$ 100 billion losses in two hours. Why is cryptocurrency so badly started a year

Bitcoin fell by $ 4000 in four days due to bad news from the regulators of China and Korea. Such news will be managed by the market all 2018

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Tonight, the Bitcoin exchange rate for the first time since the beginning of the year fell below $ 13,000, and the capitalization of the digital currency market decreased by $ 106 billion due to the announcement of the South Korean authorities on the ban on trade on crypto-rhizas. Cryptocurrencies have been cheaper for a week - and all on the news about toughening regulation in China and Korea.

• Today's fall began with the fact that last night the South Korean Ministry of Justice announced the plan for the ban on trading cryptocurrency on the exchange. Immediately after this, Bitcoin fell into a minimum for 2018 and traded below $ 13,000, but by tonight he played a fall and by 20.00 Moscow time was slightly cheaper than $ 14,000.

• South Korea is one of the main world centers of cryptocurrency trading. The country accounts for approximately 20% of all world bitcoin transactions, while the prices of South Korean exchanges are usually 30% higher than the mid-ID.

• The main claim of the Korean authorities to crypto -streaks is accusations of tax evasion. Last week, several exchanges, including the second largest BitHumb, came with searches by the police.
• Since January 7, the entire cryptocurrency market has fallen by 15%, bitcoin - by almost 20%. The main reason is the fears of twisting of the nuts by regulators in China and Korea. The Chinese authorities, in particular, are going to limit the use of electricity for mining. China accounts for about 75% of world mining capacities.
• Regulation remains the main factor in uncertainty for cryptocurrency. Any messages about the new initiatives of the authorities cause sharp fluctuations in the market. In October 2017, China established a ban on ICO, and crypto -rhizms banned the exchange for real money, dropping a bitcoin exchange rate of $ 2000.

What am I to me?

Most likely, the main news on the cryptornka all of 2018 will be new and new attempts by regulators to put it under control. As the beginning of the year showed, each such news can bring down the market by $ 100 billion - but at the same time give successful investors the opportunity to earn on the rebound. It is a pity that Russian regulators do not affect the market as much as Asian.

Exclusive

There will be no currency control

The government abandoned the idea of ​​introducing restrictions on currency circulation in Russia in the event of a serious financial crisis. The Ministry of Finance proposed to endow the government with extraordinary powers in October. Among the possible measures, the right to oblige business revenue was discussed, and to purchase a currency to receive special permission and open a special account for foreign exchange operations. But the idea was recognized as impractical and harmful.

MONEY

"ABC" for the Chinese

The “ABC of Taste” was the first of the Russian grocery retailers to accept payment through the Chinese service Alipay. At the end of last year, representatives of the Chinese system promised that the service would also be connected to Lenta and Dixie. Non-food luxury-rhythilers-for example, Tsum, GUM and St. Petersburg DLT-take Alipay for a long time. For Chinese tourists, the reception of mobile payments is a mandatory option: the mobile payments market in China itself is already $ 8 trillion.

The Ministry of Finance buys up currency, the ruble holds

The Ministry of Finance in January 2018 will purchase a record amount of currency, spending 257 billion rubles on it. This is predictable - high oil prices (today Brent barrel for the first time since 2014 cost $ 70) allow the state to replenish the FNB, which, after the exhaustion of the reserve fund, became the only reserve of the government in case of a crisis. In total, the state in 2018 plans to purchase currencies for 2 trillion rubles. The scenes will exert pressure on the ruble exchange rate, but so far this does not happen: in December, the Ministry of Finance spent 203.9 billion rubles on this, but the national currency is only getting more expensive.

Jubilee-piercing

It turns out that immediately after the November shootout in the Moscow City complex, where the entrepreneur Dmitry Pavlov celebrated his anniversary that evening, the Investigative Committee conducted searches in the cottages and apartment of billionaire Gabriel Yushvaev-the businessman was present at the celebration, and his guards participated in the conflict. The investigation believed that Yushvaev may have documents important for the criminal process, they want to do not appear in criminal cases. Whether it was possible to find something is unknown. Details about the shootout, after which one person died, can be read here .

PRACTICE

Uber's elusive technology

It is not very good on our part to put this in the “Practice” section - so just in case, let's say: do not try to repeat it at home.

In 2015, 10 investigators broke into the Uber office in Montreal, who came for evidence - the company (as in many other countries) was suspected of tax evasion. Local managers knew well what to do: according to their signal, employees of the Uber headquarters immediately disconnected all Montreal computers from the system, leaving investigators with nothing. Bloomberg talks about Ripley technology, which allows you to remotely change passwords, turn off and completely deprive extraneous access to data on any device in any company’s office in the world.

Ripley helped Uber to avoid problems during regular law enforcement raids to the local branches of the company during 2015-2016. However, Uber from the time of Travis Kalanik, in principle, was not shy about sometimes frankly mocking the authorities - which is at least the Greyball program, identifying police and officials and showing them a fake version of the application.

Food will not be superfluous

Walton family members, the largest WAL-MART shareholders, finance the American startup Foodmaven launched in 2016, which for subsequent resale with a discount buys suitable foods that are unnecessary retailers-for example, pizza in damaged packaging. The head of the Foodmaven Patrick Bultema claims that due to the “inflexibility of the food system” in the United States, foods by $ 200 billion are disappearing annually, and he creates “new ways” in this system.

Fun

Start health

Investors in Bitcoin would be happy if the Russian Ministry of Finance treated the entire market as well as Ton’s new cryptocurrency, which is launched by Telegram Pavel Durov. “He will release, and God with him, to health,” said the deputy minister Alexei Moiseev today in response to the question of Ton (he oversees the creation of the Russian cryptocurrency law ).

Peter Mironenko, The Bell