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If you squint your eyes, you can see the pop in bond prices!
February 09, 2022, 01:04:03 PM
Breaking news:
El Salvador Bitcoin Bond Issuance Coming as Soon as March 15: Finance Minister Quote El Salvador’s initial $1 billion bitcoin bond issue will take place between March 15 and March 20, Finance Minister Alejandro Zelaya said Tuesday. This is pretty much in line with the expected launch date previously disclosed. I wouldn’t lean too much on the 6.5% commitment. February 03, 2022, 01:41:18 PM
According to Bloomberg the Launch of the Volcano Bond is nearing and being ready in March:
Quote El Salvador to Sell Bitcoin Bond in March, Finance Minister Says By Michael McDonald (Bloomberg) -- El Salvador’s government expects to issue so-called volcano bonds on Blockstream’s Liquid Network in the first half of March, Finance Minister Alejandro Zelaya said during a local TV interview on Dialogo con Ernesto Lopez.
This is a little later than initially prospected by Samson Mow, but I think it’s a fair timeline, given all the technical, legal and “external pressures” connected to this bond issue. January 22, 2022, 08:06:42 AM
Apparently the EL Salvador Bitcoin Bond 1 will be launched in February:
Al this source from this interview: ON THE GROUND IN EL SALVADOR WITH SAMSON MOW AND THE VOLCANO BITCOIN BOND Samson Mow Stated: Quote “We’re closer to $500M in verbal commitments now but stopped tracking so we could focus on the actual issuance and all the steps still needed to be done to go live. We’re committed to Q1 2022 and it’s likely we could see the Volcano Bond launch in February,” he added. As I already said, it's a sure hit from the "Bitcoin Community", but my doubt about institutional investors persist. January 17, 2022, 07:53:09 PM
In the past days Moody's has been quite vocal on El Salvador:
Bitcoin Trades Add to El Salvador’s Sovereign Risk, Moody’s Says Quote El Salvador’s Bitcoin trades are adding risk to a sovereign credit outlook that was already weak and reflecting a growing chance of default, according to Moody’s Investors Service. Tonight Moody's downgraded El Salvador Sovereign Bonds: (actually looking for a direct headline of this) Najyb Bukele wasn't impressed: This is actually going to hurt the volcano bond, sending them even more on the "dear" side of the market. The market is currently closed, but I expect the USD bonds to fall significantly, thus making the combination Legacy USD bonds + Bitcoin purchase, even more compelling versus the simple bond holding. The middle finger to the IMF crooks nocoiners is going to be a little bit more costly, to our fellow bitcoiner. January 10, 2022, 07:45:57 PM
A couple of days ago, I tweeted my concerns to Excellion and Paolo Ardoino.
The answer I got was quite reassuring: I waited a little bit before reporting the tweet as I saw a like by Paolo Ardoino snd I hoped for another reply, which sadly never came.... So basically, no delays due to the disruption in Kazakhstan. I think it is good news for everyone! January 10, 2022, 11:56:38 AM
The logic says this could even get worst if bitcoin mining load goes to EL Salvador and all the other countries revoke from the mining operations or lets say they completely ban the use of bitcoin. There would be only one country left to mine the coins and use them and thats El Salvador. The logic applied above is explaining bitcoin monopoly, which in actual sense is not practicable. All other countries cannot revoke from mining nor ban completely the use of bitcoin because of the nature of bitcoin. What majority of the country can do is to enforce extreme measures to regulate bitcoin, which will indirectly hinder bitcoin growth. However, my major concern is about the Bitcoin City. This project might indirectly be promoting centralization of bitcoin or bitcoin users, miners etc. The logic could be that whenever there is an attack on bitcoin, it will be easy to locate the city of bitcoin and unleash mayhem. The enemies of bitcoin will then intensify their efforts to hunt down the bitcoin city. Remember, bitcoin is safe on blockchain but bitcoin users and hardwares are not secured by blockchain. They are prone to damages. January 09, 2022, 05:44:15 AM
Cutting long story short: this bond is a financial disaster. There is a very good analysis of this concept from a Bloomberg article. Basically, buying an El Salvador Bond and using the residual amount to buy bitcoin currently produces a superior result. And this holds true in pretty much every possible future scenario. Even in a very unpredictable scenario of bitcoin going to zero, the payoff would be better for the traditional finance bond. In an environment where Bitcoin would go to zero, we are left wondering why we should buy a Volcano Bond in the first place. I run a few computations in the spreadsheet, and even if in the ultra bullish case illustrated by Samson Mow, the Volcano Bond is inferior to the strategy of buying a traditional bond and investing the change left after the bond purchase in Bitcoin. The logic says this could even get worst if bitcoin mining load goes to EL Salvador and all the other countries revoke from the mining operations or lets say they completely ban the use of bitcoin. There would be only one country left to mine the coins and use them and thats El Salvador. The thing is, they are using it as the legal tender which means whole thing is official and by few years they will have almost all of the population of their country using it. Imagine for a sec if other countries started to pull of from the crypto space for X reasons then the whole money that is invested into crypto will be sold off and El Salvador would be buying it as there would be no other buyer of the same. What will happen to their bonds by then? The value will decrease dramatically causing huge inflation in the country. Seems terrific idea to go to the sink. January 09, 2022, 05:12:50 AM
A few more information on the venue where the bond should be traded:
Bitfinex launches new exchange for trading tokenized equities and bonds Bitfinex opened a new exchange dedicated to tokenised assets, both equity and bonds, named Bitfinex securities: Quote Bitfinex Securities will allow small and medium-sized companies to list their tokenized equities, bonds, or funds and raise capital. In turn, Bitfinex Securities' customers will be able to invest in and trade tokenized securities. In the article it is well explained the unique feature of this platform is the possibility to issue new token, not only trade existing ones. This allows customers handle trough BS the whole life cycle of their digital tokens: issuance, trading, settlements, payments, redemptions. One very important point of this is the fact that BS will be based in Kazakistan, and regulated by the local financial authority: Quote Bitfinex Securities says it is based in Astana, Kazakhstan, and is regulated by the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) Authority. According to Paolo Ardoino’s statements, Bitfinex believe this is a positive choice: Quote When asked why Bitfinex Securities chose to be based and licensed in Astana, a relatively lesser-known jurisdiction, Ardoino said Astana is setting up as one of the financial capitals of Asia and has an "extremely thorough" regulatory process based on regimes in the U.K., Dubai and Abu Dhabi. "We had been working on obtaining this license for the last year and a half," said Ardoino. I have some doubt about this statement. I think they had to apply to Astana because it the “best of the available countries” where to register. The problem is many potential clients will have problems using that exchange: Quote As with its crypto trading platform, Bitfinex's securities platform will also be not available to residents of the U.S. and other prohibited jurisdictions. Citizens of Canada, Switzerland, Venezuela, Austria, and Italy are also on Bitfinex Securities' list of prohibited persons. A lot of customers simply won’t be able to directly access that exchange. They will have to operate trough subsidiaries, risking sanctions from the regulators, or trough introducing broker-dealers, or even using wrapped bonds. Then a couple of observations immediately raise to my mind:
January 05, 2022, 05:53:14 PM
I guess that this "bitcoin city" thing has been tried so many times but usually since we are a global bunch and not something that is we do in just one place, that doesn't work. I mean usually there isn't enough population in just one city to build something like that, even when you consider a nation like USA, if you build a city somewhere, then you are expecting everyone around the USA to relocate there and why would they? Coinbase is fine in California, why would they leave? Gemini is fine in New York, they won't budge. So all in all when we are talking about even a much smaller nation then it becomes even harder to build something like this only because of lack of population.
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