@newmoneyreview Well this is the next thing to look at....who actually paid for and were issued CEL tokens at 30c ....ftx and bitfinex I'm guessing between the three and their perifeey they would control literally the whole market...it trade a like a non bouncing dead cat.
@newmoneyreview CEL tokens issued 30cents went 10x by Q3-2020...Dec 2020 the last month of the financial period the price went vertical closing year out at $5.45. adding $2B to Celsius balance sheet....ironically rather than be penalised for issuing far more than market demand
@newmoneyreview they instead gorged their own balance sheet by holding in treasury. How anemic would this balance sheet be if the treasury shares were booked at cost (zero) or issue price (30cents).
So the second you transfer any digital asset into a #celsius account beneficial ownership changes. Its no longer your asset.
This means your ability to manage risk becomes binary - either the assets are with Celsius or not with Celsius.
So what? As long as they pay out best in market returns why would you care? 1) Risk vs return. Bitcoin or bottletops, Buffett or Saylor- it doesn't matter who or what you can't disconnect risk from return.
Today I wasted too much time trying to reconcile some fairly basic numbers for #celsius which was a bit frustrating and I was scratching around trying to work out where I'd gone wrong.
So I'll throw it out to twitter ..... Someone tell which one of these numbers on celcius.network/cel-token-expl… page is actually correct?
Ok its a bit of a trick question....As literally all of them are incorrect in one form or another.
just got around going through #celsiusnetwork financials for Dec 2020 accounts. (see my previous posts re:$150m secured debt). I probably won't finish off the analysis until end of the week (pulling all the data into sheets is a pain). here's something to make you go 🤔
For clarity even though its a UK company all figures are in US'000.....which means the assets shown are US$4.709B and 'net assets' are US$1.44B.....I'll admit. once I realized the numbers were billions not millions....I was kinda impressed...
...I should say cautiously impressed....how did they go from $290M net assets to $1.5B in 10 months?
I've been asked a couple of times how I was able to aggregate the daily #tether transparency pages so I thought I'd share the data.
Shared googlesheet >>> bit.ly/3iQ3W5U#OSINT
While you could scrape the html table direct from the transparency page its only provides the last 24hours.
Wayback machine captures the page multiple times per month. Use the IMPORTHTML function (USDT is "table 3") web.archive.org/web/2021011213…
Tether gold is "Table 6". As XAUT is reported in 'oz' and note $ and only issued on Eth. The empty columns have been removed and converted to US$m using daily #gold price from gold.org
@CasPiancey@BennettTomlin@ThinkPolOfficer As the week I was pulling the data was literally the same week that google began to shut down the service. Over time the profile images also disappeared as I had just used the image lines direct from the google+ account