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Right now, many cannot see the forest for the trees. By that I mean the big picture for EVs and EV metals demand.
What percentage of buyers do you think will buy an electric car by
end 2022 if it is cheaper to buy, cheaper to run, and cheaper to
maintain?
What if 50% of buyers want to buy an electric car in 2022, and 75% by 2025.
In a recent British survey, 71% of British car buyers said they are considering an electric car as their next vehicle.
In this article, my goal is to remind investors that the electric
vehicle [EV] and EV metal miners (lithium, cobalt, graphite, nickel)
opportunity is a long-term event. By this I mean the next decade or two.
If as I have forecast electric cars continue to gain in popularity,
then the demand boom for EVs and the EV metal miners will be
unprecedented in history and we will see an EV metals super-cycle over
the next decade or two.
Right now, many cannot see the forest for the trees
In the world of electric vehicle metals (particularly the key battery
metals lithium, cobalt, graphite and nickel) market participants
continually focus on what will happen this year, and what will stock
prices do in the next 1 year. The problem here is that short-term market
events can mean we sell down our stocks at the worst possible time when
the market is negative and we forget to see the big picture.
Take the lithium and cobalt markets the past year. Concerns of
oversupply have caused large sell-offs in the lithium and cobalt miners.
Retail investors have fled the market. Does this really make sense when
we look at the big picture over the next decade?
The big picture for EVs and EV metals over the next decade or two
Investors should focus on what lies ahead in the next decade or two. For example:
According to Bloomberg, we can expect EV sales to increase (from 2017 levels of 1.1%) 10x by 2025, 27x by 2030, 50x by 2040.
CNBC reported that JP Morgan forecasts “electric cars would take 35 percent of the global market by 2025 and 48 percent by 2030.”
The chart below compares my electric car penetration forecast to Bloomberg’s forecast.
Bloomberg forecasts annual electric vehicle sales – 30m by 2030, 60m by 2040
Do these forecasts sound realistic or possible? Only readers can decide for themselves.
My view remains that by end 2022, an electric car will start to
become cheaper than a conventional Internal Combustion Engine [ICE] car
(assuming zero subsidies). This is based on lithium-ion battery prices
falling ~16% pa, which has been the case the past decade. With 76
lithium-ion battery megafactories to be in production by about 2028
(~45 in production now) this looks highly realistic as scale and fierce
competition take effect.
My model forecasts a 60kWh battery will sell for less than an ICE engine system by end 2022 (earlier for a 50kWh battery)
Source: My Model
My forecast above states by end 2022, a 60kWh lithium-ion battery
will sell for US$5,300 which is less than the cost of a standard car’s
engine system (includes the engine, exhaust, transmission, petrol tank,
etc.).
If the above forecast is correct, it will mean a consumer by end 2022 can buy an electric car cheaper than a comparable ICE car. Furthermore, the electric car will have up to 10x cheaper running costs (electricity vs. gasoline) and up to 10x cheaper maintenance costs.
Once this happens, who would buy an ICE car if they are happy with a range of at least 208 miles or 335 kms (Tesla (TSLA) Model S 2012 model range).
The chart below shows by ~2017/18, an electric car can sell cheaper
than the average US conventional car, and by ~2031, an electric car can
be cheaper than the lowest priced new US conventional car. In 2018,
Reuters reported
in ‘VW plans to sell electric Tesla rival for less than $23,000:
source’ “Volkswagen intends to sell electric cars for less than 20,000
euros ($22,836).”
Electric car selling prices are forecast to fall rapidly as battery costs fall
What percentage of buyers do you think will buy an electric car by
end 2022 if it is cheaper to buy, cheaper to run, and cheaper to
maintain than a comparable ICE car?
Added to the above headline the electric car will have better acceleration and be more trendy than an ICE car.
Given the above, it would seem quite clear to me that most people if
given the option will choose an electric car post 2022. Certainly, by
2025, when an electric car is even cheaper it would seem almost everyone
will want one.
