Una nueva cadena de bloques de Blockstack permitirá a los poseedores de fichas STX delegar fichas y ganar Bitcoin.

Llaves para llevar

• Blockstack lanzará su nueva cadena de bloques, Stacks 2.0, el 14 de enero y traerá contratos inteligentes a Bitcoin.
• Con la red principal Stacks 2.0, los poseedores de STX pueden participar en el consenso de la red y ganar BTC.
• Debido a un cambio en el estado de seguridad del token, STX será listado en las bolsas de criptografía.

La próxima cadena de bloques de Blockstack ofrece a los desarrolladores contratos inteligentes anclados a Bitcoin y a los inversores nuevas formas de ganar BTC.

Delegar tokens, ganar Bitcoin

Stacks 2.0 es una cadena de bloques de capa 1 basada en el consenso minero de la Prueba de Transferencia (PoX) y utiliza Bitcoin como capa base para proporcionar seguridad a las aplicaciones descentralizadas (dApps).

El equipo detrás de Stacks 2.0, Blockstack, ha desarrollado un conjunto de herramientas personalizadas y un novedoso lenguaje de programación llamado Clarity para la nueva cadena de bloques.

Las herramientas personalizadas permitirán a los desarrolladores construir contratos inteligentes anclados a la cadena de bloques de Bitcoin. De acuerdo con Blockstack, los contratos inteligentes podrían desbloquear una nueva era de aplicaciones DeFi para el mayor activo de criptografía.

STX es el token nativo de la cadena de bloques Stacks 2.0, permitiendo a los titulares participar en el consenso a través de un mecanismo similar a un staking-type llamado „Stacking“.

Los participantes del apilamiento delegan su STX para participar en el gobierno de la cadena de bloques y se les paga en recompensas de BTC. Esto significa que el Stacks 2.0 da a los usuarios una nueva alternativa para ganar Bitcoin sin gastar dinero en costosos equipos de minería.

Intercambios establecidos en la lista STX

Blockstack emitió por primera vez STX durante la primera oferta de fichas de seguridad regulada por la SEC.

El token fue emitido como un activo de seguridad y utilizado en el gobierno de la cadena de bloques Stacks 1.0. Sin embargo, el token de seguridad no era elegible para ser listado en las bolsas de criptografía.

El equipo central publicó más tarde un memorando que aclaraba que el STX ya no se consideraba seguridad en la cadena de los Stacks 2.0 a medida que la red se descentralizaba y quedaba fuera del control de Blockstack.

Debido a un reciente cambio en el estatus legal del token, STX será listado en los intercambios de criptodivisas poco después de que la red principal del Stacks 2.0 entre en funcionamiento.

OKCoin, una de las principales bolsas criptográficas, se ha comprometido a listar STX en el lanzamiento. OKCoin también llevará a cabo el mayor lanzamiento aéreo hasta la fecha para sus clientes, por valor de 1 millón de dólares en fichas STX.

Gulds udsigter ser ud til at blive svage som Bitcoins glitter

Ifølge flere eksperter er en mulig årsag til Bitcoins bemærkelsesværdige nylige prisstigning massive investorudstrømninger fra en anden populær inflationssikring: guld.

Spotguld svømmede over den sidste uge og faldt 4,62% ​​til $ 1,857. Aktivet havde tidligere stødt sammen med Bitcoin, som er op over 40% fra $ 28.000 lav i sidste uge .

I et tweet på fredag ​​sagde Charlie Morris, grundlægger og CIO hos ByteTree Asset Management, at tilbagetrækningen i guld muligvis kan tilskrives investorer, der flytter til Bitcoin:

Tidligere på ugen sagde CNBCs Mad Money-vært Jim Cramer ligeledes, at udstrømningen fra guld-ETF’er „alle går til krypto.“

Sporing af tilstrømning og udstrømning fra Grayscales Bitcoin-investeringstillid og guld-ETF’er styrker denne påstand, da Grayscale har overskredet guld:

Flytningerne kunne være et tegn på Bitcoins stigende status som en legitim aktivklasse. Guld og Bitcoin har længe været forbundet, da begge betragtes som en måde at beskytte velstand mod inflation og makroøkonomisk usikkerhed på, men hvis prisbevægelserne i løbet af den sidste uge er en indikation, kan Bitcoin dog vinde det narrative løb.

I et interview med Bloomberg sagde Coinshares-indtægtschef Frank Spiteri, at fortællingen omkring Bitcoin som en inflationssikring vinder ben „i lyset af et meget ukonventionelt pengepolitisk miljø.“

The Bitcoin price not only hit a new all-time high of over USD 26,000, but also cracked the psychologically important mark of USD 25,000. Even on the otherwise rather quiet public holidays, where there is little trading, the Bitcoin price can no longer stop. Why the pressure to the north is currently so high.

