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$118 Million of Plustoken BTC on the Move Again – New Dump Incoming?

11/02/2020 by Idelto Editor

Plustoken’s stash of bitcoin is on the move again. The haul of ill-gotten gains, amassed during a long-running Ponzi scheme that accrued 187,000 BTC, has been sporadically liquidated, impacting the market price of bitcoin in the process. At 2:46 a.m. today, a known Plustoken address moved 12,000 BTC worth $118M, suggesting that another market dump could be on the cards.

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Plustoken Scammers Move 11,999.96928806 BTC

The bitcoin blockchain’s publicly auditable design is one of its greatest strengths and weaknesses. On the one hand, it mandates precise obfuscation techniques for bitcoiners intent on retaining their privacy. But on the other hand, it enables the community to receive real-time alerts of market-moving events – like scammers shifting large amounts of bitcoin, presumably en route to an exchange to be liquidated.

At 2:46 a.m. (EST), a few satoshis under 12,000 BTC were sent to this address. A little under an hour later, the coins moved again to this address, where they currently reside. The movement of such a large number of coins is of keen interest to the crypto community, partly because it indicates that at least one of the Plustoken scammers is still at large, and also because it suggests a series of market sells may be incoming which could temporarily dent BTC’s price. By way of reference, the 12,000 BTC the scammers may be preparing to sell is roughly equivalent to the amount of bitcoins mined in a week (12,600).

The Dissolution of a Long Con

Plustoken is believed to have received as much as $3 billion in cryptocurrency, largely from Chinese investors who were duped into believing that the scheme would provide them with payouts in perpetuity. Such was the size of the scam that 1% of bitcoin’s circulating supply was sucked in, propelling prices to over $13K per coin at the height of the Plustoken bubble last year. Researcher Chiachih Wu has been providing real-time updates on the remaining Plustoken coins as they move onchain.

The scam began in February 2018 when the Plustoken whitepaper was published, and by summer of 2019 187,000 BTC had been accrued by the project. In June, six Chinese citizens suspected of being behind the scheme were arrested in Vanuatu and the Plustoken servers were shut down. In August, the Plustoken members still at large attempted to mix large quantities of coins through Wasabi Wallet before sending most of them to Huobi.

Plustoken’s coins are on the move again

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Highly suggest @whale_alert to mark those addresses highlighted by @ErgoBTC in his research https://t.co/UnDvINWfEP

— Dovey 以德服人 Wan 🪐🦖 (@DoveyWan) February 11, 2020

While the remaining Plustoken bitcoins, if liquidated, should mark the end of the BTC sell pressure, there is still the other cryptocurrency the team amassed to consider. $175 million of ETH is believed to remain under Plustoken control, presenting another timebomb that could blow a hole in the market if liquidated.

Do you think the Plustoken scammers are about to sell the last of their BTC? Let us know in the comments section below.

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Ethereum vs Tron: Comparing Data, Defi and Stablecoins from Both Chains After Viral Tweet

10/02/2020 by Idelto Editor

Ethereum vs Tron: Comparing Data from Both Networks After Viral Tweet

On February 7, Cold Card and Opendime creator, Rodolfo Novak (also known as NVK), tweeted a picture of himself with Tron founder Justin Sun and Blockstream’s CEO Adam Back. Novak said “Ethereum was over” and the three had a plan to move Tron to Liquid, a network that leverages the BTC chain. Whether the tweet was a joke or not, the picture got the crypto community fired up and it initiated heated debates about the legitimacy of both Tron and Ethereum.

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ETH and TRX Community Debate After Viral Tweet

One could consider the crypto networks Tron (TRX) and Ethereum (ETH) competitors within the cryptoconomy. While the ETH network is older than TRX, they both have similar goals and do similar things. As Ethereum strives to be a “world computer,” Tron aims to accomplish this feat as well, but with more of a focus on entertainment. They both leverage concepts like decentralized finance (defi), decentralized apps (dapps) and permissionless systems for token creation (ERC20 & TRC20).

