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Soros Fund Management CIO Dawn Fitzpatrick forklarer hvorfor det er et bøyepunkt for Bitcoin nå, nevner også gull og kinesisk stablecoin DCEP.

Deltakelse i et nylig Front Row-show av Bloomberg, konsernsjef for Soros Fund Management, Dawn Fitzpatrick, mente at hun ser den nåværende situasjonen i den amerikanske økonomien som et vendepunkt for Bitcoin.

Hun forklarte også hvordan BTC gradvis overtar gull blant investorer.

„Det er et bøyepunkt for Bitcoin“

Fitzpatrick sa at hun synes hele infrastrukturen rundt kryptokurver for øyeblikket er veldig interessant, og at Soros Fund Management har gjort visse investeringer i den.

Soros CIO uttalte at hun mener det nåværende øyeblikket å være et bøyepunkt for Bitcoin, siden det nå har sine egne eiendomsforvaltere og en måte å rapportere kryptogevinst for skattemessige formål: kort sagt blir BTC nå tatt på alvor av Wall Street og offentlige myndigheter.

„Bitcoin kan ha vært et lite aktivum“

Dawn Fitzpatrick mener at hvis det ikke hadde vært for pandemien og den resulterende økonomiske krisen i USA og globalt, kan en eiendel som Bitcoin ha vært et sekundært aktivum.

Siden i fjor økte imidlertid pengemengden i USA med 25 prosent, mens Bitcoin ikke bare tilbyr en fast forsyning, men også en som halverer hvert fjerde år sammenlignet med USD. Det er en virkelig frykt for at fiat-valutaer vil bli avviklet over tid.

Fitzpatrick regner med at Bitcoin er en vare, ikke en valuta, men en som er lett å lagre og overføre, og så ser det interessant ut. Dessuten nevnte hun at gull ikke ser ut til å være inflasjonssikringen den en gang ble sammenlignet med Bitcoin.

CIO nektet imidlertid å avsløre om hun eier noen BTC.

„Kinesisk DCEP vil ikke destabilisere Bitcoin permanent“

I følge Soros toppsjef vil sentralbankens digitale valutaer (CBDC) være her raskere enn mange forventet dem og vil bli implementert i økonomien.

Spesielt nevnte Dawn Fitzpatrick den kinesiske DCEP (digital valuta elektronisk betaling) og sa at Kina er den første driveren i dette rommet, og de vil bruke denne valutaen globalt.

Det vil være en trussel mot Bitcoin, mener Fitzpatrick. Det vil imidlertid ikke lykkes med å destabilisere Bitcoin permanent.

Lloyd Blankfein heeft zijn twijfels over Bitcoin en denkt dat toezichthouders zichzelf misschien „wapenen“ om ermee om te gaan.

Lloyd Blankfein, de voormalige CEO van Goldman Sachs, aarzelde in een nieuw interview over Bitcoin.

Hij zei dat het een twijfelachtige waardeopslag en ruilmiddel is

Hij uitte ook zijn bezorgdheid over hoe toezichthouders het zouden kunnen aanpakken.

In een nieuw interview met CNBC’s Squawk Box zei de voormalige CEO van Goldman Sachs Lloyd Blankfein dat er reden is om sceptisch te zijn over Bitcoin .

„Het zou kunnen werken,“ vertelde Blankfein aan gastheer Andrew Ross Sorkin. ‚Maar eigenlijk moet valuta uiteindelijk een aantal dingen bereiken. Het zou een ruilmiddel moeten zijn en een opslagplaats van waarde. “

Blankfein legde vervolgens uit waarom Bitcoin niet precies aan die criteria voldoet.

“Het is een winkel met waarde die 10% per dag kan bewegen; dat als u een code verliest, of een stukje papier verliest, deze voor altijd verloren is; of, als iemand het van u afneemt, hoe weet u dat dan? Dus het opslaan van waarde-elementen is een beetje moeilijk, ”zei Blankfein.

De markt bevestigt dat min of meer: ​​eerder deze maand verloor Bitcoin van de ene op de andere dag ongeveer een vijfde van zijn waarde

Het is een beroemde vluchtige investering – afgelopen maart zorgde de pandemie-geïnduceerde beurscrash ervoor dat het van de hoge $ 8000 naar het midden van $ 4000 leidde. En de prijs zag eind vorig jaar enorme sprongen, en zette een nieuw record boven de $ 40.000.

