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Wednesday, October 30, 2019
#CryptoCorner: Bakkt (NYSE: $ICE) Outlines Future Plans Including Starbucks (Nasdaq: $SBUX) Digital Payments, Twitter (NYSE: $TWTR) and Square (NYSE: $SQ) CEO Jack Dorsey Participates in CoinList Funding Round
#CryptoCorner: Bakkt
(NYSE: $ICE) Outlines Future Plans Including Starbucks (Nasdaq: $SBUX) Digital
Payments, Twitter (NYSE: $TWTR) and Square (NYSE: $SQ) CEO Jack Dorsey
Participates in CoinList Funding Round
IBM (NYSE: $IBM) Joint
Report Projects CBDC in the Next 5 Years
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Stocks discussed: (NYSE:ICE) (NasdaqGS:SBUX)
(NYSE:TWTR) (NYSE:SQ) (NYSE:DB) (NYSE:IBM)
Bakkt, the digital
assets firm owned by Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE), published a blog post outlining its plans for payments
focus. These include an effort to reduce friction in the use of digital assets,
a planned consumer app enabling easier market access, and increasing control
merchants have over costs and customer engagement. The blog concludes with an
indication that coffee giant Starbucks (NasdaqGS:SBUX) will begin accepting digital
payments in partnership with Bakkt in 2020.
Over the last year, we’ve assembled a strong team of
payments engineers and are nearing completion of our core payments and
compliance platform. We’re now focused on the development of the consumer app
and merchant portal, as well as testing with our first launch partner,
Starbucks, which we expect in the first half of next year.
Cointelegraph quotes Starbucks’ vice president
of partnerships and payments, Maria Smith:
“Starbucks will play a pivotal role in developing
practical, trusted and regulated applications for consumers to convert their
digital assets into US dollars for use at Starbucks.”
Jack Dorsey, CEO of
Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) and financial services company
Square, Inc. (NYSE:SQ), has participated in a $10 million
funding round for crypto startup CoinList, according to a report from CCN. CoinList helps manage token sales or ICOs
for companies, having “conducted more than 50 token sales where over half a
billion dollars has been raised”. According to Dorsey, CoinList has future
plans to launch a cryptocurrency trading exchange.
Chinese outlet Sycaijing.com reports that Bitcoin (BTC) mining giant Bitmain has “secretly”
submitted a listing application with the U.S. Securities and Exchanges
Commission (SEC). According to the article, this application was sponsored by
Deutsche Bank (NYSE:DB).
A report on central bank digital currencies
(CBDCs) conducted by IBM (NYSE:IBM) and the Official Monetary and
Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) concludes that a CBDC in some form is
expected to launch in the next five years. An excerpt reads:
The principal conclusion is that we are likely to
witness the introduction of a central bank – that is fiat – retail digital
currency within the next five years, either as a complement to or as a
substitute for notes and coins. It is improbable that the first such issuance
will come from a G20 central bank; it is considerably more likely to be
launched in a smaller and less complex economy in response to a specific policy
objective and use case. This may relate to improving the overall effectiveness
and resilience of a national payments system by reducing the prevalence of
cash. Alternatively, it could be associated with extending financial inclusion;
reducing the size of the dark economy; countering financial crime; or for a
specific purpose, such as transforming the cross-border transmission of migrant
worker remittances.
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Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Monday, October 28, 2019
#CryptoCorner: BTC Rallies Following China’s Blockchain Endorsement, Bakkt to Launch Consumer App and Argentina Sees BTC Trading Spike After USD Purchases Restricted
#CryptoCorner: BTC
Rallies Following China’s Blockchain Endorsement, Bakkt to Launch Consumer App
and Argentina Sees BTC Trading Spike After USD Purchases Restricted
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Stocks discussed: (SSE:600797) (SZSE:002657)
(SZSE:002570) (HKEX:1357) (NasdaqGS:FB) (NYSE:ICE)
The crypto market
exploded on Friday with a price surge in Bitcoin (BTC) from around
$7,500 to a peak of just over $10,000, according to data from CoinMarketCap. This is the
highest trading price Bitcoin has seen since September 22. The consensus seems
to be that this rally was brought on by Chinese President Xi Jinping’s
announcement of increased investment into blockchain technology.
