Alameda mène un cycle de financement de 50 millions de dollars à Maps.me

Maps.me fait de la DeFi une application grand public, en intégrant une économie à jetons aux services de voyage.

• Maps.me a levé 50 millions de dollars lors d’un cycle de financement.
• La pierre angulaire de Maps.me 2.0 est MAPS, un jeton de gouvernance et d’utilité liant 140 millions d’utilisateurs.
• Maps.me 2.0 disposera d’un portefeuille pour stocker les jetons et obtenir des rendements.

Maps.me, une application cartographique hors ligne qui compte plus de 140 millions d’utilisateurs dans le monde, a levé 50 millions de dollars lors d’un cycle de financement mené Bitcoin Revolution par Alameda Research, une société d’investissement et un fournisseur de liquidités basé à Hong Kong. Genesis Capital et CMS Holdings ont également participé à ce tour de table.

Selon un communiqué de presse partagé avec Decrypt, Maps.Me 2.0 est livré avec un portefeuille multidevises qui combinera des services de réservation et de localisation d’hôtels en direct avec des outils de finance décentralisée (DeFi).
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Vous pourrez notamment y stocker de la valeur et obtenir des rendements allant jusqu’à 8 %, échanger des fonds sans frais cachés, envoyer de l’argent et dépenser dans plusieurs devises pour vos déplacements transfrontaliers. Une autre option incluse est le cashback sur les transactions.

L’entreprise affirme que sa nouvelle application permettra non seulement de lutter contre les frais de change élevés et les commissions prélevées par les banques et les plateformes de réservation de voyages tierces, mais aussi d’élargir l’accès aux financements en général.

DeFi ouvre la voie aux banques „autonomes“, selon le chef de l’OCC

Dans un nouvel article d’opinion pour le Financial Times, Brian Brooks, l’actuel contrôleur de la monnaie américain, affirme que la finance décentralisée (DeFi) pourrait ouvrir la voie à une sorte de…

„En intégrant et en démocratisant l’accès à des financements rentables pour des millions d’utilisateurs via une application quotidienne, Maps.me a le potentiel de propulser réellement l’adoption de la DeFi par le grand public et de mettre une technologie révolutionnaire à la portée des masses“, a commenté Sam Bankman-Fried, fondateur et PDG d’Alameda Research.

Mais il n’y a pas que les voyageurs qui peuvent bénéficier de Maps.me 2.0. Les voyageurs et les entreprises locales pourront recevoir des paiements sans passer par des plateformes tierces tout en touchant les clients les plus pertinents en fonction de leur démographie, de leur localisation et de leurs intérêts.

„Nous sommes ravis de travailler avec nos partenaires pour créer un écosystème DeFi sur une plateforme qui a déjà atteint une certaine envergure en termes de nombre d’utilisateurs, et qui permettra d’étendre les services étroitement liés aux besoins financiers“, a déclaré Alex Grebnev, co-fondateur de Maps.Me.

Le gage d’utilité et de gouvernance de la plateforme est MAPS, qui est construit sur la chaîne de blocs Solana. Ses détenteurs pourront bénéficier de récompenses et de services personnalisés.

Selon les représentants de Maps.me, la plateforme est particulièrement populaire auprès des Européens du millénaire, plus de 58 % des utilisateurs étant originaires du continent et plus de 70 % ayant entre 18 et 40 ans. En 2019, un millénaire moyen a dépensé 4 400 dollars pour des frais de voyage.

In 2018, the recurring „meme“ in the crypto space was that institutions were coming to accumulate Bitcoin to save the then volatile market and put it on a growth path.

In 2020, this meme became a reality as prominent fund managers and companies began accumulating Bitcoin. It started with Paul Tudor Jones, a legendary macro hedge fund manager, who was then followed by a number of other well-known Wall Street names.

Scott Minerd, the global CIO of Guggenheim Investments, is the latest fund manager to join the bitcoin craze in November and December. He told Bloomberg in December that the cryptocurrency could reach $400,000 over time, given Bitcoin’s scarcity and previous periods of growth.

