Norton Crypto 用電腦剩餘資源挖礦 雲端電子貨幣錢包防止惡意軟件

Norton Crypto 用電腦剩餘資源挖礦 雲端電子貨幣錢包防止惡意軟件

Norton 作為知名防毒軟件公司，近日發佈表示即將推出 Norton Crypto，為其消費者提供了一種安全、可靠的方式來成為礦工挖掘以太坊（Ethereum）。而且推出 Norton Crypto Wallet 讓用戶將電子貨幣儲存到雲端上。

知名防毒軟件公司 NortonLifeLock 今天宣布推出 Norton Crypto，並表示這是一項新功能，將有效為用戶提供安全以及輕鬆的方式，善用未使用的運算空間成為礦工挖掘以太坊（Ethereum），並將其轉化為一個經常性收入來源。另外，Norton 亦開設一個新的電子錢包服務 Norton Crypto Wallet，讓用戶將挖礦所得儲存到雲端，從而避免佔用硬碟空間又或者接觸未經審查代碼，甚至因此而被植入惡意軟件。

Norton 表示目前已選定 Norton 360 客戶為第一批受邀可以參與以太坊挖礦計劃的成員，而 Norton Crypto 預計將於未來幾週內向所有 Norton 360 客戶提供。但有報道指出，此舉或將造就成千上萬的新礦工，或加重耗電量，對環境或造成巨大影響。而且有人指，長期挖礦將會對電腦的 GPU 造成巨大負擔。

資料來源：Norton

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Market Wrap: Musk-Induced Sell-Off Spurs Crypto Price Drop Before a Slight Recovery

A bearish tweet from Elon Musk wiped out some long positions, providing some market uncertainty on direction heading into the weekend.

Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $36,826 as of 21:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Losing 4.4% over the previous 24 hours.

Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $35,814-$39,211 (CoinDesk 20)

Ether (ETH) trading around $2,684 as of 21:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). In the red 3.8% over the previous 24 hours.

Ether’s 24-hour range: $2,566-$2,866 (CoinDesk 20)

Bitcoin affected by Musk again

Bitcoin’s hourly price chart on Bitstamp since June 1. Source: TradingView

Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, was down Friday by 4.4% as of press time. It was near the 10-hour moving average and below the 50-hour, a sideways-to-bearish signal for market technicians.

BTC’s price plunged from $39,211 at 00:00 UTC (8:00 p.m. ET Thursday) to $35,814 by 15:15 UTC (8:15 a.m. ET) Friday, an 8.6% dump based on CoinDesk 20 data. Bitcoin then recovered somewhat, at $36,826 as of press time.

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Tesla CEO and amatuer crypto commentator Elon Musk once again was a catalyst for BTC’s market fall after he tweeted a perplexing meme suggesting some sort of break-up with the cryptocurrency.

“The market movement post-Musk’s tweets continues to show how nascent this asset class is,” said Kevin Kang, co-founder of crypto hedge fund BKCoin Capital. “A lot of new retail investors tend to panic-sell post-Musk tweets.”

It’s hard to predict where the market will go into the weekend, according to Andrew Tu, an executive at quant trading fund Efficient Frontier.

“Hard to say where we go – fundamentally there are tons of funds and interest from traditional finance in crypto now,” Tu said. “At the same time a lot of this is still retail speculation, and there definitely is still a bubble that hasn’t popped yet.”

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Leverage plays role in bitcoin price plunge

Bitcoin liquidations, in aggregate, the past week. Source: Skew

As the price of BTC was falling the past 24 hours, leveraged traders going long were wiped out, causing the price dump to exacerbate. At 00:00 UTC (8:00 p.m. ET Thursday), as crypto started seeing heavy selling, leveraged bulls saw their positions liquidated, the blockchain equivalent of a margin call. This included over $66 million in liquidations from 04:00-07:59 UTC (12:00-3:59 a.m. ET), a week-high.

“We’ve seen today that investors are willing to leverage their positions,” said Elie Le Rest, partner at quant fund ExoAlpha.

BKCoin Capital’s Kang appears hopeful that as more big-time investors enter the space, a tweet from Musk might some day not mean a cascading crypto fall.

“As more institutional investors come into the space, we expect Musk’s tweets to affect the market less and less, but we are far from that point at the moment,” said Kang.

Ether and bitcoin correlation holding

Ether’s hourly price chart on Bitstamp since June 1. Source: TradingView

The second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, ether (ETH), was trading around $2,684 as of 21:00 UTC (4:00 p.m. ET), slipping 3.8% over the prior 24 hours. The asset is above the 10-hour moving average but below the 50-hour a sideways signal for market technicians.

Ether fell from $2,866 at 01:45 UTC (7:45 p.m. ET Thursday) to $2,566 by 15:30 UTC (8:30 a.m. ET) Friday, a 10.4% slide based on CoinDesk 20 data. ETH has regained some of that, at $2,684 as of press time.