In the morning hours of Boxing Day, the time had come. For just a few seconds, the Bitcoin price briefly touched the $ 25,000 mark. During the course of the day, the price rose significantly and is now at $ 26,447 at the time of going to press . An impressive plus if you consider that the price was still hovering around 18,000 US dollars at the beginning of December. In the second half of December, the Bitcoin price started again for the final Christmas rally, as the chart shows:

Pressure from institutional investors continues

As already explained many times , the Bitcoin rally in the last quarter of 2020 is primarily due to institutional investors. So it is not primarily private individuals‘ money that is entering the market, but that of companies, hedge funds, fund companies, etc.

As in the traditional financial sector, these professional players determine how the courses develop. So not only the Nasdaq Group MicroStrategy for another 650 million US dollars Bitcoin bought as CEO Michael Saylor on December 21 via Twitter announced , but also more traditional investment houses.

For example, the American insurance company MassMutual should be mentioned here, which recently acquired Bitcoin for 100 million US dollars, as well as the Guggenheim hedge fund , which invests up to 10 percent of its five billion fund in BTC. New major investors are added almost every day, buying Bitcoin, but also other cryptocurrencies, in the double or triple-digit million range. This trend is then reinforced by private investors, who are also jumping back on the crypto bandwagon.

Bitcoin course: what’s next

It is no secret that many more institutional investors will push into the crypto market in 2021. Since the market capitalization of the crypto market is still small compared to other asset classes, these capital inflows should continue to provide support for cryptocurrencies.

The growth of traditional securities securitisations is particularly interesting here. These also enable investors without a wallet and the willingness to hold tokens to get into Bitcoin and Co. In the past few weeks, a number of new “Bitcoin securities” such as Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs) have been issued. The classic securities account is sufficient to participate in the Bitcoin price. This, too, should be seen as a positive sign at both private and institutional level.

2021: These trends are on the agenda

Bitcoin has sent a clear signal with the year-end rally: The crypto currency, which was once only attributed to geeks and nerds, has grown up and is finding its way into the institutional sector with broad mass acceptance. But what are the topics that are on the agenda in addition to the pure Bitcoin price development in 2021? What underpins the latest price rally and what hurdles are there for Bitcoin and the crypto sector to overcome? Which crypto and blockchain trends (also apart from Bitcoin) will determine the year 2021? We have summarized the top trends for 2021 in the current December issue of Kryptokompass Magazine .

BTC-ECHO readers had the right nose

Our screenshot of the Opinary survey that was posted on our site over a week ago proves that our readers have a good feel for the course. There we asked if the Bitcoin rate would rise to over 25,000 US dollars this year. Of the more than 8,500 participants, 76 percent answered YES and were thus right. The expectations were even significantly exceeded with currently> 26,000 USD per Bitcoin.

The art sector is not exactly known for its high level of digitization. The costs of middlemen, fraud and logistics processes are enormous and run into billions worldwide. The Swiss art start-up 4ARTechnologies wants to overcome these shortcomings with the help of blockchain technology. In contrast to many other blockchain start-ups, 4ARTechnologies already has a lot to show and is valued at 500 million euros by the auditing company PwC. The CEO and founder of 4ARTechnologies, Niko Kipouros, told us in an interview how high the cost savings are through optimized blockchain processes for the art market and what one can think of tokenized art.

The interview was first published in the December issue of Kryptokompass .

Why is a company like 4ARTechnologies needed that wants to revolutionize the art sector with the help of blockchain technology?

Crypto Bank alone is not a solution for the art market. So far, no one has succeeded in finding a really standardized approach that can represent the art industry in its entirety in a practical manner. There have always been applications with a blockchain component. But we were the first to create this holistic approach that distinguishes 4ARTechnologies.

Part of this is securing information and documents on works of art using the blockchain, among other things. The fact that we made the step into the art market is mainly due to the fact that we can map all processes via mobile phones. This is the first time that a smartphone can be used to authenticate works of art. This is done via digital fingerprints of objects and material surfaces that we connect to various storage media.

The blockchain serves as a backup medium through which all digitally processed transactions are then hashed again on the blockchain. Thus, all information is unchangeable and valid, even in many years. That wasn’t possible before.

Your product is aimed at three groups: gallery owners, artists and insurance companies. What are the biggest pain points of the individual actors?

We address the entire art market. Our system starts with the artist. He can digitize his works and feed the data into the works catalog. The next stop is the gallery owner. This first change of ownership is extremely important in the art market. The next station is usually the collector. And he has a big problem today: the large amount of art forgeries. Experts assume that between 30 and 50 percent of all works on the market could not be real.

So collectors do not know exactly where the works of art come from and whether they are real. By transferring the digital protocols secured by the blockchain, collectors can provide evidence that their work is genuine.

On the other hand, transport also plays a major role. Around 20 million works are exchanged between the museums every year. We are talking about extremely high assets here. It is customary for the lender to bear the costs of transport. But this also includes a status report that is made manually. All of this could already be done digitally today, thereby saving enormous costs.

Can you give us more figures to give us a better idea of ​​the savings potential?

There is great potential for cost savings, especially with these status reports. We have over 250 million changes of ownership in the art market worldwide every year. A condition report is required for 20 percent of these plants and costs at least 150 euros.

It costs gallery owners between 6,000 and 15,000 euros per exhibition, of which there are hundreds every year. Here alone, the savings potential is enormous and can deliver a good 70 percent cost saving.

