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Fancy a Portfolio Expansion This Year? Filecoin, Dogetti, and Chainlink Should Be Your Top Choices

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Since the market was engulfed in dark times last year, the question on every investor’s mind is, “Where should I put my money now?”. Here are some alternatives that are as good as Bitcoin or Ethereum – Filecoin, Dogetti (DETI), and Chainlink show great potential to turn 2023 into a year of winning.

When thinking about expanding your portfolio, there are probably many concerns that you have, but the pertinent one is most likely “is it worth it?”. Finding investments that are similar to Bitcoin or Ethereum but different in return can be difficult when you don’t know how you can benefit in the long run.

Filecoin – The Cloud Solution

One of the most important things in crypto is storage space because there needs to be enough cloud storage for your mining data and the safekeeping of your files. This is especially important in blockchain technology as people use it to transact and store information in a shared space. However, there always seems to be a lack of storage space in any crypto environment. This is the problem that Filecoin solves.

The coin offers users a space where they can pay to store their files and keep them secure. The blockchain offers storage options based on speed, costs, security, and reliability.

In December 2022, the coin dropped to a low of $2.68 but miraculously recovered to $3.01 before the year was out. At the start of 2023, the coin rallied to $5.23 and experienced a further boost to $9.40; however, it dropped to $6 after the Silvergate incident. Nevertheless, based on the previous performance of the coin, it is clear that a bull run is highly likely at a later stage.

Throw a Bone to Dogetti

One name that keeps coming up in the meme coin circles is Dogetti. The Mafia-themed coin has shown great potential in recent weeks, already reaching over 90% of their stage 1 goal funding – currently achieving $400,000 of their half-a-million dollar goal.

The coin provides ten-fold benefits to its users, where transaction fees – yes, benefit through levies – or NFTs. The platform charges a 6% levy on transactions, of which 2% goes to a charity wallet, 2% goes to the community wallet, and 2% goes back into the user’s wallet. In addition, the coin offers long-term investment options through their Doggeti NFTs, where users can breed, grow and sell these in exchange for fiat currency or more tokens.

Dogetti’s wide range of features and benefits make it a smart investment for this year. It has the potential to compete strongly with other meme coins like Dogecoin and Shiba Inu and can turn investors a lot of profit.

Find Success On Chainlink

Chainlink has been strongly competing among cryptocurrencies like Ether and XRP since 2017. The blockchain was released with an ICO of $0.11 and gradually increased to a high of $52.

During the crypto winter, the coin dropped to $6.91, but the low price is not a disadvantage. Investors can buy more tokens at a low price, and when the next bull run emerges, it will be a prime opportunity to turn a profit as the coin is predicted to reach a maximum value of up to $10 later in the year.

Final Thoughts

Investing is a risky business because there is never a guarantee that your money will return to you. Still, it is also smart to expand your portfolio and at least increase your chances of turning a profit. It is important to understand know which currencies can be leveraged and how they can increase your chances of success.

 

For More on Dogetti (DETI)

Presale: https://dogetti.io/how-to-buy

Website: https://dogetti.io/

Telegram: https://t.me/Dogetti

Twitter: https://twitter.com/_Dogetti_

Shiba Inu (SHIB) Soars as Layer 2 Blockchain ‘Shibarium’ Sets for Launch, Dogecoin (DOGE) Remains the King of Meme Coins as TMS Network (TMSN) Gears up To Shake Up the Crypto World

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In this article, we examine three game-changing cryptocurrency players: Shiba Inu (SHIB), Dogecoin (DOGE), and the TMS Network (TMSN). Shiba Inu (SHIB) and Dogecoin (DOGE) are meme coins that started as memes before becoming much bigger. However, TMS Network (TMSN) is a newcomer to the cryptocurrency market and is already making splashes.

Continue reading to see what differentiates them from other cryptos and the potential they possess.

Shiba Inu (SHIB)

Shiba Inu (SHIB) is an alternative cryptocurrency based on Ethereum that uses Shiba Inu as its mascot. Like other meme coins, Shiba Inu (SHIB) frequently follows the price of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, yet there are times when they veer from the norm when, for example, Elon Musk tweets about them.

However, Shiba Inu’s (SHIB) prospects have recently become much more serious as developers for the currency have stated plans to launch a layer-2 blockchain on top of the Ethereum network, which would elevate the meme coin above the level of a joke.

Shiba Inu (SHIB)-related cryptocurrencies, including its primary currency SHIB, performed better as the possibility of a larger blockchain universe connected to those tokens becomes more likely. This week will see the public beta debut of Shibarium, the much-anticipated Layer-2 blockchain powered by the Shiba Inu (SHIB) protocol.

The Shiba Inu ecosystem has experienced tremendous growth due to the Shibarium update. Furthermore, the existence of a formal launch timeframe is exciting and might have profound effects on the token, as head creator Shytoshi Kusama has hinted at its coming release.

Dogecoin (DOGE)

The cryptocurrency market experiences both good and bad days like every other market. Investors can maintain their composure even in unfavorable market conditions if they have faith in their chosen currencies. Some crypto whales are sticking with Dogecoin (DOGE) out of the several investment-worthy coins now accessible on the crypto market.

