Monat: Januar 2021

Scaramuccis SkyBridge Capital führte Anfang Januar einen neuen Bitcoin-Fonds ein.

Er sagt, dass verbesserte Infrastruktur und Regulierung BTC-Investitionen „so sicher wie der Besitz von Anleihen und Rohstoffen wie Gold gemacht haben.“

Anthony Scaramucci, der Chef von SkyBridge Capital und ehemaliger Kommunikationsdirektor des Weißen Hauses, glaubt, dass das Wertangebot von Bitcoin Compass deutlich gestiegen ist, nachdem die Regierungen viele der mit dem digitalen Vermögenswert verbundenen Risiken angegangen sind.

In einem Meinungsartikel, der auf CNN veröffentlicht wurde, argumentieren Scaramucci und sein SkyBridge-Kollege Brett Messing, dass Bitcoin zu einer brauchbaren Option für langfristige Investoren geworden ist, die Zuflucht vor Inflation suchen.

Die Autoren behaupten auch, dass das Halten von Bitcoin heute weit weniger riskant ist als noch vor ein paar Jahren, als Regulierungen und Infrastruktur noch unterentwickelt waren.

Das Wachstum von Bitcoin hat „die Regierung und Institutionen dazu veranlasst, einzugreifen und viele der Risiken, die mit der digitalen Währung verbunden sind, anzugehen“, schreiben die Autoren und beziehen sich dabei auf die Entscheidung des Office of the Comptroller of Currency, Banken zu autorisieren, Kryptowährungsdienstleistungen anzubieten.

Sie fuhren fort:

„[…] erhöhte Regulierungen, verbesserte Infrastruktur und Zugang zu Finanzinstitutionen – wie Fidelity -, die das Geld der Investoren halten, haben Bitcoin-Investitionen so sicher gemacht wie der Besitz von Anleihen und Rohstoffen wie Gold, die auch zum Ausgleich von Portfolios verwendet werden.“

SkyBridge Capital sorgte letzten Monat für Aufsehen, als es einen Antrag bei der U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission einreichte, um einen Bitcoin-Hedgefonds aufzulegen. Der SkyBridge Bitcoin Fund LP startete ein paar Wochen später, wobei Fidelity als Depotbank dient und Ernst & Young die Wirtschaftsprüfung übernimmt.

SkyBridge investierte Berichten zufolge im November und Dezember in Bitcoin und konnte so eine große Position in dem digitalen Vermögenswert aufbauen, bevor dieser einen parabolischen Anstieg erlebte. Zum Zeitpunkt der Auflegung des Fonds am 4. Januar behauptete SkyBridge, dass sein BTC-Engagement etwa $310 Millionen wert sei.

Institutionelles Kapital war ein wichtiger Katalysator für die 300%ige Rallye von Bitcoin im Jahr 2020, die am 8. Januar in einem neuen Allzeithoch nahe $42.000 gipfelte. Sogenannte Smart-Money-Investoren beginnen, Bitcoin als eine Form von digitalem Gold zu betrachten – mit einem potenziell viel höheren Aufwärtspotenzial als Edelmetalle.

The US investment bank Goldman Sachs ventures into the crypto space and examines digital securities, as the portal The Block reports.

As reported by the portal The Block , the US investment bank Goldman Sachs has launched a request for information (RFI)

With this, the bank wants to check the possibilities of digital securities. An internal source told the portal, but wanted to remain anonymous. Accordingly, the bank started the first talks with potential partners for the venture back in December last year.

Similar to JPMorgan, we issued a request for information about digital stocks. We research digital securities on a broad front and decide what the next step is said the Goldman Sachs source.

Competitor JPMorgan has been active in the crypto space for some time. In the course of the bank had the JPM Coin from a large technology customer commercially in October last year can be utilized . Takis Georgakopoulos, CEO of JPMorgan, was optimistic at the time:

We believe we are entering a phase of commercialization of these technologies. [It’s a transition] from research and development to something that can become real business.

Goldman Sachs: “Part of a Broad Strategy”

Just last week, the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency made headlines. Because the OCC gave the crypto bank Anchorage its blessing and made it the first national “digital asset bank” in the USA. The review of digital assets by Goldman Sachs is part of a “broad digital strategy” of the bank, also with regard to developments like this, according to the source.

In the wake of the OCC’s decision, Diogo Mónica, Anchorage boss, said the permit would get many large, risk-averse institutional players on the crypto bandwagon. When asked directly at JPMorgan, Citi and also Goldman Sachs, Mónica said: „We talk to all these people.“

The ownership of the Bitcoin Whitepaper is under discussion after Craig Wright claimed the copyright. We’re telling you!

Craig Wright, the self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto, was threatening legal action this week against all Bitcoin websites that distribute the crypto whitepaper without his permission.

Websites Remove Bitcoin Whitepaper

The Bitcoin Whitepaper, entitled „Bitcoin: An Electronic Cash System of Peers,“ was published by Satoshi Nakamoto under a public license from MIT in 2008 and is widely distributed in many forms around the world.

As such, it appears that Craig Wright has filed a Crypto Code claim and is being prosecuted. However, it is still open to challenge.

But the real problem lies in the debate: Is it worthwhile to start a battle? How much time and money can it cost?

Will it start a battle?

On January 21, Bitcoin.org issued a statement saying that the website along with Bitcoincore.org received allegations of copyright infringement from Craig Wright’s attorneys.

Specifically the statement explained that „both Bitcoin.org and Bitcoincore.org received allegations of copyright infringement by the Bitcoin whitepaper from attorneys representing Craig Steven Wright. In the letter, they claim that Craig owns the copyright in the document, the Bitcoin name and the Bitcoin.org property.

Finally, they add that they were asked to remove the whitepaper from the website. However, at least Bitcoin.org was not willing to give up and refused to remove the document. But, he didn’t count on the fact that the owner of Bitcoincore.org had already given in.

„Unfortunately, without consulting us… the developers of Bitcoin Core rushed to remove the Bitcoin whitepaper… in response to these allegations of copyright infringement, giving credit to these false claims,“ said Cobra, the developer who owns Bitcoin.org.

Bitcoin Core developer Wladimir J. van der Laan justified the removal by stating that it was not necessary to have the document there.

„Unless someone can explicitly prove that Satoshi gave this document a free license, it’s safer legally to remove it from Bitcoin Core…“ he said in the release on GitHub.

The Bitcoin Community Debate Begins

That’s how we have two versions, one that is willing to fight to the end and another that claims not to want to become a Bitcoin martyr.

For its part, Cobra claims that by surrendering, Bitcoin Core has offered arguments to the enemy against Bitcoin. He basically claims that they’ve „self-censored and compromised their integrity.

Meanwhile, Wladimir J. van der Laan (@orionwl on Twitter) responded by claiming that the situation wasn’t worth dying for.

Thus, at Bitcoincore.org we can no longer find traces of the Bitcoin whitepaper, unlike Bitcoin.org where even the crypto community can access it.