Thursday, October 10, 2019

Buy Bitcoin in French Tobacco Shops

Keplerk, which is a financial services startup from France, has announced about relaunching its Bitcoin coupon program which will enable users to buy Bitcoin in over 5200 tobacco stores in France starting from October 10, 2019.

Initially, the program was launched in January of the current year; however, after less than 2 months it was suspended. Keplerk states that the customers can purchase Bitcoin from tobacco stores in coupons of 50, 100 or 250 euros.

It is also reported that all the Bitcoin payments will be made through Bimedia (partner of Keplerk), which will supply payment terminals.

In spite the fact that in the initial phase Keplerk was considering the possibility to enable customers to purchase other crypto coins as well, after a deep examination, it made a decision to sell only Bitcoin. The company also managed to cut the processing fee for 1.5% (from 7% to 5.5%).

At the present time, Bitcoin and other crypto coins have become quite interesting investment option in France. The country is 1 of the international leaders in crypto adoption across various spheres, including shopping. More than 25000 points-of-sale of 30 retailers in the country accept payments with Bitcoin or other crypto coins. In the list of retailers is also the sportswear giant Decathlon.

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Bitcoin Price Prediction for October 2019 (Looking to $10.000 per BTC)

Bitcoin price prediction for today

Today we are going to analyze Bitcoin price and understand the potential price action that might happen this month of October 2019.

First of all let see the peaks and valleys of BTC/USD chart.

https://www.tradingview.com/x/Zs3NHQYr/

As you can see, all the peaks and valleys had some kind of consolidation followed by quite big price movements.

The reason is that on those levels are accumulated huge amount of Buy/sell orders making those levels unbalanced from the point of view of supply and demand.

Looking further we can see that those levels have something special.  They always push the market up or down based on the accumulated trading volume.

On my next predictions I’ll be talking more about those levels and how to understand them much better, but for now lets focus on the price forecast of bitcoin.

One more thing, I going to show you vision as simple as possible not making fancy drawing on the chart.

Remember bitcoin trading at 3k to 4K levels? Some people talking about the death of BTC other the best time to buy meanwhile the interest of bitcoin was almost zero.

From august to September 2017 we saw an accumulation continued by huge breakup level making a price movement X14 time bigger than the consolidation level. ( see the blue color line)

https://www.tradingview.com/x/eX9mLaRX/

This level accumulated huge amount of corporate pending buying orders due the fact that there was amount of buy positions on BTC. Believe me, noone was interested to let that level break down. 🙂

The once the BTC price reached that level with huge red candle pointing down like it was the end of crypto we saw how the buyer made their big step on holding that level, consolidating that level, ans slowly breaking the back of the sellers.  Look the chart bellow.

https://www.tradingview.com/x/JyexeoN9/

Based on the price action and its potential movement Bitcoin had the chance to get 60% to 70% of the last BTC price rally. Which equals around 14K to 15K. (Math bellow)

4,660 – 19,600 = -14,900

60% = 8,940 + 4,600 = 14,440
70% = 10,490 + 4,600 = 15,030

Chart bellow look the chart bellow for the proof.

https://www.tradingview.com/x/qSBrc2Vq/

On this case we can see that we had an other level like the 4K to 5K Buy level BUT a sell level.

This time from 14K to 16.5K level pointing to 6K level which equals 3X the

This price action numbers show that the BTC current price is where it should be and from here the price can continue its growth as all the selling orders have been executed and reached its level. (Math bellow)

14,000 – 6,000 = 8,000

60% – 4,800
70% – 5,600

14,000 – 4,800 = 9,600
14,000 – 5,600 = 8,400

https://www.tradingview.com/x/QJB2bUCz/

So, we can conclude that the BTC is ready to start moving upward from now.

For better view, I will display the Daily chart to have more clear vision on why it should be going up from here.

https://www.tradingview.com/x/s7M7kbvo/

 

Next analysis will go deeper on the potential upward resistance levels where the price can stop for small pullbacks.

