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CMC100-Report (51/2020): SwissBorg gains 90% during Bitcoin ATH week
By: Tobias W. Kaiser
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Swissborg, Altcoins, Crypto, Bitcoin

Each week, I track the 100 biggest cryptocurrencies listed on CoinMarketCap. Here are this week’s movers and shakers.

Not many altcoins managed to outperform Bitcoin, which finally reached its all-time high this week. The biggest winners were SwissBorg and Zilliqa, followed by Elrond, which already was the top performer in the last week.

Benchmark

BTC/USD: +19.8%

ETH/USD: +5.3%

XRP/USD: +6.4%

Tether Market Cap: +2.4%

The BTC dominance increased by 2.8 percentage points to 66.3%. The total market cap increased by 14.9% to 642.5 billion USD and is distributed as:

27 assets over 1 billion USD (+-0)

45 assets over 500 million USD(+3)

71 assets over 200 million USD(-2)

106 assets over 100 million USD (+5)

158 assets over 50 million USD (+1)

Biggest Winners and Losers

There were 17 significant shifts in the CMC100-ranking.

#16: Monero (↓2, -4,9%)

#25: Dash (↑4, +10,6%)

#29: Aave (↓2, -2,1%)

#31: THETA (↑4, +21,8%)

#34: Binance USD (↑5, +23,8%)

#36: The Graph (Newcomer)

#39: Waves (↓9, -21,5%)

#42: Compound (↓4, -5,5%)

#44: Zilliqa (↑7, +57,9%)

#49: Kusama (↓4, +1,8%)

#51: OMG Network ↓8, -6,4%)

#53: Elrond (↑6, +40,5%)

#58: BitTorrent (↓6, -3,1%)

#67: NEAR Protocol (↑7, +23,7%)

#71: SwissBorg (↑26, +90,0%)

#77: Ampleforth (↓11, -21,4%)

#100: Numeraire (↓10, -6,8%)

Data as of December 21st 2020, 19:44 UTC.
Today in Crypto
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Altcoins, Ethereum, Blockchain, Bitcoin

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TrueUSD Stable Coin Is Coming On Avalanche Blockchain In The First Quarter Of 2021
By: The Crypto Basic
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Cryptocurrency News, Finance, Altcoins, Blockchain

The TrueUSD stable coin launch on the Avalanche blockchain is scheduled for the first quarter of 2021. This will be the first stable coin on the avalanche network.

It is expected that the launch of TrueUSD on the Avalanche blockchain will help develop decentralized finance (Defi) applications, speed up transactions, and reduce their costs.

Dollar liquidity is essential for the Defi ecosystem to thrive. We are thrilled to launch one of the most reliable and widely used stable coins on the Avalanche network, said John Wu, President of Ava Labs.

TrueUSD is one of the five most significant stable coins pegged to the US dollar. It is developed by TrustToken, which has created stable cryptocurrencies linked to other fiat currencies as well.

According to John Wu, Ava Labs is in talks with many projects behind different stable coins to persuade them to come to Avalanche blockchain.

He hopes that many stable coins will join them soon. Avalanche blockchain’s target is to launch stable coins on their blockchain linked to various fiat currencies and algorithmic stable coins.

We will provide Defi applications users on the Avalanche network with flexibility and liquidity.

In November, the Avalanche blockchain developers tested a fast and economical transfer of assets between the Avalanche and Ethereum networks.
Burency Help Center is Finally Here!
By: Burency Official
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Altcoins, Crypto, Blockchain, Bitcoin

Burency has finally launched its Help and Support Center for the users who trust in the company. The center has different categories that will help you with the queries. Besides, users can also post their questions and get answers from experts. You can browse the online support center to get details on News, Announcements, Account, Security, Spot Trading, OTC Trading, Margin Trading, Deposit, Withdraw, and other domains. The users can quickly learn short and long trading to invest and excel with Burency Decentralized platform.

Account and Security:

The account and security category has updated articles on account functions, Two Factor Verification, and Identity Verification. The users can browse the articles on reset account password, verification, protection, and other topics. Besides, the detailed information on the topics is provided by technical experts.

Spot, Margin, and OTC Trading:

This section has detailed solutions to the users’ trading tool, market, limit orders, margin trading, liquidation, USDT, USDT20, etc. queries. The users can even learn crypto trading strategies to better the return in a safe manner. They can even understand the guidelines of converting USDT20 to USDT before starting crypto trading.