This was one of the most bullish statements ever made about bitcoin by an active money manager. But at least in the short term, sentiment seems to have changed, as Minerd warns that it may be time for crypto investors to lock in some profits.

„Take money off the table“

Amid Sunday night’s correction that saw BTC fall from $40,000 to $34,000, Minerd said bitcoin is „vulnerable to a setback“ as it would have entered an unsustainable growth phase:

„Bitcoin’s parabolic rise is unsustainable in the short term. Vulnerable to a setback. The technical upside target of $35,000 has been exceeded. Time to take some money off the table.“

Bitcoin’s parabolic rise is unsustainable in the near term. Vulnerable to a setback. The target technical upside of $35,000 has been exceeded. Time to take some money off the table.
– Scott Minerd (@ScottMinerd) January 11, 2021

This is the third time Minerd has mentioned Bitcoin on his Twitter account. The last time was in November 2017, when he said the cryptocurrency market correction „isn’t over.“

While Minerd is a respected money manager, his comments have surprised many in the crypto space.

Dan Tapiero, a macro investor focused on crypto, reacted to Minerd’s comments with a question mark.

Others also commented that this could be an attempt to shake out weak hands before Bitcoin moves higher.

The cryptocurrency regularly faced sharp 20-30 percent corrections in previous bull markets before moving toward new all-time highs.

Macro trends still bullish for BTC

While Minerd may be bearish on bitcoin in the short term, macro trends remain bullish for this market.

In his Bloomberg interview where he made the $400,000 prediction, he emphasized that the cryptocurrency has a long-term fundamental framework that indicates there is macro growth potential:

„It’s based on scarcity and relative valuation like things like gold as a percentage of GDP. So you know, Bitcoin actually has many of the attributes of gold while having an unusual value in terms of transactions.“

To put this in context: New President Joseph Biden is calling for a trillion-dollar additional stimulus program to save the American economy. Many in the global markets expect this to drive the U.S. dollar down and alternative assets like bitcoin up (get in ahead of time? Go to the buy bitcoin cheap guide).

The cost of buying a bitcoin could exceed $26,000, according to a textbook bullish indicator forming on the time frame chart below.

The pattern, known as a „bull pennant,“ forms when an asset forms a triangle-like structure after forming an upward flagpole. Traders see it as a signal for the continuation of the trend – that is, they believe that the asset will continue in the direction of its previous trend after breaking the triangle structure.

Bitcoin’s one-hour chart

Bitcoin forms a similar bull pennant on its 1-hour chart (1H) and shows the following characteristics:

• Flagpole: before the pennant structure was formed, the BTC/USD price was rising. This led to the formation of a flagpole.
• Price fluctuation: after the formation of a flagpole top, BTC/USD started to consolidate sideways while leaving behind a trail of lower highs and higher lows. This gave it the shape of a triangular structure – the actual pennant.
• Volume: Volume decreased as BTC/USD fluctuated within the pennant.

Traders are now waiting for a break above the pennant to confirm their extended bullish bias. Should such a move occur, the upside target would shift by as much as the height of the flagpole. In the current case, the height is almost $3,200, which means that the breakout move would push BTC/USD at least towards $26,294 – measured from the apex of the pennant.

Bull pennants have a 70 percent success rate, according to a study by Samurai Trading Academy in a Bitcoin Wealth Review. Therefore, there is still a 30 percent chance that the current bullish continuation pattern could end up being invalid.

If this were to happen, the BTC/USD exchange rate would be at risk of correcting lower – again, by as much as the height of the flagpole.

This would take the pair roughly to $20,000, the previous resistance target that now serves as a support level.

Bitcoin’s weekly chart

The long-term time frame charts support the bearish corrective outlook. After posting a series of gains, the bitcoin market is now overheated.

The Relative Strength Indicator on Bitcoin’s weekly chart shows the same with its overbought signals (RSI is above 70).

Simply put, Bitcoin is trading at a higher price than its ideal bid. This typically leads to neutralizing price moves to the downside.

If that happens, the cryptocurrency risks a crash of at least 20-30 percent to bring its RSI back into the normal zone. That would automatically bring the BTC/USD price near/below $20,000.

