Blockchain has been an astounding disruptive technology in the near times, searching for an application in almost every critical sector from agriculture and manufacturing to security and insurance. Generally, there have been individuals who have stepped up to build and lead companies bringing in the next wave of positive technological change with the help of blockchain technology.

“Our customers prefer us over other technology providers due to our team’s unwavering commitment to our customers in fulfilling their project objectives, ” said Waqas Mirza.

Avanza has made a name for itself in the domain of blockchain technology with Cipher, its state-of-the-art blockchain orchestration and governance platform that comes pre-packaged with all the components and microservices required to implement a blockchain system. Cipher is also pre-loaded with integration adaptors for all existing blockchain platforms.

“Cipher is an overarching and comprehensive framework that enables organizations to launch blockchain solutions much faster and also provides a solid architectural base for future blockchain implementations, ” the executive further explained.

Mirza believes that blockchain technology is here to stay, considering how it has become unthinkable nowadays to let critical digital assets like tax records and educational certificates have a single point of failure and a single entity of ownership.

“Therefore, I foresee a lot of digital assets will be distributed over blockchain and DLT networks for security and transparency reasons in near future,” the Avanza CEO said. “Not to mention, Avanza is involved in a dozen-plus digital government transformation projects comprising of numerous government and private entities and consortiums that are creating DLT and blockchain-based networks to interact with one another through smart contracts and to orchestrate a cross-organization workflow to provide a single-window digital experience to residents and citizens.”

As a seasoned technologist with strong business acumen, Waqas Mirza has led successful technology ventures, business development strategies, and niche product developments within Avanza Innovations over the past 12 years. He is regarded as a subject matter expert on payments solutions, transaction processing systems, CRM suites, and channel banking automation.

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investment firm Grayscale announced that its founder Barry Silbert would no longer serve as the firm’s Chief Executive Officer. Silbert will instead focus on presiding over Grayscale’s parent company, the Digital Currency Group. The former managing director, Michael Sonnenshein, will succeed him as the firm’s chief executive officer. The CEO appointment’s news was confirmed in  a report by Coindesk , another subsidiary of Digital Currency Group.

Michael Sonnenshein previously worked as an analyst at Barclays and the Bank of America. The newly appointed CEO of Grayscale also had a brief stint as an associate at JP Morgan before joining the world’s largest digital currency asset manager in 2014. In his first year at the firm, he served as an accountant executive before moving to a director role, where he stayed for three years. Sonnenshein was promoted to become managing director at the beginning of 2018 – a position he occupied until he was appointed chief executive yesterday.

Currently, the leading cryptocurrency bitcoin price is skyrocketing as it crossed above $40,000 for the time earlier today. One of the main reasons for the mammoth rally is considered to be the increasing institutional interest in bitcoin. Bitcoin’s advance also reflects increasing expectations of it becoming a mainstream payment method, with  PayPal  opening its network to cryptocurrencies. High profile investors like Paul Tudor Jones, for example, have been buying bitcoin. Many bitcoin bulls say the cryptocurrency is akin to “digital gold,” a potential safe-haven asset and a hedge against inflation. As reported earlier, Dave Chapman, Executive Director at Hong Kong-based digital asset company BC Group, said that institutional investors see the potential for greater risk-adjusted returns compared to traditional investments.

drop in BTC also brought a shockwave for the crypto market, as many coins were seen bleeding in value during that period. One significant evidence is the global crypto market cap that dropped from the $1 trillion levels to the $800 billion levels within two days.

While the dipping crypto market was seen as an opportunity to stack more coins cheaper, many people thought the cryptos, especially Bitcoin, are exhausted from the rally which began in recent months. Hence, it could be the start of a larger correction in the crypto market. The CEO of DoubleLine Capital, Jeffrey Gundlach, is having this same view for Bitcoin due to the massive drop in the crypto’s price.