Deposit and Withdraw:

The users may face problems with cryptocurrency withdraw and deposit. They can visit the deposit and withdraw page on the Burency Help Support Center to resolve the queries.
SYNC is proud to announce partnership with TrustSwap
By: Cryptogenik, Sync Network
Tags: Nft Collectibles, Altcoins, Partners, Ethereum, Nft

SYNC AND TRUSTSWAP

SYNC is proud to announce an integration with TrustSwap’s upcoming Swappable — a new NFT and ERC-20 Marketplace. TrustSwap has been improving the decentralized finance level of functionality with development of their software services and Tokensale Launchpad. Now, they are evolving their scope to the next level by releasing an NFT and ERC20 market-place that solves a lot of the problems that go unaddressed by competitors in the space such as OpenSea and Rarible. SYNC Network is bringing forward the next evolution in decentralized liquidity management, by issuing NFT bonds that store locked liquidity, tradeable on any NFT marketplace. This means, for the first time ever, you can both trade and earn interest on your Liquidity Provider tokens, through the combination of Sync CryptoBonds and open NFT marketplaces.

OpenSea and Rarible were designed for the antiquated idea that NFTs are just artwork and things of the like, and CryptoBonds are currently available on OpenSea, but the paradigm doesn’t seem to fit well. The vision SYNC has for selling CryptoBonds is much more that of a financial one, with an order book, analytics, and the decentralized prowess that TrustSwap’s reward token SWAP provides. Take this situation into consideration: After creating a valuable CryptoBond, people may enter a position where they want to exit at some point. Based on a variety of market factors, the market value of these CryptoBonds may vary, and include discounts like time risk, or surpluses based on how rare the CryptoBond is. For example, what would you be willing to pay to receive an NFT that returns you $1,000 in Uniswap USD/ETH liquidity pairs in 90 days? Swappable charges much less than that of their competitors, and 80% of the fees taken in from the Swappable marketplace services are returned to stakers of the SWAP token. Another reason to ensure you’re actively staking your SWAP while you are trading CryptoBonds. SYNC Network will be whitelisting the TrustSwap SWAP token for CryptoBond creation, to grow the TrustSwap liquidity pool, while providing LP holders with substantial rewards. Join in on the live AMA with Scott and Jason from SYNC Network on December 23rd on the TrustSwap Telegram group to find out more about SYNC
Data of More Than 270,000 Ledger Wallet Users Appeared On The Internet
By: The Crypto Basic
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Cryptocurrency News, Finance, Altcoins, Bitcoin

Information about more than 270,000 users of ledger hardware wallets, including their names and addresses, appeared on the raidforums.

Back in late July, hackers gained access to the ledger marketing database, which contained many documents, residential addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the company’s customers.

At that time, it was reported that hackers were able to get hold of information about 9500 Ledger clients. This time it seems that attackers have gained access to much larger data of users.

According to a representative of ledger, there are signs indicating the database hack. He apologized to users affected by the leak.

Ledger sincerely regrets this situation. We take privacy very seriously and avoiding such situations is the highest priority of our company. we have learned valuable lessons from this incident and will make ledger safer in the future.

In October 2020, it was reported that ledger had passed a SOC 2 type 1 security audit. In the same month, Ledger wallets users began receiving fraudulent emails.
「鼎金必修辭典」＃Altcoin
By: Earnest Fintech Brokerage
Tags: 加密貨幣, 專業術語, Altcoins, 鼎金數位金融經紀所, 山寨幣

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Compound Developers Will Launch A New Protocol For Interaction With Various Blockchains
By: The Crypto Basic
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Cryptocurrency News, Defi, Altcoins, Crypto

The development team of the popular decentralized finance project Compound is working on a new tool, Compound Chain, which will allow the protocol to attract assets from other blockchains.

A compound chain will enable the movement of assets and liquidity between different blockchains participants. Users of various networks will have access to lending on other blockchains. Users will be able to provide funds on one network to use the service of another network. For example, a user on the Solana blockchain will get a loan in tokens stored on the Polkadot network.

Our team is actively working on a test network Compound Chain with a limited set of features. the launch is scheduled for next quarter, and documentation for developers and validators will appear in the coming weeks. Together we will reinvent finance!

Compound labs shared on Twitter:

Our team is actively building a testnet implementation with a limited feature set, which we expect to release next quarter. Documentation for developers & validators will be available in the coming weeks. Together, we’ll reinvent finance 📈 - Compound Labs (@compoundfinance) December 17, 2020

A new token, CASH, will be introduced, which will be used to pay transaction fees. The network will be managed by the existing structure of Compound Governance using COMP tokens on Ethereum. According to the Defi Pulse portal, the Compound protocol keeps the third position in deposited assets’ volume. At the moment, the project has assets worth $1.82 billion.

At the end of November 2020, positions worth $89 million were liquidated in the Compound protocol due to the Coinbase price oracle’s failure for the DAI token.
According To DappRadar Report The Transactions Volume of Defi Industry Exceeded $270 Billion in 2020
By: The Crypto Basic
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance, Cryptocurrency News, Defi, Altcoins

The DappRadar released an annual report, according to which the volume of transactions in Defi projects increased more than 12 times in 2020.

The DApp Industry Report suggests that the total volume of transactions in the decentralized finance industry for 2020 exceeded $270 billion, and 95% of the transactions were performed on Ethereum network.

“It seems that the defi revolution has attracted increased attention because of high monthly based returns than banks,” the analysts wrote.

