Friday, September 13, 2019
Does bitcoin halving cause a price pump before or after the event? Learn everything you need to know...
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Sell the news bakkt
Will there be a sell the news event at bakkt launch. I very much think we may go down on that day. Also bitcoin drops whenever that Tommy Lee guy pops up in CNBC.
The Astonishing Number of Cryptocurrencies Created Every Year
There are 2419 cryptocurrencies in existence today, according to data from CoinmarketCap. These are tokens that have met the minimum requirements by the platform to qualify for listing. The rate at which these tokens arrive on the scene represents the astonishing number of cryptocurrencies created every year.
Launched in 2013, the token listing platform has over the years become a universally accepted portal for information about cryptocurrencies and exchanges. Participants in the cryptocurrency industry use CoinmarketCap for both information and research purposes.
Because of how widely CoinmarketCap is accepted in the industry, many startups in the blockchain industry work hard to ensure that their coins get listed on the platform. Perhaps this is the reason why we see such an influx of cryptocurrencies on the data-providing platform every year.
2013
The CoinmarketCap listing platform launched in April 2013 with only 7 coins on its list. Gradually, the list grew and by December of the same year, had a total of 67 different cryptocurrencies on the platform.
Growth in awareness and increase in cryptocurrency activities saw more projects emerge and a number of cryptocurrencies grow. By that time the Bitcoin price was at $745 and the total cryptocurrency market capitalization was $10,364,136,026.
2014
By 2014, the cryptocurrency market exploded with many more projects arriving on the scene. The controversies that surrounded Bitcoin at the time, plus the regulatory concerns contributed to the global recognition of the technology. More and more projects emerged, and the number of cryptocurrencies increased.
By December 2014, the Bitcoin price had slumped to around $317, while the market capitalization of the entire cryptocurrency market also dropped to $5,555,954,557. However, the number of cryptocurrencies increased to 517, representing an addition of 450 coins to the list in a single year.
2015
In 2015 the cryptocurrency market began to pick up again. Not as many new coins were listed as per the previous year, but the price of Bitcoin rose to $422 and total market capitalization also increased to $6,946,919,35.
A total number of 67 new cryptocurrencies were added that year. This contributed to the astonishing number of cryptocurrencies created every year. At the end of 2015, we had 577 cryptocurrencies listed on CoinmarketCap.
2016
2016 arrived with a lot of interesting events in the cryptocurrency industry. The most prominent of which were all the events surrounding the Ethereum network and regulatory issues in the industry as a whole. In the end, the awareness in the industry was sky-high, and Ethereum-based dApps began to populate the industry.
This is the season that heralded the ICO boom era, and by the end of 2016, the number of coins listed on CoinmarketCap was 663. Total cryptocurrency market capitalization swelled to $16,385,559,809, and the Bitcoin price sat at $896.
2017
2017 was one of the most active years so far in the cryptocurrency marketplace. This was the year when all kinds of projects were launched and many new users entered the cryptocurrency industry. All kinds of projects emerged, taking advantage of the deregulated cryptocurrency market.
A total of 690 new coins found their way into the marketplace and were listed on Coinmarketcap. It was in this year that the Bitcoin price, and that of many other cryptocurrencies, made their most significant surge. The market expanded and adoption increased. At the end of 2017, the Bitcoin price was at $14,156 while the total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies was $614,240,509,703.
2018
The success of 2017 ushered the market into the year long crypto winter of 2018. After reaching an all-time high of $20,089 in January 2018, Bitcoin price slumped, dragging with it all other cryptocurrencies in the market. Activities dropped in the industry, but that did not stop the addition of 720 new coins to the list on Coinmarketcap. This raised the coins list to 2073.
By the end of 2018, the Bitcoin price was down to $3,865, and the cryptocurrency market capitalization slumped to $130,538,793,513.
2019
The market has picked up in 2019, especially since the beginning of the second quarter. Bitcoin price is at $11,763 and the market capitalization has risen up to $309,881,028,557. It is still the beginning of August 2019, and we have already witnessed an addition of 346 coins, bringing the total number of coins to 2419. We expect to see this number increase before the end of the year.
Conclusion
Although there are so many cryptocurrencies in the market today, not all of them still have value. Majority of the coins are regarded as dead coins because their underlying blockchain does not have sufficient network effect. This is usually as a result of low adoption and probably the lack of a viable use case.
This situation has left a lot of investors with coins that cannot be exchanged for any reasonable value. It also leaves the marketplace littered with non-active projects that need to make way for a cleaner ecosystem.
This is why CoinJanitor has come up with a solution that would restore value for those communities that are stuck with dead coins. The project will exchange the dead coins for its much more valuable JAN tokens. This will give investors the opportunity to recover their funds, and at the same time make for a cleaner marketplace. This is because the retrieved dead coins will eventually be burned, and their blockchains ineffective.
This is a necessary process for the emerging technology which needs all the sanity it can afford. The astonishing number of cryptocurrencies created every year has not helped matters in this case. However, perhaps you are stuck with some dead coins, you can simply visit the CoinJanitor websiteto submit them and embark on your value restoration journey.
https://coins.newbium.com/post/28175-the-astonishing-number-of-cryptocurrencies-created
Bitcoin Sold For $1 in August 2019
In a piece of reality that looks like a huge joke, it is on record that Bitcoin sold for $1 in August 2019 on certain exchanges in the Asian region. The news of this development broke on 23 August 2019 when some of the major exchanges within the region reported a malfunction within their systems.
Apparently, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) network experienced an outage which affected those platforms that were connected to it. Some of the exchanges that were affected include Binance, KuCoin and BitMax.
