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Terra Founder Hints at $13 Billion BTC Terra founder Do Kwon hinted at a future purchase of $13 billion worth of bitcoin to supply the reserves of the protocol in a recent Twitter Space shared with bitcoin enthusiast Udi Wertheimer. In the same Space, Do Kwon explained the new mechanics that the Terra ecosystem is introducing in order to use bitcoin as collateral for its flagship decentralized stablecoin, UST.
UK crypto unicorn teams upUK crypto firm Blockchain.com has teamed up with Stripe to help bolster its payment offering and get a better handle on protecting against fraud.
Blockchain.com, founded in 2011 and an infrastructure pioneer in Bitcoin, is a platform that offers users ways to buy and use crypto.
The UK firm says that 37 million users have created more than 80 million crypto wallets and transacted more than $1trn on Blockchain.com.
Online payments giant Stripe is to bolster Blockchain.com’s payments offering, as well as help protect against fraud, and improve revenues management.
In particular, the two companies said that Stripe aims to address common crypto purchase challenges, such as fluctuating payment acceptance rates, volatile reliability, as well as improving user experience.
In four weeks, Blockchain.com used Stripe technology to build a new checkout flow that made it possible for users to purchase crypto using card payments.
Mortgage Rates Back In An Uptrend Trend On 30 Year-Fixed Historically in America the interest rate for a 30 year fixed has been in a multi-decade down trend. As of January 2021 the rate for a 30 year fixed dropped to a historical low of around 2.65% and has since reversed in trend. This year we can potentially see rates continue to rise up to 3.75% as we're in secondary uptrend on the line chart. Currently we're at around 3.45% up 30% from 2.65% we seen last year.
BENEFITS AND RISKS OF TRADING 101SELF DEVELOPMENT/METHODOLOGY/PSYCHOLOGY
BENEFITS AND RISKS OF TRADING 101
a) Market Action
Market Action is determined as the summary of data showing the trading activities in the market, which determines the differentiation between the price of the currency on which profit or loss can be generated. The rate of change in profit and loss is provided in Market action summary. This can enable the investors to determine which FOREX they should sell or buy in the market.
b) Liquidity
1. Market liquidity determines the extent to which a market, it can be a real estate or a trading market, which can allow selling and buying of assets at stable prices. In the trading market, the liquidity of securities is considered as ease of selling and buying the securities without affecting the price of the assets.
2. While trading in a FOREX market with a high volume, the bid price offered by a buyer on each share and the asking price on which seller is willing to sell shares, if based on the same or close amounts than the market highly liquid.
3. The difference between the prices is considered as the spread. The market liquidity usually affects when the difference or spread between the ask prices and bid prices increase.
c) Leverage
Traders determine margin and leveraging as the two important aspects of leveraging. The loan provided by a broker is considered as a margin, which enables traders in leveraging the securities and funds through the account to accomplish large trade activities. However, it is necessary to open and get an approval on a margin account.
The FOREX market usually uses 2:1 leverage, this means that investor can buy almost double of the amount they hold in their trading account. This means that if the investor has $50,000 then they can purchase $100,000 of currency in case their trading account leverage is 2:1.
d) Economic risks
Economic risk arises due to the changes in macro economic conditions. These risks are much capable that they can introduce changes in investments of shareholders and bondholders in the market. These changes can be the result of changes in government regulation, exchange rates, and political stability. International investment carries more investment risk as compared to domestic investment. The main reason that economic risk can adversely affect the corporate investments is due to the fact that economic risks can violate the economic sustainability.
Happy trading :)