DappRadar also noticed that funds flowed from Bitcoin to Ethereum throughout the year. At the beginning of the year, the rate of ETH against BTC was 0.018 BTC, then by the end of the year, it increased to 0.028 BTC.

The main reason for this popularity was profitable farming when users deposit funds in Defi applications and receive a reward.

87% of transaction volume goes to only ten projects. The number of users exceeded 1 million people, while the audience of the three most popular sites was 930,000 people.

Analysts noted that in 2020, the limitations of Ethereum became clear. The lack of scalability and network bandwidth has led to a significant increase in transaction fees.

Equally important, Defi hacks, fraud, and loss of funds were common in 2020. Twelve notable hacks were committed this year resulting in millions of Dollar losses.

Smart contracts of DFefi projects often do not pass a proper security audit, and some projects, such as Compounder Finance, are created specifically to raise funds and make an exit scam.

Dappradar analysts expect that in 2021, the defi industry will play an even more important role and form the foundation for the cryptocurrency economy.

Key Points Of DappRadar Report
Litecoin technical analysis
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Altcoins, Crypto, Technical Analysis, Litecoin

Hello everyone this is a technical analysis of the cryptocurrency litecoin. We made a potential breakout of weekly level and let’s see what’s next.

Weekly support 80–93$, Weekly resistance 126$

For more information check out my video bellow.
Ripple Price Increase By 25%-30 Days Average of Tweets Mentioning XRP Increased By 152%
By: The Crypto Basic
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Cryptocurrency News, Ripple, Altcoins, Crypto

Whether Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), or Ripple (XRP), the crypto market hurries from lows to highs. Yesterday, the BTC price hit the $ 22,000 mark, increasing by almost 20% in one day. At the same time, Ripple reached 0.60 USD which is a growth of over 25%. Can the XRP price continue to rise?

Ripple (XRP) is one of the 24h winners.

Anyone who has invested in cryptocurrencies is looking forward to crypto prices.

Bitcoin has never been above the 23,000 US Dollar mark. And, XRP was able to make up good gains in the last 24 hours. After the price drop of XRP, which resulted from the Spark Token AirDrop, Now Ripple is one of the past 24 hours’ top winners.

XRP price bounced off the 0.45 US dollar support line and hurried towards the 0.60 USD.

The support line that held the XRP price at 0.45 US dollars was significant support. Those who have Ripple wonder if another price outbreak is possible.

For this purpose, we look at the opinion of Crypto analysts MagicPoopCannon.

He expects a strong Performance from XRP, provided that the overall market maintains its Momentum.

His opinions on Twitter were as follows.

XRP was the only top 10 cryptocurrencies with a negative Performance in the last seven days. While this may sound negative, But we saw a very healthy rally to 0.558, this strong demonstration may lead us to 0.90 USD. Ripple could explode further if the overall market continues to rise.

Now one must first note that the statement has an “if condition.”

An increase in an asset price with an increase in the overall market is self-evident. But if you buy a cryptocurrency that does not rise when the overall market grows, you have probably made the wrong choice.

The decisive question is whether Ripple can outperform the overall market. If this is true, Ripple Investors have made the right choice.

Investors can likely expect a further price increase of Ripple if Bitcoin can maintain its Momentum.

Overall interest and demand for Ripple have increased significantly within the Spark Token AirDrop. The following data from crypto broker eToro shows, the 30-day average of Tweets mentioning XRP increased by 152%.

📈 The 30 day average number of Twitter users talking about $XRP on a daily basis has grown from 1,622 to 4,084 since November, an increase of 152%. (Powered by @TheTIEIO). pic.twitter.com/hhr4tqtsSf - eToro US (@eToroUS) December 14, 2020

Originally published at https://thecryptobasic.com on December 18, 2020.
Nervos And Cardano Will Increase The Security Of Smart Contracts By Improving The UTXO Model
By: The Crypto Basic
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Cryptocurrency News, Cardano, Altcoins, Crypto

Nervos and Cardano have launched a research initiative to improve smart contracts ‘ security by improving the system of unspent transaction outputs (UTXO).

Nervos and the Cardano Development Team (IOHK) will co-author research papers on improving the UTXO model and future open-source developments, exploring the possibility of creating a universal UTXO standard.

They ally with other blockchains using the UTXO model to collaborate on research, development, and education in the industry.

The UTXO model tracks the unspent transaction outputs of a user across all their addresses and each transaction. According to Nervos, this is a more secure alternative to the account-based accounting method used by smart contract-based blockchains, such as Ethereum. The account-based accounting method is more vulnerable to hacks, especially for decentralized finance (Defi) protocols, because it tracks the user’s total account balance but not individual transactions.

Nervos and IOHK have adopted modified versions of the UTXO model for their blockchains. The two projects will share confidential information to improve the method.

“UTXOs outperform bill-based models in many ways and provide enhanced security, privacy, and scalability, which is critical for Defi,” said Nervos co-founder Kevin Wang.