The crypto community has already contributed more than $ 750,000 to Dave Portnoy’s fundraiser.

Sports journalist and influencer Dave Portnoy is now accepting Bitcoin ( BTC ) and other cryptocurrencies in his donation fund for small business owners .

Less than 24 hours after the corresponding announcement, the crypto community has already shown itself to be very helpful

The Barstool Fund, named after Barstool Sports, the sports blog Portnoy, last week was launched to help small business owners who have fallen through the corona crisis in trouble. As of press time, the fund raised nearly $ 5.3 million to benefit 14 different companies. More than 53,000 donors have participated so far. For tax reasons, the donation campaign will only run until the end of the year.

As already mentioned, the majority of the donations come from the crypto community. For this purpose, the crypto asset management company Morgan Creek Digital has set up a separate Bitcoin address via the donation portal The Giving Block . In addition to Bitcoin, the Barstool Fund also accepts donations in the form of Ethereum , Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Zcash, Basic Attention Token, Chainlink, Gemini Dollar, DAI, Storj, Amp and 0x.

Anthony Pompliano, one of the co-founders of Morgan Creek Digital, told Cointelegraph that „at least $ 750,000″ of cryptocurrencies had been received by Friday morning:

“It is difficult to say exactly which donations are coming from the crypto community, but we can safely say that at least $ 750,000 has been donated in the form of cryptocurrencies. The actual amount donated by the crypto community is therefore very likely higher. “

„2020 was a difficult year,“ as Pompliano says. However, he adds: „But Bitcoin was good for all of us.“

And further:

„There is no better way to end this year than with a new Bitcoin record high and a few donations to share our happiness.“

Cointelegraph reporter Helen Partz asked Alex Wilson from The Giving Block how the crypto donations to the Barstool Fund are going.

The crypto users can donate by visiting the Barstool Fund website, clicking the corresponding button and choosing the crypto currency of their choice. A wallet address will then be displayed to which you can then send your crypto donations. As soon as the payment has been processed, the donors will receive a receipt by email.

The corona crisis is known to have been accompanied by severe cuts in social life. Small business owners suffer particularly badly from the repeated lockdown, as their operating costs often continue without generating any new income. Many self-employed therefore see themselves on the edge of their existence.

As Pompliano notes, small businesses account for nearly 50% of all jobs in the US and are “representative of the American Dream” around the world. In his opinion, the consequential economic damage to American small business owners will be felt around the world.

The US parliament has meanwhile agreed on a new corona aid package that is to provide 284 billion US dollars. However, since the lockdown will continue indefinitely , many experts fear that further tools will be needed in the future. Gastronomy, tourism and the hotel industry in particular have been hit hard by the ban on going out.

This Tuesday, Bitcoin surpassed USD 19,800. However, it made a correction soon after. BTC is currently trading at USD 18,600.

The main crypto currency in the market, Bitcoin exceeded USD 19,800, but soon after it fell, dropping to the nearly 18K mark. Currently, the crypto currency is quoted at USD 18,600 according to our online crypto tool.

Although yesterday there was a lot of celebration for the fact that The News Spy price exceeded the historical highs recorded by certain exchanges in December 2017, with this new peak seen a few hours ago. When Bitcoin surpassed $19,800, the digital currency reached a record high compared to the figures capitalized on by certain commercial services almost three years ago.

In addition to BTC, Ethereum also records a drop

Another currency that we are also monitoring today is the Ethereum (ETH), which by the time of writing is also going down after registering a significant peak this morning.

Ethereum trades at USD 587, registering a decreasing variation of -4.49% in the last 24 hours.
Beacon Chain and Ethereum 2.0

Now, an interesting aspect to highlight is that today the Genesis Block is launched for Ethereum 2.0. With this, Beacon Chain, better known as phase 0 for the roadmap of the new version of the network, is enabled.

Remember that the launch of Beacon Chain does not mean that the Ethereum 2.0 network is already operational. However, what is already working is the intelligent contract for staking with ETH funds. Where at the same time aspects such as passive earnings are being tested.

As with Bitcoin, many analysts are enthusiastic after this fall. They indicate that the project has good prospects for the future.

Qualifying what has been seen as a correction with the expectation that it will rise again in the next few days.
Coinbase executed the purchase of $425 million of BTC from MicroStrategy in September 2020

Coinbase, the largest U.S. crypt-currency exchange, announced that it facilitated one of BTC’s largest institutional purchases in 2020.

According to an official announcement, Coinbase was selected as the lead execution partner for the $425 million purchase of Bitcoin from MicroStrategy in September 2020.

Brett Tejpaul, Coinbase’s Head of Institutional Sales, provided further details on the purchase. As well as the company’s goal to facilitate institutional purchases in a December 1 blog post.

„Using our advanced execution capabilities, the leading prime crypto brokerage platform and OTC service, we were able to purchase a significant amount of Bitcoin on behalf of MicroStrategy and did so without moving the market,“ said Tejpaul.

According to the release, MicroStrategy chose Coinbase because the platform provides a number of market tools such as intelligent order routing and algorithmic trading tools.

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