Bitcoin bounces cheerfully up and down a channel of almost a thousand dollars. But what will be the next direction for bitcoin? Can the magic limit of USD 20 000 be broken, or will there be another crash first?

Bull flag can raise bitcoin
We start the analysis with the four-hour chart. A bull flag can push the bitcoin price upwards in the coming days. This price formation is shown on the chart below.

But how do you recognise a bull flag? The meaning is actually already there in the translation. Okay, you don’t see a bull in it. But with a bit of imagination you can see a flag.

The course starts with a rise, the left arrow on the graph. That is the mast of the flag. Then the price moves down between two parallel trend lines, that is the flag. Does the price break out at the top? Then the price target is the same size as the mast of the flag on the left.

In this case the price can rise to as much as 22,700 dollars (18,725 euros). With this, bitcoin finally breaks the magic limit of 20,000 dollars.

Whales want to sell bitcoin
We remain in the animal kingdom, because according to CEO Ki Young Ju of CryptoQuant, an analysis agency, whales want to sell bitcoin. Whales are traders with a large amount of bitcoin. Because they own so many coins, they can exert a lot of influence on the market.
Ki Young Ju’s indicator looks at the moving average of the percentage of whales on regular crypto exchanges. Think of Binance, Coinbase and OKEx. Does this percentage exceed 95%? Then that’s historically wrong. There is a chance that the price will drop.

Kim Young Ju shows an example of the bull run in 2019. When the percentage exceeded 95%, this run was over immediately.
After that, the price moved sideways for months, as you can see on the graph below.

Whether it will turn out that way, is of course the question. According to various analysts, the bull market has really started, and institutional and private investors are on the sidelines waiting for a dip that they can buy up.

Think of parties such as MicroStrategy, this listed company bought another USD 50 million worth of bitcoin on Friday 4 December.

But you can also think of bitcoin investment funds such as Cypherpunk Holdings and Grayscale. The latter fund bought 7,300 bitcoins last week, worth more than 140 million dollars.

What do we expect from bitcoin?
You are now looking at the hourly chart of bitcoin. In fact, since last week the rate has been moving sideways, in a kind of no-man’s-land between USD 18 600 (EUR 15 377) and USD 19 500 (EUR 16 121). There is no real trend, and an outbreak in the coming days may provide more clarity. We describe two scenarios: bullish (positive) and bearish (negative).

Bullish
Is bitcoin breaking out of the bull flag, and is the course continuing its upward trend? Then the exchange rate target of 22,700 dollars (18,725 euros) can be achieved. That is the green line on the chart.

Bearish
But if the whales dump their bitcoins on the stock exchanges en masse, $16,465 (€13,616) comes close. That’s the red line on the chart, and the earlier support when the price fell.

Les fondamentaux de Bitcoin sont nettement plus solides pendant le rallye de 2020 par rapport à 2017 et la CTB pourrait atteindre 50 000 dollars l’année prochaine, ont affirmé les analystes de Bloomberg.

Bitcoin doublera sa performance haussière l’année prochaine et pourrait dépasser 50 000 dollars, selon les analystes de Bloomberg. Ils ont justifié la prévision optimiste des prix par l’adoption croissante et l’intérêt institutionnel, qui ont conduit à une base beaucoup plus „solide“ que le rallye de 2017.

Bitcoin va atteindre une résistance de 50 000 dollars en 2021 ?

La principale cryptocouronne a été en mouvement pendant la majeure partie de l’année 2020. En dehors de la chute brutale des cours lors de la crise de liquidité de la mi-mars, la valeur du bitcoin a augmenté de plus de 160% depuis le début de l’année.

Dans son rapport de décembre de la BTC, les analystes de Bloomberg ont affirmé que la situation ne s’intensifiera qu’en 2021, pour aboutir à une capitalisation boursière de 1 000 milliards de dollars.