According to the CipherTrace report, many Defi projects rely on unverified smart contracts with vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attackers. Last week, Cardano held a hard fork as part of the transition to the third primary development phase, which will focus on the functions of blockchain smart contracts. Nervos recently introduced its new sudt token standard, which will compete with the ERC-20 Ethereum standard.
Vote for our listing on StakeCube!
By: Solaris Xlr
Tags: Solaris, Cryptocurrency, Altcoins, Crypto, Coinvoting

Community, please vote for our listing on StakeCube!

To vote, you will need to sign up with StakeCube. SCC coins are required to vote with a max amount of 10 votes per day. https://stakecube.net/app/account/login…
Introducing Insured Finance — The Future of Digital Asset Insurance
By: Insured Finance
Tags: Insurance, Altcoins, Ethereum, Polkadot, Bitcoin

In 2020 alone, hundreds of million in USD value has been lost through exchange hacks, smart contract exploits, and stablecoin failure. The rapidly evolving cryptocurrency market desperately needs a solution that can provide cost-effective, versatile, and trusted insurance.

Insured Finance is building the future of digital asset insurance. By enabling cryptocurrency users to insure one another, Insured Finance allows a broad array of cryptocurrency assets to be insured at extremely competitive rates.

Not only can digital asset owners secure insurance for their holdings but those that provide insurance can earn a return on their capital. Insured Finance users can request customized insurance on their holdings and others can fulfill the request to earn a premium.

At the time of writing, there is roughly $16 billion worth of assets locked in DeFi protocols. These assets are vulnerable to exploits and countless speculators have lost their holdings due to smart contract bugs.

On top of that, there is vastly more wealth stored on exchanges and in stablecoins. The KuCoin hack alone cost investors $150 million. And with over $25 billion stored in stablecoins, these coins are another enormous pool of capital which is subject to risks like supply inflation bugs and issuer failure.

Current insurance solutions only cover ~$200 million of this risk and fail to insure exchange holdings and stablecoins. Current solutions are also subject to complex payout methods where insurance claims can take months to process.

Insured Finance addresses the pressing need for an insurance solution which provides customized insurance that can cover a wide variety of digital assets. Once an insurance request is fulfilled, smart contracts are fully collateralized which ensures that there are instant payouts in the event that a hack or exploit happens on the insured holdings.

Insured Finance will be the first blockchain-based technology to provide an insurance marketplace for digital assets. Powered by Polkadot, the marketplace guarantees versatile insurance, instant payouts, fast transactions, competitive pricing, and unmatched coverage. Insured Finance is building the future of digital asset insurance.
PayBito Invites Coin Listing Applications, Confirms CEO, Raj Chowdhury
By: Maria Garcia
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Cryptocurrency News, New Coin Listing, Coinlisting, Altcoins

Being backed by a stringent set of guidelines, the coin listing process of PayBito is all set to expand for inviting coin listing applications. Experts of PayBito are conducting a detailed analysis of every coin concerning the marketing aspects, underlying technology, and numerous other factors before listing it on the exchange platform. The compliances remain in place to make sure that the traders get high liquidity, enhanced safety, and profitable trading options. On the other hand, the multi-language and multi-currency features of PayBito makes the process simple for users across geographies.

With an accelerated rate of cryptocurrency trading across geographies and with amateur traders looking forward to expanding their coin portfolio and trading experience, PayBito plans to take a new step forward. Having the leading cryptocurrencies of the world on their exchange, their team is evaluating numerous altcoins particularly the emerging ones for adding to their platform, thereby looking forward to helping the traders with coin listing application invitation ideas.

As per their CEO, Raj Chowdhury, PayBito’s team aims to diversify the cryptocurrency trading options for the users worldwide with an extensive offering of digital assets. Invitation of coin listing applications will lead to attracting more traders to their platform by focusing on emerging coins, thereby working in a collaborative approach. Concentrating on the upcoming coins with utility industry values, PayBito is also working towards the visibility of listed coins for increasing the same on the Global market.

Looking forward to leveraging its brand value, PayBito is extending to reach a larger demographic of users. The expansion of the coin listing portfolio and inviting coin listing applications to prove to be beneficial for traders, thereby providing them with access to a diverse range of Crypto assets to invest.
Electroneum updates community on FCA registration
By: Olivier Acuña
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Fintech, Altcoins, Crypto, Blockchain

Electroneum is very pleased to confirm that its group companies that the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) required to apply for registration with them; Space Agency Marketing Ltd and Knightsbridge AnyTask Services Ltd have each been granted interim registration under the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 as a crypto asset business until 9 July 2021, pending the determination of our applications by the FCA.

https://register.fca.org.uk/servlet/servlet.FileDownload...

