The price of XRP has seen a remarkable rise in recent weeks. What unfortunately attract scammers of all stripes, who pass themselves off as the Ripple company. We explain how to spot them.

Ripple: a scam that claims to distribute XRP

XRP scammers use multiple channels to direct their potential victims to this scam . One of the most common is an email apparently sent by Ripple, which explains that the company wants to help the less fortunate in times of crisis, by unlocking more than 5 billion XRP for the “Ripple Army”:

If you click on the link, you apparently find yourself on the Ripple site. The reproduction is particularly faithful and everything suggests that this is the official website of the company :

Ripple site XRP scam

Only the URL changes slightly, which contributes to the confusion:

A bogus rewards program

The scam claims that Ripple wants to develop an economic reward model to support its community, through a distribution of XRP :

“With two major pillars, the Awards Program and the Support Program for the Community, the XRP is distributed based on business demands, but the d istribution is also made to individual users . ”

There is of course no reward program. The site aims to collect personal information about people who would like to take advantage of this fake giveaway. Ripple also published a warning two days ago, given the scale of the scam:

XRP price goes up

This renewed interest from scammers is due to the performance of XRP in the month of November, as well as the airdrop which concerns the holders of the asset . It should be noted, however, that last week, XRP, like Bitcoin (BTC), suffered a fall, which was particularly dizzying. It lost almost 40% of its value within two days. Since then, the price of XRP has been rising:

Since the start of the weekend, it has grown by + 41% . However, it has so far not reached its highest level of last week, near $ 0.80.

It remains to be seen whether XRP will confirm its breakthrough, with a market cap still currently exceeding that of Tether (USDT) . What is certain is that scammers are sure to profit from the renewed interest in cryptocurrency, so stay cautious.

Buterin asks whether cryptomorphic forecasting markets reflect the opinion of the population or are distorted by the illiquidity and political bias of their social base.

On the eve of the US presidential election, most conventional polls point to a Joe Biden victory, although this is not reflected in cryptomorphic forecasting markets.

For Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, the “big difference” between them presents a kind of puzzle, and he offered three guesses as to why this difference is so.

In what he posed as a pro-prediction or favourable vision market, Buterin suggested that these markets “correctly incorporate the possibility of greater electoral interference, voter coercion, etc. affecting the outcome”. In contrast, statistical models may “simply assume that the voting process is fair”.

To verify this, Buterin appealed to Nate Silver in an attempt to understand how the statistical models account for the impact of both ‘regular’ electoral irregularities, such as electoral and lawbreaking, and the Trump campaign irregularities for 2020.

Silver is a statistician as well as founder and editor-in-chief of the political news website FiveThirtyEight. In 2016, FiveThirtyEight gave Trump a significantly better chance of winning the election than most researchers and experts, as well as traditional betting markets. To date, Silver has not answered Buterin’s question.

Buterin’s second guess was that the forecast markets are still too illiquid to be really accurate. Buterin also observed the supposed political loyalties of the forecasting market players:

Forecasting markets are difficult to access for statistical / political experts, they are too small for hedge funds to hire these experts and people (especially wealthy people) with more access to PMs are more optimistic about Trump

(This is the explanation of the pro-statistic model)

– vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) 3 November 2020

Buterin’s third hypothesis, which he rejected, was that researchers and other technocrats and analysts are “incorrigibly dumb and simply have not learned their lessons about pro-Trump voter movements, as they did in 2016. That, Buterin wrote, “intuitively seems unlikely to me.

Buterin notably spent significant time developing an alternative collective decision-making procedure called quadratic voting, along with his collaborator Glen Weyl, which they claim is fairer than existing systems.

On the eve of the election, FiveThirtyEight is predicting a 10% chance of a Trump victory. His list of “unusual and not so strange possibilities” largely explains the whims of the US electoral college system and the various ways in which it distorts the weight of the popular vote.

Den Toronto-baserade investeringsförvaltaren 3iQ Corp. försöker samla in ytterligare finansiering genom att genomföra ett statligt erbjudande för sin börsnoterade Bitcoin Trader, som handlas på Toronto Stock Exchange.

