The genesis block is the name of the first block in the Bitcoin blockchain. It was extracted on January 3, 2009, ie 12 years days for days.

Bitcoin turns 12

The first 50 BTCs were mined on January 3, 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto himself in order to give birth to the Bitcoin blockchain .

S. Nakamoto made it clear that he was sensitive to the failures of the global financial system since the first block contained a message: “  The Times 03 / Jan / 2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout of banks” in reference to an article published the same day in the British newspaper The Times .

The Times 3 Jan 2009

Cover of The Times January 3, 2009

The article relates the attempt to rescue the banks by the English government in the midst of the financial crisis . By writing this note, Satoshi surely wanted to show his interest in the subject and raise public awareness .

The January 3 is the anniversary of the genesis block, but also the day “Proof-of-Key” or proof key of removing his bitcoins of exchanges to a wallet whose private keys it holds to recover full ownership of its funds.

The mystery of block 0

The genesis block and the launch of Bitcoin remain shrouded in mystery and reverence . Thus, the launch of block 0 was the subject of much debate on a specific point of its creation: the first 50 BTC could not be spent.

Thus, the first reward (50 BTC) was to be awarded to the address: 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa . However, the reward could not be distributed due to an anomaly in the code in block 0. Is this an intentional feature or just an error  ? This question was the subject of much debate among initiates. However, due to the developer’s precision, most theories suggest it was n’t a mistake.

Another originality, the followers regularly make donations to the address of the genesis block as a thank you. The address now has 68.35 BTC or about $ 2.3 million. There are 2,718 offerings that could be compared to the throwing of coins in the Trevi fountain in Rome.

Daniel Gouldman – le PDG de Ternio – est convaincu que dans un avenir immédiat, le bitcoin et la cryptoconnaie seront adoptés pour une utilisation courante et que toutes les monnaies seront numériques.

Daniel Gouldman : Nous devons nous habituer à la monnaie numérique

Dans une interview récente, il déclare

Je ne serais pas surpris si, dans cinq ans, la plupart de l’argent tel que nous le connaissons était essentiellement de la cryptoconnaissance.

Il affirme que les bitcoins et les cryptocurrences suivent exactement le même chemin que l’internet au milieu des années 90. Il affirme que si de nombreuses entreprises ont d’abord été lentes à accepter la nouvelle technologie, elles ont finalement été obligées de céder, et maintenant, l’internet est non seulement courant, mais dans plusieurs cas nécessaire si les entreprises cherchent à opérer dans le monde moderne.

En parlant de la nouvelle adoption de la monnaie numérique, Gouldman dit :

C’est le même chemin. C’est un taux d’adoption incroyablement explosif.

Il explique en outre que ce ne sera probablement pas le bitcoin – malgré sa taille et sa puissance actuelles – qui permettra de généraliser les monnaies numériques. Il pense que ce seront les banques, qui auront peur de perdre leurs prouesses et leur endurance dans le secteur financier, qui chercheront à émettre des versions numériques des monnaies émises par les fiats et les banques centrales afin de conserver leur clientèle et de se maintenir à flot.

Actuellement, nous en voyons déjà des exemples dans des régions comme la Chine, qui a dévoilé une version numérique du yuan ces derniers mois afin que les utilisateurs puissent éventuellement s’habituer à dépenser de l’argent numérique. Le yuan a été testé par des entreprises américaines telles que Subway et a ensuite été distribué à petite échelle à des particuliers dans tout le pays pour des tests supplémentaires.

Gouldman explique :

À mon avis, la plupart de l’argent [dans le futur] sera essentiellement de la cryptoconnaie parce que vous avez ces CBDC – les monnaies numériques de la banque centrale. Bitcoin, c’est génial. Tout le monde devrait l’avoir. Je l’adore, mais ce n’est pas un objet de transformation qui va affecter la vie de tout le monde au quotidien.

L’une des grandes choses, dit-il, qui sera énorme pour l’argent dans les années à venir, c’est le logiciel de chaîne de blocs qui va émerger pour le soutenir. Il affirme que cela permettra aux gens de stocker leur argent liquide de la manière la plus sûre possible et que les clients auront un contrôle total sur leur argent et leurs biens et n’auront pas à payer de frais aux banques.

M. Gouldman pense également que la Fed, au fil du temps, devrait devenir plus indulgente et plus ouverte à l’égard des monnaies numériques, et qu’une législation appropriée sera intégrée pour garantir que le pays puisse fonctionner sur la technologie des actifs numériques.

Les banques prendront leur temps

Il dit :

Je pense qu’au moment où les banques se familiariseront avec les cryptocurrences – ce qui prendra un certain temps – elles seront devenues beaucoup, beaucoup plus courantes, et c’est alors que les applications peer-to-peer auront de quoi s’inquiéter.

Obviously there are several manufacturers that trade these devices, which often have different functions since there are single option models that allow you to buy only crypto and other models that also allow you to sell the same, the so-called “two-way”.

But which are the most popular manufacturers of Bitcoin ATMs?

Bitcoin and crypto ATM

To answer this question we will use some platforms to identify both the manufacturers and the countries with more Bitcoin ATMs, so we can have an objective picture of the quality of the products and the manufacturers of these devices.

Let’s start first with Lamassu, one of the first companies to provide crypto ATMs with the two-way option and thus allow its customers to sell and buy their crypto. The basic model costs €3700 and all over the world this company can boast 569 installations of which 2 in Italy, to be precise in Pisa and Udine.