Wat betreft het feit dat het een ruilmiddel is, suggereerde Blankfein dat het laagje anonimiteit van Bitcoin een probleem vormt voor toezichthouders die het witwassen van geld en illegale activiteiten willen beteugelen: „Je weet niet of je de Noord-Koreanen of Al-Qaeda betaalt. of Revolutionaire Garde.“

Hoewel het waar is dat Bitcoin wordt gebruikt om criminele activiteiten te financieren , is het systeem niet anoniem: aangezien elke transactie openbaar wordt geregistreerd, blijft contant geld een veel betere optie voor criminelen die de zaken stil willen houden .

Hij vervolgde met te zeggen dat, zelfs als Bitcoin doorgaat met de mainstream, onvermijdelijke regelgeving een deel van de aantrekkingskracht kan tegengaan: „Dit zou werkbaar kunnen zijn, maar het zal de vrijheid, vrijheid en het gebrek aan transparantie ondermijnen die mensen er leuk aan vinden in de eerste plaats. Dus dat is het raadsel dat Bitcoin zichzelf zal moeten oplossen. Als ik een regulator was, zou ik op dit moment een beetje hyperventileren over het succes ervan, en ik zou mezelf wapenen om ermee om te gaan. „

The Dutch Eredivisie joins the Sorare digital football marketplace. This makes the soccer league the fourth available in the crypto network.

The deal is fixed. The entire Eredivisie is now playing on Sorare’s blockchain

This emerges from a press release from the digital football trading platform that BTC-ECHO has received. Players can now collect and exchange digital trading cards from all football clubs in the Eredivisie, such as the four-time Champions Leauge winner Ajax Amsterdam. In addition, footballers like Dušan Tadić, Donyell Malen or Sebastien Haller can also compete against each other in virtual matches. Well-known German players such as World Cup hero Mario Götze and national player Philipp Max are also represented. Marc Rondagh, Business Development Manager for the Eredivisie, commented on joining:

Our decision was largely driven by our enthusiasm for their ( Sorares , editor’s note) ambitious vision of building a global fantasy soccer game with digital maps. As a pioneer when it comes to innovation, we are always looking ahead, into the future, in order to offer our fans new experiences. In order to constantly improve these and to better present the brands of our clubs, Sorare will enable us to reach new, young communities, especially in Asia and America. We are proud of this new collaboration.

Sorare is also opening up a new revenue stream for the Eredivisie by creating a new category of gaming licenses : Fantasy Football Licensing.

Eredivisie is the fourth football league at Sorare

The top division of the Netherlands has now been in an illustrious circle since joining. In addition to the Eredivisie, all teams from the Belgian Pro Leauge, the South Korean K Leauge, the Japanese J Leauge and the US Major Leauge Soccer (MLS) are represented on Sorare . In addition, real soccer heavyweights such as Bayern Munich , Juventus Turin and Real Madrid play on the virtual soccer field. BTC-ECHO put the game under the microscope in a detailed test .

Brooks è ottimista sul fatto che i regolatori troveranno più facile lavorare con gli algoritmi che con i banchieri.

In un articolo d’opinione pubblicato sul Financial Times martedì scorso, Brian Brooks, il sostituto del controllore della valuta, ha proposto la necessità di riconfigurare la regolamentazione bancaria per un’epoca di algoritmi.

Brooks, che attualmente dirige l’Ufficio del Tesoro del Controllore della Valuta, ha paragonato i regolamenti bancari esistenti alle leggi sul traffico. Ha inoltre utilizzato l’analogia delle auto a guida automatica per nuovi passi nella finanza decentralizzata. „Proprio come le regole originali della strada ci proteggevano dagli altri automobilisti, così le nostre attuali norme bancarie esistono principalmente per prevenire i fallimenti umani“, ha scritto Brooks.

Il tono generale della lettera di Brook è fiducioso che i regolatori bancari siano in grado di riattrezzare, di imparare a valutare gli algoritmi per i pregiudizi e le frodi – cosa che, secondo lui, alla fine si rivelerà più semplice che cercare di sradicare quegli stessi problemi dai banchieri umani. Conclude Brooks:

„Potremmo inaugurare un futuro in cui eliminare gli errori, fermare la discriminazione e ottenere l’accesso universale per tutti? Gli ottimisti come me la pensano così. Quanto sarebbe diverso oggi il mondo bancario negli Stati Uniti se le autorità di regolamentazione, i banchieri e i responsabili politici fossero audaci come le case automobilistiche di 10 anni fa?“

L’OCC si occupa delle carte e dirige le banche nazionali. In passato leader del team legale di Coinbase, Brooks è stato uno dei principali sostenitori dell’integrazione della tecnologia crittografica nel sistema nazionale dei pagamenti. Sotto il suo controllo, l’OCC ha recentemente autorizzato le banche nazionali a gestire i pagamenti e i nodi stablecoin.

