Observatorio Blockchain

The born of Metalaw, the community of jurists to ensure rights in the metaverse

observatorio-blockchain@newsletter.paragraph.com (Observatorio Blockchain) — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 19:01:10 GMT

Metalaw, the community to ensure rights in the metaverses, has managed to add 923 people (mostly jurists) in a week. Metalaw arises from the need to face all aspects susceptible to regulation and conflicts of interest in the metaverses. Virtual worlds where almost all aspects of physical reality are replicated with all their complexity, taking new forms and requiring new solutions.

The goal of Metalaw is to become a consultative entity for metaverse development companies, as well as for companies or individuals who wish to develop projects in them. The Metalaw Community is a free opinion space, where you can share knowledge and conduct research with interdisciplinary groups, promoting specialized collective intelligence. The foundations of respect and freedom of opinion are essential. The participation of jurists and technologists is essential to be able to generate a broad debate on the impact of Law in this new scenario, as well as, in the opposite direction, on the impact of this new virtual reality on Law.

In order to ponder on such projections of the metaverses, the Community has created different areas of work, where people specialized in them are registering themselves. Currently, the working groups are: Personal Data Protection, Consumer Law, AML (Anti-Money Laundering Regulations). Computer Crimes, Digital Identity, Conflict Resolution, Labor Law, Human Rights, Fintech, Intellectual Property. Fiscal/Tax, Basic aspects of the metaverse concept, Real Estate, Defense of competition, Play to Earn, Regulatory and competent Jurisdiction, among others.

Meetup in the Metaverse

The Metalaw Community has channels on Telegram and Discord. Therefore, anyone who wishes to participate in any of the areas mentioned can do so by joining them on Discord, which is where the working groups are. The Metalaw Community will host the first smart contract event on Discord tomorrow. Likewise, the Metalaw Community will hold a meetup in the metaverse to present its functions and objectives. The Musure World platform has been the first to establish contact with Metalaw.

Metalaw is an initiative of Agustina Perez Comenale, Federico Ast, Sebastián Heredia, Juan Corvalan and Covadonga Fernández. Similarly, several members of the Community have shown their willingness to work and lead each of the areas created. Metalaw has the support of Kleros Montevideo, Legal Hackers, IALAB UBA and Observatorio Blockchain

¿Qué mueve realmente el precio del bitcoin?

observatorio-blockchain@newsletter.paragraph.com (Observatorio Blockchain) — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 16:39:57 GMT

Qué mueve exactamente el precio de bitcoin sigue siendo una incógnita que muchos intentan resolver. Algunos expertos señalan que los factores macroeconómicos adversos benefician el precio del bitcoin. Otros, que lo perjudican. Muchas veces nos encontramos en escenarios en los que todo es justificable. Al inicio de la pandemia, el precio del bitcoin subía porque los mercados financieros caían. Ahora, el precio de bitcoin desciende porque la aparición de la variante Omicrom y la tensión entre Ucrania y Rusia causa incertidumbre en los mercados financieros.

El precio de bitcoin ha caído más de un 30% en el último mes y se encuentra un 50% más bajo que el precio máximo alcanzado el pasado noviembre. Al cierre de esta edición, la cotización de bitcoin es de $36.530. En noviembre, llegó a superar los $69.000. Muchos experto achacan esta caída a que los mercados también están registrando abultadas pérdidas, debido a la tensión ante una posible invasión de Ucrania por parte de Rusia que, a su vez, puede provocar una subida del precio del petróleo y afectar la inflación.

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La minería de Rusia y China

Otra razón a la que los analistas apuntan es la propuesta del Banco de Rusia de prohibir el minado y el uso de criptomonedas en su territorio. Según el Banco Central ruso, el minado y las transacciones de criptomonedas suponen un posible riesgo a la estabilidad financiera en los mercados emergentes. No obstante, el presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, dio a conocer ayer su desacuerdo con la propuesta del Banco Central de su país. El mandatario reconoció que las criptomonedas pueden representar ciertos riesgos, pero advirtió que una postura demasiado estricta podría no ser buena para la innovación.

