The best moment to buy or accumulate any digital asset is when the prices are low, and this may be a perfect time for corporate investors to follow Tesla’s Bitcoin investment move and get on the train.
Daniel Ives, a Wedbush Securities analyst, has noted that the $1.5 billion bet in Bitcoin (BTC) by electric vehicle manufacturing behemoth, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) will have a dramatic impact on corporate adoption of the digital asset. Speaking in an interview with CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Monday, Ives noted that the automaker’s exposure to the premier digital currency is “not just a fad,” but part of a long-term strategy that is backed by both an investment and business thesis respectively.
He said he believes the Elon Musk-led company will “double down on its Bitcoin investment,” implying a possible increase in the company’s portfolio, and in the acceptance of the cryptocurrency as a form of payment.
“No doubt this is something that Musk and Tesla – they’re going to dive into the deep end of the pool on Bitcoin because they’re not just doing it from an investment perspective but from a transaction perspective,” Ives said.
According to Wedbush Securities, about 3 to 5% of public companies are likely to join Tesla in securing their treasuries using BTC in the next 12 to 18 months, but the engagement with Bitcoin will likely be limited just investments.
Tesla’s potential profit on BTC at the upper end of its all-time high above $58,000 is also an attractive call for other public companies to make similar decisions.
Good Time to Follow Tesla’s Bitcoin Investment Move?
The global cryptocurrency market is undergoing a bearish correction with BTC leading the dip. As many have often touted, the best moment to buy or accumulate any digital asset is when the prices are low, and this may be a perfect time for corporate investors to follow Tesla’s Bitcoin investment move and get on the train.
BTC is down by 12.60% at the time of writing according to CoinMarketCap, and each of the coins is exchanging hands at $48,596.24. The dip is all-encompassing, as Ethereum (ETH), XRP, Chainlink (LINK), Polkadot (DOT), and other altcoins not spared in the downturn.
Many analysts on crypto Twitter believe the correction is necessary in order to stir a big dive toward new price discoveries. There have been numerous comforting comments about the market with Bitcoin bulls advising their followers to “buy the dip,” a term that is much common when the market makes such dramatic twists.
While the entire digital currency ecosystem awaits the journey back into the glory days, a big announcement from a new institutional investor will not be surprising.
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Apple Pay integration and Staking 3.0 launch push COTI price to a new high
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As big-name payment processors like Visa and Mastercard increasingly integrate blockchain technology into their payment rails, decentralized platforms offering the best solutions to issues like scalability and fast transaction times are gaining traction.
COTI is one such platform that has been gaining momentum in recent weeks after a series of network upgrades and big announcements brought extra attention to the enterprise-grade fintech platform.
According to COTI’s website, the protocol focuses on empowering organizations to create their own payment solutions and digitize any form of currency as a way to save time and money.
COTI/USDT 4-hour chart. Source: TradingView
Data from Cointelegraph Markets and TradingView shows that the price of COTI has rocketed 345% over the past month, going from a low of $0.63 on Feb. 4 to a new all-time high of $0.283 on March 5, as investor excitement grows following the release of COTI Staking 3.0 on March 1.
Fiat onramps and protocol upgrades help increase community involvement
Aside from the release of Staking 3.0, COTI also received an extra dose of enthusiasm on March 3 when it was announced that Apple Pay users are now able to purchase COTI as a result of a partnership with Simplex.
Scrolling through the project’s Twitter feed points to an active February for the COTI ecosystem. The list of multiple partnerships and integrations shows that interoperability is one of the ultimate goals of the protocol.
SushiSwap also announced the launch of an ETH-COTI pair on Feb. 26 as a way to expand user access and expand token liquidity, and the January release of its Crypto Volatility Index continues to attract new attention following a recent code optimization that helped reduce gas costs for using the index by 50%.
In February, COTI also had a record high for merchant transaction volume as the figure soared to 18.16 million. The team is now looking to increase the number of stakers on the network, as well as upgrade the current nodes.
The growing prominence of Bitcoin (BTC) and blockchain technology has the potential to bring increased attention to the COTI platform as small businesses and large organizations look to integrate blockchain payment rails and create in-house currencies.
The recent staking upgrades and fiat onramps have the project well-positioned for further upside as the current bull-cycle continues to unfold.
The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cointelegraph.com. Every investment and trading move involves risk, you should conduct your own research when making a decision.
Ethereum’s London Hard Fork With EIP 1559 Fee Market to Go Live This July
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The EIP 1559 is a welcome move for Ethereum users that standardize the transaction fee across the network and reduces volatility. However, mining pools have placed a strong opposition to it.