Allo stesso modo Brooks è stato un sostenitore di una carta nazionale per le istituzioni non depositarie, specificamente mirata a dare alle aziende fintech la possibilità di ottenere licenze nazionali piuttosto che dover passare attraverso ogni stato degli Stati Uniti. Verso la fine di dicembre, tuttavia, le autorità di regolamentazione statali hanno respinto una causa per deridere quella che chiamano la „carta non bancaria“ dell’OCC come un eccesso di potere federale. Nell’articolo di oggi, Brooks potrebbe aver fatto riferimento a questi problemi con i regolatori statali quando l’ha scritto:

„C’è anche il rischio che, in assenza di chiarezza normativa federale, gli Stati Uniti si affrettino a riempire il vuoto e a creare un mosaico di regole incoerenti che impediscono l’ordinato sviluppo di un mercato nazionale“.

Mentre il Presidente Trump aveva nominato Brooks come Comptroller al completo già a novembre, il Senato non ha mai proceduto alla sua nomina. Con la nuova amministrazione che prenderà il sopravvento la prossima settimana, la permanenza di Brooks all’OCC sembra dipendere da una nomina di Biden.

L’analyste qui a qualifié la baisse de 84% de Bitcoin en 2018 de „pleinement longue“ sur la CTB

Peter Brandt, un trader et crypto-analyste chevronné, a révélé dans un nouvel épisode de The Wolf of All Street avec Scott Melker qu’il est „pleinement long“ sur bitcoin, car il pense que l’actuel encierro a encore plus d’avantages.

Selon Brandt, même si le prix de la BTC est passé d’un minimum d’un peu moins de 4 000 dollars a Crypto Bank en mars de cette année à un nouveau record, il a encore de la marge pour augmenter. Il a ajouté :

Je suis tout à fait long. En 2018, j’ai mis de côté une somme d’argent et j’ai dit : „C’est de l’argent Bitcoin“. C’est un emploi à plein temps.

L’analyste a ajouté que, bien qu’il fasse des allers-retours, il est „pleinement engagé“ dans la cryptocourant, car „il n’y a aucun signe pour moi que le bitcoin ne continuera pas à monter“. Selon l’analyste, le prix de la CTB pourrait atteindre 100 000 dollars dans ce cycle, mais il a également 50 % de chances de tomber à zéro à long terme.

M. Brandt estime que le bitcoin pourrait perdre de sa valeur car la technologie et les innovations futures pourraient le rendre obsolète. Pour lui, il faut „regarder en arrière dans 20 ans et“ et penser que c’est une „expérience intéressante“.

Malgré le risque, il recommande aux investisseurs de consacrer 20 % de leur portefeuille au bitcoin, contre 10 % auparavant.

Cela, car il pense que le bitcoin pourrait être une réserve de valeur, un moyen d’échange ou une monnaie

Comme les entreprises ont commencé à adopter le bitcoin et „non seulement à vendre leurs chaussures en ligne pour le bitcoin, mais aussi à stocker le bitcoin dans leur trésorerie“, nous voyons la cryptoconnaissance gagner „certaines“ de ces caractéristiques. Certaines entreprises choisissent la CTB plutôt que les bons du Trésor portant intérêt, a souligné M. Brandt.

Il convient de noter que Peter Brandt est bien connu dans le domaine des cryptocurrences pour avoir prédit en janvier 2018 une baisse de 84 % des bitcoins tout au long de cette année, passant de plus de 19 000 dollars à un peu plus de 3 000 dollars dans un marché baissier d’un an.

Règle générale de l’AT – la violation de l’avance parabolique entraîne une baisse de plus de 80 % de la valeur. Si la règle générale est suivie, la CTB devrait revenir à <4 000 $. Remarque : ce tweet ne fait pas de moi un détesteur. pic.twitter.com/jDNI1osinU
– Peter Brandt (@PeterLBrandt) 22 janvier 2018

Au début de ce mois, M. Brandt avait également fait savoir qu’il pensait que l’encerclement n’était pas terminé, bien qu’il ait vu le potentiel de corrections significatives des prix en cours de route.

SIX Digital Exchange and SBI Digital Asset Holdings want to jointly set up an issuing and trading platform for digital assets in Singapore.