According to Gundlach’s statement on CNBC’s “Halftime Report,” the leading cryptocurrency has seemingly overheated from the rallies in the past months. He thinks that Bitcoin is due for a heavy correction and added that he doesn’t like BTC at this current state. “I don’t like things that are up on a stilt like that. […] Bitcoin, to me, is now sort of in bubble territory in terms of the way it’s been acting,” DoubleLine Capital CEO said. 

It’s worth noting that Gundlach has a supportive stance for Bitcoin. However, the statement follows the sudden decline in the cryptocurrency. Although he mentioned that Bitcoin investors are becoming too optimistic about the digital currency, he also does think that BTC has the potential to surge significantly in price. “The people that point out it has a terrific supply-demand dynamic, if indeed institutions get involved, they’re right. That’s what can create these massive moves up in bitcoin.”

After dropping to the $30,000 level yesterday, the cryptocurrency is gradually pushing up again to $40,000. Currently, BTC is trading at $35,361 on Coinmarketcap. An analyst, Willy Woo, had blamed the massive decline in Bitcoin price on Coinbase, which suddenly went down. The downtime stopped lots of buys in the market, which consequently after price indices. 

years. It will take less than six months to get to $2 Trillion,” Voorhees wrote.

— Erik Voorhees (@ErikVoorhees) January 7, 2021

In the real world, market capitalization is the total dollar value of a firm’s stocks, calculated by multiplying the total number of its outstanding shares by the current market price of each share. For cryptocurrencies, it similarly refers to the total number of coins in circulation multiplied by the current market price of each coin.

— Tyler Winklevoss (@tyler) August 27, 2020

The total market cap of all cryptocurrencies—at least the ones tracked by crypto analytics platforms—broke above the $1 trillion mark yesterday. Since there is around $95 trillion worth of money in the world today, this translates to roughly 1% of that money concentrated in crypto.

— Sam Burns (@SamBurnsTech) January 7, 2021

If Bitcoin retains its dominance of around 70% by the time Voorhees’s prediction comes true, that would push its market cap to roughly $1.4 trillion, allowing it to enter the top 5 of largest assets—or at least close to it if we take gold and silver into account.

As Decrypt reported, chaos on Capitol Hill has pushed Bitcoin’s price even further today, giving Voorhees’s prediction a glimmer of hope.

The views and opinions expressed by the author are for informational purposes only and do not constitute financial, investment, or other advice.

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What is Starname and how does it work? Starname is human readable address like: *antoine which can be used to receive crypto-payments instead of sharing long and complex crypto-addresses. With Starname, anyone can find your addresses where you want to receive any crypto assets, make sure it is yours, and send you crypto assets in 1 click. No need to copy/paste, include it into your address book or to know your crypto address. Sending crypto is as easy as sending an email. 

Our mission is to make the world of crypto easier  and simple to use. We noticed that copy/pasting long crypto addresses was a pain for the user and a source of error when making many payments to several addresses. We want to relieve crypto users from that pain and make sending crypto to someone an easy experience. 

We believe in a multichain world, and we have opened a bridge between the Cosmos ecosystem to Ethereum with our Uniswap listing yesterday and Metamask payment in our profile. This Uniswap listing is the opening of a new chapter for mass adoption and we are really excited about all the new opportunities it will bring.

Could you guide us through the Starname wallet & dapps ecosystem and how to use it?

The Starname Manager is our desktop app (its mobile version is on the way!) to manage your starnames and your tokens. You can use it to buy starnames, edit them, set up Starname profiles, buy $IOV and make transactions. Everything related to your starnames and $IOV you can do it in one place. To login you can authenticate with either Ledger or Keplr Chrome extension, but very soon you will be able to do that using Gmail. The authentication with Gmail will make the process simpler and more accessible to everyone since downloads and setups to access the Starname Manager will no longer be necessary. We are working carefully in every feature of the Starname Manager and in its flow thinking about mass adoption. We have partnered with Cosmostation wallet, a mobile app, where you can also delegate your tokens, register and manage starnames. We continue to develop ways to make our service more available and visible on the Cosmos ecosystem. 

