Apr 9, 2021 | Staff
Il commento di Ferdinando Ametrano alle crypto-news della settimana
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Opinions
- The Blocksize War – Chapter 3 – Scaling I – Montreal (BitMEX Blog)
- Peter Thiel: Bitcoin Could Be ‘Chinese Financial Weapon’ (Decrypt)
- Michael Saylor Keynote on Bitcoin & The US Dollar - MIT Bitcoin Expo 2021 (YouTube)
Investments
- Bloomberg Foresees Bitcoin Rallying to $400K This Year (CoinDesk)
- Rising Bitcoin Adoption Tide (Bloomberg Crypto Outlook)
- Bitcoin Is Going Mainstream. What Investors Need to Know (Barron’s)
- A decline in bitcoin’s volatility makes it more attractive to institutions and supports a $130,000 long-term price target, JPMorgan says (Business Insider India)
- Everything is a Search for Yield. Bitcoin Tech Talk #234 (Bitcoin Tech Talk)
- South Korea’s Capital Controls Have Pushed Bitcoin’s Price to $66,600 (Decrypt)
- South Korean gov’t makes $10.5M profit from 4-year-old Bitcoin crime haul (cointelegraph)
- Fidelity, Square, Coinbase Launch Bitcoin Trade Group (WSJ)
Exchanges
- Coinbase Announces First Quarter 2021 Estimated Results and Full Year 2021 Outlook (Business Wire)
- Coinbase reports an estimated $1.8 billion in total revenue for Q1 2021 (theblockcrypto)
- Coinbase Earned More in First Quarter Than in All of 2020 (WSJ)
- Why Coinbase’s stellar earnings are not what they seem (Financial Times)
- Coinbase rival Kraken may go public via direct listing (Cnbc)
- Binance CEO Goes All-in on Tokens: ‘I Just Want to Keep Crypto’ (Bloomberg)
- ALL ABOARD! by Arthur Hayes (Medium)
- Revenge Of The Winklevii (Forbes)
ETF and Futures
- Grayscale says it’s committed to launching bitcoin ETF (YouTube)
- Grayscale’s Intentions for a Bitcoin ETF (Medium)
- Grayscale Says It’s ‘100% Committed to Converting GBTC Into an ETF’ (CoinDesk)
- Asset management giant Fidelity files for a bitcoin ETF (theblockcrypto)
- CI Global Asset Management Launches North America’s First Bitcoin Mutual Fund (Business Wire)
- CI Global Asset Management Launches Bitcoin Mutual Fund in Canada (CoinDesk)
- CoinShares Partners With Canada’s 3iQ to Launch New Bitcoin ETF on TSX (CoinDesk)
- Record volumes for Bitcoin futures and options in March (theblockcrypto)
- State Street May Start Trading Crypto on Platform It’s Helping Build (CoinDesk)
- State Street to provide tech for cryptocurrency trading platform (Financial Times)
NFT
- Sotheby’s Embarks on NFTs With Digital Creator Pak’s ‘The Fungible Collection’ (Barron’s)
- Luxury fashion brands poised to join the NFT party (Vogue Business)
Mining
- Riot to Acquire Whinstone, Creating a US-Based Industry Leader in Bitcoin Mining Nasdaq:RIOT (globenewswire)
- Bitcoin mining firm Hut 8 files to raise nearly $400 million in Canada (theblockcrypto)
Blockchain
- Stock clearing stalwarts face increasing threat from blockchain (Financial Times)
- State Street to provide tech for cryptocurrency trading platform (Financial Times)
Tech
Decentralized Identity
- Toward scalable decentralized identifier systems (Microsoft Tech Community)
- ION – We Have Liftoff! (Microsoft Tech Community)
- Tools and utilities to make working with the ION network and using ION DIDs easy peasy lemon squeezy (github)
- Digital Identity and the Blockchain: Universal Identity Management and the Concept of the “Self-Sovereign” Individual (frontiersin)
Payments
- PayPal launches crypto checkout service (Reuters)
- Visa Becomes First Major Payments Network to Settle Transactions in USD Coin (USDC) (Business Wire)
CBDC and Regulators
- Swedish Central Bank Reveals First Study of Digital Currency (Yahoo Finance)
- Japan’s central bank kicks off experiments on issuing digital currency (Reuters)
- BOJ Starts Central Bank Digital Currency Experiments (CoinDesk)
- BOJ sees scope to set common rules on CBDCs with major central banks (Reuters)
- Government Ban on Bitcoin Would Be ‘Foolish’: SEC’s Hester Peirce (Decrypt)
- HSBC considers Microstrategy as a virtual currency product (Twitter)
Altcoins
- ETH breaks all-time high amid fresh price surge (cointelegraph)
- Fei Labs raises over $1.2 billion for its stablecoin project (theblockcrypto)
- $1B Fei Stablecoin’s Rocky Start Is a Wake-Up Call for DeFi Investors (CoinDesk)
- Tether to launch USDT stablecoin on Polkadot and Kusama (theblockcrypto)
- Coinbase Ventures backing DeFi in the Polkadot ecosystem (cointelegraph)
Signal MobileCoin
- Test payments in Signal (Signal)
- Privacy Chat App Signal Rolls Out Cryptocurrency Payments (Decrypt)
- Peter Todd on MobileCoin centralization (Twitter)