The SIX Swiss Exchange and SBI Digital Asset Holdings want to create the leading liquidity hub for digital assets in Singapore through a joint venture, according to SIX in a press release on December 8th. The day before the SIX already had a stake in the founded by Swisscom and Sygnum joint venture Custodigit announced .

Big crypto liquidity boost planned

The still-to-be-founded joint venture in Singapore is scheduled to start in 2022, subject to approval by the local financial watchdog. In addition to an exchange and issuing platform for digital assets, a separate depository for tokens is also to be created.

The trading center, described by SIX as the “most important liquidity hub for institutional digital assets in Singapore” in the future, is intended to realize synergy effects and is primarily aimed at professional players. SIX writes about the plans:

“The joint venture will sell directly to regulated institutional clients using technologies from both companies to provide services such as issuing, listing, trading, CSD infrastructure and custody of digital assets and cryptocurrencies. It will benefit from the extensive network of SIX Digital Exchange in Switzerland and Europe and the network of SBI in Asia and will have access to the expertise of both companies in meeting the needs of institutional clients. “

The Singapore project would also benefit from the previously announced participation in Custodit, which is intended to create an “institutional gateway for digital assets”. Here, too, SIX is primarily focusing on institutional investors:

“The gateway will support the entire asset value chain, from trading and smart order routing to settlement and custody to access to secondary markets. This partnership provides banks and their customers with reliable, secure, compliant and seamless access to cryptocurrencies and digital assets. “

Subject to the respective regulatory approvals, the project is to be launched in the first quarter of 2021 and offer “an initial joint service” by the partners. In the further course of the year, the capacities are then to be “significantly expanded”.

Next step after Omniex participation

The partnership between SIX and Custodigit builds on the investment made in February in the San Francisco-based developer for crypto trading platforms Omniex. The cooperation gives customers of the Swiss stock exchange regulated access to crypto exchanges and OTC markets.

Recent data from Unchained Capital shows that old Bitcoin dinosaurs from 2013 are obviously using the current time to move a large part of their BTC.

In this article we want to take a look at the so-called HODL Waves and understand what is actually behind this term.

The subject of the article is 200,000 BTC with a value of almost 4 billion dollars and an inactivity of 5 to 7 years. Let’s get started!
Bitcoin Fortune stocks moved again to 2013 to 2015

Especially in the world of Bitcoin, the „buy and hold“ mentality is strongly pronounced. In the classic financial world, one speaks of an investment behavior that is characterized by the fact that a share A is bought and then held for a long period of time.

In the crypto world we call this phenomenon HODLen. It is not unusual that investors choose an investment horizon of several years and thus consider Bitcoin a long-term investment.

A current analysis of Unchained Capital now shows that Brund 200,000 BTC, which were inactive for 5 to 7 years, were moved in the context of the current price rally.

So, as the chart above shows, some investors have moved their „old“ Bitcoin. From the current perspective, the early investors were able to make enormous profits with BTC.

Profit taking from Longterm Investors

For example, the Bitcoin price ranged between USD 134 and USD 1150 in the period from 2013 to 2015. Thus those, which invested already 7 years ago into the crypto currency, could register now profits at a value of approximately 1500 up to nearly 14,000%!

If you have never heard of the term and are looking for a detailed explanation, we recommend the article on Bitcoin UTXO.

So the recent movements have shifted the picture of the UTXO Age Distribution. Above all, this also shows that some investors have probably not „lost“ their Bitcoin, but were deliberately waiting for a renewed price increase.

While some analysts still assumed in 2018/2019 that many Bitcoin in 2017 should have been moved at the all-time high of that time, we now see that investors were probably waiting for another bull run.

O popular defensor e desenvolvedor do Bitcoin, Jimmy Song, disse que a criptomoeda só seria considerada uma reserva de valor se pudesse sobreviver por duas décadas. Song revelou isso em uma entrevista hoje com um meio de comunicação local japonês, Dg Lab Haus.

O desenvolvedor do Bitcoin acredita que a classe de ativos terá que convencer o mundo de que pode ser usada como reserva de valor, sobrevivendo por 20 anos sem maiores problemas.

Quando isso for alcançado, Song disse que mais pessoas adotarão o BTC do que nunca

“A única maneira de provar o verdadeiro valor do Bitcoin como uma tecnologia de ‚armazenamento de valor‘ é que o Bitcoin sobreviva […] quando chegarmos aos 20 anos sem maiores problemas, acho que mais pessoas o usarão”, disse Jimmy Song.