How will blockchain technology influence the social media industry in 2021 and beyond?

Social media is about connection and so is blockchain. Blockchain is a resource available for people to exchange. It’s secure, fast and reliable. When we see influencers and performers already using blockchain to receive payments you can see blockchain potentialize their interactions in social media. This is adoption. Blockchain will not only influence the social media industry, but will be an ally to it. Instant messaging and interactions and almost instant exchanges. It’s a mutualistic relationship.   

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2021 is a promising year for blockchain and Starname. We will continue to work on the user experience we offer to make it smoother for mass adoption. Our blockchain will be upgraded to enable IBC and smart contracts. Briefly, we will continue to develop our product and technology, as well as our marketing and the message we want to give with Starname. It has been a great journey so far, but there are so many great things we still want to achieve.

digital currencies. However, he said that among these new upcoming cryptos, XRP, the native digital currency of the San Francisco-based blockchain payments firm Ripple, is not included.

Bakkt CEO recently appeared on the Axios Re:Cap podcast, where he disclosed its company’s future plans. Gavin informed that its company launched trading support for the world’s largest digital currency, Bitcoin (BTC), at the beginning days of the company.

Now, he said that they intend to list more new digital assets very soon. He said that they do not plan to add support for the fourth-ranked digital currency XRP at the moment. This is what he said:

“We entered the crypto space through Bitcoin…We have others that are scheduled to come on board as part of the product development, but XRP is not available.”

Following the lawsuit filed by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against Ripple, various digital currency exchanges announced to halt trading for XRP, including the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase.

Bakkt CEO said that they are completely focused on showing compliance to regulation, and also they are regulated properly and strongly. He said that there is a need to drive regulation further. As he stated:

“So, we believe in the need to continue to drive for regulation around the use of these environments as on-ramps to the financial system. We are strongly regulated. We have a very strong AML/KYC approach that needs the regulations that are currently being spoken about.”

Until the lawsuit battle between the SEC and Ripple is sorted out, things are not going to go in favor of XRP as many crypto exchanges are not going to resume the trading of XRP until this matter is resolved.

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hopes to send the first humans to Mars in early 2024, with the ultimate goal of establishing an Autonomous city on Mars as soon as possible.

Responding to a Twitter thread started by AI researcher Lex Fridman, Musk said:

“The Martian economy will be developed based on cryptocurrency. Any cryptocurrency is possible, even with Dogecoin or a smaller cryptocurrency like Marscoin.”

Project Marscoin was founded in 2014 and has seen rapid popularity during the cryptocurrency market’s bull run towards the end of 2017. But since then, the cryptocurrency has fallen into oblivion. Altcoins currently has a market cap of less than $ 100,000.

Dogecoin could be a more potential candidate, as it continues to be relatively popular and shares many of the same decentralized properties as Bitcoin. Last week, Dogecoin’s price jumped by more than a third after Musk changed his Twitter profile to “Former CEO of Dogecoin” and tweeted: “One word: Doge.”

The SpaceX founder has frequently talked about his ambitions to travel to Mars during his lifetime, and earlier this year ordered his employees to speed up the development of the next-generation Starship rocket. A 12.5 km flight test of a Starship prototype took place earlier this month, with plans to build a fleet of 1,000-strong spacecraft – each capable of carrying up to 100 people.

SpaceX sparked controversy in October after announcing it would not recognize international law on Mars, instead, adhere to a set of self-governing principles. According to SpaceX’s Starlink Internet Project Terms of Service, any future settlement on the Red Planet would recognize Mars as a free planet. At the same time, he added that no government on Earth has any authority or sovereignty over activities on Mars.

The terms state:

“The dispute will be resolved through the principles of self-governance, established in good faith, at the time of settlement on Mars.”

It is unclear what these principles might be, although Musk has previously hinted that his preference for a government on Mars would be a government based on direct democracy.

Elon Musk said:

“Those will be the people who vote directly on the issues. The potential for corruption is substantially reduced in a direct democracy compared to representative democracy.”

