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Retail Automation Equipment Market to Watch: Spotlight on Fujitsu, Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, Honeywell Scanning and Mobility – Owned

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Danzig

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The Major Players Covered in this Report: Datalogic S.p.A (Italy), First Data Corporation (US), NCR Corporation (US), Fujitsu Limited (Japan), Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions(US), Honeywell Scanning and Mobility (US), Kuka AG (Germany), Wincor Nixdorf AG (Germany), Pricer AB (Sweden), Zebra Technologies Corporation (US), Posiflex Technology(Taiwan), E&K Automation GmbH (Germany), Kiosk & Display LLC (US) & Hunan Kimma Intelligent Equipment Manufacture

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Detailed analysis of Global Retail Automation Equipment market segments by Types: , PoS, Barcode & RFID & Electronic Shelf Labels (ESL)

Detailed analysis of Global Retail Automation Equipment market segments by Applications: Hypermarkets, Supermarkets, Single Item Stores, Fuel Stations & Retail Pharmacies

Major Key Players of the Market: Datalogic S.p.A (Italy), First Data Corporation (US), NCR Corporation (US), Fujitsu Limited (Japan), Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions(US), Honeywell Scanning and Mobility (US), Kuka AG (Germany), Wincor Nixdorf AG (Germany), Pricer AB (Sweden), Zebra Technologies Corporation (US), Posiflex Technology(Taiwan), E&K Automation GmbH (Germany), Kiosk & Display LLC (US) & Hunan Kimma Intelligent Equipment Manufacture

Regional Analysis for Global Retail Automation Equipment Market:North America (United States, Canada and Mexico)Europe (Germany, France, UK, Russia and Italy)Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, Korea, India and Southeast Asia)South America (Brazil, Argentina, Colombia etc.)Middle East and Africa (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa)

Furthermore, the years considered for the study are as follows:Historical year 2014-2019Base year 2019Forecast period** 2020 to 2025 [** unless otherwise stated]

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Retail Automation Equipment Introduction and Market Overview Retail Automation Equipment Market, by Application [Hypermarkets, Supermarkets, Single Item Stores, Fuel Stations & Retail Pharmacies]

Retail Automation Equipment Industry Chain Analysis Retail Automation Equipment Market, by Type [, PoS, Barcode & RFID & Electronic Shelf Labels (ESL)]

Industry Manufacture, Consumption, Export, Import by Regions (2014-2019) Industry Value ($) by Region (2014-2019)

Retail Automation Equipment Market Status and SWOT Analysis by Regions

Major Region of Retail Automation Equipment Marketi) Global Retail Automation Equipment Salesii) Global Retail Automation Equipment Revenue & market share Major Companies List Conclusion

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IT Robotic Automation Market | COVID-19 IMPACT ANALYSIS REPORT 2020-2027 | GROWTH TRENDS AND INSIGHTS – Cole of Duty

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Danzig

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Global Solar Farm Automation Market Outlook 2020-2028 with Profiles of 16 Leading Players Including First Solar, DEGER, ABB and Emerson Electric -…

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Danzig

The "Global Solar Farm Automation Market Analysis & Trends - Industry Forecast to 2028" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The Global Solar Farm Automation Market is poised to grow at a CAGR of around 17.8% during the forecast period 2018 to 2028. Some of the prominent trends that the market is witnessing include huge flow of investment for solar projects in developing nations.

This industry report analyzes the market estimates and forecasts of all the given segments on global as well as regional levels presented in the research scope. The study provides historical market data for 2017, 2018 revenue estimations are presented for 2019 and forecasts till 2028. The study focuses on market trends, leading players, supply chain trends, technological innovations, key developments, and future strategies.

With comprehensive market assessment across the major geographies such as North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Latin America and Rest of the world the report is a valuable asset for the existing players, new entrants and the future investors.

The study presents detailed market analysis with inputs derived from industry professionals across the value chain. A special focus has been made on 23 countries such as U.S., Canada, Mexico, U.K., Germany, Spain, France, Italy, China, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, etc.

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Key Topics Covered

1 Market Outline

1.1 Research Methodology

1.2 Market Trends

1.3 Regulatory Factors

1.4 Product Analysis

1.5 Strategic Benchmarking

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2 Executive Summary

3 Market Overview

3.1 Current Trends

3.1.1 Huge Flow of Investment for Solar Projects in Developing Nations

3.1.2 Recent Technological Developments in Solar Farm Automation

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3.2 Drivers

3.3 Constraints

3.4 Industry Attractiveness

4 Solar Farm Automation Market, By Product

4.1 Distributed Control System (DCS)

4.2 Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)

4.3 Solar Tracker

4.4 Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)

5 Solar Farm Automation Market, by Geography

5.1 North America

5.2 Europe

5.3 Asia-Pacific

5.4 Middle East

5.5 Latin America

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6.1 Acquisitions & Mergers

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7 Leading Companies

7.1 First Solar

7.2 DEGER

7.3 ABB

7.4 Emerson Electric

7.5 AllEarth Renewables

7.6 Mecasola

7.7 Siemens

7.8 General Electric

7.9 Array Technologies

7.10 Honeywell International

7.11 Rockwell Automation

7.12 Mitsubishi Electric

7.13 Yokogawa Electric

7.14 Frontier Technology

7.15 Heliopower

7.16 Abengoa Solar

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Have we gone batty? – The Borneo Post

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Danzig

DESPITE abiding strictly with the Malaysian governments Movement Control Orders for over three months, I am now back in my UK home under an enforced two-week self-quarantine order recently imposed by own government. I am not as yet going batty nor do I have bats in my belfry! However, the origins of Covid-19 disease have greatly interested me.

Whilst in Kuching, I sat out in the evenings breathing the unpolluted urban air and saw a couple of very small bats dip down into the garden chasing flies. Here, in my English back garden, I am not the least concerned to see, at dusk, several Pipistrelle (Common European) bats sweep down to consume gnats, midges and even the odd mosquito! Both insectivorous and echolocation species bats do not perturb me unlike the link which appears between Covid-19 to the much larger frugivorous species.

The latter I first encountered in flight at dusk along the Kinabatangan River in Sabah and, in daytime, roosting on trees in the Seychelles (Seychelles fruit bat) and on an island in Northern Madagascar (Madagascan fruit bat). Whilst England hosts only 18 bat species, Malaysia boasts over 120 of which I shall concentrate on but two species the smallest and the largest.

The Dyak fruit bat (Dyacopterus spadiceus)

The smallest and rarest of Malaysian fruit bat species, it has been documented at Sepilok, Baturong Caves, and Poring in Sabah and in the Baram, Niah, Kubah, and Kota Samarahan areas of Sarawak. Averaging less than 150 grams in weight, with short fur body colourings of greyish, silvery brown, it feeds on a variety of seasonal fruits, but figs from primary rainforest trees are its favourite diet. Deforestation is the bane of this species, which acts as important seed dispersers in the rainforest ecosystem.

Seemingly monogamous mammals, both females and males reach sexual maturity upon reaching half their body weight. Little is actually known about the Dyak fruit bat other than, usually, they produce one baby with one or two months lactation time.

The male bat lactates too thus probably taking the feeding pressure off the female. As these bats consume fruits with a milk producing hormone, phytoestrogen, there is the possibility that this allows males to lactate. Tending to live in the top canopy of emergent primary forest trees, their relatively inaccessible locations have hampered further research.

The Malaysian flying fox is one of the worlds largest species of bats.

Malaysian flying fox (Pteropus vampyrus)

This species is one of the worlds largest bats, weighing between 700 grams to 1kg, with a wingspan of 1.5 metres. Its bodily length averages 29.5 centimetres, which is topped with its fox-like, pointed ear face housing 34 teeth! With long, woolly fur, different parts of its body vary in colouring from buff, orange, to dark golden brown.

These bats nightly feed for up to 50km away from their day time roosts preferring the nectar and pollen of coconut and durian trees, and the fruits of figs, langsat, rambutan, bananas, and mangoes. Their roosts can see up to 1,000 and sometimes more of these bats, positioned upside down with their wings wrapped closely to their bodies in an upright stance. Here, in Borneo, they tend to be found in coastal areas using mangrove and coconut trees in which to roost.