When Novak tweeted about moving TRX to the Liquid network, lots of people considered it a joke, while others took the tweet very seriously. Despite what people think about Tron or Ethereum, news.Bitcoin.com decided to look at the two networks to see how they both compare as far as onchain data, market statistics, development, funds locked in defi, and both project’s social media ratings. We want to let our readers decide which project is better by weighing the pros and cons of each crypto without all the opinions.

We have a plan. #Ethereum is over. Tron moving to #liquidnetwork on #bitcoin. Cc @udiWertheimer pic.twitter.com/XEuw11PQKX

— NVK (@nvk) February 8, 2020

Tron vs. Ethereum: Stacking Up the Data

On February 7, 2020, Coin Metrics data shows the BTC chain processed roughly 333,000 onchain transactions. ETH saw a total of 626,000 transactions in the 24 hour period while TRX did around 816,000 on Friday. While ETH has been consistently above BTC transactions per day, TRX has also been consistently above ETH’s daily average.

Both Ethereum and Tron have tokens that represent the stablecoin tether (USDT), but the ETH chain has a whole lot more. Statistics from Tronscan on Saturday show that there’s 814 million USDT held on the Tron network. Today’s data stemming from Etherscan indicates there’s a whopping 2.2 billion USDT leveraging the ETH chain.

As far as stablecoin usage is concerned, Ethereum outpaces Tron by a long shot, as the chain also has other stablecoin tokens like PAX, USDC, and TUSD. But it’s true that both networks have seen more tethers migrate to each blockchain during certain periods of 2019. In fact, as far as funds locked into defi, Ethereum takes the cake when it comes to decentralized finance and centralized finance (cefi) applications as well, with projects like Maker, Compound, and Instadapp. Defi applications on ETH touched a milestone on February 6, when the total value locked (TVL) surpassed $1 billion.

Where market action and fiat value are the focus, tron (TRX) is trading for $0.02 per coin and the cryptocurrency is still down 92% from its all-time high (ATH) of $0.30. Ethereum (ETH) is swapping for $224 per coin at the time of publication, which is 84% down from its ATH of $1,431. Against USD over the last 12 months, TRX is down 18% and against BTC the crypto is down 69%. With ETH the crypto has gained 86% against the U.S. dollar in a year but against BTC it is still down 30%.

Trade volume data from Messari shows the reported volume for TRX is around $203 million in the last 24 hours, but Messari’s “real volume” index indicates there’s only been $49 million in TRX trades. As far as ETH is concerned, reported trade volume on Saturday is roughly $3.5 billion, but again Messari’s “real volume” index shows less at $349 million. Tallying up the aforementioned statistics shows that ETH was a better investment over the last year, it has more liquidity, and trade volume as well.

As far as yearly Github activity, coincheckup.com data shows that Tron has outpaced ETH development during the last 12 months in regard to tallied commits. The Coindesk social media benchmark shows ETH has around 451,000 Reddit subscribers and the same number of Twitter followers giving the project a 23% social rating.

Tron’s Reddit community has about 71,000 subscribers and Tron has around 497,000 Twitter followers giving the project a 9.7% social rating. ETH has around 2,000 Github watchers and roughly 445 developers contributing to the ETH codebase. Tron has about 309 Github watchers and 118 developers that have contributed to the TRX Github repository. While there are 9,200 forks of Ethereum, there are only 673 Tron forks.

The Ethereum project got a head start and Tron is not as old of a blockchain in comparison. They both have influential leaders at the helm with Justin Sun and Vitalik Buterin who are both still around to weigh in with opinions, unlike Satoshi. Both projects have a lot of investors who believe that either ETH or TRX will be dominant and there are definitely those that think both will serve a purpose. Either way, both exist in prominent market positions today as ETH and TRX are in the top 15 largest market capitalization list and might be for quite some time.

What do you think about these two cryptocurrencies? Do you think Tron is better than Ethereum or vice versa? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.