„Bitcoin maintiendra sa propension à progresser en prix jusqu’en 2021, selon nous, avec des indicateurs macroéconomiques, techniques et de demande par rapport à l’offre qui soutiennent une résistance à la cible de 50 000 $, ce qui implique une capitalisation boursière d’environ 1 000 milliards de dollars. La barre des 10 000 dollars est passée à un niveau de soutien critique après avoir servi de point de résistance à la cryptographie depuis 2017“.

Il est à noter que le modèle populaire de stock-to-flow a également prédit un prix similaire d’ici la fin de 2021. La prévision la plus modeste du modèle prévoit que la CTB dépassera les 55 000 dollars dans les douze prochains mois.

Cette fois, c’est différent

Le bitcoin ayant atteint son niveau de prix le plus élevé précédemment peint en 2017, la communauté a spéculé et comparé les deux rassemblements. Cependant, la conclusion générale est que „cette fois, c’est différent“.

Les analystes de Bloomberg sont également favorables à ce récit. Ils ont noté que la cryptocouronne a mûri au cours des trois dernières années, ce qui leur fait supposer qu’elle „continuera à s’apprécier, mais à un rythme plus lent“.

Ils ont dépassé la réduction de moitié de 2020, qui a vu les récompenses reçues par les mineurs passer de 1 800 pièces par jour à 900. Et alors que la vitesse de création de nouvelles pièces a diminué, la demande n’a fait qu’augmenter, peut-on lire dans le rapport.

De plus, des investisseurs et des institutions de premier plan sont à l’origine de cette hausse de la demande, a expliqué l’analyste. Ils ont noté que le Grayscale Bitcoin Trust du principal gestionnaire d’actifs numériques Grayscale a enregistré deux records consécutifs.

Des sociétés comme MicroStrategy et Jack Dorsey’s Square ont alloué des millions de dollars en bitcoin. Simultanément, des investisseurs célèbres comme Paul Tudor Jones III ont acheté BTC pour lutter contre la hausse des taux d’inflation, tandis que d’autres comme Stan Druckenmiller ont vanté les mérites de cet actif.

En conséquence, le rapport de Bloomberg a conclu que „les fondations sont plus solides qu’en 2017“.

PlusToken Crypto Scam – Dies ist eine Nachrichtenbenachrichtigung, insbesondere für diejenigen, die vom PlusToken Ponzi-Programm betroffen sind. Es ist der zweithöchste digitale Investitionsbetrug in der relativ jungen Geschichte von Crypto.

Laut einem neu veröffentlichten Nachrichtenbericht haben die chinesischen Behörden eine unangekündigte Anzahl von Personen festgenommen, die für den Betrug verantwortlich sind

Dabei sollen sich Bitcoin und Altcoins im Wert von 4 Milliarden Dollar erholt haben. Das Team zur Wiederherstellung der Kryptowährung führte die Beschlagnahme am 19. November 2020 durch.

Der PlusToken-Krypto-Betrug oder das angebliche Ponzi-Programm wurde 2018 in Südkorea von 27 hoch entwickelten Masterminds gestartet. Das Programm blieb jedoch aufgedeckt, bis 6 Milliarden US-Dollar von Investoren auf der ganzen Welt gestohlen wurden .

Im Juli dieses Jahres wurden jedoch 109 Mitglieder des PlusToken-Kryptowährungsbetrugs von der chinesischen Polizei festgenommen

Unter ihnen waren 27 der Masterminds . Gerichtsdokumente nannten Zhang Qin, Liu Jianghua, Wang Yin, Chen Shaofeng und Lu Qinghai als die Top-Intriganten.

Leider sind unter den über 1 Million Mitgliedern, die sich für das weit verbreitete Projekt angemeldet haben , 715.000 Opfer des PlusToken- Krypto- Betrugs . Die Betrüger versprachen den Anlegern hohe Renditen und gemeinsame Einnahmen aus Börsentransaktionen, Crypto Mining und Empfehlungen.

Insgesamt gehörten eine große Anzahl von Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), XRP, (Litecon) LTC, EOS, DASH, Dogecoin (DOGE), Bitcoin Cash (BCH) und Tether (USDT) zu den beliebtesten Kryptowährungen, die von wiederhergestellt wurden China vom PlusToken-Krypto-Betrug.