Space Agency Marketing provides custodian wallet services for our Electroneum, ETN users and Knightsbridge AnyTask Services helps Sellers using the AnyTask platform, get paid in ETN. The FCA determined that Electroneum Ltd, which is responsible for the blockchain that underpins ETN, did not require registration with them.
Bitcoin Remains Strong Above $ 19,000-Bitcoin Cash Price Outperformed BTC And ETH-Other Altcoins Fluctuate
By: The Crypto Basic
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Cryptocurrency News, Altcoins, Bitcoin News, Bitcoin

Ethereum is trading above USD 580, XRP is down 2%, and it broke a major support at USD 0.485.

Bitcoin cash performed better than others and rallied above the USD 280 resistance. Bitcoin Price

After a minor decline, Bitcoin price remained stable above the USD 19,000 level. BTC is slowly rising, and it is currently trading above the USD 19,200 level. The bulls need to get stronger and push the price above USD 19,400 and USD 19,500 to start a new price uptrend.

Bitcoin price has mostly traded in a range above the USD 19,000 support. Immediate resistance is near the USD 19,380 level. The main hurdle is still near the USD 19,450 and USD 19,500 levels.

If the price falls, the USD 19,050 and USD 19,000 levels are decent support. A clear break below the USD 19,000 level could initiate a dip towards the USD 18,500 support level.

Ethereum price

Ethereum price is trading positively above the USD 575 and USD 580 support levels. ETH broke the USD 585 level, but it is still facing a strong resistance near the USD 595 and USD 600 levels. A successful close above USD 600 is necessary for sustained upward movement.

If the bulls fail to break $ 595, the price could drop below $ 580. The first major support is near the USD 575 level, below which the price could test the USD 565 level.

Bitcoin cash price outperformed Bitcoin and Ethereum, with a strong upward move above the USD 275 and USD 280 resistance levels. BCH is up more than 7% and even traded near the USD 290 level. The primary resistance is at USD 295 and USD 300, above which the bulls may test the USD 320 level.

Litecoin Price

Litecoin (LTC) is consolidating above the USD 80.00 level. LTC climbed above USD 81.20 and opened the doors for a push towards the USD 83.50 and USD 84.00 levels. If there is a break above USD 84.00, the price could climb towards the USD 86.50 level. Conversely, a break below $ 80.00 can potentially increase selling pressure in the short term.

XRP Price

XRP price is down 3%, extending its decline below the USD 0.485 support level. Significant support has lined up at USD 0.475, below which the price could plunge towards the USD 0.450 support. Even more, losses could push XRP towards USD 0.425. On the upside, the USD 0.500 level is a big resistance.

Read Our Detailed Technical Analysis of XRP

Other Altcoins Markets Today

In recent hours, a few altcoins have gained some momentum, including ZIL, ALGO, DOT, ANT, UNI, BAND, and RUNE. Of these, ZIL is up 7%, and it is trading above the USD 0.034 resistance.

In short, the Bitcoin price is stable above the USD 19,000 level. That said, BTC needs to clear the USD 19,450 and USD 19,500 resistance levels to start a substantial rise in the coming sessions.
“Last CHEX Mining Carnival” is available now!!
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Giveaway, Altcoins, Promotion, Blockchain

Thank you for always supporting the Crypto Harbor Project.

“Last CHEX Mining Carnival” is available now!!

And it will will be end at February 01 2021.

It’s been about a month and a half, but please do your best to win the CHERY prize!

[CHEX Mining Carnival!]

Compete for the total amount of mining for 1.5 months and win CHERY as a prize

* Prize money won

1st place 250 CHERY (equivalent to $ 5000)

2nd place 125 CHERY (equivalent to $ 2500)

3rd place 75 CHERY (equivalent to $ 1500)

4th place 50 CHERY (equivalent to $ 1000)

5th — 10th 25 CHERY (equivalent to $ 500)

11th — 30th 10 CHERY (equivalent to $ 200)

31st — 60th 5 CHERY (equivalent to $ 100)

* Participants with a total mining amount of 750,000 CHEX or more for 1.5 months will be entitled to win prize money.

* If the total amount earned is the same, the dividend will be evenly distributed by the number of people.

* Regardless of the CHE lockup course, the ranking will be decided only by the total amount of CHEX earned.

* The prize money will be distributed in order from the top prize winners within one month after the end of the carnival.

* CHEX mining speed for transaction fees has not changed

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・ As the final lockup & mining with the current function, it will be used as a detonator for Crypto Harbor to attract new users in the future.
BITCOIN’S SANTA RALLY COULD SEND IT SOARING ABOVE $20,000
By: Platinum Crypto Academy
Tags: Altcoins, Jp Morgan, Bitcoin, Litecoin

The list of institutions investing in Bitcoin continues to grow. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. recently purchased $100 million worth of Bitcoin and also took a $5 million stake in NYDIG. As insurance companies adopt a conservative approach to investing, this purchase assumes greater significance.

JPMorgan analysts believe that Mass Mutual’s purchase could attract pension funds and insurance companies from the Eurozone, the UK, the US, and Japan.