Disclaimer: Price articles and market updates are intended for informational purposes only and should not be considered as trading advice. Neither Bitcoin.com nor the author is responsible for any losses or gains, as the ultimate decision to conduct a trade is made by the reader. Always remember that only those in possession of the private keys are in control of the “money.” Cryptocurrency prices referenced in this article were recorded on February 8, 2020.

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Market Update: Bitcoin Cash Shines as Crypto Markets Show Bullish Signals

05/02/2020 by Idelto Editor

Market Update: Bitcoin Cash Price Shines As Crypto Markets Show Bullish Signals

Digital currency markets are in the green again today after seeing some moderate losses the day prior. The leading cryptocurrency in the top 10 is the fourth-largest blockchain by market cap, bitcoin cash, which is up 14% today. A variety of other digital asset markets are doing well as the overall market valuation of all the coins in existence has gained $20 billion in the last day.

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Crypto Prices See a Sharp Rise

Cryptocurrency proponents are pleased to see that prices are doing better than they were 24 hours ago. At press time, the entire cryptoconomy is worth around $266 billion and there’s billions worth of digital assets being swapped today. BTC is currently trading for $9,439 per coin and the market is up 3.4% on Wednesday. The currency has around $1.8 billion in global trade volume and the price is still 52% down from it’s all-time high (ATH) in December 2017.

The second-largest blockchain by market cap is ethereum (ETH) which is up 6% today and 11% for the week. Each ETH is swapping for $197 per coin and the asset is still down 86% from its ATH. Ethereum markets have around $962 million in reported trade volume during the last 24 hours. Ripple (XRP) still commands the third-largest market valuation and XRP is up 7% today at $0.27 per coin. The last seven days have seen XRP jump by 16% and the digital currency has around $1.3 billion in trade volume worldwide.

Bitcoin Cash Up 153% Since Jan. 1, 2019

Bitcoin cash (BCH) markets are up 14% over the last day and 11% for the last seven days. Each BCH is trading for $429 per coin and the currency’s global trade volume this Wednesday is around $1.1 billion. BCH is up 264% over the last 12 months and 153% since Jan. 1, 2019 when prices were at $168 per coin. At the time of publication, the BCH market cap is hovering around $7.85 billion. Cryptocurrency and Fxstreet analyst Ken Chigbo’s latest analysis says that “BCH/USD has an opportunity to shoot higher.” Chigbo notes that BCH/USD price action has continued to move “within a potential bullish pennant.” “The daily price action has been tight for going on seven sessions now, as the price consolidates,” the analyst remarked. “A range block formation is observed via the 60-minute chart view, awaiting the next committed move potentially from the bulls.”

Perma Bull Tom Lee Predicts BTC Market Prices Could Tap New Highs

Fundstrat Global Advisors cofounder Tom Lee is well known for his price predictions and many people consider his opinions to be extremely bullish. On Feb. 4, Lee told the press that he is “really optimistic” about BTC prices in the short term and has made another prediction. “January is usually a week month, it was a great month for bitcoin, [which is] up 26% — but also recovered its 200-day moving average,” Lee told Yahoo Finance. “That’s a big deal as you know, as anyone [who follows trends] knows when you’re back above your 200-day, you’re back in a bull market. Whenever bitcoin breaks back into its 200-day, its average six-month gain is 197%,” the Fundstrat executive said.

Wealth Manager Expects BTC Prices to Jump to $400k by 2030

On a Citizen Bitcoin podcast hosted by Brady Swenson, a California-based investment advisor from the firm Wescap said that he believes hyperbitcoinization will happen. “I think the total valuation on 10 years that I use is about $8 trillion and that comes from various buckets,” said Andy Edstrom. “Whether it’s taking share from gold, or taking share from fiat, or taking share from offshore assets, or slightly demonetizing other stores of value like real estate or new uses that we haven’t thought of, or are still under construction, such as micropayments,” explained Wescap’s Edstrom. The wealth manager noted that severe geopolitical tensions and the mass printing of fiat reserves could push more people toward BTC. Edstrom has written a book called “Why Buy Bitcoin,” and the investment advisor discusses the examination with Swenson throughout the podcast episode.