Human consumption and conservation

Regrettably, for the health of humans and for the ecology of tropical rainforest areas, these bats are hunted for bush meat and by farmers who fear damage to their orchard crops. Hunters must hold a licence and the legal annual cull of 22,000 per annum is often exceeded. Deforestation has meant habitat loss. Fortunately, this near-threatened species is restricted in international wildlife trade. That said, illegal hunting and bat-meat selling and consumption takes place and even smuggling of bat bush meat to indiscriminate local and overseas marketers.

Bat-borne diseases

Bats have been found as reservoir hosts of many zoonotic-natured viruses and the transmitters of these diseases to other mammals including humans. A detailed study by the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Universiti Putra, Malaysia in 2017 examined the possibility that a livestock deer farm adjacent to a wildlife sanctuary near Ipoh was at risk of spillover infections from Malaysian fruit bats concluding that this was highly likely. Can you remember the 1998 Nipah virus outbreak, which moved from fruit bats to pigs to people and necessitated the cull of thousands of Malaysian pigs and the bankruptcy of hundreds of farmers?

Before that, in 1994, Queensland, Australia displayed the Hendra virus, a contagion which jumped from bats to horses and to humans causing two deaths. Likewise, Ebola is thought to have been transmitted by tropical fruit bats to apes and as bush meat to humans. Remember, in 2002 to 2003 the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus, which killed 926 people worldwide? A similar virus was found in palm civets containing 99.8 per cent of SARS genomes to be sold in Chinas Guangdong animal markets.

Later, Dr Shi Zhengli (affectionately known as Chinas Bat Woman) of Wuhan Institute of Virology, found that horseshoe bats in Shiton Cave, Kunming, Yunnan Province, were the reservoirs of this virus. These bats fed off the famed orange and walnut orchards in southwest China.

Covid-19

This coronavirus did not escape, as has been speculated in news reports, from a laboratory in Wuhan now leading to the deaths of over half a million people and infecting 10 million people worldwide. It has long been known that the rate of new infectious diseases is accelerating in developing countries where high population densities of urban areas might mingle with animals and then travel worldwide spreading the diseases from human to human.

George W Bush in a press address in the USA 15 years ago forcefully stated this, only to be echoed by Barrack Obama a few years later. We were warned of such and in stoical fashion wrongly believed that it could never happen to us!

Globally, scientists have carried out more than 4,500 genomic sequences of samples of this particular virus all concluding that these all point to a common source transmitted by bats to animals and hence to humans. Subsequently this virus has been sustained by human-to- human transmission. Wildlife markets dealing in bats, badgers, civets, crocodiles, and pangolins are the melting pots for this disease.

In the case of Covid-19, humans have directly contracted this disease from bats roosting in their houses and infecting local fruit or as bush meat or from pangolins as intermediate hosts of this virus. Whilst it is difficult in proving that Chinese pangolins are thought to be the host categories, it is worth remembering that they are close relatives of the Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica) found throughout Borneo and now declared a critically endangered animal species.

Science researchers, specialising in virology, have found that frugivorous bats are not the real problem for this lies with us by getting in contact with them! High risk people to be infected with this disease are most likely to be living near bats such as villagers, farmers, miners, and those who hunt and handle wildlife alive or as bush meat. That said, the most frightening discovery, based on mathematical modelling, reveals that there are more than 5,000 strains of coronavirus worldwide in bats, awaiting discovery. Such pandemics, occasioned in late 2019 to now by CoV-19, are with us for a very long time.

These thoughts you may read are from a pessimist only time will tell! Take care and still remember to stay safe.

Footnote: I am grateful to the following publications for use in this article and these will provide more specific scientific details than I can fully comprehend:

1. The Scientific American June 2020 How Chinas Bat Woman Hunted Down Viruses from SARS to the New Coronavirus by Jane Qiu.

2. Veterinary World November 2017 with five authors from Universiti Putra and Ministry of Agriculture Malaysia: Preliminary study of Malaysian fruit bats species diversity in Lenggong Livestock breeding Centre, Perak: Potential risk of spillover infection.

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Tuna Spanish breathe after a month stranded in the Seychelles by the Covid-19 – Wire News Fax

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Danzig

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Begins to catch glimpses of light at the end of the tunnel for the boats that form the fleet of Spanish tuna company, who had stranded since June 23, in the Seychelles of suspected that among its crew members-Spanish, costamarfileos and senegalese have positive Covid-19. In particular, according to the association, which brings together the owners OPAGAC, four of the seven vessels affected came out yesterday to fish after that, in a second round of PCR testing, 59 crew, Spanish and other 11 of the Ivory Coast and Senegal also confirmed the negative PCR performed in origin. However, there are still 37 people isolated and under observation.

The last weeks have been of uncertainty, according to confess to industry sources consulted, about a situation that is branded as very funny as with the entirety of the PCR performed in origin giving negative, when you arrive in Port Victoria the capital of this archipelago africa two african crew members developed symptoms and, in parallel, several rapid test performed on this port has detected several positives more. Both Spanish and costamarfileos and senegalese had subjected to PCR testing in their countries of origin , some borne by the public purse as in the case of the basques or in institutions paid by the shipowners, as in the case of Pasteur Institute in Dakar (Senegal) and Abidjan (Ivory Coast).

its Been more than three weeks and we are talking of a time that if there had been so many positive would have developed diseases consistent with what detected , say from the sector. They also point out that no crewman Spanish has fallen ill and that only two sailors africans have developed the virus and have been treated from the first moment. is What I cant do is be so irresponsible to put out to sea with the doubt , added the sources, who ensure that ship owners are following the instructions of the Ministry of Health of Seychelles and the doctor that you have highlighted there, the Social Marine Institute (ISM), under the Ministry of Agriculture.

The owners regret that the problem has arisen precisely in the flights operated from Dakar and Abidjan , with crew members from these countries who have been working under Spanish flag, and it is remarkable that there has not been any problem with the aircraft operated from Spain. In total, calculated, organized the displacement of 1,500 for the relay of the crews.

In any case, the second batch of test PCR performed by the health authorities of Seychelles are undoing all the positives detected by the first rapid test . In the middle is an economic damage that is still tuna do not dare to post, and expect to recover with the catch of the second half of the year. The doubts are still planning on fishing activity, especially after the case of the ship argentino whose crew were positive by Covid 19 after 35 days at sea. From the University Hospital Moncloa, its medical director, Carlos Zarco, pointed out as a reason of these discrepancies to a poor decision from the samples or that there has been contact risk in the case of the two crew members with symptoms.

We are concerned to know what has happened, because within a month or two months we have to do the same operation (relay race) and, for example, to the French ships Seychelles has forced them to make changes to crew through the Island Meeting, indicate the sources consulted.

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Claim that coconut oil is worse for biodiversity than palm oil sparks furious debate – Science Magazine

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Danzig

A laborer climbs a tree to pluck coconuts at a farm on the outskirts of Bangalore, India.

By Dyna Rochmyaningsih Jul. 17, 2020 , 3:55 PM

Palm oil has a bad reputationbut is coconut oil worse?

A new study argues coconut production poses a threat to biodiversityincluding vertebrates, arthropods, mollusks, and plantsfive times greater than palm oil. But the paper, published on 6 July in Current Biology, has triggered a ferocious debate on social media, where critics have accused the authors of promoting dubious statistics and an attempt to whitewash palm oil.

Dear logging companies, should you ever need to justify your destructive and extractive (illegal) activities in the Amazon + SE Asia, or protection against nature conservation NGOs [nongovernmental organizations] or legal action, please refer to the following paper in @CurrentBiology, primatologist Adriano Lameira of the University of Warwick wrote in one of several sarcastic tweets about the paper.

Some 12.3 million hectares of land are used to cultivate coconut palms, compared with 18.9 million for oil palm. But coconut oilused in a range of foods and cosmetic products, and popular for its supposed health benefitsenjoys a much better reputation, says lead author Erik Meijaard, who directs Borneo Futures, a consulting company based in Brunei, and chairs the Palm Oil Task Force of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Consumers associate it more with tropical islands and white sandy beaches than with the deforestation linked to planting oil palm groves.