If again the above assumptions are correct, then electric car
penetration rates will be way higher than my forecasts above. For
example, my end 2022 forecast is at 10%, and end 2025 is at 20%. The
real demand could in fact be 3-5x higher than my forecasts, and higher
than Bloomberg’s forecasts. Perhaps JP Morgan’s forecasts of 35% by 2025 (and 48% by 2030) will be a better guide.
Nearly 75% of car buyers are considering an electric car as their
next vehicle. Sales of electric and hybrid cars will overtake petrol and
diesel by 2030, report claims. Searches for alternative fuel vehicles
on Auto Trader up by 40% in 2018. The British public’s appetite for electric vehicles
is growing significantly, according to a new report published by Auto
Trader. Almost three quarters (71%) of car owners said they’d consider
buying an electric vehicle as their next car, which is a huge leap from the 25% who answered positively when asked the same question in 2017.
What if 50% of buyers want to buy an electric car post 2022, and 75% by 2025
Clearly, if we get to levels above 50% by 2022, the electric car industry would probably not be able to meet this demand.
For example, the lithium demand to meet 50% electric car penetration
rates by end 2022 would be ~2.6mtpa. This would be almost 10x the level
of lithium demand from 2018. Similar problems would occur with the other
EV metals as well as the battery and electric car producers.
In other words, we could very well see a period post 2022 until
perhaps 2030 where people will be on waiting lists to get an electric
car. Similar to the ~400,000 list for the Tesla Model 3, but several magnitudes higher. Even the expensive Porsche Taycan (OTCPK:POAHY) already has a 20,000 waiting list.
The car companies and 76 megafactories confirm the boom is coming
BNEF forecasts by 2020 there will be over 289 different models of
electric cars across the spectrum. Added to this will be electrification
across the entire transport sector (limited for planes) and widespread
adoption of energy storage (home, office, utility).
My purpose in this article is to encourage investors to think outside
the box, or to have a clearer view of the big picture. Demand levels of
50% electric cars by end 2022 once an electric car is cheaper to
buy/run/maintain would seem very logical.
Should this occur, then we will see an EV metals super-cycle. Waiting
lists for electric cars will become normal, battery shortages the norm,
and very strong EV metal prices a reality.
While 2018 and early 2019 have been bleak for the EV metal miner
stocks, I would encourage investors to think beyond 2019, and towards
2022 which is less than 3 years away. The quality EV metal miners that
are very oversold today may look like absolute bargains tomorrow.
I suggest to investors that 2019 is very likely the “calm before the storm of demand” for the EV metal miners.
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at 9:40 AM on Tuesday, May 21st, 2019
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Bitcoin and Blockchain: The Tangled History of Two Tech Buzzwords
“I’m interested in blockchain, not bitcoin.â€
Admit it, you’ve heard this hundreds, if not thousands, of times.
(You might have even said it yourself.) And sure, people know what
you’re saying, you’re talking about the “technology underlying bitcoinâ€
and you sound smart enough.
Once it became known – or at least presumed – that you could apply
cryptography in finance, in ways similar to how it’s used in bitcoin,
everyone started making sure that statement fell from their lips. And
that refrain – kicked off by bitcoin itself – remains powerful today.
Sounds plausible? Sure. But, interestingly, the word “blockchainâ€
doesn’t actually appear in the original bitcoin white paper, released
back in 2008. Rather, the white paper uses the words “block†and “chainâ€
separately many times.
It describes the word “block†as the vehicle for a bundle bitcoin
transactions. Then, these blocks of are linked together, forming a
“chain†of “blocks.â€
Turns out, the origins of the word are not quite so revolutionary.
“The word blockchain was never used in the early days,†former
bitcoin developer Mike Hearn told CoinDesk. Although, Hearn did
acknowledge that Satoshi often referred to bitcoin’s “proof-of-work
chain†in discussions on forums.
It seems the first references to the word came about on Bitcoin Talk, a bitcoin-specific forum created by Satoshi, in July 2010 – more than a year after bitcoin’s release.
And at that time, these remarks weren’t about how innovative the
technology was, but instead were complaints about how long it took to
download the bitcoin “blockchain†(the entire history of bitcoin
transactions).
While compared to today, the download would have far faster,
according to one Bitcoin Talk user: “The initial blockchain download is
quite slow.â€
In other words, initially, blockchain was far from the sexy word it is today.