BitPay and Travala.com Team Up to Offer Travala Gift Cards.

Gift cards can be purchased with over 30 different tokens.

10% discounts are available until December 31st.

Bitpay, an Atlanta, Georgia-based cryptocurrency payment service provider that has been operational since 2011, has partnered with Travala.com , a leading , open- ended travel reservation service for cryptocurrencies .

New Crypto Travala.com gift cards

The gift cards offered can be paid for in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, as well as fiat currencies.

Buy travel gift cards with #Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies at a 10% discount, redeemable for over 3 million travel products worldwide.

Travala Gift Cards will be redeemable on over three million travel products on Travala.com and can be purchased with over 30 different crypto tokens , up to a limit of $ 20,000.

Founded in 2017 and based in Chorley (near Manchester), Travala.com is one of the leading cryptocurrency-friendly travel booking services. Travala even has its own native cryptocurrency, AVA, which traded at around $ 0.70 for most of November.

In addition to Travala.com, BitPay also provides payment services for other gift cards, such as those found on Amazon, Apple’s App Store, Cineplex, and Ticketmaster. BitPay also offers its services to many other companies. A complete directory of merchants can be found on its website.

Despite the current Corona-infused travel crisis , Juan Otero of Travala.com and Sonny Singh of BitPay were both very positive about their partnership and the future of paid travel in cryptocurrency:

Travel Gift Cards have been a product we’ve been keen to bring to our customers for some time, so we’re excited to have found a BitPay partner to help bring the idea to life.

As Christmas approaches and to add a little Christmas cheer, Travala is offering a 10% discount on the purchase of Travala.com gift cards before the end of the year.

BitPay reputation

Some in the crypto community view BitPay negatively after the service blocked crypto donations to the Hong Kong Free Press last year. He also rebounded a donation of $ 100,000 to the Amazon Rainforest Fire Relief Fund.

Time will tell if BitPay can save some of its reputation as it advances in the travel industry.

Bitcoin Cash è impostato per un aggiornamento della rete questo mese. Ecco cosa comporta l’aggiornamento e cosa significa per la comunità crittografica.

Bitcoin Cash è impostato per un aggiornamento della rete il 15 novembre 2020

Una versione BCHN dell’aggiornamento include un nuovo e non controverso sistema di mining.

Il team di sviluppo di Bitcoin ABC ha proposto un aggiornamento alternativo che reindirizza anche l’8% dei premi minerari.

La blockchain di Bitcoin Cash è destinata a subire un controverso aggiornamento della rete questo mese, che potrebbe dividere la moneta in due, e non per la prima volta .

L’aggiornamento proposto, almeno per la versione BCHN, introduce un nuovo algoritmo di mining ed è ampiamente accettato. Eppure i fautori della moneta, che è al quinto posto a livello globale, sono rimasti sorpresi quando il team di sviluppatori di Bitcoin ABC ha proposto un aggiornamento alternativo che ha aggiunto un ulteriore elemento che avrebbe deviato l’8% dei premi del blocco dai minatori di Bitcoin Cash.

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La proposta del team ABC, denominata „Bitcoin ABC“, metterebbe i soldi nelle mani del proprio team di sviluppo. L’idea non è una novità; privacy coin Zcash ha un fondo simile da molti anni. Tuttavia, quelli della comunità di Bitcoin Cash lo vedevano come una presa di denaro e sentivano che andava contro l’etica decentralizzata della moneta.

„Deviare parte della ricompensa del blocco #BitcoinCash per pagare un singolo team di sviluppo è il sogno di un pianificatore centrale in stile sovietico che diventa realtà. Per favore, smettila „, ha detto Ver, in un tweet questo agosto.

L’aumento del volume e un breakout al di sopra di una linea di tendenza chiave hanno riportato il prezzo di Bitcoin sul percorso di $ 14.000.

Con l’avvicinarsi del fine settimana, il prezzo di Bitcoin ( BTC ) sembra destinato a chiudere il mese con una performance notevolmente forte che ha molti tori che chiedono un nuovo massimo storico sopra $ 20.000 nel prossimo futuro.

