Canada's TSX Lists World’s First Bitcoin ETF
Last week the Toronto Stock Exchange announced the world's first bitcoin exchange traded fund to the market. Purpose Bitcoin ETF, began trading under the symbols TSX:BTCC.B (CDN dollar denominated) and TSX:BTCC.U (U.S. dollar denominated). These funds can be be held within registered accounts like an RRSP, TFSA, or RESP and the annual management fee is 1 per cent.
**Why buy an ETF vs holding bitcoin yourself?**
An ETF structure provides you with daily liquidity, you can buy and sell your shares in the ETF at any point throughout the trading week. This structure also ensures that the price of the ETF and the price of the net assets of the ETF are directly connected. Every dollar coming into the fund means it will have to purchase a dollar worth of bitcoin to it's position.
Investing in this fund has some safer aspects such as the custodian of the fund will have better safeguarding in place from hackers than most individual investors. However, on the downside if the funds price doesn't follow closely to the price of bitcoin there can be some risks. Bitcoin is here to stay so this is just another vehicle for investors to tap and take advantage of the upside of bitcoin. Regulators had previously resisted approving a Bitcoin ETF, but I think they have realized that allowing investors to participate in an ETF like this provides a safer alternative than some of the other option.
***If investing in an ETF isn't your thing and you would prefer to own bitcoin in your own wallet, here are some Canadian exchange options:***
You can earn a $30 bonus and free satoshi's everyday with Shakepay (buy and sell Bitcoin/Ethereum) https://shakepay.me/r/N943CO4
You can earn a $25 bonus with Newton (buy/sell bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Ripple, Bitcoin Cash, Stellar Lumens, Monero, Tether, USD Coin) https://web.newton.co/r/B0GCWO
The First All- Civilian Mission To Space
SpaceX has been on a tear lately with rocket launches for their satellite constellation, to flying their private customers payloads and working closely on NASA missions. On the human space travel side they have been the ones to bring astronaut launches back to U.S. soil. To now leading the charge of bringing the world's first all-civilian mission to space and **YOU** can join the crew!
**Who's going and how many people will be part of the crew?**
**Crew Member One**
The commander and benefactor of the mission is Jared Isaacman who is the founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments, which is a leading company in integrated payment processing solutions. He's an accomplished jet pilot who co-founded the world’s largest private air force, Draken International, which trains all kinds of pilots for the United States Armed Forces.
**Crew Member Two**
This member has not yet been announced and is set to be a St. Jude ambassador.
**Crew Members Three and Four**
Yet to be announced. There is currently under two weeks left before they begin selection of the last two members of the mission. It is still open for those who wish to apply!
Keep in mind that this is open to legal US residents, 18+ and the Winners of each must be physically & psychologically fit for training and spaceflight, and must meet the requirements to be admitted into related government facilities.
**What is the Timeline?**
The current goal is to finalize the crew selection by March and then to launch the mission some time in Q4 of 2021. While in space they will be conducting a number of experiments, research and projects.
I think this is a win-win opportunity if you want to get a chance to fly in space. Both because you will be helping a great charity in need and giving your self an entry for the experience of a lifetime. Space flight has long been a dream for many of us and now that dream may not be so far away for a lucky few.
Source: https://inspiration4.com/
My faucets for 2021
I started exploring faucets in early January of 2021, late to the game I know but better late than never. The most important factors I was looking for was reliability, trust, payout and ease-ability of claiming. The following are a list of where you can earn some free coins:
**1. Freebitcoin**
One of the oldest and longest standing faucets they give 5 satoshi's (at the time of writing) every one hour as well as their own reward points and lottery tickets for bigger prize pools.
Recently i've been getting emails everyday for a free spin on their wheel of fortune which allows you to win exciting prizes like a Rolex, iPhone, Lambo and large amounts of BTC. You can signup here https://freebitco.in/?r=41056417
**2. Betfury**
This site offers a lot of gambling options as well as a faucet withdrawal of 5 satoshi's (at the time of writing) every 20 mins. They have a very easy to navigate site and very appealing design elements with no ads required to be viewed.
There is also a staking option once you earn 10 BetFury tokens (BFG) which allows you to take part in the profit-sharing and get daily drops. Any bet grants you progress toward earning BFG tokens. There are many more things to explore when you signup here http://betfury.io/?r=60174d24cc1b551853ff577a
**3. Getzen**
This faucet allows you to receive free Zen tokens (zennies) everyday for free. You can multiply your earnings by verifying a wallet, linking your social channels, using the brave browser, or even by hodling your zen in a verified address (although all of these are not necessary to start collecting). You can signup here https://getzen.cash/auth/register?ref=376988
**4. Globalhive**
This faucet allows you to receive free ZCash (ZEC) everyday for free. You can multiply your earnings by linking your social channels or by using the brave browser. You can signup here https://globalhive.io/r/101795
**5. Pipeflare**
This faucet allows you to earn three different tokens everyday ZCash (ZEC), Doge and Flare (FLR). You can multiply your earnings by linking your social channels. The Flare (FLR) tokens are Pipeflare's own tokens which can be used in games and for receiving a share of their airdrops.
They also have some pretty fun and easy games you can play to earn more Flare (FLR) tokens and compete in the leaderboards for some bonus DAI tokens. You can signup here https://pipeflare.io/r/6az3
**6. Faucetcrypto**
This faucet has a pretty engaging setup where you earn the faucets own coin currency which you can then exchange for a selection of 20 cryptocurrencies which they support for withdrawals (most withdrawals are sent directly to the blockchain wallet address).
They have multiple ways of earning such as a 30 minute one button faucet claim as well as PTC ads, short links and offerwalls & surveys. You can signup here https://faucetcrypto.com/ref/685139
If you think I missed any that I should check out leave me a comment or if you end up trying one of the above let me know how it goes. Thanks to everyone for reading, commenting, following, and liking.
My first experience with Bitcoin Cash
The pandemic changed a lot of things for many people and this too was true for me. I was stuck working from home with a lot more time on my hands with the whole world shutdown. I was always interested in crypto but it was more of a small thought in the back of my mind that I would occasionally read up on or check on prices now and then. However, with all the new bandwidth and capacity I had I was able to turn my sights back to the crypto-verse. I wanted to start writing about my journey, finance, earning opportunities and interesting news stories...
This is when I found noise.cash, before this I had no prior experience with Bitcoin Cash other than hearing it's name here and there. Let me just say I was impressed, I found that I was getting and giving tips so quick to my wallet and that there was virtually no fees. It's what makes the idea of sending something so small as a 1 cent micro payment so powerful because of the frictionless interaction. When you look at some of the big names like BTC or ETH sending such small amounts consistently like noise.cash does it would bury you in fees. My eyes are now wide open to how powerful Bitcoin Cash can be and how exciting the future for it is.
For those who haven't tried noise.cash or are new to Bitcoin Cash I think once you try the platform and get a taste of the entire experience it may ignite a new passion like it did for me.
Thanks to everyone for reading, commenting, following, and liking.
@Stockpile
