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ASX greenlights the first Australian Bitcoin ETF

While all the focus is understandably on the prospects of a US Bitcoin ETF, Australia has gone and put itself in the history books by announcing that our first spot Bitcoin ETF will start trading naslednji teden.

While the approval process has been drawn out due to the onerous margin conditions imposed by the ASX’s clearing house (requiring any participants to stake 42% of every trade made), the suspected demand for a Bitcoin ETF has meant that four players have stumped up the cash to get things moving.

Hopes are high that the launch will blast past the previous single day ETF volume record – a modest $30m for the Crypto Innovators Fund last November – and quickly reach around $1 billion under management. But it will be interesting to see if our humble addition to the ETF pile can overcome the current lack of market enthusiasm vis-a-vis crypto as a whole. (See also: Overheard on Twitter below).

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North Korea gets its hands dirty

Remember that US$625 million hack that we talked about in the last Onchain? Well, the Americans have done some digging and it very much looks like the culprits are a North Korean outfit called the Lazarus Group. You may remember them from such hacks as the 2014 Sony exploit and the WannaCry ransomware attacks in 2017.

While the idea that cryptocurrency is or will be used to evade sanctions is overblown –  who would have thought a public blockchain would make it easy to track malign actors? – when a country gives as few fs as North Korea does, well, anything goes.

And while we’re in the mood for inventive exploits of new protocols, algorithmic stablecoin Beanstalk was hacked for a cooooool US$182 million after someone took out a flash loan on AAVE, used the funds to buy a heap of the project’s governance token and then used their newfound voting power to create and pass a motion allowing them to drain the project’s funds to a private wallet – while also donating US$250k to Ukraine. Bada bing, bada boom.

A reminder once again that you should never trust your money to any protocol named after a foodstuff.

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Nova Nasdaqova raziskava finančnih svetovalcev (ki nadzorujejo 26 tisoč dolarjev premoženja) ugotavlja, da bi jih 72 % bolj verjetno vlagalo v kriptovalute, če bi bil na voljo promptni ETF. Tudi svetovalcev, ki vlagajo v kriptovalute, jih 86 % načrtuje povečanje naložb, njihova idealna dodelitev pa je 6 % pristanišča.

@EricBalchunas

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Ethereum’s Merge delayed until September

For those of us who’ve been waiting for Ethereum’s transition to Proof-of-Stake since early 2019, the news that there’s been še ena zamuda in the rollout is pretty triggering.

In many ways, Ethereum has been the victim of its own success. Worth around US$370 billion and having settled an estimated 6 bilijona ameriških dolarjev leta 2021, the stakes are understandably pretty high for such a far-reaching change to the network's consensus mechanism.

So, it’s reassuring that they’re being so fastidious about things – if something went wrong, literally hundreds of billions of dollars are at stake (so to speak).

But there’s no denying that the hunger for change is real. More than 11 milijona ETH (around 9.5% of the total supply) is already locked and loaded in the Ethereum 2.0 contract. The demand is so high that they’re expecting staking rewards to be roughly half the amount originally anticipated.

And then, of course, there’s the 99.95% zmanjšanje in the network’s energy usage.

Anyway, fingers crossed that the end is in sight. A thriving, carbon-conscious Ethereum could be just what we need to fire up this market once more.

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​​CoinJar UK Limited je registriral Financial Conduct Authority kot ponudnika izmenjave kriptosredstev in ponudnika skrbniške denarnice v Združenem kraljestvu v skladu s predpisi o pranju denarja, financiranju terorizma in prenosu sredstev (podatki o plačniku) iz leta 2017, kot je bilo spremenjeno (referenca podjetja). št. 928767). Kot vse naložbe tudi kriptosredstva nosijo tveganje. Zaradi potencialne nestanovitnosti trgov kriptosredstev lahko vrednost vaših naložb znatno pade in povzroči popolno izgubo. Kriptosredstva so zapletena in trenutno niso finančni produkti, ki jih regulirata ASIC ali FCA, in ne morete dostopati do avstralskega organa za finančne pritožbe (AFCA) ali odškodninske sheme finančnih storitev Združenega kraljestva ali službe finančnega varuha človekovih pravic Združenega kraljestva v zvezi s kakršnim koli sporom z CoinJar v zvezi s trgovanjem s kriptosredstvi. Uporabljamo tretje osebe za bančništvo, hrambo in plačilne ponudnike in neuspeh katerega koli od teh ponudnikov lahko povzroči tudi izgubo vašega premoženja. Priporočamo, da pridobite finančni nasvet, preden se odločite za uporabo svoje kreditne kartice za nakup kriptosredstev ali naložbo v kriptosredstva. Dobiček je lahko predmet davka na kapitalski dobiček.

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• Source: https://blog.coinjar.com/australia-gets-etf/