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En cualquier caso, parece lógico que la tentativa del Banco de Rusia de prohibir el minado de criptomonedas haya podido afectar el precio del bitcoin. Sobre todo, si tenemos en cuenta que Rusia es el tercer país con la mayor cantidad de minado de criptomonedas del mundo. Sin embargo, ¿qué ocurrió cuándo se prohibió el minado de criptomonedas en China, el país que más minaba en el mundo?

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Pues ocurrió que tras una turbulencia temporal en los precios, la cotización de Bitcoin comenzó a subir exponencialmente hasta alcanzar su precio máximo histórico el 10 de noviembre de 2021. En este caso, los analistas expertos apuntaban a que la prohibición de China aumentó la descentralización de la minería causando un exponencial incremento en el precio. Todo es justificable.

La barrera del anonimato

La información acerca de los movimientos de bitcoin siempre suele ser imprecisa y a posteriori. Cuando bitcoin alcanzó sus máximos en noviembre de 2021, los analistas predecían que iba a superar con creces la barrera de los $100.000. Sin embargo, el exceso de euforia causó un posterior retroceso. Lo cierto es que el mercado de bitcoin y las criptomonedas es todavía muy inmaduro y, sobre todo, el anonimato hace muy difícil realizar predicciones correctas.

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Mark Zuckerberg conoce quiénes son los principales inversores de su empresa Meta (Facebook). Una información que además está disponible para todo el mundo. El propio Zuckerberg controla el 16% de sus acciones, las empresas Black Rock y FMR controlan ambas un 5,7%, y otros bancos de inversión como Morgan Stanley y JP Morgan controlan alrededor del 2%. Esto permite conocer a los accionistas, analizar sus perfiles y estudiar cómo pueden reaccionar antes determinadas situaciones del mercado.

En el caso de bitcoin, es imposible saber quién tiene el poder. Un grupo de 10.000 inversores (conocidos como ballenas) controlan más de un tercio de los bitcoins en circulación. Es decir, controlan uno de cada tres bitcoins. Sin embargo, es imposible saber si estas direcciones representan a empresas, grupos de inversión, inversores independientes o incluso a una sola persona. De hecho, un estudio del National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) no descarta que todas estas direcciones pertenezcan a Satoshi Nakamoto, el pseudónimo usado por la persona que creó Bitcoin.

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El poder de Twitter y la comunidad

Aunque es difícil saber qué mueve el precio del bitcoin exactamente, la percepción es que el precio del bitcoin se mueve muchas veces en base a una sensación construida a partir de varios factores por la comunidad cripto. Una sensación que la mayoría de veces se desarrolla en las redes sociales y, más concretamente, en Twitter. La mayoría de pequeños inversores acude a Twitter para saber qué debe hacer con sus criptomonedas y en función de la sensación del momento vende o compra.

Elon Musk: la veleta de las criptomonedas, nuestro personaje del año 2021

En la construcción de esta sensación los principales influencers cripto juegan un papel fundamental. En un contexto de incertidumbre económica, donde la confianza se hace más necesaria que nunca, los inversores depositan su confianza en aquellas personas que les transmiten éxito. El claro ejemplo es Elon Musk, una persona clave en la construcción de esta sensación. La imagen de sus mensajes, envueltos en amplias sonrisas, son guiños a los que mucha gente interpreta que hay que hacer caso.

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The best 5 platforms to create, sell and buy NFTs

observatorio-blockchain@newsletter.paragraph.com (Observatorio Blockchain) — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 17:23:46 GMT

Creating NFTs is almost as simple as uploading a photo to Facebook or Instagram. Anyone with a crypto wallet can create, sell and buy an NFT on the different platforms available. You only need to create a user, upload the content you want to convert to a NFT and connect your crypto wallet to pay for the gas: the cost of uploading that file to the blockchain. Here are 5 of the best platforms to start in the world of NFTs.

OpenSea

OpenSea is the NFT platform par excellence. It was created in 2018 and currently has more than 20 million NFTs within it. In the last month, more than 2.29 million transactions were made with a total value of $ 3.66 billion. As of today, it has almost 250,000 users.

One of the main attractions of OpenSea is its ease of use. Simply connect the wallet, upload the file you want to convert and give it a name. In addition, creating an NFT in OpenSea is totally free since it does not require any type of commission. Of course, the platform charges 2.5% of the sale price if you manage to sell your NFT.

