US Asset Manager VanEck today announced the listing of a Bitcoin ETN on the German stock exchange Xetra. Institutional investors can now invest in Bitcoin even more easily.

Asset manager VanEck manages a total of around USD 65 billion, including ETFs, investment funds and institutional mandates. We only interviewed the company in detail about Bitcoin in the October issue of Kryptokompass. VanEck likes to compare BTC to gold and is working hard to create more Bitcoin institutional products.

With the new investment product VanEck Vectors Bitcoin ETN, the asset manager now wants to enable institutional investors and also private investors in Germany to participate in BTC’s price development without having to buy Crypto Revolt Scam directly. All this will be processed via Xetra, the electronic trading platform of Deutsche Börse.

VanEck likes to compare Bitcoin with gold

VanEck has now issued a press release in which it comments on its new product. The asset manager’s statements give Bitcoin enthusiasts an optimistic view of the future of the world’s largest crypto currency.

Bitcoin represents a very good opportunity to diversify a portfolio due to its low correlation to other asset classes. We like to compare BTC with gold and often refer to it as digital gold.

In addition, VanEck believes that BTC has become a serious asset in the financial world in recent years. As Bitcoin continues to establish itself in institutional circles, it seems only a matter of time before a BTC-ETF is introduced.

Digitale valuta is in het Congres‘ jaarlijkse verdedigingswet

• De National Defense Authorization Act van dit jaar nadert zijn voltooiing.
• Het bevat nieuwe taal die de definitie van „valuta“ uitbreidt tot digitale valuta.
• President Trump dreigt zijn veto uit te spreken, omdat het geen Sectie 230 van de Communications Decency Act intrekt.

Het Congres legt de laatste hand aan de onderhandelingen over de National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) voor het fiscale jaar 2021 voordat het wetsvoorstel voor zowel het Huis van Afgevaardigden als de Senaat zal verschijnen.

De NDAA is een enorm wetsvoorstel dat jaarlijks wordt aangenomen en dat begrotingsautorisaties voor het ministerie van Defensie omvat. Het definitieve ontwerp Bitcoin Machine van het wetsvoorstel van dit jaar omvat de verbetering van de Witwaswetten en de uitbreiding van de informatie over criminele activiteiten in Shell Holdings Act (de, uh, ILLICIT CASH Act). De wet richt zich vooral op het versterken van de inspanningen van de overheid op het gebied van AML en CFT, oftewel Anti-Money Laundering en Countering the Financing of Terrorism.

En het verbreedt de „definitie van ‚munten en valuta‘ tot digitale valuta“ die wordt gebruikt voor illegale activiteiten.
Onderzoekers vinden een nieuwe manier voor criminelen om geld te witwassen met behulp van Bitcoin

Onderzoekers van het Blockchain Research Lab in Hamburg hebben een nieuwe manier geschetst om geld op de blokketen wit te wassen: „Exclusieve mijnbouw.“ Dit is hoe exclusieve mijnbouw werkt, volgens de krant…

Verenigde Staten om zich te verstoppen achter anonieme

„Het is gewoon te gemakkelijk voor criminelen in de Verenigde Staten om zich te verstoppen achter anonieme lege vennootschappen,“ zei Senator Doug Jones, een van de medesponsors van het wetsvoorstel. „Ons tweepartijdig wetsvoorstel geeft de Amerikaanse wetshandhavers en nationale veiligheidsfunctionarissen de instrumenten die ze nodig hebben om terug te vechten tegen de criminelen die proberen ons financiële systeem te exploiteren en hun illegale activiteiten te financieren.“

In Sectie 308 van de wet is een cruciale update van de manier waarop valuta’s worden gedefinieerd (in ieder geval binnen de reikwijdte van het document).

In een persbericht van gisteren hebben hoofdsponsor Mark Warner en zijn medesponsors duidelijk gemaakt dat de nieuwe taal bedoeld is om de „opname van huidige en toekomstige betalingssystemen in het AML-CFT-regime te bevorderen,“ met name „digitale betalingen“.

Een potentiële rimpel is dat president Trump-now regelen in de realiteit van zijn kreupele eend presidentschap – heeft gedreigd om de verdediging wetsvoorstel veto’s, tenzij het slaat Sectie 230 van de Communications Decency Act, die beschermt tech bedrijven zoals Facebook en Twitter van aansprakelijk worden gesteld voor wat hun gebruikers post. Dit is een knelpunt voor Troef door het jaar, ondanks het duidelijke gebrek aan relevantie voor de daadwerkelijke substantie van NDAA geweest; hij ondertekende een uitvoerende orde die probeert om Sectie 230 terug in Mei te beperken.

