Tuesday, 17 May 2022

Grayscale Investments to List Its First ETF in Europe

Grayscale Investments plans to list its first exchange-traded fund (ETF) in Europe, offering investors exposure to companies in finance, technology and digital assets. The Grayscale Future of Finance UCITS ETF (GFOF) will list on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), the Deutsche BΓΆrse and Borsa Italiana and will be available to investors across Europe. Trading in the ETF is set to start tomorrow, a company representative said. CEO Michael Sonnenshein said in April that the digital asset manager wanted to enter the European crypto fund market, where there are already over 70 exchange-traded products with a total of $7 billion in crypto assets like Mana, Solis, Gala and related assets. The new company-focused ETF will join incumbents such as the VanEck Vectors Digital Assets Equity ETF and Melanion Capital's BTC Equities Universe ETF. Grayscale is currently seeking to convert its Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) into a spot bitcoin ETF in the U.S. Markets regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has yet to approve such a product despite having received dozens of applications in recent years. Grayscale is a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which is also the parent company of CoinDesk.

Source: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/05/16/grayscale-investments-to-list-its-first-etf-in-europe/

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Monday, 16 May 2022

If you were running a Bitcoin Cash full node and slept past the upgrade and you now discover...

... that your node considered block 740238 with the hash below as an invalid block,

... and upgrading your node to the most recent version (one compatible with the May 15 upgrade) hasn't solved the problem because your node STILL remembers that it considered that block to be invalid,

You should give this RPC command a go (while your node is running).

reconsiderblock 000000000000000002afc6fbd302f01f8cf4533f4b45207abc61d9f4297bf969 

This will cause it to reconsider the upgrade block and should cause it to continue synchronizing with the rest of the network.

And next time, please upgrade beforehand!


If you're not running a node: This is nothing to worry about, it is expected behavior. When a node is not upgraded on time, it usually will not be able to follow the Bitcoin Cash blockchain that the upgraded network considers valid. It will simply hang around, while receiving blocks it considers invalid unless someone extends the old rules chain (which is normally not the case unless the upgrade is contentious).

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“Congratulations to the whole #BCH ecosystem on a successful network upgrade πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘ New functionality now live on #BitcoinCash! 😎”

“Congratulations to the whole #BCH ecosystem on a successful network upgrade πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘ New functionality now live on #BitcoinCash! 😎” submitted by /u/Egon_1
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When the SEC retaliates for Terra and Luna and so forth

We have the leverage because if they try to put kyc on native wallets or felonize, extradite, or intimidate developers for coding, or blackball smart contracts, give "defi licenses" to CME chicago good ole boys, we will dedollarize & pull everything out of the US. US gets nothing.

Look at what Tom Duffy and the CME are doing to our industry, this decrepit guy is admitting to the US ag hearing what he & his crony did the last 4 year to us. If they try to give licenses to DeFi w/ gate keeping, Dedollarize everything, let them know.

You know how easy it is to just write a front end that shows the usd dollar amount of a completely different stable coin pegged to god knows what. Dedollarization.

Just build collateralized stable coins tied to a basket of 50 different currencies and 20 or 30 treasuries, plus 20 or 30 commodities, if these nation state want to do reflexivity attacks on the collateral, they'll have to short every major currency in every major country in the world. Invent our own peg. Over collateralize it to peg it to a past snap shot of itself at a given index of valued assets. It can be done.

Unfortunately I believe normalizing stablecoin pegs to the US dollar was just a mistake and a giant lever of power for the gov to enforce kyc & gatekeeping for banking cartels on everything & one, to utterly destroy censorship resistance in the crypto ecosystem.
This means a stateless currency pegged to "things" (in small .0001 decimal place value) is going to have to be anonymously made, collateralized, run by anonymous devs, or built in a failsafe way. The US gov only understands fraud, force, & violence & coercion.

"Why flee the collapsing USD for a digital version pegged to it? Gtfo stables in general, stick to future proof currency that deflates over time. Screw stables full stop."

No one who has money on the line, or most advanced finance and fund management is going to just expose themselves to bitcoin and it's serious lack of stability, or any other deflationary asset. The concept of not having credit expansion or inflation in some degree, and some stability in asset price, is complete btc maxi peter pan stuff. I'm literally not talking about pegging it to the US dollar either, I'm talking about pegging it to the aggregate value of about 500 assets in decimal form, specially picked to reduce volatility, and to make impossible for the US gov to engage in reflexivity attacks without crashing the rest of the global economy.

For now you cannot put this stablecoin which we will call a "Defitii" on Bitcoin Cash's blockchain, and btc cash cannot scale it's nodes well enough because of various engineering challenges (perhaps a lack of sharding for BCH just as with Eth, lack of ubiquitous cheap harddrives, lack of distributed storage doing what is tantamount to sharding to increase total # of nodes)

But it would be highly advantageous to BCH to get it onto it's chain. Obviously.

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Bitcoin miners are now NFT

As it is known, mainly by those who work in the area, Bitcoin mining hardware has a lifespan that comes to an end for several reasons: it loses power in the face of the difficulty of the network and ceases to be profitable for energy consumption, or it deteriorates physically by its use, although some reach more than 7 years.

Some disused Bitcoin mining equipment has regained its value thanks to Venezuelan artist Juliette "Juls" GarzΓ³n, who launched a collection of 7 pieces that were sold in their entirety in less than 72 hours.

The artist's collection was not the only increase in the value of the NFT's, as there are others of high value, such as some lands in Axie Infinity, several cards in Shiryo that are collectible NFT's or even digital art made in the WAX network that each time increase part of their value.

The name of the collection is Bit Art, and in addition to Bitcoin miners it includes other pieces, which are accompanied with a non-fungible token or NFT that each buyer receives.

To give a new meaning to this disused equipment, Juls GarzΓ³n intervened them with different techniques adding color and personality to create collector's items, making this hardware get new owners in a short time.

The Artminer collection miners were sold for US$900 each, in less than 72 hours since their launch on May 3.

The miners have already fulfilled their function and could not be connected again to continue exercising the proof of work in the Bitcoin network, but they will be honored forever with the intervention of the Venezuelan artist, instead of being discarded.

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Has Bitcoin (BTC) lost its “store of value” narrative?

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Emirates now accepts bitcoin as payment

The Dubai airline Emirates has revealed plans to integrate "bitcoin as a payment for services rendered". The aspirations to embrace Bitcoin by this airline came just a few weeks after the company disclosed its NFT and metaverse plans. Although the time the plans will be implemented is still unknown.

Emirate, the major airline in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), also plans to launch a metaverse and NFT trading platform for other decentralized currencies like Threedium, Metaloop, MetaTokyo Faith Tribe, etc.

According to the company’s chief operating officer (COO), Adel Ahmed Al-Redha. The airline’s aspirations to embrace Bitcoin come just a few weeks after the company disclosed its NFT and metaverse plans.

However, in comments published in Arab News, Al Redha mentioned that his company might need to hire staff to help it develop applications that track client wants. He also indicated that the airline would try to use blockchain to track aircraft records. However, when Emirates implements these plans, and customers will be able to pay with Bitcoin is unknown.

Finally, just like Abu Dhabi and the wider United Arab Emirates, Dubai has been attempting to attract crypto companies by establishing a clear legislative framework within which digital asset companies can operate. These regulations have attracted many crypto exchanges, but they also appear to be opening the door for more traditional businesses to embrace crypto.

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