That isnt deserved, Meijaard and others write in their two-page correspondence. The authors tallied the number of species under threat from the cultivation of seven vegetable oil cropsaccording to IUCNs Red List of Threatened Speciesand divided those by the global oil production for each crop. Coconut threatens 20.3 species for every 1 million tons of oil produced, they report. For olive oil and palm oil, those numbers are 4.1 and 3.8 species respectively; for sunflower oil, its 0.05.

According to the papers supplementary information, the number for coconut oil is actually 18.3, not 20.3; when Science asked about the discrepancy, co-author Jesse Abrams of the University of Exeter acknowledged that the calculation contains an error that the authors would ask the journal to correct.

But 18.3 is still a very high number. The outcome of our study came as a surprise, Meijaard says. The reason is that coconuts are primarily grown on tropical islands, many of which possess remarkable numbers of species found nowhere else in the world, he says. Indeed, some species have already become extinct because their habitat gave way to coconut palm, Meijaard points out, including the Marianne white-eye (Zosterops semiflavus), a bird in the Seychelles, and the Ontong Java flying fox (Pteropus howensis) of the Solomon Islands, which was last spotted in 1945. Today, coconut plantations threaten to the Balabac mousedeer (Tragulus nigricans), endemic to three small islands in the Philippines, and the Sangihe tarsier (Tarsius sangirensis), a small primate endemic to the Indonesian island of Sangihe, according to IUCNs assessment.

The authors say perceptions of the environmental impacts of different oil crops often appears to be impaired by shortsightedness and double standards. Theres little attention for the millions of songbirds reportedly killed during olive oil harvests in Spain, for instance.

But others say the study paints a misleading picture. The vast majority of the species threatened by coconut palm live in small island nations that together produce only 8% of the global output of coconut oil, says Meine van Noordwijk, a senior research fellow at the World Agroforestry Center. Nearly 80% of coconut oil comes from Indonesia, the Philippines, and India. Excluding the small producers from the analysis would yield a very different number, Van Noordwijk says. He also notes that coconut palms are often planted together with other crops, so its hard to tease out the crops harm. Sheherazade, a field biologist who heads Tambora Muda Indonesia, an organization for Indonesian young conservationists, agrees. We need a finer spatial analysis to discern which crop drives deforestation, she says.

Sheherazade notes the picture is almost exactly the opposite judged by a different, more commonly used metric: Palm oil threatens 17 species per million hectares of cultivated crop, versus 5.3 for coconut oil. But Meijaard says quantifying species risk per million tons of oil is more relevant than per hectare, because consumer demand determines the business.

Other critics take issue with different aspects of the study: In absolute terms, palm oil threatens five times more species than coconut oil, according to IUCN (321 versus 66), and palm oil production is growing much faster. At least in Kalimantan where gigantic palmoil plantations of 10,000 hectare are savagely carved out of virgin rainforest, coconut gardens tend to be mom & pop operations of 10-20 ha [hectares], tweeted Birut Galdikas, a primatologist at the Orangutan Foundation.

Some critics also pointed to a potential conflict of interest: Meijaard has received funding from an Indonesian palm oil company and from the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil, a large multistakeholder group that seeks to make the industry more environmentally friendly.

Co-author Douglas Sheil, a professor of tropical conservation at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, says the authors didnt seek to vilify coconuts but instead want to enable consumers to make better judgments about which vegetable oils to buy. Consumers lack objective guidance on the environmental impacts of crop production, undermining their ability to make informed decisions, Sheil says. Coconut is seen as an innocent crop because global consumers rely heavily on information that they receive from the media, which is often supplied by those with vested interests. As to the authors own interests, Meijaard has been transparent about his funding, and It is a lazy defense to say that anyone who works with a company is somehow unreliable forever after, Sheil says.

The authors agree the data in the paper arent perfect. We wanted to raise awareness with this piece and use it as a call for more data and research, says Abrams, who notes there is a lack of data on the environmental impact of many vegetable crops. We know a lot about oil palm. Why is there such a bias? Meijaard asks.

But Sheherazade says she worries the paper will be used to undermine environmental activism against unsustainable oil palm practice in Indonesia, especially now that new plantations are springing up in pristine forests in Papua. Oil palm is still a huge threat to biodiversity, she says. The palm debate is very polarized, extra care is needed to avoid creating new myths, Van Noordwijk adds.

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Systemic Psoriasis Therapeutics Market Forecasted To Surpass The Value Of US$ XX Mn/Bn By 2020 – Cole of Duty

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Fresh Scrutiny For Fox’s Tucker Carlson As Top Writer Quits Over Bigoted Posts – NPR

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Danzig

A top writer for Fox News' Tucker Carlson resigned after CNN revealed his racist and sexist posts, reviving criticism of Carlson's commentaries. Carlson is set to address the controversy on Monday. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption

A top writer for Fox News' Tucker Carlson resigned after CNN revealed his racist and sexist posts, reviving criticism of Carlson's commentaries. Carlson is set to address the controversy on Monday.

Updated at 9:35 p.m. ET Monday

The revelation that Fox News prime-time star Tucker Carlson's top writer had posted racist, sexist and homophobic sentiments online for years under a pseudonym has led to renewed scrutiny of Carlson's own commentaries, which have inspired a series of advertising boycotts.

The writer, Blake Neff, resigned on Friday after questions raised by CNN's Oliver Darcy led to the posts becoming public.

Carlson addressed the controversy on the air Monday night, saying Neff's comments were wrong and "have no connection to the show." After noting Neff had paid the price for his actions, Carlson also spoke about what he called the costs of self-righteousness.

"When we pretend we are holy, we are lying," he said. "When we pose as blameless in order to hurt other people, we are committing the gravest sin of all, and we will be punished for it, no question."

In an internal memo, Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott and President and Executive Editor Jay Wallace called the postings "horrific racist, misogynistic and homophobic behavior." Neff had, among other things, assailed the intelligence of Black Americans, African immigrants and Asian Americans, according to CNN. He also repeatedly demeaned a woman, posting details about her dating life and mocking her in personal terms.

Carlson has publicly cited the importance of the value of Neff's work on his show and for an earlier book. The host has courted criticism repeatedly for severe rhetoric, especially toward people of color, immigrants and women.

"I think his show is very close to what his writer, Blake Neff, was doing, apparently anonymously for five years," former CNN and NBC host Soledad O'Brien, who is Black and Latina, told NPR. On his program, she said, Carlson is "anti-immigrant, he's frequently racist. He says despicable things about women, he says despicable things about Asians. He says despicable things about Latinos. He talks about the kind of people who 'hate' America."

President Trump is known to be a frequent viewer and often cites Carlson's arguments publicly. In recent days, some Republican strategists have even looked to Carlson as a Republican presidential candidate in 2024 should Trump lose this November.

The irony is that even as Carlson has just set a record for viewers for any cable news show in the history of the industry in this country, sponsors are peeling away.

An estimated 4.3 million Americans tuned in to watch his program each night for the second quarter of this year more than anyone ever in cable news. And yet Disney, Papa John's and T-Mobile are among the most recent major advertisers who have pulled commercials from the show, in their cases, citing his remarks about Black Lives Matter protests.

"This may be a lot of things, this moment we are living through, but it is definitely not about Black lives," Carlson said in early June. "Remember that when they come for you. And at this rate, they will." (A Fox News spokesperson told reporters that "they" referred to Democrats, not Black protesters.)

Fox did not comment beyond the memo from Scott and Wallace, which was shared with reporters and offered neither support nor criticism for Carlson. Carlson declined several requests for comment from NPR.

These concerns are not new, along with pressures on and from advertisers.

In 2018, for example, Carlson told his viewers: "Our leaders demand we shut up and accept this. We have a moral obligation to admit the world's poor, they tell us, even if it makes our own country poorer and dirtier and more divided."

Fox News is part of Rupert Murdoch's larger media empire. Last year, Joseph Azam, a former lawyer and senior vice president for Murdoch's publishing arm, told NPR that Carlson's comments on immigration and rhetoric from other Fox News hosts led him to leave the company. Azam is Muslim and an emigrant from Afghanistan.