BITCOIN VALUE FUNDAMENTAL ANALYSIS

Even if these investors only hold 1% worth of their portfolio in Bitcoin, a total of $600 billion could flow into Bitcoin.

While most institutions are taking small bets on Bitcoin, business intelligence firm, MicroStrategy has not only gone all in, it will even borrow money and invest in Bitcoin. The firm has raised $650 million in convertible bonds at 0.75% interest per year. The company said that after calculating working capital requirements and other general uses, the rest of the capital will be used to buy Bitcoin.

But why are the institutional investors buying when Bitcoin’s price is close to $20,000? Ruchir Sharma, chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, said that the US dollar’s reign as the default reserve currency of the world could be under threat due to the incessant money printing. “Trusted or not, Bitcoin will gain from widening distrust in the traditional alternatives.”

This shows that institutional investors anticipate a currency crisis in the future. Therefore, they are diversifying into various asset classes. With the institutional demand picking up, will the top-5 cryptocurrencies resume their uptrend? Let’s find out.

Read more
The Dude — Market Update Ep. 1. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Alts and ICOs update
By: The Dude
Tags: Market Analysis, Altcoins, Ethereum, ICO, Bitcoin

Altcoins(Alts)

BTC.D Chart 12/16/2020

Despite the fact Bitcoin broke ATH today altcoins dominance got strongly rejected from this area few days ago and again it’s showing bearish moves in the short term chart. If altcoins manage to start a strong momentum now which is possible since Ethereum(The leader) is looking bullish then we could see a 53.5% dominance causing a massive altcoins season. Obviously that would take some time to be achieved but we have today some important mid term entries and setups for BTC/ETH/ALTS.

Few Altcoins with strong Fundamentals have strongly outperformed Bitcoin for example Injective, Elrond and Noia rising 2x+ in a few weeks showing that coins with strong FA and Charts are still outperforming Bitcoin.

Coins in my Watchlist for this week that might show interesting setups:

SAND, UTK, SORA, UNN(ICO Launch/1 day post launch), TVK, NSURE, NOIA, COIN, ROSE, DEUS, WOO and RAMP.
Challenging the Unknown
By: Alfredo E Phipps
Tags: Fear, Challenging Times, The Unknown, Challenging The Unknown, Fear Of Failure

Life is hard. Sometimes it gives us an unfair hand and leaves us wondering what happened as we try to pick up the pieces of our broken dreams. Experiences like these can make us feel lost and scared and cause us to put up walls around us to protect ourselves, refusing to leave the safety of our comfort zone. Challenging the Unknown by Alfredo E. Phipps, Jr. addresses what it feels like when our world falls apart around us and how we can move forward with confidence and purpose. The story follows several characters whose lives intersect when they are invited to attend an event led by a teacher that will change the direction of their lives forever. Join us on the journey and learn how to embrace uncertainty and enter into the possibilities that await you, mustering the courage to take a leap even when life seems scary.

ISBN-13: 978–1735800721

“Challenging the Unknown” by Alfredo E Phipps, Jr.

Available on: Amazon, B&N, Apple Book, Kobo, Goodreads, Indigo
The Weird Christmas That Wasn’t
By: Travis Hubbard
Tags: Fear, Life Lessons, Covid 19, Inspiration, Life

I’m married to a person from a very liberal family. As is the case with everything these days, their lives are lived according party dogma.

My wife’s parents are old. Much older than their years, both physically and mentally.

They are afraid, because they’ve been instructed to be, and have been living in their 2500 square foot coffin for almost a year now. It’s sad. Life has happened, and they’ve not been able to experience any of it.

I get it. I understand fear, even if I don’t experience it. (Although I do fear the IRS, but that’s a story for another 1,000 word day.)

Based on their request, our family was going to wear masks when we went to visit for Christmas. The fact that we were going to be served dinner, and allowed to remove our masks while eating, then put them back on before leaving the dining room, baffled me, but we all agreed:

Masks would be worn so everyone could feel safe.

Strange as it was, we were willing to do what was requested so my wife and kids could enjoy an annual tradition with my wife’s side of the family.

And then came the email.

About a week or so before Christmas, my wife received an email from her Uncle.

He was in from Long Island and staying with my wife’s parents through Christmas.

He wanted to know if we were going to get tested for COVID-19 before we came to visit.

Um, no.

We were not.

Then the wheels came off.

Emails were exchanged and it was decided for the comfort of all involved, that we would not do an in-person Christmas visit this year.

Even though my wife’s Uncle (who drove in from Long Island, NY) and her brother and sister-in-law (who flew in from San Jose, CA) were in town and staying with her parents.

Oddly enough.

My wife drove down to her parents the morning that we were all supposed to go. She went to drop off Christmas gifts.

Her Dad met her at the door. Invited her in. Everyone in the house was wearing masks.

They exchanged pleasantries, then they asked if she’d like to stay for lunch.

Um, no.

She said her Dad was apologetic, overly so.