Blockchain mania
It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when the word really took hold.
But interest in the term seems to have sprung out of professional
organizations and individuals hesitance to align themselves with bitcoin
itself because of its bad reputation as the currency for drugs and gray
economies.
“I think it [became popular] around the time people started going to
Washington [D.C.] and trying to make bitcoin respectable by divorcing
the currency from the underlying algorithms,†Hearn said.
To many, bitcoin the currency could be decoupled from bitcoin the
blockchain protocol, and so a whole new industry of so-called “private
blockchains,†devoid of a cryptocurrency, emerged. Sure enough, around that time in 2015, Google Trends data show the term surged.
“Initially people said ‘block chain’, and then, thanks to a great PR
campaign, we were blessed with the much improved ‘blockchain,’
single-word, probably thanks to a community-wide effort near and around
the Bitcoin Talk forums,†long-time cryptocurrency developer Greg Slepak
said.
Not only did it become one word, but it also came in vogue to
describe any blockchain that wasn’t bitcoin’s blockchain as “a
blockchain.†Bitcoin got to keep the terminology “the blockchain,â€
giving credence to the fact that it was the first.
Yet blockchain has become so divorced from bitcoin that both words
typically see a similar spike when cryptocurrency prices start mooning.
For instance, the word blockchain saw a huge uptick in Google searches
in late 2017.
Still, it’s unclear exactly where the idea itself begins. To some,
blockchains existed even before bitcoin, although that term wasn’t
applied to them back then.
For instance, cryptographer Stuart Haber, whose whitepapers on
timestamping were cited in the bitcoin white paper, claims to have
created the first blockchain called Surety.
According to Haber, that has to be the reason why Satoshi cited his
work – three times out of just nine total citations. Surety was launched
in 1995 for timestamping records, and it’s still running today.
Yet, Haber admits that his version doesn’t have all the same benefits
of bitcoin since it’s centralized – managed by one company.
And that highlights where things get tricky when you’re talking about
a blockchain. See, there isn’t necessarily agreement on a single
definition of a the technology.
The Merriam Webster dictionary
actually presents a much older word for blockchain – “a chain in which
the alternate links are broad blocks connected by thin side links
pivoted to the ends of the blocks, used with sprocket wheels to transmit
power, as in a bicycle.â€
While Google defines blockchain as:
But, for those seasoned veterans of the space, even this definition
is problematic. Many of these new-age private blockchains don’t record
their transactions publicly.
“The term has become so widespread that it’s quickly losing meaning,†as The Verge put it earlier this year.
Blind men
Haber pointed to an Indian parable to help explain the incompatible descriptions.
In the parable, a group of blind men come upon an elephant and start
touching the animal to try and figure it out what it was in front of
them.
Depending on what part of the elephant each man is touching, their
answer changes. For instance, one of the blind men, touching the
elephant’s trunk, thinks it’s a snake, while the other, touching the
elephant’s leg, exclaims it’s a tree trunk.
It’s similar when people define blockchain, Haber said.
He told CoinDesk:
“Some definitions will be completely silly, showing that people don’t
understand what they’re doing, but there will also be a bunch of
accurate descriptions of various parts of the vast body of work.â€
As such, he argues there isn’t just one meaning.
Even though, bitcoiners believe a blockchain can only be the one and
only bitcoin blockchain, like words, definitions are always evolving and
changing.
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Ripple Exec: Blockchain, Crypto Will Have a Role in US Tech Independence
“There is a broad discussion in Washington around 5G being dominated by foreign firms and the U.S. being reliant on foreign technology and foreign expertise… With blockchain and crypto, I think there’s a recognition now that these will be part of our future infrastructure… It’s important both for national security and from an economic perspective, that the U.S. is a leader in that.â€
Technology needs to be a national issue for the United States, with digital currencies and blockchain
to be recognized within that goal, according to Ripples’ Director of
Regulatory Relations Ryan Zagone, at the Consensus 2019 conference on
May 14.