One of the best known circuits in America is without a doubt CoinSource, with devices that allow you to buy crypto but also devices that allow you to sell them.

Only last year CoinSource ATMs have also opened to stablecoins and so now you can buy DAI too. These ATMs are 889 located all over the US.

With 1304 crypto ATMs worldwide we find instead BitAccess, a company founded in 2013 in Ottawa, Canada. In 2014, the first ATM was launched. This company not only provides these devices but also produces them and therefore has control over the entire production chain.

One instead of the crypto ATMs that a little bit everyone will have seen are the ones produced by General Bytes that offers the possibility to customize the ATM and has a lot of features. They are present in almost every country in the world, and in fact we count as many as 3754 devices.

Finally, one of the largest manufacturers is certainly Genesis Coin, which boasts 4818 devices, mainly in the U.S., but we also find them scattered in other parts of the world such as China and the Philippines.

This company offers 3 different models: the Genesis1 from $14,500 that is a two-way, the Satoshi1 from 7380 of which you can choose the type of version, and finally the Finney3 model from 4500 dollars that is dedicated to white label and then sold with the name of the company that decides to expand in this area.

These are just some of the over 40 producers of crypto ATM, and in the world now there are over 13 thousand crypto ATM, not to mention the various services that allow you to buy with cash crypto of various kinds for a total of over 274 thousand services worldwide.

In Italy instead the best known Bitcoin ATM is Chainblock with 12 ATMs.

Desentralisert økonomi (defi-protokoll) Harvest Finance ble hacket på mandag for $ 24 millioner. Angriperen målrettet mot protokollens likviditetsbassenger, og utførte et arbitrageangrep ved hjelp av et stort flash-lån – en type ukollarisert lån – men returnerte senere $ 2,5 millioner. På syv minutter var hackingen fullført.

Harvest Finance avslørte at hackeren “manipulerte prisene på en pengelego (curve y pool) for å tømme en annen pengelego [gård USDT (fUSDT), gård USDC (fUSDC)] mange ganger. Angriperen konverterte deretter midlene til renBTC og gikk ut til bitcoin. ”

RenBTC er et Bitcoin Profit -støttet token brukt på Ethereum blockchain.

Farm, Harvests opprinnelige token, falt med 54% til 101,79 dollar på nyhetene, ifølge Coingecko-data. Etter angrepet krasjet også pengebeløpet i protokollen til 575 millioner dollar fra 1 milliard dollar den 25. oktober da uredde investorer trakk sine innskudd.

Harvest ga en liste over 10 bitcoin-adresser til hackeren, der de mener at de stjålne midlene kan ha blitt flyttet. Det ba også utvekslinger som Binance, Coinbase og Huobi om å blokkere angriperens adresser.

Den tre måneder gamle plattformen sa at det er en “betydelig mengde personlig identifiserbar informasjon om angriperen, som er kjent i kryptosamfunnet.” Harvest Finance er ikke villig til å gjøre noe med cyber-tyven, og tilbyr nå en $ 100.000 bounty “for den første personen eller teamet som når ut til angriperen”.

De 2,5 millioner dollar som hackeren returnerer vil bli “distribuert til de berørte innskyterne pro-rata ved hjelp av et øyeblikksbilde”, tvitret Harvest.

Harvest’s hack kommer bare seks uker etter at en angriper gjorde ut med $ 8,1 millioner i bitcoin fra en annen defi-protokoll, Bzx. Imidlertid klarte Bzx å gjenopprette midlene.

Security token markets continued to fall last month, with the volume of trade across the sector falling by over 40%.

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The upward momentum enjoyed by the security tokens industry in the first three quarters of 2020 has diminished sharply, with monthly volume falling by more than 40% for the second consecutive time.

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Since reaching almost US$22 million in August, monthly trade in security tokens fell to US$9.15 million in September, before falling to US$5.27 million in October.

With 98 percent of the industry’s trade taking place in Overstock’s proprietary alternative trading system tZERO, it appears Overstock’s plan to increase volumes by issuing a ‘digital dividend’ in the form of security sent to OSTK shareholders has lost its steam.

Overstock’s OSTKO security token – which represents 50% of the market capitalisation of security tokes combined – lost 18% of its value during October, while its monthly volume fell 20% to around $3 million. OSTKO’s market capitalisation of $252 million would rank it as the 53rd largest asset in cryptomorphism overall, according to CoinMarketCap.

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Interestingly, the token began trading in October for US$70, almost 20% less than OSTK shares. However, OSTKO closed the month at $57 – a dollar higher than Overstock’s share price.

Most of October’s decline in the volume of the security token took place in the tZERO TZROP token markets, which generated just US$2.15 million in trading last month – down 60 percent from US$5.29 million in September. The token also lost 8% of its value last month.

With a capitalisation of US$180.7 million, the TZROP is the second largest security token, making it the 65th largest overall crypto.

Source: STOMarket
Although tZERO has maintained dominance over the secondary security token markets to date, an increasing number of companies are building platforms to facilitate the creation and issuance of security tokens.

A week ago, Ignuim joined the Fundwise stock crowdfunding platform to launch a tokenised crowdfunding service aimed at small and medium-sized companies.

Last month, Japanese financial services giant SBI Holdings announced that it would launch a security token offering to issue shares in its e-sports subsidiary.