Also, when it comes to putting the NFT up for sale, you have to pay the gas fee to upload it to the blockchain. However, another of the characteristics of OpenSea is that you only have to pay this fee when publishing the first NFT of your collection. That is, if you are thinking of uploading several NFTs, you will only pay the gas fee of the first one.

When it comes to putting the NFT up for sale, you can choose between setting a fixed direct sale price or selling it by auction. In auction, you will have to decide on a minimum price, an auction expiration date and a maximum price. In addition, you can configure different rewards, so that if someone shares the NFT link and manages to sell it, they take a small percentage of the sale. Once the NFT is sold, you will receive the money directly to the crypto portfolio with which you have connected.

Rarible

According to data from DappRadar, Rarible had a total sales volume of more than $ 19 million in the last month thanks to its 10,000 users. After OpenSea, it is one of the most popular NFTs marketplaces.

It´s interface is very similar to OpenSea and also stands out for its easy operation. You connect your wallet, upload the file and put it up for sale. Like OpenSea, Rarible charges a 2.5% fee each time a sale is made. However, this platform also charges 2.5% to the buyer. Therefore, it charges a total of 5% in commissions for each sale.

In addition, unlike OpenSea, in Rarible, the price of gas must be paid for each NFT that you want to put up for sale and sellers have to contribute the price of gas when the NFT is put up for auction and when it is sold. This greatly increases the price of creating an NFT, considering that gas rates currently on the Ethereum network exceed $ 100.

An advantage of Rarible over OpenSea is that it has its own token, the RARI. Which can create incentives to use Rarible, since every time an NFT is sold and bought within the platform, tokens are received. In fact, the price of RARI has gone from a low of $ 1.30 at the beginning of the year to $ 20.10 today.

Mintable

There were 806 transactions on the Mintable platform in the last month for a total value of more than $ 51,000. Despite the fact that they are far from the two previous platforms, Mintable has features that makes it a very good option to start experimenting with NFTs.

The process of creating an NFT is straightforward. You just have to create a user, upload the file with a title and put it up for sale. The main advantage of Mintable over the two previous marketplaces is that it is not necessary to pay any gas fee to upload an NFT. When uploading an NFT, the platform gives us the option of creating the NFT for free or uploading it in a "normal" way by paying the gas fee. If we select the option of not paying gas fee, the platform will keep 5% of the money we receive from the sale, while if we choose to pay the gas fee, the platform will keep 2.5%.

Also, if we choose not to pay gas, the NFT will not appear as created in other marketplaces until it is sold or transferred. That is, the NFT created appears on the Mintable platform and is registered and available to be purchased, but the NFT cannot be made available in our crypto portfolio.

SuperRare

In the last month, SuperRare had more than 3,500 transactions with a total value in excess of $ 20 million. Unlike the previous 3 platforms, SuperRare is not open to everyone, as it is focused on the art world.

SupeRare is an exclusive platform for artists. Only single-issue items that have been created by a single artist are sold. To publish on SuperRare you need to fill out a contact form in which the artist profile is granted and only include a few profiles per month.

When uploading the work, artists must show that it is original and that it has been created by them. For this, a short presentation video must be provided, between 3 and 5 previous works and a story behind the work that you want to upload and the reason why it should be on the platform.

In addition, SuperRare has its own social network within the platform. Users can follow, like and talk to the creators of the NFTs in a similar way to the famous social network Instagram.

Hic et Nunc

The Hic et Nunc platform, "here and now" in English, had almost 1.5 million transactions in the last month and moved more than $ 25 million. Hic et Nunc was born in response to platforms that use proof of work as a consensus mechanism. An algorithm criticized for being highly polluting. Therefore, unlike the previous 4 platforms that use the Ethereum blockchain, Hic et Nunc operates on the Tezos blockchain. A blockchain that uses proof of stake as a consensus mechanism, a much less polluting algorithm.

The platform is simple to use and has a minimalist design reminiscent of arcade machines. In addition, by using your own blockchain, the cost of creating an NFT is much lower than that of creating it on the Ethereum blockchain. Currently, the cost per NFT on Hic et Nunc is less than $ 1, while on Ethereum it is more than $ 100.

Another outstanding aspect of this platform is its community. Respect for the environment has attracted many artists to this platform and has created a community made up of multitudes of artists who support each other.