Recently, legislators reintroduced the Token Taxonomy Act, that would exclude cryptocurrency
from being classified as a security. The act also pursues the
introduction of regulatory certainty for businesses and regulators in
the U.S. blockchain industry, as well as clarifying conflicting state
initiatives and regulatory rulings that have confused the issue.
Moreover, the announcement calls attention to the growing strength of digital asset markets and the blockchain industry both in Europe and China, and states that the Act is necessary in order to keep the U.S. competitive in the global market.
As reported
in March, the number of lobbies working on blockchain technology issues
in Washington D.C. tripled in 2018, reaching 33 projects in the fourth
quarter of 2018 compared to 12 in the same period of 2017. Jerry Brito,
executive director at the non-profit organization Coin Center, suggested
that the growth is driven by securities regulation.
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at 9:35 AM on Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
Integration of GEMS(TM) Universal ECG App with BodiMetrics hardware
platform expands ECG Device Manufacturer’s Offerings to now Include
Credible ECG Reporting Services
Announced the execution of an ECG and multiple biosign monitoring device integration and co-marketing agreement with California-based BodiMetrics LLC
BodiMetrics users can now benefit from access to CardioComm’s trusted ECG report generation and reporting capabilities.
BodiMetrics will promote the use of GEMS™ Universal to its extensive customer base and CardioComm will share resultant revenues generated from GEMS™ Universal subscription fees and from paid-for ECG readings.
Toronto, Ontario–(May 15, 2019) – CardioComm Solutions, Inc.(TSXV: EKG) (“CardioComm” or the “Company“), a global provider of consumer heart monitoring and electrocardiogram (“ECG“) acquisition and management software solutions, announces the execution of an ECG and multiple biosign monitoring device integration and co-marketing agreement with California-based BodiMetrics LLC (“BodiMetrics“).
With the launch of CardioComm’s GEMS™ Universal ECG app (“GEMS™ Universal“),
BodiMetrics users can now benefit from access to CardioComm’s trusted
ECG report generation and reporting capabilities. BodiMetrics will
promote the use of GEMS™ Universal to its extensive customer base and
CardioComm will share resultant revenues generated from GEMS™ Universal
subscription fees and from paid-for ECG readings. Under the agreement,
CardioComm also has distribution rights for the sale of devices through
its hospital, telemedicine and consumer sales channels.
GEMS™ Universal will be available under two subscription models:
$6 US per month with one free ECG interpretation included; and,
$69 US per year with 12 free ECG interpretations that may be requested any time during the one year subscription.
GEMS™ Universal is based directly on the Company’s GEMS™ Mobile ECG
and was developed to allow non-HeartCheck™ branded ECG devices users to
generate unlimited, medical-grade ECG PDFs or to request a review of
their ECG(s) through CardioComm’s SMART Monitoring ECG reading service
on a fee-for-review basis. Once the free ECG reviews have been used,
additional SMART Monitoring reviews can be requested for $1.99 US for an
ECG triage or $12.50 US for a physician interpretation.
The BodiMetrics device replaces five (5) devices with one: ECG, Heart
Rate, Systolic Blood Pressure, Blood Oxygenation (Spo2%) and
Temperature. BodiMetrics confirms that approximately 30,000 devices have
been sold to date with annual sales volumes increasing 50% to 60% each
year. US sales occur through Amazon, Best Buy, Costco and various
e-commerce channels. Additional sales occur through medical device
distributors, Medline, Henry Schein, employer care management partners
and telemedicine, patient and virtual care platforms.
A second phase of the agreement will see the GEMS™ Mobile’s ECG
management technology embedded directly into BodiMetrics’ device app
under a licensing agreement, allowing the user to open only one app to
access all existing biometric use options as well as ECG monitoring.
Additional information will be provided when the ECG enabled BodiMetrics
app is released later this year.
The Company reported the launch of the GEMS™ Universal ECG app on May
14, 2019. The app is now available on Google Play and is scheduled to
be available on the App Store within two weeks.
CardioComm Solutions’ patented and proprietary technology is used in
products for recording, viewing, analyzing and storing
electrocardiograms for diagnosis and management of cardiac patients.
Products are sold worldwide through a combination of an external
distribution network and a North American-based sales team. CardioComm
Solutions has earned the ISO 13485 certification, is HIPAA compliant and
holds clearances from the European Union (CE Mark), the USA (FDA) and
Canada (Health Canada).