Trump loyalisten zoals Lindsay Graham hebben geprobeerd om die revisie in het wetsvoorstel te smokkelen, maar voorlopig weigert de meerderheid van de congresleden aan zowel de linker- als de rechterkant om te vouwen.

The Center for Science and Security Studies (CSSS) at King’s College London is researching an “apolitical” solution to addressing nuclear disarmament problems.

On November 2, 2020, the Center for Science and Security Studies (CSSS) at King’s College London published a new studycalled „The Trust Machine“. This dealt with the potential benefits of blockchain technology in the safe dismantling of nuclear warheads.

CSSS research associate Dr. Lyndon Burford said:

Countries around the world face the critical political challenge of reducing nuclear risks, and cooperative disarmament and arms control operations can help with this task. However, governments often lack sufficient trust in one another to cooperate on such actions, partly due to strategic and legal concerns about not disclosing sensitive information.

The study also states that the multilateral nuclear order, which was consolidated under the United Nations Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), has often faced problems. These made themselves felt between nuclear weapon owners and non-nuclear weapon owners.

The latter only have the task of developing procedures in the NPT that are intended to help optimize the multilateral disarmament review. However, the technical means for this are often said to have been rather limited in the past.

Researchers are convinced of blockchain technology

With a blockchain, it is now possible to jointly manage encrypted data without central authority. The study also looks at smart contracts . These could be used to perform real-time verification. The breach of contract by one of the parties would result in an automatic notification:

Blockchain could serve as a cryptographic instrument of transfer for national declarations in disarmament processes. The parties would be able to gradually disclose sensitive data in parallel to political and strategic developments.

The study’s researchers are convinced of their idea. However, the introduction of a blockchain depends on the respective political goals of the individual nations.

For første gang på ti år har flere sentralbanker over hele verden begynt å selge gullet sitt. I følge en Bloomberg- rapport har flere gullproduserende nasjoner utnyttet eiendelens høye pris for å redusere pandemiens effekter på deres nasjonale økonomi.

Gull var vitne til en nesten rekordpris de siste ukene, og dette hadde bedt sentralbankene om å begynne å slippe gullet sitt i et forsøk på å styre økonomien

Men la oss snakke om det digitale gullet, Bitcoin, som har overlevd mange svingninger i markedet og vist seg å være en sikring mot inflasjon og økonomisk krise.

Det er sant at sentralbanker ikke alltid har vært for kryptovalutaer, spesielt Bitcoin. Imidlertid, med tanke på brukssakene og verdien av kryptovalutaen, kan det ikke være for langt i fremtiden før sentralbankene vil kjøpe bitcoin som reserve.

Iran vedtar Bitcoin

Det sies at endring er den eneste konstante tingen i verden, og at uttalelsen har vist seg å være sant i så mange tilfeller. I en fersk rapport erklærte iranske myndigheter offisielt at Bitcoin ville bli brukt til internasjonale transaksjoner.

Dette trekket har gjort Iran til det første landet i verden som bruker Bitcoin som utvekslingsmiddel. Sentralbanken i Iran vil kjøpe lovlig utvunnet Bitcoin fra gruvearbeidere for å finansiere import fra andre land.

Kryptovaluta var ulovlig i landet frem til 2019 da den utstedte forskriften. Selv om Iran ikke lenger er veldig strenge med hensyn til kryptokurver, er det heller ikke så mildt mot dem. Men med de amerikanske sanksjonene som presser Irans økonomi, blir det umulig for dem å bruke dollar i internasjonale handler.

I tillegg har landets fiat-valuta falt de siste to årene. Det iranske rialet ble forverret med COVID-19-pandemi-indusert krise.

Ved å legalisere gruvedrift og bruk av Bitcoin i landet, vil Iran omgå den amerikanske sanksjonen mens den deltar i internasjonale handler.

Iran er bare ett tilfelle der sentralbankene vendte seg til Bitcoin midt i en nasjonal økonomisk krise. Etter hvert som dagene går, endrer mange andre sentralbanker verden over holdning til Bitcoin og kryptovaluta generelt.

Noen har gått fra å fordømme Bitcoin direkte til å endre lovgivningen for å tillate bruk av kryptovalutaer. Sveits for eksempel endret nylig lovene om krypto for å fremme vanlig adopsjon.

Med Iran som leder an, er det fullt mulig å se at flere sentralbanker kjøper Bitcoin i fremtiden.

The Bitcoin (BTC) network uses the Proof of Work consensus algorithm. This requires a lot of computing power from the so-called miners, who verify the Bitcoin blocks with special mining hardware. The picture shows a Bitcoin coin mechanism on a circuit board.