As per the latest development, July 2021 is the scheduled period when the Ethereum Improvement Protocol (EIP) 1559 will go live. As per Ethereum’s core developers’ call on Friday, March 5th, five other EIPs along with EIP 1559 are likely to join the London hard fork.
The Ethereum fraternity has been eagerly awaiting the launch of EIP 1559 amind issues of the transaction fee. The ongoing EIP 1559 helps to lower the volatility of transaction fees on the Ethereum blockchain. Besides, it also fixes several ongoing issues with Ethereum’s user experience.
Traditionally, a user sends the gas fee to the miner to include the transaction in the block. However, with the EIP 1559 implementation, the gas fee shall go to the network itself in the form of “burn”. The “burn” is also dubbed as basefee with only an optional tip paid to the miners.
The Ethereum algorithm sets the “burn” fee thereby making it easier for users to pay a fair price. Thus, EIP 1559 replaces the supply/demand auction-style system with a standard rate implementation across the entire network. Ethereum creators are confident that the proposal will be “positive ono the long term price” of Ethereum. They say that a lower and predictable gas fee ensures that Ethereum isn’t only for the rich.
This new proposal has received solid support from users and the creators of Ethereum. However, it has garnered strong opposition from the miners and the mining pools who have been on the receiving end.
ETH Miners Place A Solid Opposition
Ethereum miners have enjoyed solid revenues recently on the backdrop of the high DeFi activity on the Ethereum blockchain. In February last month, the total mining revenue clocked a massive $1.3 billion with the average transaction fee striking an all-time high of over $37. As per data by CoinMetrics, 50% of the revenue came from fees alone.
The surge in transaction fees and the ETH price has shot up the network has power to more than 100% in a year’s time. Flexpool, a minority mining pool, has launched a marketing campaign against the EIP. It has also received support from majority pools like sparkPool and Ethermine.
Nearly 60% of the Ethereum hash power is currently against the implementation of the new proposal. Interestingly, F2Pool is the only largest pool in favor of the EIP with 10% hash power.
However, mining pools have few options to stop the EIP 1559 implementation. The bigger danger that currently hovers around is the 51% attack on the Ethereum network. However, the chances of this remain unlikely at this moment considering different financial incentives for not attacking the network.
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3 million active users help lift Audius (AUDIO) to a new all-time high
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As blockchain technology increasingly becomes part of the mainstream conversation, its integration with today’s most used technologies is bound to increase. This means that it’s only a matter of time before video streaming, digital music and social media see gradual blockchain integrations take place.
Audius (AUDIO) is one project that is chasing the first-mover advantage in the music streaming sector. The music-sharing and streaming protocol facilitates transactions between creators and listeners, making it relatively effortless for users to distribute and monetize audio content.
The project has received increasing attention for its approach to decentralizing the music industry and on March 2 the team celebrated reaching 3 million monthly active users.
Data from Cointelegraph Markets and TradingView shows that the price of AUDIO surged 108% since the start of March from a low of $0.38 to a new all-time high of $0.79 on March 4 as the altcoin’s trading volume spiked from $3 million to a record $55 million.
AUDIO/USDT 4-hour chart. Source: TradingView
Staking incentives drive user adoption
The first major increase in users followed the project’s October 2020 launch and the activation of staking on the Audius platform in December. This enabled AUDIO holders to earn a 7% yield for tokens that were staked on the network while they listening to music and interacted with the protocol.
By the end of January, the platform had 1.8 million active users and a total of 122 million AUDIO tokens staked on the network. These figures have since increased to 3 million users and a total of 182.5 million staked AUDIO as the platform continues to integrate new features that incentivize community involvement.
VORTECS™ data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro began to detect a bullish outlook for AUDIO on Feb. 28, prior to the recent price rise.
The VORTECS™ score, exclusive to Cointelegraph, is an algorithmic comparison of historic and current market conditions derived from a combination of data points including market sentiment, trading volume, recent price movements and Twitter activity.
VORTECS™ Score (green) vs. AUDIO price. Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro
As seen in the chart above, the VORTECS™ score for AUDIO hit a peak of 69 on Feb. 28, just before the start of a prolonged uptrend in price which was further identified by a VORTECS™ score of 80 on March 1. After pulling back over the next 3 days the score again spiked to 70, just hours before a significant rise in the price of AUDIO.
On March 5, the project revealed its plans to integrate non-fungible tokens (NFT) into the protocol as part of its effort to offer a full-service decentralized platform and expand its user base.
NFTs have become a hot topic in the cryptocurrency sector in recent months, and their integration into the AUDIO platform is likely to bring a renewed wave of interaction from users.
As blockchain technology continues to become more prominent in mainstream society, Audius appears well-positioned to become a leader in the streaming music space thanks to a rapidly expanding user base and a growing list of incentives that entice users to stay active on the platform.
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