Just last week, Carlson questioned the patriotism of two Democratic members of Congress who are both women of color: Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, who emigrated from Somalia, and Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, whose mother is Thai of Chinese descent.

Duckworth is a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army. She lost both her legs and partial use of an arm when a helicopter she was piloting was shot down by Iraqi insurgents in 2004. After Duckworth tweeted in response that Carlson should "walk a mile in my legs and then tell me whether or not I love America," Carlson escalated his attacks the next night, calling her a "coward" and a "fraud."

On his show, Carlson has hosted Pete D'Abrosca, who has expressed sympathy for alt-right leaders; the British commentator Katie Hopkins, banned from Twitter for violating its hateful conduct policy and who told his viewers that white Christian women were "endangered"; and disgraced U.S. Rep. Steve King of Iowa, whom Carlson defended for tweeting that America could not "restore our civilization with somebody else's babies."

Similarly, the Daily Caller, a publication that Carlson co-founded and in which he owned a major stake until last month, has repeatedly faced public outcry over various contributors and staffers who were revealed to have written white supremacist rhetoric on other platforms and outlets.

White nationalists, including David Duke and Richard Spencer, have hailed Carlson's show as echoing their own talking points. For his part, Carlson has called the idea of white supremacy in the U.S. a hoax.

"Tucker's show itself skates that line very closely," says O'Brien, now an independent television host, reporter and producer. "He's a guy who's beloved by white supremacists. I mean, clearly, they say so. That is an indication that he says the kinds of things that they like to hear. He frames arguments that are basically white supremacist arguments. He's not going to use the N-word on TV, certainly. But I think he goes right up to that line."

Last year, when the liberal watchdog Media Matters published a series of offensive past remarks Carlson had made about women on radio shows, the Fox News host issued his own challenge in return:

"Rather than express the usual ritual contrition, how about this: I'm on television every weeknight live for an hour. If you want to know what I think, you can watch."

Carlson said at the end of Monday's show that he would take the next four days off to go fishing on a long-planned vacation.

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‘Ferocious Rally’: Weiss Ratings Bullish on Bitcoin, Price to Hit $70K Next Year | Markets and Prices – Bitcoin News

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Danzig

Weiss Ratings has outlined key reasons why investors should be bullish about bitcoin, seeing a ferocious rally with the price of the cryptocurrency expected to hit $70,000 next year. In addition, the Federal Reserves massive money-printing and institutional investments into cryptocurrencies add to the bullishness.

Weiss Ratings analysts Bruce Ng and Juan Villaverde explained last week why investors should be bullish about bitcoin despite some sideways consolidations. Weiss Ratings currently ranks bitcoin first among all cryptocurrencies overall.

One of the three key reasons why the analysts are bullish about bitcoin stems from a price prediction based on the stock-to-flow analysis (S2F). The popular forecasting model now points to a ferocious rally over the next 12 months or so, they wrote.

Ng and Villaverde described that S2F is based on the common-sense notion that the scarcer a commodity is, the more valuable it becomes, adding that scarcity is measured by circulating supply. For example, Gold has an S2F of 62, which is the number of years of current production required to match global above-ground holdings, they clarified.

After the May Bitcoin halving, 6.25 new bitcoins are being created every 10 minutes, meaning it would take an estimated 56 years for new mintage to match Bitcoins circulating supply, they continued. Notice how close that is to the S2F number for gold, which makes sense because bitcoin is fast becoming a major rival to gold as a safe-haven investment.

The analysts added that previous S2F predictions line up quite well with bitcoins actual price performance, as seen in the chart above, elaborating:

Now, based on the history of the halving, current S2F analysis says bitcoin should reach $70,000 by sometime around mid-2021 Even if it turns out to be only half right, you could still triple your money.

The other two reasons Weiss Ratings analysts highlighted were QE infinity and institutional money flowing into cryptocurrencies. The covid-19 pandemic environment has pushed the Federal Reserve to print $2.9 trillion in new paper money in just 13 weeks, or about $22 million a minute, the analysts detailed. By any measure, this is corruption of money on an industrial scale, they exclaimed, predicting that investors will pour money into bitcoin and gold as a safe haven when they lose confidence in paper money.

Billionaire investor Mike Novogratz has also been saying that central banks printing record amount of money is the best environment for bitcoin.

The last major factor Ng and Villaverde focused on was the increasing interest in cryptocurrency among institutional investors, such as by Paul Tudor Jones who invested about $210 million of his own money into bitcoin. Grayscale Investments has been adding bitcoin to its Grayscale Bitcoin Trust faster than the rate of new coins being mined and recently, venture capitalist Andreessen Horowitz raised half a billion dollars to invest in crypto startups. The analysts opined:

The sheer weight of institutional-sized money flows into a small market like bitcoin can have truly explosive effects.

Are you bullish on bitcoin? Let us know in the comments section below.

Image Credits: Shutterstock, Pixabay, Wiki Commons, Weiss Ratings

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Crypto Winter Could Really Be Over as New Bitcoin Starts to Bloom – Cointelegraph

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Danzig

There is no doubt that cryptocurrency specifically Bitcoin (BTC), which is frequently used as a barometer for the health of the entire sector has made a comeback. As of the writing of this article, Bitcoin stands at a little over $9,000, very close to the $10,000 rebound that investors hoped for sometime this year and we are barely in the third quarter.

Although there are signs that crypto winter is over, many experts are still understandably cautious.

Related: What's Next for the Industry as 'Crypto Winter' Thaws?

Cryptocurrency has been a notoriously unstable investment, first selling at less than a penny and then varying from $400 to $1,242 between all of 2013 and 2016. In 2017, crypto investors were gleeful (and some, probably, quite smug) to see the currency reach the insane height of $4,400 and then end the year breaking an astonishing $20,000 all this after plummeting to $2,000 that same September.

Of course, what followed that bright season in the cryptocurrency industry was what we refer to as crypto winter the drastic drop in value following several high-profile Ponzi schemes, successful hacks, crypto-jacking attempts and overall negative media coverage.

In this article, we will discuss the question of whether crypto winter is over, whether those who have already invested have a reason to be hopeful, and whether those who havent should jump on the bandwagon soon before prices skyrocket. We will also place a focus on blockchain technology as it exists both inside and outside the cryptocurrency industry, and why widespread adoption of this new technology is an indicator of cryptocurrencys future success.

For many of the experts, the answer seems to be yes. From crypto enthusiasts to Forbes, the current viewpoint of many is that Bitcoin is poised to make huge gains for the next 10 years. Although the vagaries of the cryptocurrency industry are as mysterious as Satoshi Nakamoto himself, it seems that we have headed into a period of stability during which the fundamentals of cryptocurrency are better understood and trusted.

Only 4% of Americans polled cite cryptocurrency as their preferred long-term investment, but this is very likely going to change in the near future, as Bitcoin has nothing but room to grow.

Many compare the future of Bitcoin to that of the internet, and claim that the commodity is going through the same growing pains of scalability, availability and ease of use that the internet first went through from 1995.

Similarly, market experts note that although only 11% of Americans own Bitcoin, those numbers are on par with other huge technological developments in their early stages, such as smartphones.

Many point out that the disruption caused by the coronavirus outbreak to traditional banking and investing institutions may be a motivator to invest in the digital currency to protect against inflation and the questionable resilience of fiat currencies.

Many experts also suggest that cryptocurrency transactions arent completely secure and anonymous without the use of a virtual private network, or VPN. They are also irreversible. Once a coin is gone from your account, it can easily vanish without a trace. Hackers have taken advantage of this by breaking into exchanges and stealing small amounts from each user.

So, it will likely take time until Bitcoin gains trust from the wider public, but for those willing to take a risk, it might be the most profitable investment of 2020, specifically for those who are willing to wait 10 years to witness the true extent of its growth.

Although much is left to be seen about the future of cryptocurrency, no one can deny that the idea of creating a digital-only currency is as old as science fiction. From transportation to food to medicine to video games, a wide variety of industries continue to look to blockchain technology for logistical and transactional solutions. In seven years, it is estimated that $300 billion worth of food products will be tracked using blockchain technology, saving over $100 billion annually.