Over the past month, ether’s 90-day correlation with bitcoin has been above 0.70; the rate has held remarkably steady, hovering around that level and at 0.76 as of press time. A correlation coefficient of 1.0 means assets are working perfectly in tandem, while 0 means not at all.

Bitcoin and ether’s 90-day correlation the past month. Source: CoinDesk Research

It is common for cryptocurrencies to move in tandem during less-than-bullish conditions, noted Efficient Frontier’s Tu. “Most of crypto has become correlated,” he told CoinDesk.

ETH’s big differentiator — its role in decentralized finance (DeFi) — has deflated somewhat, said Jean-Marc Bonnefous, managing partner of investment fund Tellurian Capital.

“I guess we are now in a lower volatility phase after the doge-like buying frenzy and also after the recent wave of liquidations and margin calls on ERC-20 collateral last month,” Bonnefous said.

Ether gas prices rising again

Costs for various transactions on Ethereum. Source: Dune Analytics

After median gas prices on Ethereum dropped to a three-month low of 24 gwei May 30, the rate has been rebounding. According to data aggregator Dune Analytics, gas, which is required to conduct transactions, is now at a median of 29 gwei as of press time. Gwei is the smallest unit of account on Ethereum, worth 0.000000001 ETH.

“The cost of gas fluctuates with the supply and demand for processing power,” noted Constantin Kogan, a crypto investor and co-founder at BullPerks. “Right now, with a short dip, activity on the network declined hence the fees went down.”

Rich Rosenblum, co-founder of crypto market maker GSR, told CoinDesk the lack of market opportunities in DeFi is what’s causing network activity on Ethereum to fall.

“DeFi is less profitable when governance tokens aren’t rallying,” Rosenblum said.

Other markets

Digital assets on the CoinDesk 20 are mostly red Friday. Notable winners as of 21:00 UTC (4:00 p.m. ET):

Notable losers:

Equities:

The S&P 500 in the United States gained 0.90% as investors exuded confidence in the economy based on a positive jobs report released Thursday.

Commodities:

Gold was in the green 1.1% and at $1,891 as of press time.

Treasurys:

The 10-year U.S. Treasury bond yield fell Friday to 1.559 and in the red 4%.

Elon Musk is ‘definitely too influential on Bitcoin prices’ says head of crypto hedge fund—but that may change

Elon Musk caused more calamity in bitcoin price action late Thursday and into Friday, leading at least one crypto hedge-fund manager to describe the Tesla Inc. CEO and prolific tweeter as “too influential on bitcoin prices.”

“Musk is definitely too influential on Bitcoin prices,” Kevin Kang, co-founder and principal at BKCoin Capital, told MarketWatch in emailed comments, while attending a bitcoin conference in Miami.

Kang’s remarks come after Musk on Thursday evening issued a cryptic tweet that many in the world of digital assets were interpreting as the billionaire’s breakup with bitcoin. The tweet included the bitcoin logo and a broken-heart emoji.

At last check, bitcoin prices BTCUSD, +1.54% were down over 4%, changing hands at $36,960.93 on CoinDesk, with the decline being blamed on Musk’s latest missive.

The price of dogecoin DOGEUSD, -0.09% , for which Musk has been one of its biggest champions, was down 2.5%, changing hands at 38.5 cents.

Musk’s social-media messages have had outsize influence on the prices of dogecoin and bitcoin and he’s at least partly blamed for the extant slump in bitcoin and the broader crypto complex. An article last month in The Wall Street Journal described him as bitcoin’s biggest influencer.

Last month, Musk tweeted that Tesla would no longer accept bitcoin as payment for its vehicles, citing the large carbon footprint of digitally mining for bitcoin. The tweet is still reverberating in crypto circles, reigniting a debate about the sustainability of bitcoin mining.

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Back in February, Tesla TSLA, +4.58% revealed that it acquired some $1.5 billion in bitcoin in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

To be sure, bitcoin is influenced by geopolitical events, and tweets from other prominent figures in the industry. However, Musk has come to be a frequent and powerful voice in the crypto arena, with his significance perhaps amplified after he guest-hosted an episode of “Saturday Night Live” early last month, which was widely viewed as advancing crypto to the masses. That’s even if Musk at some point suggested that crypto like dogecoin, bitcoin and Ether ETHUSD, +2.03% on Ethereum’s blockchain might be a hustle, in one segment, to the chagrin of some crypto bulls.

Kang said that, at the end of the day, Musk’s power over crypto isn’t unlike the sway some traditional investors may have over more conventional markets.

“However, that’s no different to what we see in traditional assets when big name hedge-fund managers disclose their positions and those names move,” Kang said.

“I believe the more he tweets, the more immune the market will get in the future but for now, he’s definitely one of the big influencers of the Bitcoin market.”

To be sure, bitcoin is still up solidly so far in 2021, up 27%, and dogecoin is up nearly 8,000% in the year to date.