‘BTC Prices Could Dump Hard,’ Says Popular Crypto Trader

The popular crypto trader on Twitter @MacnBTC, who has over 28,000 followers, warned on Feb. 2, 2020 that “BTC is gonna dump hard this week and over $100M in longs will get wiped.” The trader pinned the tweet to his profile and said “don’t say I didn’t warn you” as well.

$BTC is gonna dump hard this week and over $100M in longs will get wiped.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you

— Mac ❄️🐺 (@MacnBTC) February 2, 2020

Despite all the people telling Mac that the price won’t dump, he continues to tweet that it’s still happening. “I hope it will happen,” the Twitter account Gemhunter replied. “Made great profits, after passing 9.6k I’m tethering and making some serious sat game,” he added. Another person disagreed with Mac’s tweet on Wednesday and said: “Dream on — No pullbacks in a bull market.”

In addition to the top 10 currencies seeing some price action on Wednesday, a slew of lesser-known coins has seen some considerable gains and losses. Cryptaur is up 467% today, fusion gained 396%, lisk jumped 72%, and mossland gained around 28% in the last 24 hours. As far as 24 hour losses are concerned, loom network coins are down 34%, karatgold coin has lost 24%, gifto is down 14%, and the icon project has seen a loss of 6% during the last day.

Where do you see the cryptocurrency markets heading from here? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.

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Ethereum’s Value Transfer Is Now Dominated by Stablecoins

31/01/2020 by Idelto Editor

Research Shows Ethereum Blockchain Dominated by Stablecoins

The Ethereum (ETH) blockchain has become home to a number of stablecoins. On January 29, Messari researcher Ryan Watkins explained that the stablecoin value transfer issued on the ETH chain recently flipped the number of native ether transactions. Essentially, Ethereum’s value transfer is now largely made up of stablecoins like tether, pax, and dai.

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Researcher: ‘Ethereum’s Economy Now Dominated by Stable Value Transfer’

On Wednesday, Messari analyst Ryan Watkins reported on the Ethereum blockchain and how the ETH economy is now dominated by stablecoins. The ETH chain has a great number of stablecoins such as TUSD, USDT, DAI, PAX, and GUSD. All five of these stablecoins leverage the ETH chain for stable value transfers. “Stablecoin transfer value has now flipped ETH on Ethereum,” Watkins tweeted. While sharing another chart, Watkins indicated that most of the story is consumed by tether (USDT) transitioning to Ethereum last year. Watkins believes the flippening took place in mid-2019 and emphasized that since then “Ethereum’s economy is now dominated by stable value transfer.”

During the last week of August 2019, news.Bitcoin.com reported on the significant migration of tether from the Omni Layer network to Ethereum. At the time, ERC20 tether transactions flipped their Omni equivalent. The stablecoin tether is a $4.6 billion dollar network and all the coins are issued and maintained on chains like BTC (Omni), ETH (ERC20), EOS, and Tron. After the significant migration into the ERC20 standard, a majority of the USDT in circulation stems from the ETH chain. Additionally, researchers have noted that 70% of the circulating tether supply is controlled by roughly 104 addresses. Following Watkins’ tweet about stablecoins flipping the chain’s native currency ether, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) commented on the topic.

“Many of us (early adopters) don’t like stablecoins,” CZ tweeted. “But [the] fact is, that’s what’s needed to help us cross the chasm, as most new crypto people will still think in fiat base for a while to come. I wish that’s not the case, but we live on earth, not utopia.”