With today’s news we can capture a small historical moment in Bitcoin history. After long discussions about Schnorr and Taproot, the two Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIP) have now also been implemented in the core, namely Bitcoin Core.

If you are interested in this, you can find out more about the commit by Schnorr and Taproot on the open source platform GitHub .

Schnorr and Taproot for Bitcoin: Improvements in the network

As soon as the two Bitcoin Improvement Proposals have been activated, we can expect better transaction options and improved data protection functions.

As a reminder, the update pull request – the process by which Bitcoin developers are asked to review the code before it is fully released – was first published in September by Bitcoin developer Pieter Wuille and has been tested for over a month since then. The taproot proposal alone has been checked and validated by over 150 developers.

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What is Schnorr and Taproot? – A summary

Schnorr signatures and Taproot, formally the Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIP) 340 and 341, are two of the biggest changes to Bitcoin since the activation of Segregated Witness (SegWit). SegWit was an implementation that increased the block size limit of Bitcoin in 2017. Incidentally, Schorr itself is based on the SegWit mechanism.

If you are now wondering when exactly the two improvements will be activated, unfortunately we cannot make a final statement yet. Because here the following fact applies:

The activation mechanism for the three GDPs has not yet been decided. Depending on the mechanism selected, it can take some time (e.g. 1 year) until the code is activated.

Schnorr for improved data protection in the network

Schnorr is an alternative to Bitcoin’s current multi-signature wallet mechanism, which, as the name suggests, uses multiple private keys to enable a transaction from a Bitcoin wallet. However, the Schnorr update combines multiple keys into a single key when a user conducts transactions with Schnorr. This significantly reduces the data size of multisig payments and thus helps to relieve the network.

Taproot and Transaction Enhancement

Taproot continues Schnorr by introducing a new version of the transaction output as well as new options for users. In other words, this means that users can define conditions for the issue of Bitcoin. A taboo will be broken, because this will – under very specific conditions – even lead to the fact that one can regain access to lost coins.

The functions of Schnorr and Taproot are particularly helpful for more complex transaction processes and situations. Exchanges in particular, which have to process huge amounts of money and flows, benefit from the improvements.

At the end of the article we want to state an important aspect again:

Bitcoin is often criticized for being too slow and therefore not very dynamic. After all, the Bitcoin network rarely experiences major changes. Even if this is correct, this fact shows much more that the network is advancing slowly, but carefully and innovatively. You could also just call it healthy and sustainable growth.

O Block 21, uma obra de arte apresentando parte do código-fonte Bitcoin original, foi vendido por US $ 131.250 na Christie’s, alcançando mais de sete vezes a estimativa. A pintura, cujo título completo é ‚Bloco 21 (42.36433 ° N, -71.26189 ° E), faz parte de uma coleção de 40 na série Retrato de uma Mente do artista Robert Alice e foi leiloada ao lado de um token não fungível (NFT) na noite de quarta-feira.

Retrato de uma mente homenageia bitcoin

Portrait of a Mind é a homenagem de Alice ao Bitcoin , com os 12,3 milhões de dígitos que compunham seu código de lançamento pintados à mão em uma folha de ouro de 24 quilates. As 40 pinturas atingem mais de 50 metros de comprimento, e cada uma significa uma localização física que Alice diz ser importante para a história do The News Spy. Cada pintura representa um bloco, com o Bloco 21 escolhido por Alice como a peça a ser leiloada junto com seu NFT.

A localização geográfica apontada pela peça de Alice é o prédio da Brandeis Theatre Company dentro do complexo da Brandeis University. O teatro em si não parece ter uma associação com o Bitcoin, a menos que você considere o fato de que a sigla para Brandeis Theatre Company é BTC.

Bloco 21 Estabelece Recorde Mundial NFT

O Bloco 21 é o primeiro leilão da Christie’s em seus 253 anos de história, com a venda marcando um recorde mundial para um NFT. A casa de leilões mostrou interesse na tecnologia de blockchain em arte desde a realização de um painel de discussão ‚Art + Tech Summit – Exploring Blockchain‘ em 2018, e no leilão do trabalho de Alice eles claramente fizeram bem em seu interesse.

BitMEX, la piattaforma di negoziazione dei margini bitcoin più utilizzata, non è riuscita a mettere in atto adeguate procedure di conformità e ha permesso il trading non registrato, tra le altre violazioni, secondo le autorità di regolamentazione degli Stati Uniti.

La United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission ha incaricato la BitMEX cryptocurrency exchange, il CEO Arthur Hayes, i proprietari dell’azienda (Samuel Reed e Ben Delo), e le entità aziendali (HDR Global Trading Limited, ABS Global Trading Limited, 100x Holding Limited, HDR Global Services (Bermuda), e Shine Effort Inc Limited) di operare in modo improprio negli Stati Uniti.

