India will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies, fining anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets, a senior government official told Reuters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class.
The bill, one of the world’s strictest policies against cryptocurrencies, would criminalise possession, issuance, mining, trading and transferring crypto-assets, said the official, who has direct knowledge of the plan.
“Every country treasures its monopoly on controlling the supply and demand. They don’t want other monies to be operating or competing, because things can get out of control. So I think that it would be very likely that you will have it under a certain set of circumstances outlawed the way gold was outlawed,”
Impending intervention by regulators such as the People’s Bank of China, the European Central Bank and the US Federal Reserve would not see bitcoin fall to zero value, but could lead to the digital asset falling from its recent highs, Mortier said.
This bot now has a name. Henceforth, we shall call him “Willy” — the whale that we once set free has returned to free us all from the annoying whale dumpers and bears. 🙂
来自伦敦的用户 Kolin Burges 告诉《纽约时报》,他已经做好了最坏的准备,但是他很难相信,门头沟搞丢了比特币。(I was prepared for the worst, but it’s hard to believe they might have lost their coins.)。
这个结论,来自网上流传最广的一份对于这些交易记录的分析报告——《Willy报告:门头沟大规模欺诈交易活动的证据及其对比特币价格的影响》(The Willy Report: proof of massive fraudulent trading activity at Mt. Gox, and how it has affected the price of Bitcoin)。
Basically, a random number between 10 and 20 bitcoin would be bought every 5-10 minutes, non-stop, for at least a month on end until the end of January.
《比特币生态系统中的价格操纵》(Price Manipulation in the Bitcoin Ecosystem)PDF文件截图
2017年5月30日,事发3年多后,来自以色列特拉维夫大学(Tel Aviv University)的经济学家尼尔·甘达拉(Neil Gandala)、塔利·奥伯玛纳(Tali Obermana)和美国塔尔萨大学(The University of Tulsa)的计算机科学家JT哈姆里克(JT Hamrickb),泰勒·摩尔(Tyler Mooreb),联合发表了论文《比特币生态系统中的价格操纵》(Price Manipulation in the Bitcoin Ecosystem)。
The suspicious trading activity of two actors were associated with a daily 4% rise in the price, which in the case of the second actor combined to result in a massive spike in the USD-BTC exchange rate from around $150 to over $1 000 in late 2013.
Willy traded on 50 of the 65 days before the data cutoff. In total, Willy acquired 268,132 bitcoin, nominally for around $112 million. While Willy acquired slightly fewer bitcoins than Markus, the Markus activity occurred on 33 days spread over a 225-day period. Thus, the Willy activity was much more intense.
So to the extent that the experiment tells us anything about monetary regimes, it reinforces the case against anything like a new gold standard – because it shows just how vulnerable such a standard would be to money-hoarding, deflation, and depression.
这张图来自2020年的一篇学术论文《避险,还是危险?比特币在新冠疫情期间的表现》(Safe haven or risky hazard? Bitcoin during the Covid-19 bear market),谷歌引用次数已经达到了90。 作者最后给出的结论是:基于比特币在新冠疫情期间的表现,比特币不可以作为熊市的避险财产。如果投资组合中有比特币,风险将会更大。
Examining the impact upon an S&P 500 portfolio diversified with an allocation to Bitcoin, our results indicate that Bitcoin does not act as a safe haven. During the period under consideration, we find that the S&P 500 and Bitcoin move in lockstep, resulting in increased downside risk for an investor with an allocation to Bitcoin.
文章的题目是《比特币:正在为新资产类别敲门》(BITCOIN:RINGING THE BELL FOR A NEW ASSET CLASS),发表时间是2016年6月2日。 我认真看过这篇文章,逻辑严密、论证有力,里面所有的观点都是用数据支撑的,没有主观臆断,更没有废话。至少要比国内某些非商业机构的论文质量高出好多。当前,谷歌学术统计的这篇文章的被引用次数为64次,也说明了这是一篇不错的论文,你值得一看。