When she told me the story it made me really sad.

Live.

I can’t imagine anyone coming into my house and establishing conditions for my guests.

Particularly if those guests are my daughter and grand kids.

Two things.
Fear
By: Lauren Mestas
Tags: Fear, Loss, Read, Pain, Fear Of Failure

Fear

Fear will be viewed, experienced, or brought to a person as a guarantee of life along with taxes. There is fear in society for many different reasons and rhymes. Fear can serve the purpose to force people into doing things that they would not do and is used throughout history with different dictator leaders to commend order and create a fearful society. This idea of fear gives the dictator total power over the people and the area because few will rise up due to the fear of what will happen to them. Fear can be overcome in this situation when many stand up against it; fighting the monster with one person is a guaranteed loss but with many people fighting the system it can have a great impact. These people who are now in power have gained this power with the help of many usually with support from the citizens. It is only when they are in power then does it start to become messy and the true corruption of it takes over. That is another reason that power can also have a role of fear in it, corruption. When a person comes to power they have good intentions on how the society will be run and what will become of the people but when at the top the idea of power takes hold of the leader’s mind changing some of their views. Some fear this amount of power when they have it not aware how much it was to take on when looking for it. Some don’t understand the power while others unknowingly want the corruption of power. All in the end if corrupted will take on this change of ideas and allow fear to become part of their citizens and the society’s lives. Power doesn’t necessarily only happen to those who are the highest up on the chain. In the Gilded Age, the people who had the corrupt power and caused fear were the factory workers, not the highest class. The highest class was focused on running their business and trying to maintain their lives they turned their eyes away from what was happening in their factories. The factory owners figured out together that if they instituted fear in their places of work more money could be made and it would make them look better giving them the hope that they could secede higher. Even though the factory owners were not nearly the highest person of rank in their operation because they banned together and all did this the lower classes couldn’t fight it off at least for a while. This fear could also be instituted because the higher class was turning their head from the problems because of the increase in profits that had become of this new change. Fear in the workers was intense because one slip up would lead to them being out of work. There were no days off or sick days and products had to be nothing less than perfection. There is a direct connection between the power, corruption, and fear throughout a society with limited controls on how they are run whether this is politically or with the economy. Corruption is a direct result of someone who is not ready for the burden of power which leads to the use of fear in the community of people.
The Worries
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Fear, Image, Depression, Anxiety, Poetry

The Worries

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

A brief break, some time in between, the twisting of fingers and hearts, the supreme lack of focus in the bottle haze street terror blank uncontrolled absence of decorum, singing up to the rafters before choking in fear that someone might actually be listening…

but no one’s listened to date…ah, that’s lying, that’s putting the wrong foot, stirring a pot that has no burner underneath, switching out responsibilities, trapped walking same circle vision crystal but fogged in terms of what actually happens…

I’d kiss you goodnight, but I’m so far away, elegant longing only mildly turning the worries into another moment, a picture to be dispensed with, a diamond hogging lack glory upside-down intangible sweat eyes closing on what doesn’t matter…

or what matters, but doesn’t shift…immediately, agony chasing the pain-free non-existence but not ready for the total reduction to object just yet, scared…

maybe…scared
“Make this stop”
By: Christopher Boardman
Tags: Fear, Nashville, Empathy, Change, Love

the morning after…

It is so easy to be compassionate in the wake of a disaster. “Oh, we feel so bad for you.” “Sending you our heartfelt condolences”. Then, we hit the enter key and we can easily drift into avoidance of what has happened.

Not knowing the intent of yesterday’s blast in Nashville it is impossible to understand how someone or some group would be able to justify such an act. What I do know is that someone was in such pain they felt they had no other means to express themselves than to cause unimaginable destruction and chaos. There should be no consolation that the perpetrators felt compelled to spare the lives of innocent bystanders. The damage is done. Lives will be forever changed.

Jobs lost. Iconic, historic buildings destroyed. Millions of people affected by the loss of data services and communications infrastructure.

And for what? Attention?

Maybe we will know what drove someone to create such unspeakable damage and terror. Maybe not. What I do know is that we can no longer hide behind the law, religion or cultural differences to ignore the reality of what we have become.

We have lost our connection to one another. We have lost our sense of community. We have become divided. We have accepted that life is nothing more than a zero-sum game. We have no other choice than to view life as a winner or a loser. And, as time moves on we can either sink further into the abyss of isolation or we can collectively say: “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more!”

There is no one to blame. We are past that. We have reached an inflection point: Either we value community and come together or we do nothing and let the divisive wounds of the past define our future.

Love vs. Fear.

I believe the origin of all human behavior is derived from either love or fear. Throughout history it has been proven that using force to control people is unsustainable. On the contrary, operating from love, inclusion and acceptance will last forever. Do we succumb to our fears? Or, do we find the strength to love? For me a life without love is unacceptable.

It’s time to make a choice.