One person disagreed with CZ and said that certain stablecoins will likely remove revenue from trading platforms. “Very hypocritical — I totally agree with you about centralized stablecoins like Paxos – Binance USD or USDC,” the individual wrote. “[But] how about crypto — collateralized ones like DAI? The truth is that [decentralized finance] apps, like Uniswap, [and] Makerdao take away a lot of revenue from exchanges like Binance,” he added. However, the Binance founder said he wasn’t worried about that situation and stated:

The more choices for users, and the more innovation for the industry, the better for all of us. Don’t worry about Binance, we will manage — We are adaptable.

Stablecoins and Exchange Tokens Outshine 2017-2018 ICO Tokens That Used Ethereum’s ERC20 Standard

Another crypto proponent agreed with CZ’s assessment and said: “That’s usually how new tech and ideas are adopted. The present generation needs one foot on the old and one on the new at the same time to feel safe and be familiarized in their new surroundings.” Out of the five stablecoins maintained on the ETH chain, tether USDT is by far the most dominant. This is followed by Circle’s USDC, Makerdao’s DAI, Pax Global’s PAX, True USD (TUSD), and Gemini’s GUSD.

Today, @RyanWatkins_ reported that transfer value of stablecoins on ethereum has surpassed that of $ETH. Token transfers as a whole have been happening with higher frequency on ethereum than non-token transfers. These are both signs $ETH is proving more utility than currency. pic.twitter.com/cAt4hfqBLU

— Christine Kim (@christine_dkim) January 29, 2020

At the time of publication, 2.29 billion USDT is represented by ERC20 tokens and there are 439 million USDC tokens housed on the ETH chain as well. In addition to all the stablecoin value held on Ethereum, a great number of exchange tokens leverage the chain. For example, exchange tokens like BNB, LEO, HT, CRO, OKB, and KCS just scratch the surface when it comes to exchange-created coins hosted on the ETH chain. Stablecoins and exchange tokens are the most used ERC20s today by a long shot, and they have surpassed most of the initial coin offering (ICO) ERC20s issued in 2017-2018. Observers like Watkins and others have asked whether “it is good for ETH or does it damage ETH’s monetary premium?” Watkins further discusses this topic in his latest research analysis hosted on the Messari website.

What do you think about stablecoins flipping ether on the Ethereum chain? What do you think about the number of stablecoins and exchange tokens that leverage the ERC20 standard? Let us know what you think about this topic in the comments section below.

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Decentralized Finance Is Blossoming, But Just How Decentralized Is Defi?

30/01/2020 by Idelto Editor

The defi market has hit an all-time high as the total value locked up in decentralized finance has surged past $850 million. A flurry of new applications, privacy proposals, wallets, DEXs, and protocols is extending the limits of what defi is capable of. This jubilation should be countered with a healthy dose of caution, however, for not all of the products sailing under the defi flag are as decentralized as they claim. In some cases, what’s being branded as defi isn’t defi at all – it’s just finance, with the same chokepoints and centralized controls as before.

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Decentralized Finance Products Are Proliferating

Of the $850M currently locked into defi, $490M is contained in Maker, whose collateralized stablecoins, and the array of defi products they engender, account for 57% of the sector’s value. Other defi mainstays include derivatives, courtesy of Synthetix ($147M locked up), and lending care of protocols like Compound ($104M) and Instadapp ($62M), followed by DEXs such as Uniswap ($48M). The predominantly Ethereum-based products that can be lumped under the defi banner look to be in rude health, even if their market size is a fraction that of Ethereum’s previous use case – ICOs.

This month alone has seen the Ethereum ecosystem welcome projects such as Syscoin’s bridging protocol, social trading from Set Protocols, loans collateralized with NFTs courtesy of Rocket, and token curated registries (TCRs) from dispute resolution protocol Kleros. Of these, Syscoin Bridge aims to advance the defi narrative by improving interoperability via a decentralized link to the Syscoin ecosystem, combining the higher throughout and low network fees of the latter with Eth’s smart contracting capabilities. As a result, value can move freely between the two networks using a trustless, censorship-free protocol that increases token fungibility. Given that Plasma is effectively now dead in the water, access to decentralized scaling solutions has taken on a renewed urgency.