Muitos especialistas financeiros pesaram no debate sobre se o Bitcoin deve ou não ser classificado como uma reserva de ativo de valor.

Para alguns, embora a maior criptomoeda por capitalização de mercado exista há mais de 12 anos e contando, eles acreditam que é muito cedo para declará-la como uma reserva de ativo de valor.

Por outro lado, muitos acreditam que o BTC deve ser considerado uma moeda que possui reserva de valor apenas quando seu preço é estável

Apesar da opinião de Song sobre o Bitcoin, a criptomoeda tem visto vários investidores, especialmente jogadores institucionais, adotá-lo.

Recentemente, o Bitcoin foi descrito como “ouro digital” porque compartilha certas semelhanças com o ouro físico. O Bitcoin foi programado para ter um suprimento total de 21 milhões de moedas, um recurso que aumentaria seu valor com o tempo.

Várias grandes empresas relataram grandes compras de BTC para se protegerem do impacto negativo da pandemia global.

No mês passado, a empresa de gestão de ativos digitais Grayscale publicou seu inovador relatório financeiro Q3 2020 , com seu Bitcoin Trust registrando colossais $ 719,3 milhões dos $ 1,05 bilhão levantados em todos os seus produtos.

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• Das New Yorker Finanzdienstleistungsministerium hat einen Brief an die Leiter aller Finanzinstitutionen, die es reguliert, geschickt, in dem es vor dem Klimawandel warnt.
• In dem Schreiben erwähnte die NYDFS, die sich im vergangenen Jahr einem Zentralbanknetz angeschlossen hat, ausdrücklich Krypto-Mining als Risikofaktor.
• Der Brief schien sich dann selbst zu widersprechen, indem er darauf hinwies, dass das Krypto-Mining weit weniger Energie verbraucht als Sektoren wie die Transporte.

Das New Yorker Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) hat einen Brief an mehrere Finanzinstitute geschickt, in dem es vor dem Bitcoin-Bergbau und den Risiken des Klimawandels warnt.

Der Brief vom 29. Oktober, der von Superintendentin Linda Lacewell unterzeichnet und an die Leiter dieser Institutionen gerichtet ist, erwähnt ausdrücklich den Krypto-Bergbau als Risikofaktor.

Im Jahr 2019 trat die NYDFS dem Netzwerk der Zentralbanken und Aufsichtsbehörden zur Ökologisierung des Finanzsystems („NGFS“) bei. Das Gremium bezeichnet sich selbst als,

„eine Gruppe von Zentralbanken und Aufsichtsbehörden, die auf freiwilliger Basis bereit sind, bewährte Praktiken auszutauschen und zum Umwelt- und Klimarisikomanagement im Finanzsektor beizutragen“.

Zentralbanken und Klimawandel

In dem Brief enthüllte Lacewell, dass die NYDFS kürzlich Dr. Yue Chen als ihre erste Direktorin für Nachhaltigkeits- und Klimainitiativen eingestellt hat.

In dieser Funktion soll sie mit Interessenvertretern aus Industrie und Regulierungsbehörden zusammenarbeiten, um einen Best-Practice-Rahmen für die New Yorker Finanzindustrie zu entwickeln, damit diese sich in Umweltfragen orientieren kann.

Kritiker haben darauf hingewiesen, dass der NYDFS die regulatorischen Zähne fehlen, um eine solche Agenda adäquat zu verfolgen, weil das Gesetz ihr keine derartigen Befugnisse einräumt.

Die Aufsichtsbehörde ist jedoch der Ansicht, dass das von Naturkatastrophen und Wetterereignissen ausgehende Risiko für Eigentum und Geschäftsaktivitäten ausreicht, um ihre Versuche, direkt einzugreifen, zu rechtfertigen.

Ein Auszug aus dem Brief lautet:

„[Der Klimawandel] könnte sich negativ auf die Bilanzen der regulierten Nicht-Depots durch negative Auswirkungen auf die Geschäfte ihrer Kunden auswirken, einschließlich ihrer Einkommensverluste, sowie auf alle abgewerteten Investitionen aufgrund von physischen oder Übergangsrisiken.

Widersprüchliche Botschaften über Bitcoin Mining

In dem Schreiben wird der Bitcoin-Abbau ausdrücklich als Risikofaktor für den Klimawandel erwähnt. Er zitiert Berichte, die behaupten, dass die Energie, die zur Aufrechterhaltung der Haschrate des Bitcoin-Netzes verwendet wird, dem gesamten Stromverbrauch Venezuelas entspricht und einen Kohlenstoff-Fußabdruck von der Größe Neuseelands hat.