This release may contain certain forward-looking statements and
forward-looking information with respect to the financial condition,
results of operations and business of CardioComm Solutions and certain
of the plans and objectives of CardioComm Solutions with respect to
these items. Such statements and information reflect management’s
current beliefs and are based on information currently available to
management. By their nature, forward-looking statements and
forward-looking information involve risk and uncertainty because they
relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the
future and there are many factors that could cause actual results and
developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by
these forward-looking statements and forward-looking information.
In evaluating these statements, readers should not place undue
reliance on forward-looking statements and forward-looking information.
The Company does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking
statements and forward-looking information contained in this release
other than as required by applicable laws, including without limitation,
Section 5.8(2) of National Instrument 51-102 (Continuous Disclosure Obligations).
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as
that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts
responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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IBM Establishes 5 Blockchain Principles To Drive Enterprise Adoption And Benefit Society
As an early advocate for blockchain, IBM has been working vigorously to commercialize the technology through its enterprise-grade version of Hyperledger Fabric, known as IBM Blockchain.
Hyperledger Fabric currently empowers 1300 networks in the IBM blockchain cloud, 100 of which are live in production today.
Following years of experimentation and the advancement of established live networks, IBM has now established a set of 5 “blockchain for good principles,†demonstrating how trusted and transparent enterprise blockchains can benefit organizations and society as a whole.
The principles, which are also outlined in an IBM blog post, are:
Open is better
Permissioned doesn’t mean private
Governance is a team sport
Common standards are common sense
Privacy is paramount
When IBM’s CEO, Ginni Rometty, began
commenting on data rights with respect to data analytics, we became
inspired on the blockchain side. Over the past 3 years, we have worked
with many clients and have gained perspectives that have driven these
principles. There are ways to use blockchain technology that are
critical and would lead to good outcomes, but let’s make sure we don’t
leave that to guess work. That is how these 5 principles came about and
it’s our responsibility to abide by them wisely and share them with
others,†Jerry Cuomo, Vice President of IBM Blockchain and IBM Fellow,
told me.
In order to better understand how each principle is being applied, Cuomo went into detail about the standards.
Open Is Better
According to IBM, blockchain networks must foster diverse communities
of open source contributors to promote innovation and ensure the
overall quality of code.
The open is better principle is
carried across many aspects of what we do at IBM. Open is always better
when it comes to the cloud, artificial intelligence or the Internet of
Things, but it has especially interesting implications when looked at
from a blockchain context. We have always been an ‘open by design’
company, but we think carrying that principle to blockchain is
fundamental to our strategy,†explained Cuomo.
For example, IBM points out that The
Hyperledger Project, operated under The Linux Foundation, is a
“greenhouse†for growing enterprise-grade blockchain software with
strong and diverse code contributors.
“Hyperledger is an open technology
co-created by multiple institutions. The users of this technology
benefit since collaborations create diversity,†said Cuomo.
Moreover, Hyperledger Fabric also allows IBM to monetize due to the collaborative nature of the technology.
Institutions like IBM working on
Hyperledger Fabric are able to monetize due to the openness. For
instance, Oracle has the Oracle Blockchain, but they monetize using
Hyperledger Fabric. We are all collaborating to create these blockchain
networks, but we all have competitive offerings. Without breaking the
openness, we can add value to differentiate from our solutions. In turn,
consumers get high quality code offered through multiple institutions.
This is a unique business model built around the idea of open source,â€
noted Cuomo.
Permissioned Doesn’t Mean Private
Although anonymous public blockchains afford a number of powerful
capabilities, IBM believes that these are not suitable for most
enterprises, particularly those in regulated industries. Rather, to
support an enterprise-grade platform aligned with regulatory and
fiduciary responsibilities, enterprise blockchains must be designed
around the principle of permissioned and trusted access. However, it’s
important to understand that permissioned doesn’t mean private.
