Successful Strategies in a Dynamic World Covering Equities, Bitcoin and Crypto-Assets
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Note: Material differences of % changes of price vs Mkt cap are signals to dig deeper into why the difference exists. One cause may be the issuance of more tokens which may restrain price changes even though the Market Cap moves higher.
What impact on the Crypto Market Value may the 2024 BTC Halving have based on the 2020 BTC Halving impact? How does a $3.9 Trillion total MV, or a MV increase of $2.3 Trillion from the recent 2024 MV low sound? Digest this chart of the Deltas for a while.
As I have stated many times, I want my friends and family to understand what is taking place behind the scenes that the general public is not focusing on or paying attention to. Education provided by me to you, and then from you to those you know, is what kindness is all about (which makes it your job to educate others by sharing the news you access on the topic of Blockchain and the transformation of our financial infrastructure). I believe and have believed since 2015, that Blockchain technology is revolutionary, and we all should be responsible to ourselves, to our family and to our friends by being educators.
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As I have stated many times, I want my friends and family to understand what is taking place behind the scenes that the general public is not focusing on or paying attention to. Education provided by me to you, and then from you to those you know, is what kindness is all about (which makes it your job to educate others by sharing the news you access on the topic of Blockchain and the transformation of our financial infrastructure). I believe and have believed since 2015, that Blockchain technology is revolutionary, and we all should be responsible to ourselves, to our family and to our friends by being educators.
Please listen to the video below in its entirety. I hope it motivates you to start following news stories on this topic. That does not mean learning code or diving deep into the infrastructure. What it does require is for you to look at the world today and to imagine the benefits to the services we depend on, to the efficiencies that may be realized and to the opportunity to be a part of the journey as a participant in Blockchains earliest days of adoption.
I never give financial advice and I am not doing so now. What I do provide are the pathways to learn. I just want you to learn.
Tom
This video is critical to watch. It focuses on information that is right there in front of us but which so few people are taking advantage of. Please watch the entire video. I will give you a test later (only joking).
Video on financial industry adoption of Blockchain Technology and Public awareness
https://twitter.com/i/status/1750918014411894971
The next two links are to the company Quant’s website. I believe in Quant’s mission. Early on I saw that Quant’s business model was focused on interoperability between Blockchains. I viewed that as critical because I foresee each Central Bank in the world forming their own individual blockchains to distribute digital money within their economies in the form of Central Bank Digital Currencies (“CBDCs”). This will enable governments to continue to control and influence their economies within their borders by controlling their own money supply growth in digital form. But the governments must be able to transact between their Central Bank and the rest of the world’s many Central Banks. That is the proposition that Quant and other Blockchain technology companies are focusing on as they work with banking institutions around the world. Quant just completed their role in Project Rosalind (you should Google it). Quant worked with the Bank of England and the Bank for International Settlements to utilize blockchain technology for Bank-to-Bank transactions, and to coordinate transactions between the local bank and the retail consumer. This is Public Information, yet the general public is not paying attention to it.
You have a choice: Focus on becoming aware or remain unaware as most of the global citizenry is. These are still early days, but this technology is becoming pervasive in many sectors of society. You have a role to play in educating as many people as you can to give everyone the opportunity to understand this incredible transformation that is taking place right before our eyes.
Quant
https://quant.network/
Quant and the Financial Markets
https://quant.network/financial-institutions/?_gl=1*1y8j3fa*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTQ1Njc4Njk5LjE3MDY1NDY4ODc.*_ga_KEN210YEFE*MTcwNjU0Njg4NS4xLjAuMTcwNjU0Njg4NS4wLjAuMA..
With love and kindness,
DeFi has grown tremendously in scale and scope in recent years. The Ethereum blockchain, which underpins much of DeFi activity, settled $2.5trn-worth of transactions in the second quarter of 2021, including payments and transactions to facilitate trading and lending. (Visa, a payments giant, settled about the same amount in the same period; Nasdaq, a stock exchange, traded six times as much.) Around $90bn of collateral is being used for various DeFi functions, compared with less than $1bn in early 2018. More than half is held in the five most popular DeFi applications, but developers are working on more than a hundred others, dozens of which are rapidly amassing assets. Innovations, such as automated marketmakers, arbitrage systems and self-stabilising currency regimes, are already pushing the boundaries of financial technology.
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https://www.economist.com/briefing/2021/09/18/adventures-in-defi-land
The war over money is heating up: For the first time in more than a century, the dollar’s supremacy is being challenged. The rise of cryptocurrencies and “stablecoins” has spurred a rethinking of what a currency is, who regulates it, and what it means when it’s no longer controlled by a national government. The dollar itself may be getting an overhaul, transformed into a digital currency that can travel instantly around the world, holding up against Bitcoin or any other token.
Cryptos are now worth $2.1 trillion, doubling in value this year alone. Bitcoin, worth nearly $900 billion, recently became legal tender in El Salvador—a controversial monetary shift in the country, but one that may pave a path for other developing nations. Capital is flooding into companies that are building everything from trading platforms to exchanges for trading new digital assets like non-fungible tokens, or NFTs. Investors are also trading tokens on decentralized exchanges like Uniswap, and they’re earning high yields by “staking” their tokens to network operators.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/coming-war-money-cryptos-51631845330?mod=hpsubnav
Currently, there are Helium hotspots deployed in 119 countries worldwide. Breaking down this network data, 25 countries around the world represent roughly 96% of the network. Although the US currently has the largest share of hotspots at around 54%, Helium cannot be labeled a local phenomenon. The remaining hotspots have been popping up all over North America, Europe, and Asia.
Digging into the network data further, Helium hotspots can be found in every US state and almost every major US city. The network growth correlates to the population of the state- the larger the population, the more hotspots are required. This is a sign of healthy network growth naturally distributing itself to states with larger areas to cover.
The foundation behind the Avalanche blockchain said it received a $230 million investment from a group led by Polychain and Three Arrows Capital, through the private sale of its surging AVAX cryptocurrency.
R/Crypto Fund, Dragonfly, CMS Holdings, Collab+Currency, Lvna Capital and a group of angel investors and family offices also participated in the investment, according to a statement. The Avalanche Foundation will use proceeds from the token sale — which was completed in June — to support and accelerate the rapid growth of decentralized finance or DeFi, enterprise applications, and other use cases on the Avalanche public blockchain.
Attempts to transfer money of this value in traditional fiat markets would simply be futile. Anchored to anachronistic models, the financial ecosystem stands as a stark outlier to the instantaneous, largely inclusive modern information services experience.
An international fiat transfer often takes one to four working days to process and includes a hefty transaction fee of 1-3%. For a transaction worth $2 billion, this would come at the cost of between $20 – $60 million.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-worth-2-billion-moves-for-just-78-cents
Steven Cohen, the billionaire hedge fund manager and onetime crypto skeptic, has jumped into the NFT market in a move that could shake up sports marketing, as well as the Metaverse.
DIGITAL, a Metaverse investment venture backed by Cohen, has led a $50M Series A fundraising round in RECUR, a tech startup that develops “on-chain branded experiences” and enables customers to buy, collect, and resell NFTs. The deal bestows RECUR with a valuation of $333M, the company said in a statement released Monday. Cohen is joining RECUR’s board.
Sept 13 (Reuters) – Coinbase Global Inc (COIN.O) is planning to raise about $1.5 billion through a debt offering to invest in product development and potential mergers and acquisitions, the U.S. cryptocurrency exchange said on Monday.