Sie scheint sich dann jedoch selbst zu widersprechen, indem sie darauf hinweist, dass es aufgrund der Standortabhängigkeit schwierig ist, die für den Abbau von Bitcoin Trader verbrauchte Energiemenge genau zu schätzen.

In der chinesischen Region Sichuan-Tal beispielsweise ist der Bitcoin-Abbau aufgrund der Verfügbarkeit riesiger Mengen billiger Wasserkraft beliebt, die eine viel geringere Umweltbelastung darstellt als die Verbrennung fossiler Brennstoffe.

In dem Schreiben wird ferner erwähnt, dass die Umweltauswirkungen des Kryptogeldbergbaus „im Vergleich zu Sektoren wie dem Transportwesen relativ gering“ sind.

Dann wird empfohlen, dass die Kryptobergleute Informationen, die als Geschäftsgeheimnisse angesehen werden könnten, wie z.B. die Standorte der Bergwerke und die verwendete Ausrüstung, mit größerer Offenheit behandeln sollten.

Der Brief geht weiter:

„Firmen, die mit virtueller Währung arbeiten, sollten in Erwägung ziehen, die Transparenz der Standorte und der beim Bitcoin-Mining verwendeten Ausrüstung zu erhöhen, um diese Bedenken zu zerstreuen. Es wird auch berichtet, dass die Energiekosten für den Abbau von virtuellen Währungen im Vergleich zum Wert der virtuellen Währungen beträchtlich sind. […] Diese Schätzungen berücksichtigen natürlich nicht die Elektrizität, die für die Speicherung, den Handel und das Tracking der virtuellen Währungen benötigt wird, um die Industrie am Laufen zu halten“.

Zum Abschluss des Segments über Krypto-Mining erklärt der Brief, dass die Daten darauf hindeuten, dass einige Krypto-Miner Fortschritte bei der nachhaltigen Energiebeschaffung machen, um das implizite Umweltrisiko ihrer Aktivitäten zu mindern.

The Iranian leadership will in future allow international payment transactions with Bitcoin in order to circumvent sanctions. The central bank should also soon have a good amount of BTC on its books.

Money is a weapon and the US is masters of it. Since the United States of America de facto excluded Iran from international payments, the Islamic Republic has been doing worse and worse.

We remind us:

In November 2018, the payment messaging network SWIFT took Iranian banks offline at the instigation of the USA . Since then, imports and exports have hardly been possible, as they can only be paid for with great difficulty. The move was very successful as an economic sanction against Iran; In the end, political interests can be implemented quite effectively through the financial channels.

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The News Spy community sensed a scandal back then. Ultimately, the US sanctioned the Iranian people, who suffer from such sanctions. Bitcoiners meanwhile stand for the neutrality of money. Money should work, do its job, but not satisfy political conduct like that of the United States.

Bitcoin: a neutral, monetary medium

Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are exactly that. A neutral, monetary medium that is not subject to any institution except its users. The leadership of crisis-ridden Iran seems to have understood this fact. There is no other explanation for the fact that both the government and the central bank of the Near Eastern state have passed a bill that allows traders to use Bitcoin to import goods.

Because like Iran Daily reports, „The government changed its regulations on cryptocurrencies to allow them to be used to finance imports.“ Specifically, this means that the central bank acts as a kind of middleman who passes on mined BTC to importers. They can then use the coins to reward trading partners outside the country’s borders.

The move is a bang and has generated a corresponding response in the community. Finally, the message implies that the monetary authorities of the Islamic Republic will soon have BTC on their balance sheets.

BTC acceptance and game theory

This is exactly the scenario that game theory suggests. On the global plaything, there are states whose sovereignty is threatened by Bitcoin – such as the USA as the issuer of the world reserve currency – and those that benefit from the acceptance of the cryptocurrency. Especially when it happens before anyone else. The latter include marginalized countries like Iran. From the point of view of the decision-makers, it is therefore all too understandable why such a decision was made.

The relationship between BTC and Iran has so far been characterized by mistrust. After it became known that Bitcoin miners were converting subsidized electricity into satoshis, the authorities shut down several crypto mines. Mining has been legal since July 2019 . However, the regulatory environment is still uncertain. However, the industry could certainly pick up speed with the latest developments. With the central bank, miners have at least one buyer for mined coins who does not lack liquidity.