Blockchain is about trust. For
instance, we trust businesses because of the rules they follow. But
rules also have accountability, meaning you have to know which
businesses are participating in certain systems. There are types of
blockchains that are anonymous like Bitcoin and Ethereum, and there are
types of blockchains like Hyperledger Fabric and several others that are
permissioned. Permissioned is important because it insists that members
of the network are known to the network. Permissions are balanced with
privacy so blockchains that follow these principles have privacy
capabilities that allow members to transact confidentially,†said Cuomo.
Maintaining a balance through a
permissioned network is critical for IBM, as most organizations need to
know whom they’re conducting business with to ensure that no illegal
activity is being transacted over the network.
Governance Is A Team Sport
IBM also believes that enterprise blockchains must embrace
distributed and transparent governance to ensure that networks serve the
needs of all participants and are managed in a manner reflective of
each use case.
“Governance means rules. These rules will define who the elected
officials are, who is responsible for what roles and obligations, etc.
Governance is mandatory in a blockchain network,†said Cuomo.
Moreover, IBM notes that a trusted governance model requires at least
three designated trust anchors and that governance frameworks should
also take into account a network’s funding model.
For example, the Verfied:Me identity network in Canada, convened by
SecureKey Inc, has enlisted major Canadian banks to participate as trust
anchors to host nodes and validate network transactions. SecureKey has
created a governance model that involves ongoing checks and balances
between its constituent working groups.
Common Standards Are Common Sense
Additionally, IBM understands that enterprise blockchains should be
architected around common standards that are interoperable in order to
help future-proof networks, prevent vendor lock-in and foster a robust
ecosystem of innovators. This also involves interoperability of cloud
platforms. And while most blockchain networks presently exist in siloes,
the technology is evolving to support a network of networks.
According to IBM, the first step in promoting this interoperability is to make blockchains visible to one another through a registry, such as Hacera Unbounded. Moreover,
blockchain networks should define and publish their data models and
policies for change according to industry standards.
Privacy Is Paramount
Finally, IBM thinks that an enterprise blockchain should control who
can access data and under what circumstances. Blockchain networks must
also abide by privacy regulations such as GDPR. In most cases, that
means any personal data should be kept off-chain.
For example, IBM Food Trust
is a blockchain network aimed at ensuring food safety, freshness and
sustainability. This network enables brands like Walmart, Albertsons and
Driscoll to leverage shared data to enact various supply-chain
efficiencies, while safeguarding each member’s proprietary information.
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at 10:03 AM on Monday, May 13th, 2019
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Is This Behind The Latest $25 Billion Bitcoin And Crypto Price Rally?
Now trading at a little over $7,000 per bitcoin, after beginning the year at under $4,000, taking the total value of all bitcoins over $124 billion and making up 58% of the broader cryptocurrency market cap.
The bitcoin price is now trading at a little over $7,000 per bitcoin, after beginning the year at under $4,000, taking the total value of all bitcoins over $124 billion and making up 58% of the broader cryptocurrency market cap.
The latest bitcoin rally has seen the world’s largest cryptocurrency shoot up by almost 40% over the last 30 days.
Bitcoin whales have traded around 100,000 bitcoin over the weekend,
with a total value of some $670 million dollars. Most of the bitcoin
whales have been moving their holdings out of major cryptocurrency
exchanges, with just a few of the biggest transactions over the weekend
involving cryptocurrency wallets moving bitcoin to an exchange.
Large bitcoin and cryptocurrency transactions can prop up the market,
with the holders not selling via online exchanges but opting to
continue holding the digital tokens instead, known in the bitcoin and
cryptocurrency sector as “hodling.”
Bitcoin holders are continuing to bet on the asset despite the
bitcoin price almost doubling since the beginning of this year,
suggesting they see it moving still higher as bitcoin sentiment turns
increasingly bullish.
Last week, analysts from investment bank Canaccord Genuity said they
expect bitcoin to rally hard over the next 24 months, potentially
returning to its late 2017 highs due to next year’s halving event, where
the number of bitcoins rewarded to miners will be cut by 50%.
The last week has been a difficult one for the bitcoin and cryptocurrency sector, however, despite the broad price rally.