 

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Ripple Partners with Finastra for Cross-Border Payments

Finastra startup will utilize the Ripple blockchain technology for payment solutions to support more rapid cross-border payments. This collaboration will enable the customers of Finastra to connect and transact with 200 financial institutions on RippleNet.

Senior VP:Customer Success at Ripple Marcus Treacher talked about the collaboration with Finastra, noting that this cooperation will open its services to a considerably huge users base and will let them transact directly with each other.

Besides the broad sector of solutions that Finastra already provides, the company is now trying to promote the future of finance through this tie-up.

Senior Vice President of FMS at Finastra Riteesh Singh mentioned that cooperating with Ripple will be beneficial for their customers “in geographies where cost of correspondent banking is high”.

The users of Finastra will also be able to use On-Demand Liquidity of Ripple, enabling it to leverage XRP for cross-border payments.

Finastra has over 9000 clients which include 90 of the world’s 100 largest banks. However, only a little part of the clients are with the company to process payments.

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CoinGecko Releases 2019 Quarter 3 Cryptocurrency Report

10 October 2019 – CoinGecko, one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency data aggregators, today published its 2019 Quarter 3 Cryptocurrency Report. The 53-page report provides an overview of the state of the cryptocurrency market and the major events that took place during the third quarter of 2019.

Cryptocurrency Market Overview

Q3 was a relatively stable quarter for Bitcoin. It stayed above $10,000 for most of Q3, then experienced a sharp fall of 17.6% in the last week of September. Overall, Bitcoin ended the quarter down 24%, having started at $10,888 and ended at $8,271.

Although Bitcoin suffered a 24% fall in price in Q3, other cryptocurrencies experienced larger falls. Among the top 5 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, Ethereum fell 39%, XRP fell 36%, Bitcoin Cash fell 43%, and Litecoin fell 54%. Overall market capitalization decreased by 29.1% or nearly $100 billion.

Bitcoin saw its market dominance increase from 65.0% to 70.4% (+5.4%) amongst the top 30 cryptocurrencies. Stablecoins saw its market dominance and market capitalization rank increase in Q3 as well.

Other Highlights from the CoinGecko Quarter 3 Report:

  • 300% Growth in Derivatives Exchanges

    This past quarter, the crypto industry experienced rapid growth in the derivatives sector. On CoinGecko, there was a 300% increase in the number of derivatives exchanges tracked, from 6 exchanges to 17 exchanges. Binance, the largest spot exchange by trading volume, is also now involved in the derivatives market. It launched Binance Futures and acquired JEX, a small derivatives exchange.

    In this report, CoinGecko has included a “Derivatives for Dummies” section – an introductory and entertaining guide that will educate you on this complex subject. The section covers basic topics such as futures, options, and perpetual swaps, as well as provides a glossary for advanced topics.

  • DeFi Industry Overview

    Over the past year, the DeFi (Decentralized Finance) space has shown strong growth. Within the span of one year, the amount of ether locked in smart contracts to power DeFi has tripled to approximately 2.9 million.

    With the aim of creating a more efficient money market, DeFi has seen strong growth in the types of applications coming on board. The most popular applications in the DeFi space are in the lending, derivatives, decentralized exchanges (DEX), and payment services. This report explores selected projects showcasing the use case of DeFi such as MakerDAO, Compound, Set Protocol, Synthetix, bZx Protocol, and Akropolis.

  • CoinGecko Releases “Trust Score 2.0”

    In May 2019, CoinGecko launched Trust Score to provide additional insights into crypto exchanges’ real liquidity through order book and web traffic analysis. This was necessary to combat exchanges’ fake volume and to improve transparency amongst cryptocurrency exchanges.

    Building upon the success of this, CoinGecko developed Trust Score 2.0, which incorporates additional metrics and is bucketed into 5 major categories: Liquidity, API Technical Coverage, Scale of Operations, Cryptocurrency Reserves, and Regulatory Compliance.