In 2018, JPMorgan surprised the traditional financial world by publicly stating that blockchain technology is the way of the future for cross-border payments. A year after that, IBM, Citibank and Barclays announced the development of their own blockchain-based platforms, and Dubai made a statement that it has a new goal to become blockchain-powered by 2020.

Although this is still a relatively new technology, there is little doubt that blockchain and the cryptographic technology it uses will rapidly dominate the landscape in coming years. Countless top-tier engineers, product developers and designers are building real solutions on top of blockchain, working to perfect this technology for widespread use across various industries.

It is possible that we may have to wait until blockchain technology is fully understood, utilized and appreciated by the masses in order to provide cryptocurrency a much-needed publicity boost.

After all, although currencies and monetary investments like cryptocurrencies can go through wild ups and downs, there is nothing more stable than an already proven and reliable technological solution like blockchain.

Many unanswered questions and problems that still exist are unsettling to cautious investors, but these obstacles bear resemblance to other successful, ground-breaking technologies such the internet and Apple smartphones. Furthermore, much of the negative press about the problems associated with Bitcoin is due to scams that could have been easily avoided with adequate financial knowledge and cybersecurity.

Also, lets not forget that traditional banking institutions have a vested interest in making cryptocurrency seem like a questionable investment. Of course, big banks and traditional investing platforms have significant power to fund research and news stories that influence opinions on a daily basis. This might be more of a reflection of their fear of competition rather than a legitimate portrayal of the value of the cryptocurrency industry.

Certainly, if you prefer safe and reliable investments with moderate-to-low gains in the short term, Bitcoin is probably not the right investment for you.

However, if you are looking to potentially gain big by investing in a growing new industry, and are not afraid of the spring cleaning that is currently needed to make improvements to the future security and useability of cryptocurrency, it might be just the right time to buy Bitcoin.

After all, where there is no risk, there is no reward and it may be wise not to wait until everyone is singing the praises of Bitcoin in the coming years to make the decision to invest.

This article does not contain investment advice or recommendations. Every investment and trading move involves risk, you should conduct your own research when making a decision.

The views, thoughts and opinions expressed here are the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect or represent the views and opinions of Cointelegraph.

Sam Bocetta is a freelance journalist specializing in United States diplomacy and national security with an emphasis on technology trends in cyber warfare, cyber defense and cryptography. Previously, Sam was a contractor for the U.S. Department of Defense, working in partnership with architects and developers to mitigate controls for vulnerabilities identified across applications.

$424 Million and Numismatic Value: There’s Only 20000 Casascius Physical Bitcoins Left Unspent | Featured Bitcoin News – Bitcoin News

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Danzig

For many years now physical bitcoins have been a very popular trend, but one specific type called the Casascius physical bitcoin collection has intrigued people for years. Last December, someone redeemed a 100 BTC Casascius bar and since then 560 Casascius coins worth $5.1 million have been redeemed. As of today, there are only 20,901 Casascius coins or bars left in the world, with roughly $424 million worth of bitcoins loaded on them.

Bitcoins believe it or not can have nostalgic value, especially when they are tethered to a physical bitcoin. During the last decade, numerous manufacturers have created physical bitcoins that have been loaded with the digital currency.

Most all of these types of coins are collectors items, as the physical attributes can give the cryptocurrency numismatic value. One of the most popular physical bitcoin creators was Mike Caldwell who issued the Casascius physical bitcoin collection from 2011 to 2013.

Unfortunately, the U.S. government shut down Caldwells operation by telling him he could no longer load the physical coins with real digital bitcoin. However, during Caldwells tenure of making the Casascius physical bitcoin collection, he minted close to 90,000 BTC in various denominations.

On July 12, 2020, theres only 45,760 active BTC held on Casascius physical coins or bars in existence, as there were roughly 46,320 active BTC coins in December 2019. That means at todays BTC/USD exchange rates out of the 560 coins redeemed, $5.1 million in BTC was spent.

Last December when news.Bitcoin.com reported on the 100 BTC gold bar that was redeemed on the 23rd, it was the last 100 BTC peeled since then. So far the highest increment peeled between December and now, was a few 25 BTC coins. At the time of writing, there are still 48- 100 BTC bars that have not been spent, leaving $44.4 million left (100 BTC bars) unspent to-date.

Caldwell also minted a number of 1,000 BTC bars and so far, most of those have been redeemed. The series one 1,000 BTC bar data shows that 87% have been redeemed. The series two Casascius bars only stored 500 BTC and every single one of those bars have been peeled.

Although some individuals are lucky enough to own the series one 1,000 BTC Casascius coins minted in 2011. Only six were manufactured and there are four coins left, and that means only 33.33% of the BTC has been spent so far. It could be possible that due to the size of these coins being much smaller (28.6mm) than the bars (80mm x 40mm x 6mm), a few may have been lost.

In the Casascius collection, there are a lot more physical coins with smaller increments between 0.5 BTC to 25 BTC. As mentioned above, Casascius coins have given bitcoiners a lot of nostalgia, and lots of these coins have gathered numismatic value that far exceeds the BTC value stored on the coin.

For instance, on Ebay theres two Casascius coins selling for far more than the original BTC value. One example shows a rare 2011- 1 BTC physical Casascius coin selling for $101,000. Another seller on the eBay auction website wants $25k for his 2013- fully funded 1 BTC Casascius coin.

There are not that many Casascius coins on eBay, but theres a whole lot more coins from manufacturers like Denarium and BTCC Mint. Caldwell did make a number of unloaded Casascius bitcoins that contain no real digital currency value, and those trinkets sell for $25 a pop.

People can follow the redemption cycle of Casascius bitcoins on Twitter by following the bot called Casascius Coin Tracker (@Casasciusbot). When news.Bitcoin.com reported on the 100 BTC bar peel, it was the largest month between now and then for redemptions with 172 coins peeled. In mid-March 54 coins were redeemed and so far only 14 Casascius coins have been peeled in July.

Of course, the biggest month in a long while was December 2017, when the public witnessed 1,172 redeemed Casascius coins. As 560 Casascius coins worth $5.1 million have been redeemed since December 2019, it shows that these physical bitcoins are becoming rarer by the day. Its likely that as scarcity continues to take hold of these loaded physical bitcoins, they will always be worth more than the original digital load value.

What do you think about the number of Casascius coins left in existence? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.

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Stocks, Greed and Exuberance: 5 Things to Watch in Bitcoin This Week – Cointelegraph

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Danzig

Bitcoin (BTC) begins Monday by avoiding another test of $9,000, but what could happen to change the mood or even set off a bull run?

Cointelegraph takes a look at five major facts that could influence the BTC price during the coming week.

The macro outlook seemed more or less stable on Monday. Prior to trading, futures for the Dow Jones, S&P 500 and more were modestly up, despite concerns mounting over coronavirus.

Specifically, one source quoted by Bloomberg warned on Sunday, the sentiment is one of worry both about the spread of cases and the United States response to protect the economy.

If the Federal Reserve intervenes in equities yet again and adds to its balance sheet, it would increase the sense of an artificial presence on the markets in terms of competition.

There is an emerging possibility that the Fed hasnt gone far enough, quantitative strategists at Sanford C. Bernstein wrote in a note.

If that came to pass, then maybe valuation of the market simply doesnt matter.

Fed balance sheet as of July 7. Source: Federal Reserve

As Cointelegraph reported, Bitcoin has shown no signs of lessening its dependence on stocks in recent weeks. Moves up or down appeared to shape BTC/USD performance, with last weeks trip from $9,000 to near $9,500 and back down again being no exception.

Analysts particularly eye the S&P 500, an index with which Bitcoin currently shows a 95% correlation.

Coronavirus is also weighing on U.S. consumer confidence, fresh data meanwhile shows, with five indicators all flashing bearish in July after recovering during the two previous months.

On the topic of macro, trader sentiment in cryptocurrency still contrasts with that of traditional markets.

That was the conclusion from two incarnations of the Fear & Greed Index, a basket of factors designed to show whether traders are overly risk-off or unduly confident.

The Crypto Fear & Greed Index remains in the fear category with little movement for several weeks. By contrast, the traditional market equivalent is flashing greed, while slowly trending downwards towards neutral.

