased risk management.

„If we fall below $15,000 and support becomes resistance again, that would be a very good selling opportunity,“ he wrote accordingly in his newsletter on Sunday.