Dogecoin (DOGE) was created in 2013 as a light substitute for well-known cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. Dogecoin (DOGE) is receiving a lot of interest from investors and cryptocurrency users due to the decentralization of cryptocurrencies. According to the charts, the coin is one of the top cryptocurrencies traded on all significant cryptocurrency exchanges.

Low transaction fees, high scalability, and blazing-fast transaction throughput are all features of Dogecoin (DOGE). Of course, these are justifications for investors’ eagerness to add the coin to their holdings. But, of course, Elon Musk’s endorsement—the richest man on the planet—also helps.

TMS Network (TMSN)

A new cryptocurrency platform called TMS Network (TMSN) is causing a lot of buzz in the industry. It has raised more than $500k in the initial stage of its presale. It’s understandable why investors are interested, given the short time before the token is publicly sold.

Traders of all expertise levels can trade on the DeFi network TMS Network (TMSN). It gives more access to global FX, CFD, and equities markets than any other Defi platform, including more than 500 cryptocurrencies.

The TMS Network (TMSN), which offers all of the services mentioned above and features like TMS Copy Trading and MetaTrader Expert Advisor Cloning, is ideal if you’re new to trading.

Everything is controlled by the network’s $TMSN token, which can be used for various purposes like trading commissions, staking rewards, and more. You also require it to gain exclusive access to the trading tools listed above and other services.

Conclusion

While both Dogecoin (DOGE) and Shiba Inu (SHIB) might be profitable investments, TMS Network (TMSN) is the best option whether you are new to crypto or an experienced person. The TMS Network (TMSN) presale has taken off spectacularly.

Join in now to be a part of the hottest new thing in the cryptocurrency industry, as many astute investors are getting in before it is sold to the general public.

Whitepaper: https://tms-net.netlify.app/whitepaper.pdf

Website: https://tmsnetwork.io

Presale: https://presale.tmsnetwork.io

Telegram: https://t.me/tmsnetwork

Twitter: https://twitter.com/tmsnetworkio

USDC DePegs Amid Silicon Valley Bank Crash

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The wall surrounding Crypto stablecoins is collapsing with USDC and other major stables like DIA losing its 1:1 pegs against the US dollar. USDC stablecoin is issued by Circle with support from Crypto exchange, Coinbase just like what Binance had with Paxos in the past.

Despite the USDC depegging, $3.3B of assets may still have a potential 94% payout, 75% and more of assets are in Short-Dated US Treasury Portfolios. The USDC depeg was precipitated by the crash of Silicon Valley Bank [SBV] in which Circle has a chunk of reserves on.

Financial risk management in the past year:

BTC/ETH too volatile —> USDT

USDT too risky —> UST

UST death spiral —> $ in the bank

Bank insolvent —> USDC

USDC depeg —> —

Circle, the issuer of USDC wrote;

Following the confirmation at the end of today that the wires initiated on Thursday to remove balances were not yet processed, $3.3 billion of the ~$40 billion of USDC reserves remain at SVB. Like other customers and depositors who relied on SVB for banking services, Circle joins calls for continuity of this important bank in the U.S. economy and will follow guidance provided by state and Federal regulators.

This situation will have a long term impact on USDC even if/after peg recoverssince circle has proven unable to defend the peg. What defi protocol wants to rely on is a stablecoin that can depeg >10%. Who wants to hold that?

Even if USDC repegs after a few days

 – who wants a stablecoin that you can’t use to buy dips because it depegged.

– who will use it in defi when you can get liquidated because of depegs.

– who wants to risk being forced to baghold it when you want to use it during market stress.

For a stablecoin being always pegged is literally the point of it and what makes it usable, thus if Circle wants ppl to use it they should defend the peg, or risk losing adoption, usability and trust.

As long as Circle can continue to redeem at 1 USD, the system is working as designed and will level back out. It really depends on if they are liquid enough to make it through the panic; though I would imagine they can take some loans if necessary as well.

FUD on almost all stables due to depegging of $USDC currently trading at $0.89 at the time of writing. It’s okay to be afraid, but one thing you should know is that a lot of things happen in this space.  Be ready for anything at any time. For now I suggest you swap all your stables to #Bitcoin  to avoid getting hurt even if anything happens. I believe in the future of Decentralization and I hope everything will be okay overtime.

However, Czsamsunsb.eth is playing a big chess game on $USDC depeg; Borrow $USDT from Aave with $ETH then he converted 27.325M $USDT to 28.658 $USDC, Borrow $USDC from AAVE then converted 113.466M $USDC to $DAI. If $USDC goes 0, he made $113M from 28.658M and if $USDC is back $1, he will make $1.3M.

Following the degrading situation around USDC peg, Coinbase has announced temporary closure on USDC:USD conversion; Coinbase wrote on Twitter; “We are temporarily pausing USDC:USD conversions over the weekend while banks are closed. During periods of heightened activity, conversions rely on USD transfers from the banks that clear during normal banking hours. When banks open on Monday, we plan to re-commence conversions.”