Bitcoin climbed even
as the market processed the news $40 million of bitcoin (some 7,000 of
the digital tokens) were stolen from the Malta-based Binance exchange,
the world’s largest bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange by volume, and Binance’s widely-respected chief executive Changpeng Zhao caused controversy by suggesting he could “re-organize” the bitcoin blockchain to recover the funds.
The bitcoin price climbed over the course of last week despite a
serious security breach at major bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange,
Binance.
CoinDesk
Meanwhile, the bitcoin and cryptocurrency industry is gearing up for
one of the biggest events in the cryptocurrency calendar starting
today—Blockchain Week NYC and CoinDesk’s Consensus 2019 event, running
all week out of the New York Hilton Midtown.
This year headline speakers include FedEx’s Fred Smith, Fidelity’s
Abigail Johnson, Twitter and Square’s Jack Dorsey, chairman of the U.S.
Securities Exchange Commission, Jay Clayton, and U.S. presidential
hopeful, Andrew Yang.
“As crypto’s true believers gather in New York for Consensus this
week, they are counting ever-more household-name companies amongst their
number,” said Simon Peters, an analyst at brokerage eToro. “The
possibility of big crypto-related announcements from some of the world’s
biggest corporates will be part of what is driving bitcoin’s price
upward.
“This buzz follows a recent spate of good news for bitcoin, with
large institutional investors like Fidelity Investments increasing their
exposure to crypto-assets in recent weeks. If we see institutions begin
to pump serious money into the market, we could be at the start of a
very long bull run for crypto-assets.”
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Crypto Markets Hit New 2019 Top as Bitcoin Cranks Higher to $6.3k
End of the week has seen crypto markets hit another new high for 2019.
Bitcoin is pushing things higher as it eats away at the altcoins and itself posts new highs for the year.
Total market capitalization just passed $190 billion for the first time since November 2018.
The end of the week has seen crypto markets hit another new high for 2019. Bitcoin is pushing things higher as it eats away at the altcoins and itself posts new highs for the year. Total market capitalization just passed $190 billion for the first time since November 2018.
A new yearly high of just below $6,300 was made by Bitcoin a couple of hours ago. It has not dropped below $6k
since breaching the psychological barrier in early trading yesterday
and has pushed on a further 3 percent today. The big move has taken BTC
volume up to $18 billion and market cap over $110 billion. Its dominance
is now at a 17 month high of 58 percent, a level not seen since the big
surge at the end of 2017.
The big move by BTC has pulled Ethereum up a little as it approaches
$175. On the downside ETH market share has been eaten away to under ten
percent as it remains sluggish.
The top ten is mostly red at the moment with only Litecoin making any
positive momentum as it reaches $77 with 2.5 percent added on the day.
Binance Coin is getting dumped dropping 8 percent back to $19 and XRP
and Stellar continue to get eroded losing another couple of percent
today.
There is greater pain in the top twenty as altcoins get assaulted by
their big brother. Cosmos has been smashed 8 percent to fall below $4
and Tron and Maker have both lost over 4 percent over the past 24 hours.
The rest are losing a couple of percent each as Bitcoin continues to consume them.
FOMO: Arcblock Still Pumping
Yesterday’s fomo driven pump has rolled into another day as ABT
surges a further 40 percent lifting its position to 76th. South Koreans
are all over this one as Bithumb dominates the trade volume in KRW.
Social media tipping based altcoin ReddCoin is also flying at the moment
with a gain of 18 percent on the back of Facebook’s rumored foray into
crypto. Aurora is back again with another pump today of 15 percent which
will dump tomorrow.
Speaking of dumps, WAX is in bad shape as it drops 9 percent as the
top one hundred’s biggest loser. BNB and Cosmos are not far behind
dumping 8 percent each.
Total market capitalization 24 hours. Coinmarketcap.com
Total crypto market capitalization has reached a new high for the
year at $192 billion. The $4 billion, or two percent, gain on the day is
largely due to Bitcoin which is a steamroller at the moment. Total
daily volume is at its highest level for the week at $54 billion as
markets slowly grind towards $200 billion.
Market Wrap is a section that takes a daily look at the top
cryptocurrencies during the current trading session and analyses the
best-performing ones, looking for trends and possible fundamentals.