Now, we don’t have to make broad pronouncements or take sweeping actions. Life is found in the little things. The little actions… a smile, a kind word or gesture. Like a pebble in a pond, every action, no matter how small, has a ripple effect. Empathy, the ability to understand and feel what others go through, is the first step towards living a life of love and connection. It’s up to me. It’s up to you. It’s up to all of us…to create the world we wish to live in. As Morgan Freeman says in “Shawshank Redemption”: Either you get busy living or dying. I choose to live. Do you?
Childhood Traumas are the Future
By: Shaler Houser
Tags: Fear, Perception, Trauma, Childhood, Poetry

Photo by DDP on Unsplash

The focused chill of enveloping fear

Fanciful dichotomy from the Darwinistic illusion

Needles from childhood the traumas so real

Swimming in tension my embarrassing ritual

Petrified of life the Schwinn won’t stop

The children in the corn pursuing the ecstatic chase

Fumes with no fuel

Outlets gifting the leather shock

Allergic to grace but comfort in sorrow

Sewing those seeds of never enough

Bathing in mud playful as can be

Yet John Wayne Gacy only 25 minutes from me

Despicable acts too heinous to see

Vile convictions as Mike goes bye

Suicide at 9 we’ll never know why

And Ronnie will burn, deeper than most

Bathed in gasoline, up like a roast

Peppertree Farms face in the snow

Another Mike succumbs to cancer oh my

17 years of age too old to die

Dazed and Confused in Palestine

Nothing was alright, alright, alright
Head Space
By: Ezinne Ukoha
Tags: Fear, Confusion, Nature, Freedom, Poetry

Beautiful fogginess obstructing dangled frost hanging loosely

as closed lips breath in and out for clouds to part.

Walking to nowhere is better than sitting somewhere, stewing in drags

of puffs, sailing to catch what can’t fall.

Familiar hymns frame memories unclogged, images too wet for drying,

form a circus of what played out, when youth swaddled threats.

Catching birds in flight, black wings provocatively storming grayness

perched low for righteous reckoning.

Stubborn traveling under heaviness of heart, leaving trails of dull red

from under you, footsteps grow deeper in the strength

of borrowed weakness.

From afar, moving heads turn and bow without knowledge of why.

Closer still, emphatic sounds from squealing beaks, tucked into electricity,

striking dramatized silence of the morning.

Aloneness is the power of one, surrounded by the chill of company

frigidly abrasive, sullenly comforting in the throes of emptiness,

opaquely imposing for those who can’t surrender to stretches of damnation.

Standing proud in the pitiful overlay of curtained fear that one step

could produce slithering grips of paralysis.

Implosions bite the way forward, while thoughts provide warmth

from brittle shadows, falling apart as you blow through heated lips.
5 Signs Fear is Stopping You
Tags: Fear

5 Signs That are Stopping You

Fear is tricky. It can sneak up on you and take over certain areas of your life. The worst part is that you don’t even recognize how much it’s ruining your life.



But you can’t let fear string you along. It will suck out your courage, hope, and determination.



We’ve rounded up 5 signs to help you determine whether fear is stopping you. We’ll also give you some tips on how to stop it from taking over your life.



1. You let people’s reactions affect your decisions



When we want to be accepted by our peers, we allow their thoughts to fester in our subconscious. They start controlling how we think, act, talk, and behave.



This isn’t how normal life should be because you’re constantly running defense.



The way out of this continuous defense scenario is to renew your conviction. Stop gauging your actions by how people will react.



Instead, focus on what you want to do and why. Setting up realistic goals makes things more tangible and easier to attain. Only then will you be able to beat out your fear of rejection.



2. You keep your opinions to yourself



Just as the fear of rejection holds you back, fear of criticism is just as powerful. It can impact your actions and your decision.



When you’re always hesitant in your conversations, that means you’re always afraid of what you may say. That can lead to negative results at your workplace and at home.



People may get the feeling you’re holding out on them or that you’re being deceptive.



One way to stop t
How I got a life Changing Orientation…
By: Henry Ford
Tags: Fear, Listening, Advice, Purpose, Psychology

There are moments in our life that we feel alone, depressed, and unwilling to keep going, we struggle with different situations throughout our life that not always can be solved on our own, sometimes we need someone to talk to, there are moments that we really need advice.

I’ve been just like you, stressed, anxious, depressed and I didn’t know what to do. If you can relate to any of these statements. It is right time to make you life change positively,

After some days of coaching with Annhope, my attitude about myself, my career and my business has shifted 180 degrees. I find myself returning to the same feelings and attitude I had when I started my business, the courage to make and even embrace change and to move forward by making choices that benefit me, not just looking out for everyone else.

I want to emphasize that Annhope does not make decisions for me but instead has helped me develop ways to deal with situations using my own knowledge and self-awareness, and she helped me at least develop a plan or concept for what I want my career to look life for the next 25 years of my life. I have come to regard Annhope as a valued friend as well as life advisor.

henry ford