Criptos (boletín semanal): Se acerca el 'Halving' de Bitcoin

 

Siguiendo la ruptura de la frontera en los 9.500 USD, los alcistas han empujado el precio del Bitcoin hasta los 10.000 USD por primera vez desde el mes de febrero; no obstante, tras una corrección a la baja, éste ha vuelto a la barrera de los 9.000 USD. El reciente rally ha tenido como catalizador un importante evento que tendrá lugar el próximo 12 de mayo: el 'Halving' de Bitcoin. Esta operación consiste en la reducción de emisiones de Bitcoin por bloque, que en este caso concreto arrojará el tercer mejor resultado desde el comienzo de la red en 2009. Los criptomineros reciben una cierta cantidad de Bitcoins cada vez que se forma un bloque (cada 10 minutos aproximadamente). Al comenzar el fenómeno Bitcoin, esta recompensa era de 50 unidades por bloque; tras la extracción de cada 210.000 bloques (aproximadamente cada 4 años), la recompensa por bloque es reducida a la mitad (de ahí el término 'halving', proveniente del término inglés 'halve', traducido a "reducir a la mitad") de forma gradual hasta que la recompensa pro bloque sea 0 (lo cual sucederá en torno al año 2140). Actualmente, la recompensa es de 12.5 Bitcoins por bloque, y decrecerá hasta 6-25 tras dicho 'Halving'.

News & World Report senior investing reporter John Divine says the halving is a stark contrast to the recent stimulus packages and fiat creation.
“Previous halvings, in 2012 and 2016, respectively, were followed by huge run-ups in the price of bitcoin; halvings are fundamentally bullish for the cryptocurrency and another long-term rally could follow this next one,” Divine explained in a note to investors on May 4. “Bitcoin halving simply illustrates one reason it has earned so much investment. In sharp contrast to fiat currencies like the U.S. dollar – over $2 trillion has been created by the Federal Reserve in 2020 alone – the number of bitcoin in existence has a hard cap, and mass dilution events are fundamentally impossible.”

 

It is difficult to say how Bitcoin price will react on Tuesday. On one side halving might be already priced in by the market and there will be no major price movements. On the other side halving of supply might cause an increase in price if demand for Bitcoins is equal or greater than what it was before the halving event. Below are two charts showing past price performance of the two halving events:

 

The second halving event occurred on the 10th of July, 2016 at block height 420,000. Source: xStation5

Ethereum price managed to break above $200.00 and is currently testing major resistance level at $209.28. Should upbeat moods prevail, resistance at $250.62 may come into play. Local support is located at $ 191.05. Source: xStation5

 

 

The Bank of the Netherlands (De Nederlandsche Bank, DNB) announced that all cryptocurrency service providers should be registered in the regulations by May 18. On April 21, the Dutch Senate passed the Implementation Act amending European Union’s fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (ALMD). Now all companies offering fiat-crypto conversion services or cryptocurrency custody services have two weeks to register in DNB.