Ett uttalande som släpptes idag som beskriver investeringsfördelningen säger att fonden som förvaltas av 3iq säljer upp till 1 050 000 klass A-enheter för att samla cirka 25 200 000 C $, eller cirka 19,3 MUSD

Klass A-enheterna kommer att erbjudas till ett pris av 24,00 C $ per enhet, ett förmånligt pris än gårdagens stängning på TSX till 30,38 C $. 3iQ: s slutna bitcoinfond erbjöd ursprungligen klass A- och klass F-enheter till 10 dollar vardera. För att framkalla fler och fler köpare fanns det ingen gräns för minimiköp.

”Erbjudandekursen i klass A fastställdes så att den inte utspädde det senast beräknade substansvärdet per klass A-enheten den 5 november 2020, plus agentens avgift per enhet och kostnaderna för erbjudandet,” bolaget förklarar.

Trots att den handlas på den kanadensiska börsen och drivs av den kanadensiska investeringsfondförvaltaren 3iq Corp, är värdet på investeringen denominerade i amerikanska dollar

3iQ förvaltar redan två privata investeringsfonder – 3iQ Bitcoin Trust och 3iQ Global Cryptoasset Fund – som började som en privatemission endast tillgänglig för ackrediterade och institutionella investerare i Kanada. Tidigare i år tillkännagav 3iQ sammanslagningen av 3iQ Bitcoin Trust till The Bitcoin Fund och distribuerar fondandelar av klass B som kvalificerade enligt prospektet.

De börshandlade produkterna ger aktieägare direkt exponering för bitcoinvärde. Den icke-inlösbara investeringsfonden syftar också till att uppnå kapitalstegring genom en långsiktig innehavsstrategi.

Efter ett överklagande har 3iQ tidigare säkerställt godkännande från Ontario Securities Commission att erbjuda sin Bitcoin-fond till kanadensiska investerare . I september har den också flyttat sin Bitcoin-fond på Gibraltar-börsen, ett steg som syftar till att bredda sin investerarbas utanför dess ursprungliga noteringsområde i Kanada.

För att ge stöd till fonden sa 3iQ att man tog upp frågorna om prissättning, förvaring, revision och allmänintresse i en reglerad investeringsfond. Det fungerar som investerings- och portföljförvaltare för fonden, medan kryptobörsen Gemini Trust i New York kommer att fullgöra förvaltaren av de bitcoins som finns i fonden.

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KuCoin looks to the future – Despite a security incident on September 25, the KuCoin platform quickly got back on its feet. In addition to gradually reactivating its services to become fully operational again, KuCoin continues to evolve and diversify its offer.

This article is promotional content written for KuCoin.

Security problem: ancient history

Although hackers managed to embezzle the equivalent of $ 281 million in cryptocurrency at the end of September, KuCoin appears to have fully recovered from its injuries.

Over $ 204 million of its crypto-assets have been saved and recovered . In addition, the platform has maintained a constant effort to bring its services back online, in particular access to withdrawals .

The vast majority of cryptocurrencies on KuCoin are thus fully available , with in particular the return of withdrawals on Cosmos (ATOM), Chainlink (LINK), PIVX or Ethereum Classic (ETC) projects over the past few days.

The availability of Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and other major altcoins had already been reactivated, as early as the first two weeks after the security incident.

Application update and new trading options

KuCoin is therefore going ahead and announcing several new features . One of the latest is the 3.20.1 update of its mobile application (compatible on Android and iOS).

This improvement brings in particular the option of conversion into KCS (KuCoin Shares), which allows you to quickly convert the small “dust” of cryptos from your account into the native token of the platform. These allow, among other things, to reduce trading costs.

In addition, the application now facilitates the rapid transfer of its crypto between the different interfaces KuCoin: spot trading, staking (with service Pool-X ), margin trading and futures contracts ( futures ), …

Futures trading is also experiencing a mini revolution. KuCoin has just added Litecoin (LTC), Cardano (ADA), and XRP projects to its offering. It will thus be possible to trade these futures against the USDT stablecoin, with leverage ranging from x1 to x50 .

Be careful, however, it is always good to remember that the use of leverage should be used in moderation. Too large a multiplier can mean express liquidation.