On the said day, the CEO of Binance, Changpeng Zhao (CZ) announced through Twitter that his exchange was experiencing some difficulties.
CZ tweeted:
“AWS is having an issue, mostly with caching services, affecting some users globally. We are working with them and monitoring the situation closely.”
During the malfunction, deposits and withdrawals were disabled on the Binance platform. Many replies followed the tweet from CZ with some of them expressing panic. He however continued to reassure his followers until the issue was eventually resolved. From his responses, it was clearly an issue with Amazon’s AWS, which he remained in contact with until it was resolved.
Some traders who played what looked like a wild card took advantage of the situation to buy Bitcoin for less than $1 during the outage. This was reported to have happened on BitMax exchange. Reports claim that these traders had set limit orders at extremely low prices. The hope of these traders was on some off-chance event like what just happened.
According to information that spread on social media, as much as 45 Bitcoins were purchased at sub $1 levels during this period on BitMax. The exchange announced immediate freezing of deposits and withdrawals shortly afterwards. Although it did not confirm that the said transactions had occurred. It’s safe to say that BitMax will never forget the day that Bitcoin sold for $1 in August 2019.
Another exchange that wasn’t spared during this outage is KuCoin. The exchange also disabled part of its services and posted a notice on its website, which read:
“Due to the overheating of part of our chassis in the machine room we deployed in AWS, Tokyo, part of our services might become unavailable. The engineering operation team is currently deploying relevant resources of high availability across regions to deal with any possible emergencies that might happen. Some services might be affected during the deployment.”
The purchase of cheap Bitcoins was confirmed by the founding partner at crypto asset fund Primitive Ventures, operators of KuCoin, Dovey Wan who tweeted:
“Many Asian exchanges see price instability (and trades were able to execute, yes you can buy extremely cheap Bitcoin if you had limit orders there).”
Beyond the three exchanges mentioned so far, several other exchanges within the same region seemed to have encountered the same problem.
The Bitcoin price, which appeared to be finding stability above the $10,000 region seems to have struggled a bit since this development. Although Amazon has resolved the issue and the exchanges have returned to normal services, the Bitcoin price is still struggling below $10,000 (at the time of writing).
Issues like this are some of the limitations that confront centralized exchanges as we have them today. This is where peer-to-peer platforms like Vertex.Market have the upper hand. Risks such as the AWS issue are completely eliminated because trading is not based on an order book that is hosted on a third party platform. Although all of us will remember the day that Bitcoin sold for $1 in August 2019, not everyone will remember it with regrets.
https://medium.com/@official_83664/bitcoin-sold-for-1-in-august-2019-dda66ba532
Bitcoin Sold For $1 in August 2019
In a piece of reality that looks like a huge joke, it is on record that Bitcoin sold for $1 in August 2019 on certain exchanges in the Asian region. The news of this development broke on 23 August 2019 when some of the major exchanges within the region reported a malfunction within their systems.
Apparently, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) network experienced an outage which affected those platforms that were connected to it. Some of the exchanges that were affected include Binance, KuCoin and BitMax.
On the said day, the CEO of Binance, Changpeng Zhao (CZ) announced through Twitter that his exchange was experiencing some difficulties.
CZ tweeted:
“AWS is having an issue, mostly with caching services, affecting some users globally. We are working with them and monitoring the situation closely.”
During the malfunction, deposits and withdrawals were disabled on the Binance platform. Many replies followed the tweet from CZ with some of them expressing panic. He however continued to reassure his followers until the issue was eventually resolved. From his responses, it was clearly an issue with Amazon’s AWS, which he remained in contact with until it was resolved.
Some traders who played what looked like a wild card took advantage of the situation to buy Bitcoin for less than $1 during the outage. This was reported to have happened on BitMax exchange. Reports claim that these traders had set limit orders at extremely low prices. The hope of these traders was on some off-chance event like what just happened.
According to information that spread on social media, as much as 45 Bitcoins were purchased at sub $1 levels during this period on BitMax. The exchange announced immediate freezing of deposits and withdrawals shortly afterwards. Although it did not confirm that the said transactions had occurred. It’s safe to say that BitMax will never forget the day that Bitcoin sold for $1 in August 2019.
Another exchange that wasn’t spared during this outage is KuCoin. The exchange also disabled part of its services and posted a notice on its website, which read:
“Due to the overheating of part of our chassis in the machine room we deployed in AWS, Tokyo, part of our services might become unavailable. The engineering operation team is currently deploying relevant resources of high availability across regions to deal with any possible emergencies that might happen. Some services might be affected during the deployment.”
The purchase of cheap Bitcoins was confirmed by the founding partner at crypto asset fund Primitive Ventures, operators of KuCoin, Dovey Wan who tweeted:
“Many Asian exchanges see price instability (and trades were able to execute, yes you can buy extremely cheap Bitcoin if you had limit orders there).”
Beyond the three exchanges mentioned so far, several other exchanges within the same region seemed to have encountered the same problem.
The Bitcoin price, which appeared to be finding stability above the $10,000 region seems to have struggled a bit since this development. Although Amazon has resolved the issue and the exchanges have returned to normal services, the Bitcoin price is still struggling below $10,000 (at the time of writing).
Issues like this are some of the limitations that confront centralized exchanges as we have them today. This is where peer-to-peer platforms like Vertex.Market have the upper hand. Risks such as the AWS issue are completely eliminated because trading is not based on an order book that is hosted on a third party platform. Although all of us will remember the day that Bitcoin sold for $1 in August 2019, not everyone will remember it with regrets.
https://medium.com/@official_83664/bitcoin-sold-for-1-in-august-2019-dda66ba532
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