On a scale of 1 to 100, Monday scored 59, down 7 points from the same time one month ago. The cryptocurrency equivalent measured 43 for Monday and 38 last month.

Fuelling traditional greed was extreme greed in stock price breadth, while derivatives put and call options, along with safe-haven demand, also sat firmly in the greed range.

Crypto Fear & Greed Index 1-month chart. Source: Alternative.me

The greed narrative fits with other signs that stocks, in particular, are overly buoyant.

As noted by market commentator Holger Zschaepitz on Monday, the correlation between the Nasdaq and S&P 500 is on the up, in what he describes as a sign of exuberance.

At the same time, banks are gearing up for a dismal quarterly performance, something that is on track to be the worst since the 2008 financial crisis.

As Cointelegraph noted, misgivings about stocks recovery since March have long persisted in Bitcoin circles. The Feds interventions, in particular, have fuelled accusations that the entire atmosphere is now artificial, and true value is of limited relevance.

Numbers this week show that investors themselves have in fact gone for cash and gold not equities in 2020. Inflows into the two assets beat others since the start of the year, similar to 2008-9.

Inflows as a % of assets under management chart. Source: Jeroen Blokland/ Twitter

Monday sees a new Bitcoin difficulty adjustment, the latest in a series of bullish moves that underline miner confidence.

With the event just hours away at press time, estimates suggest a difficulty uptick of around 9.5%.

This is much stronger than the previous move two weeks ago, which was stagnant, and on the way to matching last months 15% surge, which was the largest since early 2018.

Difficulty represents how much effort is required to solve equations when mining new Bitcoin blocks. Upward adjustments suggest more competition, with Mondays estimate slowly increasing over the past week.

At the same time, the network hash rate, having reached an all-time average high last week, has tailed off slightly. Data from Blockchain estimates a seven-day average of 124.42 EH/s for Monday, having previously hit 126 EH/s.

Hash rate is a sensitive and inexact metric, but nonetheless provides an idea of how much computing power is being dedicated to Bitcoin mining. Major swings are not uncommon, and a popular theory suggests that bullish progress for hash rate is followed some time later by a copycat Bitcoin price move.

Bitcoin 7-day average hash rate 1-month chart. Source: Blockchain

Bitcoin futures markets generated few opportunities for price movements over the weekend. Low volatility means that markets will begin Monday in a similar position to that at which they ended on Friday.

If Monday and Friday do not match, a gap opens up in futures markets which the BTC/USD spot tends to fill in subsequent days or even hours.

CME Bitcoin futures chart showing lack of weekend gap. Source: TradingView

Nonetheless, futures remain a source of suspicion for some. As Cointelegraph reported, in-house analyst filbfilb warned last week that weak performance could be a sign of worse to come.

Specifically, one indicator showed uncanny similarities to the days before Bitcoins March crash. Should history repeat itself, he added, the drop, however, should not be as intense as at that time.

Bitcoin and forex are unlikely to make you wealthy. But a Stocks and Shares ISA could do so – Yahoo Finance UK

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Danzig

When it comes to making money from the worlds financial markets, you have no shortage of options these days. Forex, cryptocurrencies, stocks, funds, ETFs, commodities These are just some of the ways you can potentially generate profits.

Some financial strategies are more likely to make you wealthy than others, however. If youre serious about generating wealth, I say forget about cryptocurrencies and forex trading, and instead, put your money into a Stocks and Shares ISA.

Its easy to see why cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin have caught the attention of many investors. Had you bought a decent amount of Bitcoin a decade ago, youd probably be a millionaire by now.Yet looking ahead, I think its unlikely Bitcoin will generate the same returns for investors. The chances of Bitcoin being adopted as a proper currency look slim. Meanwhile, regulators are cracking down on cryptocurrencies in a big way. This means there is now more downside risk. If your goal is to build real wealth, Id steer clear of Bitcoin.

Id also steer clear of forex trading. Why? Simply because the majority of forex traders lose money. Just look at the stats. According to forex.com, 72% of retail investor accounts on its platform lose money. Meanwhile, on fxcm.com, it says 75% of retail investor accounts lose money. Of course, there are plenty of forex traders that do make good returns trading the worlds currency markets. However, becoming a top forex trader is not easy.

If youre looking for a straightforward way to build wealth, I think youre better off putting your money into a Stocks and Shares ISA. With this type of ISA, you can invest your money in a wide range of wealth-building assets. And any gains you make will be completely tax-free.

With a Stocks and Shares ISA, you have plenty of investment options.

One option is to invest in a global equity fund such as Fundsmith Equity. This is a top-performing investment fund that owns stocks such as Microsoft,PayPal, and Unilever. It has returned about 20% per year over the last five years.

Another option is to invest in an investment trust such as Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. This is a tech-focused investment trust that owns stocks such as Amazon, Tesla and Netflix. This trusts share price has risen about 230% over the last five years.

You also have the option to invest in individual companies yourself. For example, you could buy shares in companies that you know such as Apple, Alphabet (Google), or JD Sports Fashion. All of these companies have delivered strong returns for investors in recent years.

Alternatively, you could invest in fast-growing smaller companies. Smaller companies are generally riskier than large companies, however, they tend to produce higher returns. For example, video game company Keywords Studios has turned a 2k investment into about 22k in just five years.

Invest 500 a month into a Stocks and Shares ISA and earn 10% per year on your money, and youre looking at a one million pound investment portfolio in around 30 years. With a simple investment strategy, its very easy to build real wealth within a Stocks and Shares ISA.

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A Panel of Experts See Bitcoin Averaging $12948 by Year End – Bitcoin News

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Danzig

A panel of experts is predicting the price of bitcoin will rise to $10,337 by September before adding a further $2,611 to end the year at $12,948.

The findings are drawn from a Finder Cryptocurrency Predictions Report for July 2020 and the latest figure is roughly $2,500 less than the price predicted in the April report.

In the report, 28 panellists drawn from academia, crypto research firms, and hedge funds are also asked to give their sentiments about bitcoin.

Some 50% of those surveyed believe now is the best time to buy bitcoin.

According to the findings, half of the panellists (50%) thinks now is the time to buy, with a little under a third (32%) suggesting holding. Only 18% say now is the best time to sell.

Meanwhile, two of the panellists who share this buy sentiment argue their case in the same report. Kinetic Trading CEO David Wills, one of the two panellists, believes events sparked by the coronavirus pandemic have created the best scenario to buy. He said:

I am a big follower of Plan B stock to flow analysis. This combined with the debasement of fiat currency in the wake of covid-19 is the perfect set-up for a bull run in the second half of the year.

Echoing Willis sentiments is Coinmama CEO, Sagi Baksi, who notes a few different factors at play.

Baksi points to the stock to flow model, the financial instability, as well as the printing of money by the US Federal Reserve. From these pointers, he concluded that now is the time to buy bitcoin.

Gavin Smith, general partner at Panxora, is one of the few dissenting panellists. He thinks now is the best time to sell.

While agreeing with the long-term inflation outlook, Smith does point out that the global economy has been hit by a negative demand shock caused by covid-19.

This hit is a strong enough basis for a short-term significant decline in the value of bitcoin as the deflationary demand shock filters through.

Smiths prediction for the end of year value for bitcoin of $7,000 sharply contrasts with the panels average prediction.

In the meantime, bitcoins value appears to have stabilized above $9,000 since the halving. It has only breached the $10,000 mark a few times despite some bullish predictions.

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Institutional OG: The Fact That You Can Go 100x Leverage on Bitcoin Is Pretty Wild – Cointelegraph

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Danzig

Crypto-focused institutional trading desks are lately springing up. While Wall Street investment banks and hedge funds are still in the early stages of involvement, a class of crypto-native funds founded by institutional pros is by now well established.

Cointelegraph interviewed the co-founder of one of these funds, CMS Holdings Dan Matuszewski, to learn more about his views on the crypto market.

Before involving himself in crypto in 2012, Matuszewski worked for some years at Bay Hill, an institutional hedge fund. Most of his career was nevertheless tied to crypto, with a brief stint at Kraken and a longer tenure as the head of the OTC desk at Circle.