I trader attribuiscono queste alte stime al fatto che BTC sembra aver ribaltato da $ 12.000 a $ 12.500 per supportare e, salvo imprevisti implosione di prezzo, Bitcoin Superstar è sulla buona strada per dipingere una bellissima candela mensile.

Ulteriori prove ‚rialziste‘ provengono dalle opzioni odierne e dalla scadenza dei futures che ha visto la scadenza di $ 450 milioni di open interest a partire dal 28 ottobre.

Secondo il collaboratore di Cointelegraph Marcel Pechman:

“La scadenza più recente delle opzioni per BTC ed Ether non ha davvero fornito nulla di sorprendente. Deribit è tornato a 137.000 opzioni BTC contro i 150.000 aperti di ieri. Nel frattempo, CME ha un interesse aperto sui futures di $ 215 milioni in scadenza il 30 ottobre, ma questo sembra aver avuto un impatto minimo sul prezzo, se non del tutto. Ancora una volta non sussiste più il fenomeno del calo dei prezzi pre e post BTC al verificarsi delle scadenze dei futures CME. Ciò riafferma la tesi rialzista per la recente corsa, nonostante le notizie negative dalle borse asiatiche e da Tether „.

Attualmente, BTC viene scambiato sopra $ 13,5K e il grafico a 4 ore mostra l’asset digitale che fa minimi e massimi più bassi mentre il prezzo si avvicina a un intervallo più stretto.

Anche se il prezzo si mantiene al di sopra della media mobile di 20 giorni, non sarebbe inaspettato vederlo oscillare tra $ 13.500 e $ 12.900 durante il fine settimana e all’inizio della prossima settimana

Se il prezzo di Bitcoin è in grado di spingere al di sopra della linea di tendenza del pennant a $ 13.620 e garantire una chiusura di 4 ore sopra di essa, allora è possibile una nuova spinta per un nuovo massimo del 2020 sopra $ 13.859.

Attualmente, all’aumentare del volume degli scambi, l’indicatore di divergenza di convergenza della media mobile mostra che il MACD ha superato la linea del segnale (arancione) e l’istogramma mostra un aumento del momento. L’RSI è anche sopra la linea mediana, raggiungendo appena 60, ma negli ultimi giorni BTC ha incontrato resistenza a $ 13.660.

Nel caso in cui BTC perda il suo momentum attuale e scenda dal pennant sotto i 13.100 $, c’è un supporto a 12.800 $. La mancata tenuta a questo livello apre la porta a un nuovo test del prossimo supporto a 12.000 $ e al di sotto di questi 11.500 $.

Crypto semble prospérer grâce au travail à distance.

La société de paiement et de portefeuilles Bitcoin (BTC) BitPay a choisi d’éloigner définitivement l’atmosphère de travail de son entreprise

Un sondage réalisé au sein de l’entreprise a révélé: „85% des employés préféraient travailler à domicile et se sentaient plus productifs“, a indiqué un Bitcoin Lifestyle communiqué du 15 septembre . „Cette perspicacité, associée à la poursuite des affaires, est l’une des principales raisons pour lesquelles l’entreprise a choisi de rendre le travail à domicile permanent.“

En tant que niche largement détenue dans le monde numérique, l’espace cryptographique voit souvent des entreprises et des individus travailler à distance. Une tendance croissante à la lumière des mesures de prévention du COVID-19, le travail à distance réduit le temps de trajet, ainsi que la flexibilité accrue et la réduction des coûts d’entreprise découlant de la location d’un espace de travail. Les inconvénients, cependant, incluent moins d’interactions en face à face entre le personnel et un plus grand besoin de faire confiance aux employés.

Andrew Kelin, directeur marketing de BitPay a expliqué:

«Il a fallu un peu d’adaptation au travail à domicile car je suis une personne sociable et sociable […] Je suis reconnaissant d’avoir cette flexibilité et mon équipe est capable de collaborer et de travailler ensemble comme si nous étions côte à côte . »