Satoshi Nakamoto Revealed: Wright’s Trial Begins ⚖️

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This is Howling Markets, the newsletter that will reveal your interest in the financial markets without forging any interesting information!

Today we will be covering:

• Education: What Is Forgery? 📜

• China Is “Univenstable” As Help Is Too Little, Too Late 🚨

• Satoshi Nakamoto Revealed: Wrights Trial Begins ⚖️

• Equity and Debt Markets Daily Update

• And more!

Market Watch 👀

What Is Forgery?

Forgery is the criminal act of creating, modifying, using or possessing a false document with the intent of defrauding someone. Forgery is considered one of the most popular frauds, and in the United States it is considered a felony that could implicate several years of prison time.

The entity of the punishment depends on many aspects, including prior criminal history, the type of document that has being falsified, the intent of correcting the wrongdoing and the personal gain of the criminal.

In the United States forgery crimes are classified in three main categories:

• First-degree forgery: forgery involving bonds, currencies, stocks and securities

• Second-degree forgery: forgery involving deeds, public records, government-issued IDs and prescriptions.

• Third-degree forgery: forgery involving any other type of document

For example, in today’s newsletter we will discuss how an Australian programmer has been accused of forging documents that would point towards the fact that he is Satoshi Nakamoto.

China Is “Univenstable” As Help Is Too Little, Too Late

Last week we had discussed how the Chinese stock market was in an even tougher place than it already was due to the advent of snowball derivatives and their imminent stop loss, threatening to cause billion dollar losses.

However, the snowball derivatives are just the cherry on top of a decade long market downturn, that over the years has wiped out more than $2 trillion from the market.

To stop this ruinous trend, the Chinese vice-premier intervened by announcing a “more forceful and effective measures to stabilize the market and boost confidence”, generating a short term rally a couple of weeks ago. However, just the day after, many analysts were surveyed and 40% of them claimed that China became “uninventable”.

Despite recognizing the extremely low valuations in the Chinese market, many investors, especially US ones, are worried about the “caveats” that come together with these valuations. A Goldman’s analyst commented that even if China only takes 3% of your portfolio, it will require 10% of your time, and because of this, many investors are “by and large out of China”.

Over the past 7 days, the Chinese CSI 500 index lost more than -11% as investors realized that the authorities’ help was too little too late, bring the current price well over -60% since the all-time high.

Today’s Howling Question

And now, it is time for our howling question!

Because the Tokyo trading session occurs during the night for both European and American traders, we already have the data about the next trading session, which is rather surprising due to the announcement of some powerful news. Can you guess Tuesday’s CSI 500’s performance?

a)  -10%

b) -7.5%

c)  -2.5%

d)  +3%

e)  +8%

Try to answer the question by yourself, and then check the correct answer after the last interesting news!

Satoshi Nakamoto Revealed: Wright’s Trial Begins

When anyone describes Bitcoin to a crypto newbie, they always begin by saying that it is the first and world’s largest cryptocurrency ever created, developed by an anonymous programmer that goes by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto. But what if this description just became outdated?

Certainly, Bitcoin is still the first ever crypto and the token with the largest capitalization, the issue with the definition lies in the anonymity of its founder.

Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist, has claimed to be the author of Bitcoin’s whitepaper under the pseudonymous of Satoshi Nakamoto.

Because he wasn’t the first to make such a claim, at the beginning his words went almost unnoticed, however quite a few issues started to surge when he began legally pursuing members of the crypto community alleging copyright infringements, even developers working on open-source Bitcoin protocols.

Because of this, the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA), MicroStrategy, Coinbase and other several high-profile entities started a legal action against Wright to protect the development and improvement of the Bitcoin enviroment without the fear of being sued by someone who calls himself Satoshi Nakamoto.

So, the Intention of COPA is not to find the actual Satoshi, but rather to stop the claims which in their opinion are unfounded and even forged.

Despite the legal action being initiated in 2021, the trial just started on Monday the 5^th of February in a UK court. During the first day, the judge ordered Craig to provide additional evidence of being the mastermind behind Bitcoin and now this material is being cross-examined by many experts trying to find any signs either of truth or of forgery.

In conclusion, the first day can be summed up by Wright counselor’s claim that “COPA has been unable to point to any direct evidence that Dr. Wright is not Satoshi” while stating that Wright has the knowledge to potentially build a protocol like Bitcoin’s and that the real Satoshi Nakamoto would have come out, even anonymously to the court, just to stop Wright’s actions.

These days are going to be a really exciting period for the Bitcoin’s community as this trial is expected to get really heated really quickly, and don’t worry, we will be covering any major events!

Equity and Debt Markets Updates

And now, our daily markets update!

On Monday the stock market began facing some signs of downward pressure once again, with the price dropping almost to -1% during the day before recovering and closing just -0.32%. The candle shape signals that despite the selling pressure, there are still some buyers right below the current price level.

However, Monday’s session did not hint at any further buying pressure that could drive the price higher.

In yesterday’s newsletter, we talked about how the bond yields had already started Monday’s trading session in positive territory. Now, we can add that not only did the yields surge at the beginning of the day, but they continued throughout.

The 10 year US government bond yield closed the day up +3.38%, a second day in a row with a positive performance higher than 3%.

Answer

The correct answer is e) +8%

The CSI 500 index surged by +7.75% on Tuesday as Chinese authorities pulled through with stronger and more efficient government aid as they realized that what was proposed during their previous meeting wasn’t enough to stop the market fall.

In tomorrow’s newsletter we will carefully examine what was said during this new meeting and the implications that it will have on the broader market.

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