SpaceX declined to respond to any requests for comment from the media. But the lawyers noted that any Mars constitution would still be subject to the 1957 Outer Space Treaty, which states that outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claiming, by use or occupation, or in any other way.

The whole law of space thinks that all of us on this planet share the right and responsibility to create a space that we can all share.

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executive of crypto exchange Kraken, attributes the chain of events to the weakening dollar.

Speaking in a recent interview with Bloomberg, Powell explained that many had witnessed a significant change in perspective with the dollar. While the greenback has served as the global reserve asset for years, the coronavirus pandemic threatened its position.

Like most economies, Washington has had to work significantly to provide a landing spot for citizens and businesses affected by the coronavirus. Accelerated stimulus packages and increased money printing eventually drove the dollar’s price down. Combined with the drop in oil prices and the effect of the pandemic on jobs, the American economy took a significant hit.

True to form, investors scrambled to find a safe haven and wait out the coronavirus storm. Apparently, they chose Bitcoin.

Powell further explained that holding the dollar became increasingly risky in 2020, compared to assets like Bitcoin. Thanks to the leading cryptocurrency’s finite supply and deflationary monetary policy, it maintained its stability. Eventually, institutional investors flooded into the market and drove its price through the roof.

The exchange boss added that investors had seen Bitcoin and tech stocks as better alternatives to holding cash. In part, he said:  

Things could get much worse as the United States appears to be dealing with a second wave of the coronavirus.

The incoming Biden administration has also made some economic policy declarations that could benefit Bitcoin. As his inauguration edges closer, the President-Elect has unveiled his Build Back Better economic plan, which involves $7.3 trillion in investment and recovery spending.

Per reports, the administration plans to spend this on initiatives like housing, education, clean energy jobs, healthcare, and economic fairness. However, it could add to the mountain of debt that the United States already accrued this year.

Billionaire investor Jim Rogers has also criticized the President-Elect’s pick for Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen.

Speaking at an investment summit, Rogers, the co-founder of George Soros’ Quantum Fund, explained that Yellen had shown a propensity to print and spend money.

With economic recovery at the forefront of the Build Back Better and a reportedly caution-free Treasury, the Biden administration might balloon the national debt entirely. That will benefit Bitcoin, even more, possibly taking it way past the $30,000 mark.

way possible. At the time of writing, Loeffler was projected to have lost her seat to Democrat Raphael Warnock in the Georgia Senate race. Ebenezer Baptist Church’s senior pastor will flip the seat in question, a seat previously occupied by Loeffler after she was appointed temporarily to take over after Senator Isakson’s early retirement.

This is big news, especially since this is going to have national implications going forward. However, let’s not go there. After all, President Trump might just be going there as we speak. Instead, let’s focus on what this might mean for blockchain and the crypto-market going forward.

Now, when Kelly Loeffler was appointed back in January 2020, it was hailed as a significant appointment. Given Loeffler’s work with the Intercontinental Exchange and Bakkt, 2019’s most-awaited digital asset trading platform, many were right to expect a crypto-friendly Senator who would side with businesses, especially big tech.

However, within months of her appointment, Loeffler was accused of profiteering off the COVID-19 pandemic after violating the STOCK Act. A net worth that made her the richest Senator in the United States did little to assuage any facts. What then? Well, crypto-regulations and crypto-policies took a backseat, a development especially jarring since she sat on the U.S Senate Committee on Agriculture, a committee that actually oversees the CFTC.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission enjoys a significant degree of regulatory oversight when it comes to cryptocurrencies. While “innovation-friendly” Chairmen like Heath Tarbert have continued to say the right things about crypto, real progress and regulatory clarity is still missing, something Loeffler could have helped with.

On the contrary, some have argued that the former Bakkt CEO, to curry favor with President Trump, has rallied against big tech, and by extension, the industry she made her name in. It should also be noted here that President Trump and his appointees have regularly come out against Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies over the past year.