Bloomberg reports that there
was a surge in Chinese investor interest in blockchain stocks in the wake of
this announcement, and the resulting rally. An excerpt reads:
The gains were widespread Monday, with Insigma
Technology Co. (SSE:600797) and Sinodata Co. (SZSE:002657) among more than 60 tech shares surging by the daily
limit in Shanghai and Shenzhen. The excitement coincided with a 26% rally in
Bitcoin, and also boosted stocks with more tenuous connections to blockchain,
like baby-food producer Beingmate Co. (SZSE:002570) and selfie-app developer Meitu Inc. (HKEX:1357)
Li Shiyu, fund
manager at Guangdong Xiaoyu Investment Management Co., is quoted in the
article:
“Most of these companies, especially those that are
just beginning to state their connection with blockchain today, are trying to
take advantage of the hype. It shows how much excitement can be triggered by
something stressed as a priority by the top man himself.”
This pro-blockchain
sentiment exhibited by the Chinese government was seemingly foreshadowed by
Facebook (NasdaqGS:FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg. An excerpt
from a TechCrunch article covering
Zuckerberg’s Congressional hearing last week reads:
“As soon as we put forward the white paper around the
Libra project, China immediately announced a public private partnership,
working with companies . . . to extend the work that they’ve already done with
AliPay into a digital Renminbi as part of the Belt and Road Initiative that
they have, and they’re planning on launching that in the next few months.” He
later said that for Libra, “Chinese companies would be the primary competitors.”
Bakkt, the digital
assets firm owned by Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE), plans to develop
a consumer app and merchant portal, according to a blog
post
by Mike Blandina, the company’s Chief Product Officer. He wrote:
We’ll be launching a consumer app to make it easy for
consumers to discover and unlock the value of digital assets, as well as ways
in which they can transact or track them. Merchants gain access to a broader
set of customers with expanded spending power.
Cointelegraph reports that
Argentina’s central bank has reduced the monthly maximum amount of U.S. dollars
people can by from $10,000 to $200 in an effort to stabilize the country’s
Argentine peso (ARS). Perhaps resulting from this, the article indicates that
for the week ending Oct. 26, accounts traded 14.15 million ARS ($240,000) in
Bitcoin.
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Friday, October 25, 2019
#CryptoCorner: Twitter (NYSE: $TWTR) CEO Skeptical of Libra, Galaxy Digital (TSXV: $GLXY.V) to Launch BTC Funds and Accenture (NYSE: $ACN), SAP (NYSE: $SAP) and R3 to Build Real-Time Gross Settlement System
#CryptoCorner: Twitter
(NYSE: $TWTR) CEO Skeptical of Libra, Galaxy Digital (TSXV: $GLXY.V) to Launch
BTC Funds and Accenture (NYSE: $ACN), SAP (NYSE: $SAP) and R3 to Build
Real-Time Gross Settlement System
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Stocks discussed: (NasdaqGS:FB) (NYSE:TWTR) (TSXV:GLXY)
(NYSE:ACN) (NYSE:SAP)
Forbes reports that
Facebook (NasdaqGS:FB) Co-founder and CEO Mark
Zuckerberg received considerable scrutiny from Congress on Wednesday with
regard to the company’s Libra cryptocurrency project. While Zuckerberg
emphasized the aim of Libra in helping the “unbanked”, who don’t have access to
traditional banking and financial services, Congress focussed on the firm’s
existing problems. For instance, Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) said:
"I have come to the conclusion that it would be
beneficial for all if Facebook concentrates on addressing its many existing
deficiencies and failures before proceeding any further on the Libra
project."
Others hit on
Libra’s supposed threat to existing fiat currencies. Congresswoman Nydia
Velázquez (D-NY) said:
"Facebook's internal motto was for a long time
'move fast and break things.' Mr. Zuckerberg, we do not want to break the
international monetary system.”
According to an
article from The
Verge,
Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) CEO Jack Dorsey
is similarly skeptical of the Libra project. At a Twitter media event in New
York City, Dorsey was asked if he would join the Libra Association. He replied:
“Hell no. I don’t know if it’s a gimmick,but a
cryptocurrency wasn’t necessary to make that work. It’s not an internet open
standard that was born on the internet. It was born out of a company’s
intention, and it’s not consistent with what I personally believe and what I
want our company to stand for.”
Dorsey was
generally sympathetic to cryptocurrencies as a whole, however.
“I think the internet is somewhat of an emerging
nation-state in almost every way. It almost has a currency now in the form of
cryptocurrency and bitcoin.”