“As Q3 came to a close, it seemed like the crypto industry was following our natural seasons. Crypto summer was here and we enjoyed the high price of Bitcoin. Now that summer is over, Bitcoin’s price has dropped and we’re in crypto autumn. Despite the bearish market, we are still seeing strong growth and development from many projects that are working hard to innovate in the crypto industry,” shared Bobby Ong, co-founder of CoinGecko.

This is the 9th edition of CoinGecko’s Quarterly Cryptocurrency Report. To read the full report, refer to the following links:

PDF: http://bit.ly/CoinGecko-2019-Q3-Report
SlideShare: https://www.slideshare.net/coingecko/coingecko-2019-q3-cryptocurrency-report

About CoinGecko

Since 2014, CoinGecko has been the trusted source of information for millions of cryptocurrency investors. Its mission is to empower the cryptocurrency community with a 360-degree overview of the market. CoinGecko provides comprehensive information derived from thousands of data points such as price, trading volume, market capitalization, developer strength, community statistics, and more. It currently tracks more than 5,700 tokens from more than 380 exchanges.
 
For more information, visit https://www.coingecko.com.
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Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Binance Launches P2P Trading

Leading crypto exchange Binance announced about launching (peer-to-peer ) P2P trading system that will allow trading BTC, ETH & USDT against the Chinese Yuan (CNY).

The exchange reports that during the initial period the service will be available to Binance existing users who have Binance accounts registered for at least 30 days and trading will take place on the Android interface. After the launch on Android, peer-to-peer service step by step will also be available for iOS users and on the web interface.

This new P2P service permits direct interaction of two subjects without any public order placing and as soon as two users place matching orders, the platform connects only those involved in the transaction.

To have access to this new service, Binance asks the users to update to the latest Binance Android app.

CEO of Binance Changpeng Zhao noted that P2P trading will be expanded to other regions in the near future:

Binance also has an intention to release an offexchange platform.

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Thursday, October 3, 2019

Stone Ridge to Register Bitcoin Futures

Stone Ridge Asset Management LLC is making efforts to register a new Bitcoin futures offering with the United States SEC.

This new fund is named NYDIG Bitcoin Strategy Fund. It is represented as a newly structured, “non-diversified, closed-end management investment company”, which constantly offers its shares. Company has an objective to achieve capital appreciation by investing in Bitcoin futures contracts.

The Shares of Stone Ridge are being offered with an initial price of 10 USD per Share, and they will be offered continuously at net asset value per Share. Initial cap of the company is $25 million. After meeting the initial cap, the company will close to new investors and only already existing investors will be allowed to reinvest dividends. At the same time, the Fund may re-open and close again to new investors at any time and during the closings periods only existing shareholders will be permitted to reinvest dividends.

The company also mentions that the Fund will only invest in cash-settled Bitcoin (BTC) futures traded on commodity exchanges registered with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, preventing direct investments in Bitcoin and any other cryptocurrency.

In September of this year, Btcoin futures exchange and digital assets platform Bakkt also announced about the launch of the Bakkt Bitcoin Daily and Monthly Futures contracts.

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Friday, August 16, 2019

COINBASE CUSTODY BOUGHT XAPO FOR $55M

Coinbase, one of the largest crypto trading platforms worldwide, purchased Xapo. Coinbase Custody announced the news this Friday without specifying the financial side of the deal. Yet, a business news outlet, Fortune reported that the payment was USD 55 million.

The crypto exchange was in a battle for Xapo with Fidelity for some time now. After the announcement, Coinbase is one step closer to worldwide recognition.

The company currently has custody over crypto coins worth over USD 7 billion. Xapo is among the first custodial businesses for Bitcoin around the world. In 2018, Xapo gained licenses from the Financial Services department of New York for a crypto trading platform.

The vast majority of the company’s users consented to move their funds to Coinbase Custody. This will bring the company over 500 thousand new Bitcoins. Yet, a number of large holders still have not transferred their funds, which would totally be worth around USD 3.5 billion. The company currently has over 120 users of this service from fourteen countries globally.

According to the CEO of Coinbase, custody is very important in the process of institutionalizing the crypto market. In his words, it is going to start small and then gain momentum quickly bringing money to the crypto firms.

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