In fact, a recent FT article expanded on how former colleagues were “horrified” at the Trumpian rhetoric in her campaign. “I don’t know who this person is,” one unnamed colleague was quoted as saying. Well, not a Senator anymore is probably the right answer.

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way possible. At the time of writing, Loeffler was projected to have lost her seat to Democrat Raphael Warnock in the Georgia Senate race. Ebenezer Baptist Church’s senior pastor will flip the seat in question, a seat previously occupied by Loeffler after she was appointed temporarily to take over after Senator Isakson’s early retirement.

This is big news, especially since this is going to have national implications going forward. However, let’s not go there. After all, President Trump might just be going there as we speak. Instead, let’s focus on what this might mean for blockchain and the crypto-market going forward.

Now, when Kelly Loeffler was appointed back in January 2020, it was hailed as a significant appointment. Given Loeffler’s work with the Intercontinental Exchange and Bakkt, 2019’s most-awaited digital asset trading platform, many were right to expect a crypto-friendly Senator who would side with businesses, especially big tech.

However, within months of her appointment, Loeffler was accused of profiteering off the COVID-19 pandemic after violating the STOCK Act. A net worth that made her the richest Senator in the United States did little to assuage any facts. What then? Well, crypto-regulations and crypto-policies took a backseat, a development especially jarring since she sat on the U.S Senate Committee on Agriculture, a committee that actually oversees the CFTC.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission enjoys a significant degree of regulatory oversight when it comes to cryptocurrencies. While “innovation-friendly” Chairmen like Heath Tarbert have continued to say the right things about crypto, real progress and regulatory clarity is still missing, something Loeffler could have helped with.

On the contrary, some have argued that the former Bakkt CEO, to curry favor with President Trump, has rallied against big tech, and by extension, the industry she made her name in. It should also be noted here that President Trump and his appointees have regularly come out against Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies over the past year.

In fact, a recent FT article expanded on how former colleagues were “horrified” at the Trumpian rhetoric in her campaign. “I don’t know who this person is,” one unnamed colleague was quoted as saying. Well, not a Senator anymore is probably the right answer.

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win as it got approval to freeze the assets of a notable crypto investment firm.

According to an official announcement from the SEC, the regulator received permission from a New York court to seize assets belonging to the crypto hedge fund Virgil Capital LLC. The announcement also mentions Stefan Qin, Virgil Capital’s managing partner, whose assets were also frozen.

The freeze is coming after allegations of fraud from Qin. According to the SEC, Qin had used Virgil’s Sigma Fund to defraud investors since 2018, making false representations of the fund’s strategy, size, and financial condition.

The Australian businessman had reportedly told investors that he would invest their money in a trading algorithm that profited on widespread arbitrage between exchanges. However, Qin and other company officials used the funds to bankroll personal expenses and make investments in other undisclosed high-risk investments.

When investors eventually confronted Qin and wanted to take their money out, Qin convinced them to move their cash from the Sigma Fund to its VQR MultiStrategy Fund, which controlled $25 million in assets. The businessman then lied that the bank had delayed transactions between the two funds. As the SEC alleged, the delay happened because the Sigma Fund did not have enough money to complete the transactions in question.

The SEC has now charged Qin, Virgil Capital, and several other affiliates with breaking federal securities and anti-fraud laws. The agency is seeking trading bans for all defendants and a return of investor funds and civil penalties.

Virgil’s case is the SEC’s latest crackdown against crypto investment scams. Qin and his affiliates appear to deserve what is coming their way. Still, the SEC has also gained a reputation for its hardline approach to the crypto space.

Last week, the agency turned its ire to ShipChain, a blockchain company looking to revolutionize the shipping space. After raising $27.6 million from 2017 to 2018, ShipChain had promised to improve shipping transparency with its blockchain platform. The firm also tied use of the platform to the purchase of SHIP tokens, which it was working on at the time.

