Cryptocurrency
83% of BTCs addresses are smiling to the Bank
As the rush for BTCs keeps increasing, the price will most definitely be affected.
Most BTCs wallets containing Bitcoin are already smiling to the bank, as a report seen on Glassnote Twitter’s feed shows that 83% of Bitcoin addresses are in a state of profit up 43% since the crash in March.
83% of #Bitcoin addresses are in a state of #profit – up 43% since the crash in March. @glassnode https://t.co/PaN6IId97D pic.twitter.com/dkDllqSv44
— Ciara Sun (@CiaraHuobi) June 23, 2020
Recall that the number of individuals with Bitcoin (BTC) assets of 0.1 coins or more has broken into new all-time highs recently.
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Data obtained from a popular crypto data aggregator, Glassnode recently shows the number of Bitcoin wallets holding 0.1 bitcoins or more reaching a new record high of 3,054,282 beating out May 21’s previous record by about 212 addresses.
Over 3 million #Bitcoin addresses holding ~$950 in $BTC https://t.co/InZLuRyuc6
— Rafael Schultze-Kraft (@n3ocortex) June 13, 2020
How easy is tracking BTCs? It should be noted that Bitcoin is not really anonymous because all BTCs transactions are kept permanently and publicly on the blockchain or ledger system, so it’s very easy for anyone to see the transactions and balances of any BTC address.
Chainalysis researchers recently explained in detail that as the rush for BTCs keeps increasing, the price will most definitely be affected. The report said;
“With more people looking to trade BTCs, which is only becoming scarcer following the recent halving, bitcoin moving from the investment bucket into the trading bucket could become a crucial source of liquidity. However, one would expect this will only happen if bitcoin’s price rises to a level at which long-term investors are willing to sell,”
The report claims the “Hodler net position change,” which provides an aggregate of long-term wallet holder behaviour, has been positive on 154 of the first 170 days of 2020. Glassnode data shows Hodlers have made a net increase of 233,000 BTC to their positions since the start of the year.
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USDC Treasury Transfers 20,000,000 USDC to Unknown Wallet
According to data from Coinmarket cap, the digital coin has experienced growth exponentially.
As global investors seek the next big thing in the crypto asset space, fast-growing cryptocurrency, USDC, a stablecoin project founded by Circle and Coinbase, just released a whopping 20 million digital coins to an unknown wallet. This is according to Whale Alert, an advanced blockchain tracker, and analytics system.
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🚨 🚨 20,000,000 #USDC (20,000,000 USD) transferred from USDC Treasury to unknown wallet
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) July 3, 2020
Crypto lovers seem to be trooping to stablecoins lately, as USD Coin’s (USDC) market cap broke the $1 billion market capitalization threshold for the first time since the stablecoin was launched in October 2018.
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Quick Fact: USDC is a fully collateralized US dollar stablecoin. It is an Ethereum powered coin and is the brainchild of CENTRE, an open source project bootstrapped by contributions from Circle and Coinbase. USDCs are issued by regulated and licensed financial institutions that maintain full reserves of the equivalent fiat currency in a 1 USDC:1 USD ratio.
Things you must know: Investors of stablecoins, such as USDC, make money by earning dividends from the newly created digital coins being given to them for holding such stablecoin stock.
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According to data from Coinmarket cap, the digital coin has experienced growth exponentially.
USDC, the second-largest USD-pegged stablecoin after Tether (USDT), is ranked the 18th largest cryptocurrency by market cap, with a daily trading volume of $246 million.
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Earning BTCs without Having To Pay Money
BTC Miners help in facilitating BTC transactions and the provision of security on the blockchain network.
BTC miners, hard work seems to be paying off, with billions of dollars going to their coffers, Data obtained from Glasscode showed that BTC miner revenue (“Thermocap“) is now at $17.5 billion USD. This metric is used as a lower bound for the capital inflow into an asset.
Cumulative #Bitcoin miner revenue ("Thermocap") is now at $17.5 billion USD.
This metric is used as a lower bound for the capital inflow into an asset.
Comparison of Thermocaps since 2018:$BTC: $12.6B$ETH: $4.9B$LTC: $932M$BCH: $810M
Live charts: https://t.co/KMutpZkM4X pic.twitter.com/YL9rEYDqfU
— glassnode (@glassnode) July 3, 2020
Mining is the process of adding confirmed transactions to the Bitcoin blockchain. For the resources required to mine, the blockchain network rewards BTC miners via transaction fees and subsidies. Subsidies are paid per block at a current rate of 6.25 BTC. Fees are paid per transaction.
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Metric Description
Aggregate security spends, or “Thermocap“, is the aggregated amount of coins paid to miners and serves as a proxy to mining resources spent. It serves as a measure of the true capital flow into Bitcoin and is computed as the aggregate Coinbase transactions multiplied by the price in USD at the time they were mined.
Quick fact; BTC Miners help in facilitating BTC transactions and provision of security on the blockchain network. The importance of BTC miners can’t be underestimated as they perform these functions, by solving computational tasks which permit them to chain together blocks of transactions
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By mining BTC, you can earn a BTC without having to pay money for such. BTC miners collect BTC as a reward for completing “blocks” of confirmed transactions which are added to the blockchain network.
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Nigeria leads Africa combined in Q2 2020 on BTC P2P
It shows that BTC is fast gaining the trust of Nigerians for payments and transfers.
Nigerians increasing their use of BTC is no longer news, but what seems astonishing is the volume that Nigerians transacted with BTCs in Q2 2020, compared to other African countries. Data shows that the use of Bitcoin for peer to peer lending in Nigeria is on an astronomical run.
Recent statistics obtained from usefultulips, a BTC analytic data provider, showed that Nigeria led the pack with more than $34.4 million, while the closest rival, South Africa, had a transactional value of just $15.2 million during the last 90 days.
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Among top countries in the last 90 days leading in peer to peer Bitcoin transactional trades on the African continent are:
Nigeria – $34.4 million dollars
South Africa – $15.2 million dollars
Kenya – $7.8 million
Ghana – $640,000
Tanzania – $600,000
Quick Facts: In BTC’s case, peer to peer is the exchange of BTC between parties (such as individuals) without the involvement of a central authority. This means that peer to peer use of BTC takes a decentralized approach in the exchange of Bitcoins between individuals and groups.
It shows that BTC’s long-running narrative as the “digital gold” for hedging against global economic turmoil is gaining the trust of Nigerians for payments and transfers.
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The financial market turmoil triggered by COVID-19 has definitely changed the way Nigerians view the whole financial system, as data also obtained from Google trend shows Nigeria leading the pack around the world in Bitcoin searches. This is a testament to the fact that Nigerians truly love their Bitcoins.
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