Galaxy Digital
Asset Management, a division of Galaxy Digital (TSXV:GLXY), will launch two
Bitcoin (BTC) funds in
November, according to a report from CoinDesk. The report cites
an unnamed “source with direct knowledge of the matter” and an appearance by
company CEO Michael Novogratz on CNBC wherein he hints
at the company’s plans:
“People are setting up funds, including ourselves, to
allow people easy access to Bitcoin.”
“It is just a Bitcoin fund that takes care of custody,
takes care of pricing ... it just allows people to invest in Bitcoin without
having to set up a Coinbase account, without worrying that their phone is going
to get lost.”
According to
CoinDesk:
The Galaxy Bitcoin Fund will require a $25,000 minimum
investment with optional quarterly redemptions. The Galaxy Institutional
Bitcoin Fund will allow weekly withdrawals and require minimums higher than
$25,000. Both funds will offer professional oversight of bitcoin storage, tax
documentation, and client service support.
Accenture (NYSE:ACN), German software
firm SAP SE (NYSE:SAP) and blockchain
software firm R3 are collaborating on a real-time
gross settlement system to enable faster, more efficient, reliable and secure
payments between banks and customers. John Velissarios, a managing director and
global blockchain technology lead at Accenture, explained:
“Because the current payment settlement infrastructure
is highly complex and fragmented, RTGS systems that leverage DLT and
cryptographically secure tokenized payments can help central banks improve
efficiency and security. The RTGS prototype, designed in collaboration with SAP
and R3, demonstrates the next stage of efficiency in payment systems and
ultimately, paves the way to linking to tokenized-assets, like equities, to
create an increasingly integrated and seamless financial services ecosystem.”
Sam
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Wednesday, October 23, 2019
#CryptoCorner: US
Treasury to Investigate Libra (NASDAQ: $FB),
Grayscale Continues (OTC: $GBTC) #DropGold Campaign to Encourage Crypto
Investment, Cryptanite (CSE: $NITE.C) Name
Change
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Stocks discussed: (NasdaqGS:FB) (OTC:GBTC) (CSE:NITE)
The U.S. Department
of Treasury will investigate Libra, the planned
cryptocurrency project from Facebook (NasdaqGS:FB). The decision by the Treasury was
prompted by a letter from Emanuel Cleaver, II, congressman for Missouri’s fifth
district, who requested that regulators examine Libra and Calibra for “possible
systemic risk”. In a responding letter received by Congressman Cleaver
yesterday, the Treasury said:
“It is unclear whether U.S. and foreign regulators will
have the ability to monitor the Libra market and require corrective action, if
necessary. This concern must be addressed if the Libra is to launch.”
Congressman Cleaver
said:
“With the vast influence and reach of a company such as
Facebook, it is absolutely critical that any effort to launch a cryptocurrency
be met with the most stringent of examinations to ensure such an endeavor does
not pose a systemic risk to the global economy. I appreciate Facebook’s
willingness to work with federal regulators as the company seeks to launch
Libra, which has the potential to update—or upend—our financial system. As
Facebook works down this regulatory road, it is imperative that we affirm that
terror financing and money laundering is not advanced through Libra, and,
according to FSOC, significant concerns remain.”
Meanwhile,
Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in Congress today for a hearing with the House
Financial Services Committee mostly focussed on Libra.
Digital currency asset
manager Grayscale Investments has unveiled a new wave of
advertising for its #DropGold campaign. The campaign encourages investors to
allocate their investments to digital assets, and more specifically to the
company’s flagship Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (OTC:GBTC). Michael
Sonnenshein, Managing Director at Grayscale Investments, commented:
“We are delighted to continue driving the #DropGold
narrative by introducing our second commercial, the next chapter in how we are
helping to educate investors about the investment-case for Bitcoin and Bitcoin
access products like GBTC. Gold had its place in history but we now live in a
digital world. Embracing innovation is going to make a key difference when it
comes to building resilient investment portfolios.”
Cryptanite
Blockchain Technologies Corp. (CSE:NITE) has announced that it will
change its name to "Intellabridge Technology Corporation”, and will begin
trading on the Canadian Securities Exchange under the new name and the new
stock symbol "INTL" beginning October 24, 2019. According to the
press release, the new name “is designed to reflect a strategic move towards
machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies as part of its core
technology”.
Sam
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