Anche se il prezzo del bitcoin aveva un trend più alto in precedenza, è sceso improvvisamente in seguito alla notizia.

BitMEX affronta il riciclaggio di denaro sporco e altri oneri civili

Il giorno della resa dei conti è arrivato per BitMEX mentre il Dipartimento di Giustizia degli Stati Uniti ha aperto un’accusa contro la piattaforma di trading di cripto-valuta.

Secondo un comunicato stampa del 1° ottobre, la CFTC ha annunciato la presentazione di un’azione civile presso la Corte Distrettuale degli Stati Uniti per il Distretto Sud di New York, accusando BitMEX di aver violato più regolamenti della CFTC, tra cui la gestione di una piattaforma di trading non registrata e la mancata messa in atto di politiche anti-riciclaggio di denaro.

Il deposito sostiene che la BitMEX ha ricevuto oltre 11 miliardi di dollari in depositi Bitcoin Era e ha accumulato più di 1 miliardo di dollari in commissioni di transazione mentre conduceva la maggior parte delle sue attività negli Stati Uniti e accettava i fondi e gli ordini dei clienti statunitensi.

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„BitMEX si presenta come la più grande piattaforma di derivati di cripto-valuta al mondo, con miliardi di dollari di volume di trading ogni giorno. Gran parte di questo volume, e le relative commissioni di transazione, deriva dal funzionamento della piattaforma dagli Stati Uniti e dalla sua ampia sollecitazione e accesso ai clienti statunitensi, sostiene il reclamo. Ciononostante, BitMEX non è riuscita a registrarsi presso la CFTC, e non ha implementato le principali misure di salvaguardia richieste dal CEA e dalle normative CFTC volte a proteggere i mercati dei derivati statunitensi e i partecipanti al mercato“.

In particolare, questa causa civile contro la borsa di Hong Kong è stata introdotta dalle Task Force della Division of Enforcement’s Digital Asset and Bank Secrecy Act Task Force.

In particolare, la CFTC ha incaricato BitMEX di facilitare la negoziazione di contratti di swap su una piattaforma non registrata, operando come un commerciante di commissioni sui futures senza l’approvazione della CFTC, non imponendo procedure di conoscenza del cliente ed eseguendo transazioni su merci al dettaglio con leva finanziaria.

Commentando le accuse mosse contro BitMEX, il presidente di CFTC Hearth P. Tarbert ha detto questo:

„Le attività digitali sono molto promettenti per i nostri mercati dei derivati e per la nostra economia. Affinché gli Stati Uniti siano leader mondiali in questo settore, è imperativo sradicare attività illegali come quella presunta in questo caso. Prodotti finanziari nuovi e innovativi possono prosperare solo se c’è integrità nel mercato. Non possiamo permettere che i cattivi attori che infrangono la legge ottengano un vantaggio sugli scambi che fanno la cosa giusta rispettando le nostre regole“.

Le conseguenze per le presunte violazioni potrebbero essere disastrose per BitMEX, in quanto includono „la sboccatura di guadagni illeciti, sanzioni pecuniarie civili, restituzione a beneficio dei clienti, divieti permanenti di registrazione e di trading, e un’ingiunzione permanente da future violazioni del Commodity Exchange Act (CEA)“.

I federali intentano una causa penale parallela contro BitMEX

Purtroppo per BitMEX, la CFTC non è l’unico regolatore statunitense a scendere pesantemente in borsa. I federali statunitensi hanno anche presentato accuse penali concomitanti contro Hayes, Delo, Reed e Gregory Dwyer per aver violato il Bank Secrecy Act e per aver cospirato per violare le leggi sul segreto bancario.

Secondo il cripto-avvocato Preston Byrne, la BitMEX „non sarà in grado di risolvere la questione con uno schiaffo e una multa“.

Gocce di prezzo Bitcoin

L’ammiraglia della crittovaluta ha dato il via a ottobre con una nota alta, raggiungendo i 10.896 dollari nelle prime ore di giovedì. Tuttavia, il prezzo del bitcoin è sceso da 10,8k dollari di altezza a 10.524 dollari al momento della stampa. Questo rappresenta un calo di circa il 2,4% nell’arco di pochi minuti.

Il mercato aggregato dei crittografi ha seguito la tuta del bitcoin, con etereo, XRP, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) che ha registrato perdite comprese tra l’1,75% e il 2,06%. Binance Coin (BNB) si sta affermando come il più grande perdente tra le prime dieci valute crittografiche, avendo perso oltre il 7% del suo valore.