In 2019, Matuszewski left Circle to co-found CMS Holdings, a fund that operates like a hedge fund despite only working with principal capital the co-founders own money.

He shared his views on the growing derivatives market in crypto, highlighting some of the differences with traditional markets.

While derivatives have been growing, their volume is still below that of spot, or direct crypto trading. The majority of derivatives volume comes from futures, a derivatives contract that seeks to closely follow the price of the underlying asset. Commenting on this, Matuszewski said:

The derivatives market is always going to dwarf the spot market, just because theres bigger access to leverage and it's just a lot easier to trade.

But Matuszewski finds it odd that leverage in crypto is so high. The fact that you can go 100x on Bitcoin, it's kind of wild to me, he added. In his view, these crypto derivatives are really treated more like a casino rather than a hedging tool, as they see much higher retail trader participation who have much more of a gambling mentality. Though he disclaimed that traditional derivatives products are also highly speculated upon.

The differences in risk approaches are amply shown by CME Bitcoin futures. While the exchange allows double or triple digits of leverage for gold futures, on Bitcoin the maximum leverage is only about 3x, though it varies each day as maintenance margins change.

I hope a lot of people aren't doing that [using 100x leverage]. But Arthur [Hayes, CEO of BitMEX,] put out a post about BitMEX average margin usage [...] and its high. People are pretty wound up on that thing.

Matuszewski noted that futures by themselves are not particularly new for crypto, as some platforms offered them even when he first got into crypto in 2012. BitMEX popularized them in 2018, which led to a host of competitors springing up. But Matuszewski believes they do not have much to compete on:

There's only a couple of permutations right now. You give people more things to trade, or you give them more access to trade what they have already. So its either leverage or new assets.

On leverage, he noted that theres not that much further you can go. Until volatility falls to consistently low levels, there will be an upper bound on it. You can't give somebody 500x leverage in Bitcoin because the bid offer [spread] will just liquidate them, he added.

Nevertheless, he believes that the derivatives market will keep growing:

I think that's the trend, I think people will be getting more in the derivatives space than spot going forward. Options markets will grow, Deribits had very good growth on that thing, CME just got into it.

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US Dept of Homeland Security Buys Analytics Software From Coinbase | News – Bitcoin News

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Danzig

Coinbase is selling its blockchain analytics software to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Secret Service. Following criticisms from the crypto community, CEO Brian Armstrong defended Coinbases position.

Public records on the U.S. governments websites reveal that the San Francisco-based crypto exchange Coinbase has signed a contract with the U.S. government for its blockchain analytics software. The records were first spotted by The Block.

The contract, awarded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), was signed on May 9. It went into effect the next day with a tentative end date of May 11, 2024. The obligated amount is currently $49,000 and the potential award amount is $183,750. The contracting agency is the U.S. Secret Service, a federal agency that investigates monetary crimes such as fraud and counterfeiting; it was transferred from the Department of the Treasury to the Department of Homeland Security on March 1, 2003.

Following the news of Coinbase selling its analytics software to the U.S. Secret Service, many people took to Twitter to criticize the companys action, with some urging others to delete Coinbase, saying that the company is bad for bitcoin and crypto.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong quickly defended his companys decision. Blockchain analytics software is nothing new has been around a long time it uses publicly available data to try and track crypto transactions usually to catch bad actors, he tweeted.

Armstrong proceeded to explain that his company started off by using some of the existing blockchain analytics services out there. This worked out ok, but the issue with it was that we dont like sharing data with third parties when we can avoid it, and they didnt support all the features/chains we needed. So we realized at some point we would need to bring this capability in house, the CEO described, elaborating:

Its expensive to build this capability, and we want to recoup costs. There is an existing market for blockchain analytics software, so we sell it to a handful of folks as well. It also helps us build relationships with law enforcement which is important to growing crypto.

Last month, it was reported that Coinbase wanted to sell its analytics software to two other U.S. government agencies: the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Meanwhile, the company is reportedly planning an initial public offering (IPO) in the U.S.

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Listen: What a Bitcoin Researcher Says About Lightning – CoinDesk – CoinDesk

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Danzig

Chaincode Labs researcher Clara Shikhelman has been studying mathematics in university since she was 14 years old. Now, as the bitcoin companys newest post-doctoral fellow, she is exploring ways to optimize the Lightning Network.

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In this audio interview, CoinDesks Leigh Cuen and Chaincode Labs researcherClara Shikhelmantalk aboutbitcoinand what attracted them to it.

As a co-founder of the IsraeliWomen in Mathematics Association, Shikhelman has been researching complex math problems for nearly a decade. But she said bitcoin offers especially interesting puzzles to solve because this technology may have the potential to change the world. Shes one of many young researchers who identify with the cypherpunk movement.

There are a lot of people like me, their main thing is academic, Shikhelman said. They are not the classic cypherpunk people, but [t]hey believe in privacy, in political change.

Until recently, most people associated with thecypherpunk movementwere technologists in the 1980s and 1990s who circulated mailing lists about encryption and other privacy tech topics. The term was created byfeminist hackitvist Judith Milhon, although it is widely associated with software engineers such as bitcoin veteran Adam Back. Many of the original cypherpunks are still active in thecryptocurrency spacetoday. However, theyve also inspired a new generation of self-identified cypherpunks with different skills now also exploring the subcultures proverb that cypherpunks build things.

In Shikhelmans case, shes focused on mathematical research to make bitcoinsLightning Networkreliable. Like her predecessors, she shares a love of cypherpunk literature, such as novels by science fiction writer Neal Stephenson. These fantasy worlds help her think outside the box and apply math to ideas with cypherpunk potential, meaning the potential to use privacy tech to promote social change. Such solutions-oriented research is a fundamental part of building technology, just as valuable as adding open source code to a Github repo.

Lets talk big. Lets think huge. Lets talk about thousands of years in the future, changing humanity, Shikhelman said.

In order to build privacy into the bitcoin ecosystem, technologists first must understand the mathematical aspects of the system. Just as safety equipment works best when it fits the person (an oversized helmet can be more dangerous than none at all), software works best when designed with both the details and holistic value flow in mind.

Lightning will need more than justonion routingfor good privacy guarantees going forward, said cypherpunk journalistJanine Rmer, who writes anewsletterabout bitcoin privacy tech. Lightning is one of many adaptations that will expand Bitcoins ability to carry larger and larger portions of the global economy.

Similar to Shikhelman, Rmer is a researcher who views herself as part of the broader cypherpunk movement.

A lowercase c cypherpunk, she joked, acknowledging she was never involved with the movements founding fathers.

This social movement is not preoccupied with overthrowing or altering governments, in stark contrast with Bitcoin Twitters anarchist undertones. Instead, Rmer said, rather than seizing power the movement is focused on working to make things un-take-over-able. In short, unseizable assets, self-sovereign data and other types of independence in a digital world.

I prefer the term informational self-determination, which is used in the German constitution, Rmer said.

As for bitcoin, Shikhelman described Bitcoin Core as pretty much stable and running, meaning her focus has now turned to privacy-centric usability for the Lightning Network. With regards to bitcoins reliability so far, Rmer agreed.

I hope bitcoin will become/keep being something that survives under adversity, and gives the people who use it at least enough privacy that they can escape from whatever preys on them. Whether thats the state, banks, corporations, abusive family or partners, Rmer concluded.

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Two Teens Arrested After Paying Bitcoin to See Livestream Murder on Dark Web – Cointelegraph

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Danzig

Two Italian 17-year-olds were arrested for paying Bitcoin (BTC) to see children being sexually abused, tortured and murdered in live streaming.

Local media Il Messaggero reported on July 15 that the deep web website viewed by the two also allowed users to pay extra to decide what torture the children would be subjected to next. Italian law enforcement explained:

Users that were able to reach those kinds of obscure environments are allowed to take part in acts of sexual violence and torture on minors, performed live by adults.

The services offered by the website have different costs. Viewing a pre-recorded video costs much less than watching live, but in both cases the viewing concludes with the death of the child. The article also provides another example, according to which viewers can for instance request them to amputate a childrens arm or to pour hot oil over the victim. Law enforcement said:

The live requests really cost a lot of money and ensure particularly high profits to the foreign organizations that carry out those inhuman acts.