Circle can just buyback all the USDC sold over the weekend for $0.90 and bring home a healthy 7% or 10% profit. If panic spreads in the next 48 hours they might even end up with an amount more than enough to cover any 10% or 15% haircut from SVB.

Actually, Circle can make tons of money by simultaneously doing the following: A) delay with various excuses USDC->USD conversions for a few days, B) scoop all discounted USDC in market prices from panicking sellers. The discounts can be even more than 10%, George Mastrokoukos noted.

I think the $USDC depegging situation is just going to get worse and worse till Monday, as per fud, people are swapping USDC in panic for a -20% loss, these are the ones that bought $BTC at the top last cycle.

Right now Silicon Valley Bank is under FDIC control. Is a federal bank status at this point. All staff including call-centres are under FDIC control. They are covering all deposits of 250,000$ like normal operations starting Monday at the first hour. But for those over 250,000$ they will have to wait for the liquidation of the SVB then will be handled by probably 0.xx$/ per dollar at the end. So they will still go into liquidation mode, Spawny.btc noted.

One way for the Fed to save small banks if these are even at risk would be to decrease interest rates. Probable consequence is that it’ll lead the Euro to increase over the Dollar in the coming weeks.

Belgium Joins Other Countries, Bans TikTok on Government-owned Devices

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The brand is growing

Belgium has joined the growing number of countries to ban TikTok on government-owned devices, citing concerns about cybersecurity, privacy and misinformation. The decision comes on the heels of similar actions by the US, Canada and the European Union.

The decision means that TikTok will be temporarily prohibited from devices owned or paid for by Belgium’s federal government for at least six months, according to a post on Belgium’s Prime Minister, Alexander de Croo’s website.

The Chinese-owned company has been under the radar of Western authorities led by the US, over concern that it poses a threat to national security. Many states across the US, including Washington, have banned the use of the short-form video app on government devices.

Belgium is the latest US ally to prohibit the use of the platform on government-issued devices.

TikTok said it is “disappointed at this suspension, which is based on basic misinformation about our company.” The company said it’s “readily available to meet with officials to address any concerns and set the record straight on misconceptions.”

TikTok parent, ByteDance, has tried to distance itself from Beijing, moving its headquarters to Singapore in 2020. It has also moved its data centers away from China to mitigate the security concerns. But the efforts have failed to calm the nerves of Western authorities.

Recently, Denmark’s defense ministry ordered employees to remove the app from devices used for official business, following the steps of the US and others.

TikTok became a force to reckon with in a short time, racking up more than one billion monthly active users in challenge to US-based social media companies such as Facebook. While the growing apathy toward TikTok is said to be tied to the tech-economy rivalry between the US and China, every country that has made the decision to ban the app has cited security concerns.

De Croo said Belgium’s ban was based on warnings from the state security service and its cybersecurity center, which said the app could harvest user data and tweak algorithms to manipulate its news feed and content.

They also reechoed the warning issued by the FBI director, Chris Wray, in November, that TikTok could be compelled to carry out spying for Beijing.

“We are in a new geopolitical context where influence and surveillance between states have shifted to the digital world,” de Croo said in an online statement. “We must not be naive: TikTok is a Chinese company which today is obliged to cooperate with the intelligence services. This is the reality. Prohibiting its use on federal service devices is common sense.”

TikTok has in collaboration with US firms such as Oracle, moved its data centers to the US and Singapore, a measure the company said it has applied in Europe to ease concerns.

“The Chinese government cannot compel another sovereign nation to provide data stored in that nation’s territory,” the company said in a statement.

However, fuelled by tech-economy rivalry, TikTok’s ordeal is escalating, and may end in outright ban in the West. Early this month, the House committee approved a bill that will give President Joe Biden powers to ban apps seen as potential risk to the US national security.

TikTok said it’s disappointed by the move, adding that a US ban on TikTok is a ban on the export of American culture and values to the billion-plus people who use our service worldwide.

When the “Best” Ranked Bank Collapses within Days

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I maintain that I should be included in the list of Richest Africans by Forbes. The reason that has not happened is because Forbes has not considered that my source of wealth – diversified education – is HUGE. And not just that, I am wholly leveraged. For many Nigerians and Africans, many think those rankings have absolute value. Nothing like that.

A case study: just four days ago, SVB was ranked one of America’s Best Banks! Today, that bank collapsed! If Forbes rewards me as a $billionaire, considering my diversified writing and leveraged commentary, I will accept it!

Silicon Valley Bank was shut down by U.S. regulators Friday as the troubled lender struggled to stabilize its finances amid a rush of withdrawals. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation took over SVB and transferred the lender’s assets to a newly created bank, the Deposit Insurance National Bank of Santa Clara. Insured depositors will have access to their accounts from Monday morning. SVB — which lends heavily to venture-backed tech startups — spiraled rapidly after announcing Wednesday it had sold a chunk of its portfolio at a $1.8 billion loss and was trying to raise more capital.

https://twitter.com/SVB_Financial/status/1632818336391213059

You can make your own case to Forbes. It is very possible you will join us in 2024 as Africa’s billionaires!