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[Paxton14]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 59.641.124 von GuentherFranz am 16.01.19 08:50:56

Die Regulierung und Kontrolle ist beim Fiatgeld jetzt schon geil. Stell mal ein sgb 2 Antrag und du weißt Bescheid wie Überwachung in Deutschland funktioniert. Es reicht auch schon die Steuererklärung, da läuft man Gefahr weniger zu wissen als das Finanzamt

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Guten Tach liebe Bitcoin Gemeinde!

Es gibt wieder tolle News aus der Bitcoin Welt!



Bitcoin to Surpass both Visa and Mastercard’s Market Cap within next 36 months Says Anthony Pompliano

According to Anthony Pompliano, Bitcoin’s transactional settlement network is a “sleeping giant” and is one of the most interesting stories across technology and finance though. While a lot of people may criticize Bitcoin as a currency or a store of value, but none can deny its transaction settlement capabilities.

Bitcoin’s transactional network is a sleeping giant

According to the recent post put forward by Anthony Pompliano, Founder and Partner of Morgan Creek Digital Assets, he states Bitcoin as a transaction settlement network that is run by miners is a “sleeping giant” and in next 3 years would be much larger and bigger than both Visa and Mastercard

According to the Pompliano, Bitcoin has two components,

the digital asset that can be held by investors and

the transaction settlement network that is run by miners,

but all the press coverage and attention is towards only the digital asset part whereas the true potential of Bitcoin lies in the transaction settlement network which did over $410 billion in on-chain transaction volume in 2018 and is likely to continue with $3+ billion in daily transaction volume in 2019. He also adds.....

https://coingape.com/bitcoin-surpass-visa-mastercard-next-36…

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Bitcoin as big oil: the next environmental fight

Ethan Lou
As a Bitcoin maker who covered the oil industry as a journalist, I see parallels between the two that may haunt cryptocurrency

Thu 17 Jan 2019 11.00 GMT

I make Bitcoin, and in a previous life, I covered the oil industry as a journalist. Increasingly, I’m realizing the two worlds are alike. Bitcoin is oil.

And one day, Bitcoin will become big oil, and all who dabble in it will be reborn as enemies of the environmental movement, seen as plunderers of the planet and the bad guys in the fight against climate change – just like oil.

Bitcoin’s environmental footprint will haunt it. Nobody has pointed this out, but it is painfully clear: if we can at all predict an industry’s growth by that of a different one, then oil is Bitcoin’s crystal ball.

Most cryptocurrencies, of which Bitcoin is the first and most valuable, are created by running servers to crunch mathematical puzzles, or “mining”.

I have a facility that does that in Canada’s oil capital of Calgary, and its business model is similar to that of the city’s dominant industry. Both profit by generating and selling a product whose price swings with supply and demand. Some in Calgary partake in both.

The cryptocurrency world is bigger than mining, just as the vaguely defined big oil is more than those who extract crude. But shares in either industry move in sync with the value of the underlying asset.

Oil is considered volatile in finance. In the two years after 2014, its price fell more than 70%, similar to Bitcoin’s crash in 2018. Layoffs swept both industries.

While oil has tangible uses, most buying and selling is done on paper by traders seeking profit, with barrels never changing hands. Long ago, I learned cryptocurrency trading from oil professionals.

Then there is the environment. Oil is a big offender. So is Bitcoin. Mining uses as much power as a small country, according to some estimates. Miners compete for limited coins, resulting in an arms race, and that power usage increases constantly and rapidly.

In China, which leads Bitcoin mining, 60% of energy comes from coal. Even if mining uses clean power, it carries the opportunity cost of not using said power for greener purposes, such as charging electric cars, which replace fossil-fuel-guzzling vehicles.

The two industries are hardly the only environmental offenders, but they make great targets. Oil is currently the biggest one. That is in part because the industry is prominent, represented internationally by organized and high-profile groups. Attacks on it are visible.

Environmentalists also see oil as futureless and unnecessary. Cars pollute, but few protest outside a General Motors factory – one day, its products could all be electric, but oil remains forever oil.

Those two points apply well to Bitcoin. “How to buy Bitcoin” was third-ranked in Google’s how-to searches for 2017. With mergers and acquisitions more than doubling in 2018, cryptocurrency is becoming increasingly organized.


weiter im Artikel hier:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/17/bitcoi…

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High Demand For Bitcoin? Binance Sees Massive Registrations in Europe

JOSEPH YOUNG | JANUARY 17, 2019 | 11:00 AM

On January 16, the world’s largest crypto exchange by daily volume Binance launched a crypto-to-fiat trading platform in Jersey, enabling British pound and euro trading pairs with Bitcoin.

Within less than 24 hours following the launch, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) has said that the exchange is already overwhelmed with registrations.

CZ said:

“Binance.je is overwhelmed with registrations. There is a backlog of KYC verifications already. More resources are allocated to reduce it. In the mean time, we appreciate your understanding and patience. The registration prize is FIFO based, no worries. Just crazy! One thing we do “well” is underestimating ourselves, and the market.”

More Competition in the European Crypto Market

Throughout the past 12 months, the Bitcoin market has experienced an 80 percent decline in valuation as the combined value of all cryptocurrencies in the market fell from $800 billion to $120 billion.

However, key players in the global cryptocurrency sector including Binance are continuously expanding, leading efforts to facilitate the mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies.

Previously, Wei Zhou, the CFO at Binance, said that fiat-to-crypto on-ramps are critical in achieving the first level of Bitcoin adoption and awareness amongst newly emerging users.

The entrance of Binance into both the European and British cryptocurrency markets is expected to provide existing dominant companies such as Coinbase and Bitstamp a stiff competition.

Wei Zhou stated:

“Expanding the cryptocurrency exchange markets with fiat currencies in the European region is opening new economic opportunities for Europeans as well as freedom from looming Brexit uncertainty where the pound and euro are also in concern. Through Binance Jersey, we want to help bridge the crypto-fiat channel for Europe and the U.K. as part of our global expansion to support broader cryptocurrency adoption.”

Throughout the past several months, Binance has been one of many major companies in the digital asset industry to expand aggressively in an attempt to strengthen the infrastructure supporting cryptocurrencies as an asset class.


ganzer artikel https://www.newsbtc.com/2019/01/17/binance-overwhelmed-with-…

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Anzahl der Bitcoin Automaten seit Mai 2018 weltweit um 42 Prozent gestiegen

https://coin-update.de/anzahl-der-bitcoin-automaten-seit-mai…


Mittlerweile gibt es laut Coin ATM Radar weltweit 4182 Bitcoin-Automaten. Zwei davon werden seit kurzem in Deutschland betrieben.

[Paxton14]

https://www.btc-echo.de/brexit-und-krypto-warum-es-mehr-um-b…
Das sollte unser Günther lesen um sein Horizont über Bitcoin und deren Technologie für unternehmen. Dieses Jahr wird das Jahr der Anwendung in der Industrie werden.

[Paxton14]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 59.662.937 von Paxton14 am 18.01.19 15:46:22

Seinen Horizont zu erweitern, muss das heißen