The two were searched as part of an ongoing investigation that has so far involved 25 people 19 minors and six over 18 residing in 13 Italian provinces. The operation is nicknamed Delirio delirium in Italian by local law enforcement. It started in October and resulted in tens of searches.

The two arrested are a man and a woman who exchanged details pertaining to what they referred to as a red room. The man often shared with the women grim details of the livestreams.

Media found include pedopornographic videos self-made by minors, videos of children as young as three-year-olds being molested by adults, and videos depicting violence often accompanied by Nazi symbology.

It is unclear whether the website offering the services was shut down, but presumably only some of its viewers were caught. Local law enforcement has not answered Cointelegraphs inquiry.

Cryptocurrencies pseudonymity and the lack of governmental control over them make them suitable for criminals. Among such criminals, we can find political dissidents, whistleblowers and journalists, but also pedophiles, drug dealers and black-hat hackers.

There have been many worldwide reports on the use of Bitcoin and other crypto assets specifically in child porn dealings. For instance, at the end of June Spanish law enforcement took down a dark-web child porn ring that used cryptocurrency transactions to pay for content.

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Ethereum Is Ready to Go Bullish According to These Indicators – Crypto Briefing

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Danzig

Key Takeaways

Despite lackluster price action last week, Ether is flashing multiple buy signals as Ethereum network growth continues to surge.

Ethereum was contained within a descending parallel channel through June. During the previous month, ETH rose to the upper boundary of this technical formation, but its price was rejected by the barrier and fell back towards the lower boundary. From that point, the smart contract giant bounced back up to resistance, consistent with the characteristics of a channel.

A spike in the buying pressure behind Ether allowed it to break out of the descending parallel channel last week. However, buy-pressure was weak and prices sputtered.

Now, ETH is trading just above the upper boundary of the channel. With sufficient consolidation, this may create a new overhead resistance level unless theres an uptick in demand.

One strategy for analysis is to draw a parallel line equal to the height of the channel to use as a target when an asset breaks out of that channel. Based on this technical rule, Ethereum could advance as far as $265 if demand picks up.

Even though Ethereum seems to be on the cusp of a bullish breakout, traders have shifted their focus towards lower-cap altcoins. Data reveals that the number of ETH-related mentions across different social media networks dropped significantly over the past few days.

The negative social sentiment is likely due to the lackluster price action, but the outcome may benefit the bulls, according to Brian Quinlivan, marketing and social media director at Santiment.

With enough people ignoring ETH while keeping their eyes on smaller caps, there will be an opportunity to catch the crowd off guard to make whale investors maximize their gains when they finally make their moves, said Quinlivan.

The rate at which the Ethereum network is growing adds credence to the bullish outlook. This fundamental metric is one of the most important gauges for understanding the health and well being of any crypto project.

Historical data suggests that this is a precise price predictor. Indeed, network growth has led to an increase in Ethereums price over the last four months, while declining network growth has been followed by price slumps.

Over the past three days, Ethereums network growth jumped by nearly 21%. The sudden upswing might be followed by a price increase if history repeats itself.

While the odds seem to favor the bulls, investors must pay close attention to the $236 support level. A daily candlestick close below this price hurdle may jeopardize the optimistic outlook. Under such circumstances, the next significant levels of support to watch out for sits between $231 and $224.

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EOS, Ethereum and Ripples XRP Daily Tech Analysis July 18th, 2020 – Yahoo Finance

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Danzig

EOS

EOS fell by 0.19% on Friday. Following on from a 1.18% decline on Thursday, EOS ended the day at $.24991.

It was another mixed start to the day. EOS rose to an early morning high $2.5155 before hitting reverse.

Coming up short of the major resistance levels, EOS fell to a mid-morning intraday low $2.4767.

Steering clear of the first major support level at $2.4382, EOS struck a mid-day intraday high $2.5233 before easing back.

Falling short of the first major resistance level at $2.5641, EOS fell back to sub-$2.50 levels and into the red.

Finding support late in the day, EOS briefly moved back through to $2.50 levels before easing back.

At the time of writing, EOS was up by 0.18% to $2.5036. A bullish start to the day saw EOS rise from an early morning low $2.5036 to a high $2.5063.

EOS left the major support and resistance levels untested early on.

EOS would need to move through the $2.5000 pivot level to support a run at the first major resistance level at $2.5227.

Support from the broader market would be needed, however, for EOS to break back through to $2.52 levels.

Barring an extended crypto rally, the first major resistance level and Fridays high $2.5233 would likely cap any upside.

Failure to move through the $2.5000 pivot would bring the first major support level at $2.4761 into play.

Barring another extended sell-off, EOS should steer clear of sub-$2.40 levels. The third major support level at $2.4065 should limit the downside.

First Major Support Level: $2.4761

Pivot Level: $2.5000

First Major Resistance Level: $2.5227

23.6% FIB Retracement Level: $6.62

38% FIB Retracement Level: $9.76

62% FIB Retracement Level: $14.82

Ethereum fell by 0.33% on Friday. Following on from a 2.07% slide on Thursday, Ethereum ended the day at $232.7.

It was also another mixed start to the day. Ethereum rose to an early morning high $234.33 before hitting reverse.

Falling short of the first major resistance level at $238.46, Ethereum slid to a mid-morning intraday low $230.87.

Steering clear of the first major support level at $229.07, Ethereum moved back through to $233 levels before easing back.

At the time of writing, Ethereum was up by 0.16% to $233.07. A mixed start to the day saw Ethereum fall to an early morning low $232.49 before rising to a high $233.26.

Ethereum left the major support and resistance levels untested early on.

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Ethereum would need to avoid a fall through the $232.71 pivot to support a run at the first major resistance level at $234.54.

Support from the broader market would be needed, however, for Ethereum to break back through to $234 levels.

Barring an extended crypto rally, the first major resistance level and Fridays high $234.55 should cap any upside.

Failure to avoid a fall through the $232.71 pivot would bring the first major support level at $230.86 into play.

Barring another extended sell-off, Ethereum should continue to steer clear of sub-$225 levels. The second major support level at $229.03 would come into play in the event of a pullback, however.

First Major Support Level: $230.86

Pivot Level: $232.71

First Major Resistance Level: $234.54

23.6% FIB Retracement Level: $257

38.2% FIB Retracement Level: $367

62% FIB Retracement Level: $543

Ripples XRP fell by 0.03% on Friday. Following on from a 1.58% slide on Thursday, Ripples XRP ended the day at $0.19464.

A bearish start to the day saw Ripples XRP fall to a mid-morning intraday low $0.19153 before making a move.

Steering clear of the first major support level at $0.1894, Ripples XRP struck a mid-day intraday high $0.19842.

Falling short of the first major resistance level at $0.19785, Ripples XRP fell back to sub-$0.1930 levels before finding support.

A late move back through to $0.1940 levels reversed the heavier losses from the day.

At the time of writing, Ripples XRP was up by 0.13% to $0.19490. A mixed start to the day saw Ripples XRP fall to an early morning low $0.19434 before rising to a high $0.19490.

Ripples XRP left the major support and resistance levels untested early on.

Ripples XRP will need to avoid a fall back through the $0.1949 pivot to support a run at the first major resistance level at $0.1982.

Support from the broader market would be needed, however, for Ripples XRP to break back through to $0.1980 levels.

Barring a broad-based crypto rally, the first major resistance level and Fridays high $0.19842 should cap any upside.

In the event of a breakout, Ripples XRP should test resistance at $0.20 before any pullback. The second major resistance level sits at $0.2018.

Failure to avoid a fall back through the $0.1949 pivot would bring the first major support level at $0.1913 into play.

Barring an extended crypto sell-off, Ripples XRP should avoid sub-$0.1850 levels. The second major support level at $0.1880 should limit any downside.

First Major Support Level: $0.1913

Pivot Level: $0.1949

First Major Resistance Level: $0.1982

23.6% FIB Retracement Level: $0.3638

38.2% FIB Retracement Level: $0.4800

62% FIB Retracement Level: $0.6678

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