Kleros, for its part, has developed a general TCR that can be used to create crypto-economic backed lists of anything, from verified social media accounts to lending dapps to darknet markets. It’s also been integrating its decentralized arbitration system into defi platforms, and the team’s endeavors appear to be bearing fruit. While one should be cautious of information obtained from anonymous imageboards, the proliferation of Kleros threads on 4chan’s /biz/ suggests the link marines may have found a new project to latch onto. If the justice as a service protocol can’t 10x through cornering the defi market, perhaps it can be memed to the moon courtesy of the same ‘weaponized autism’ that saw Chainlink turned into a $1 billion project.

Open Finance or Permissioned Protocols?

“The value of decentralized finance is lost if underlying instruments cannot serve sovereignty because of skewed incentives or attack vectors stemming from a lack of decentralization,” notes Syscoin co-founder and Lead Core Developer Jagdeep Sidhu. “The only successful way to build a blockchain protocol is to begin and end with decentralization as the focal-point. Trade-offs made at the core layer, such as relaxing mining or other requirements of the decentralized ideals Satoshi gave us, introduce loss of value proposition to anything built on top.”

Creeping centralization doesn’t just manifest in defi protocols whose creators hold the master keys; it can also be seen in projects such as Pool Together, the lossless lottery platform, where whales have taken over. There is nothing illegal about major players gaming the system, nor does their doing so put user funds at risk. However, it serves to illustrate the ease with which the defi market can be manipulated – and how projects founded with good intentions can be hijacked by monopolies with little interest in fostering financial inclusion.

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Let’s talk about what I’m calling “The Wealth Attack” in DeFi.

Scale is crucial to decentralized projects to prevent against whale manipulation.

Example @PoolTogether_ where whales have bulk bought tickets. The top 5 players combined have a 58% chance of being the winner. pic.twitter.com/AGydg2QkXp

— Adam Cochran (@AdamScochran) January 26, 2020

“Decentralized finance isn’t possible without interoperability,” insists Jagdeep Sidhu, who is convinced that reliance on Ethereum alone to carry the defi movement is a recipe for disaster. “One platform will not be capable of supporting global demand without being centralized, and at that point it is essentially traditional finance. Proper interoperability bridges provide decentralization for users and systems, alleviate scaling pressures, and empower users to determine their own speed/security trade-off. When these interoperability solutions are adopted, people who currently lack access to financial instruments as basic as a bank account will find it easier to take back control of their own financials and achieve sovereign ownership in a decentralized, trustless, and censorship-free way.”

Eliminating Susceptibility to Censorship

While well-secured blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum are virtually impossible to stop, censorship can manifest in more insidious ways. Shut down the websites and apps that package defi into a user-friendly product and you’re left with protocols that must be queried directly to collateralize stablecoins, issue loans, and trade tokens. Thus, even defi protocols that do not contain backdoors or central levers are reliant on an application layer that must withstand the ever-present threat of censorship. “There is a danger of short-sighted design changes leading to increasingly centralized defi solutions sold as ‘holy grails,’” finishes Jagdeep Sidhu.

The maturation of defi base layer protocols such as Maker has fueled innovation at the application layer, where new concepts are being proposed on a weekly basis. Some won’t make it past the theoretical stage, but others will make it to MVP and beyond. The defi movement feels very much like the early Bitcoin or the current Bitcoin Cash movements: lots of experimentation, free-thinking, and solo projects that advance the collective understanding of what can be done with crypto technology.

The defi sector might be in rude health, but its architects would do well to look to Bitcoin and the trade-offs it’s suffered over the years through federated sidechains like Liquid and decreased fungibility that’s enabled Know Your Transaction surveillance and privacy violations. The defi dapps that stand the test of time won’t just be unputdownable – they’ll also be ungamable and uncensorable.

Do you think most defi protocols and applications are truly decentralized? Let us know in the comments section below.

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