ShipChain had announced the launch of its mainnet in July this year, looking to launch its SHIP token for users. In last week’s action, the SEC explained that it had determined ShipChain’s Initial Coin Offering (ICO) to be an unregistered offering. The agency explained that the token sale had been illegal. With ShipChain even paying its promoters in SHIP tokens. The SEC fined ShipChain $2.05 million, adding that the company will need to shut its token down.

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"The Social Network" and "Bitcoin Billionaires." Mezrich said if he receives an offer to get paid in Bitcoin in the future, he will not refuse it. "Me neither," the billionaire, who is now the richest person in the world, replied.

Musk is a fan of Bitcoin and has regularly joined in conversations about cryptocurrencies on Twitter. He can also move the markets. In December, when he tweeted about Dogecoin, a popular cryptocurrency, its price soared immediately. This happened multiple times in the past years. At one point, he even changed his Twitter bio to "Former CEO of Dogecoin." 

Bitcoin reached as high as $42,000 in a rally that began from $3,800 in March last year. In 2020, a wave of institutional investors, including MassMutual and Guggenheim Investments, have started investing in Bitcoin. PayPal is now allowing its customers to buy and sell cryptocurrencies while billion-dollar companies MicroStrategy and Square have allocated a portion of their funds to Bitcoin.

Musk posted a cryptic tweet last month implying that he was tempted to buy Bitcoin, which sent the benchmark cryptocurrency's price rising. At the time, MicroStrategy's CEO Michael Saylor replied that Musk should do his investors a "$100 billion favor" by converting Tesla's balance sheet into Bitcoin. Musk asked Saylor if such "large transactions" were possible. 

Musk's conversation with Mezrich did not end with Bitcoin. When Mezrich asked him if he's interested in a book deal, the Tesla CEO replied that he had no time to write a book. Mezrich did not drop the topic there. He requested Musk to give him a chance to write a book on him.

level.

Currently (as of 10:13 UTC on January 2), Bitcoin is trading at $29,751, up 1.41% in the past 24-hour period and up 2.85% in 2021.

According to data by CryptoCompare, Bitcoin’s market cap is roughly $553 billion at the moment.

Here are a few interesting Bitcoin metrics by crypto analytics firm IntoTheBlock:

On Thursday (December 31), the day that Bitcoin managed to get as high as around $29,300, Cameron Winklevoss, Co-Founder and President of crypto exchange Gemini, said that it was time for Bitcoin to break the $30,000 level, and as we have seen so far today, it looks like Bitcoin is very close to doing just that.

Later that, Michael Saylor, Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Nasdaq-listed business intelligence company MicroStrategy Inc., compared being a Bitcoiner to having a place to live in a super exclusive city in cyberspace.

Popular crypto analyst and trader Alex Krüger explained yesterday (January 1) why he believes that it is inevitable that the world’s major central banks will eventually hold BTC as a reserve asset.

On the same day, Ryan Selkis, Co-Founder and CEO of Messari, said that he believes now that Bitcoin is almost at $30K, the idea of the Bitcoin price one day reaching $1 million seems a lot more feasible than the idea of the Bitcoin price reaching $30K back in those days when the price was $1000.

In case you are are wondering why the Bitcoin price keeps going up, despite the price setting new all-time highs almost every day, Ki Young Ju, the CEO of South Korean blockchain analytics startup CryptoQuant, seems to believe that it could be due to continual BTC accumulation via OTC desks.

As the CryptoQuant CEO explained on December 18, although it is not possible to get reliable transaction data from OTC desks, we can use on-chain metrics, such as BTC outflows from Coinbase Pro, to estimate OTC om

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Algorand blockchain will be used to promote settlement and payment solutions.

Algorand blockchain technology is compatible with Instimatch in such a way that they complement each other. Algorand can help expand the capabilities of Instimatch and allow it to add a range of additional offerings and features, all of which focus on things like RegTech, payments, and Islamic banking.

Instimatch CEO Daniel SANDMEIER commented on the step made, saying that the company is very excited about the partnership. As explained by Instimatch CEO, the plan is to leverage Algorand’s blockchain to enhance Instimatch’s own offering and further possibilities for its customers.

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