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March 20th 2020 – Wrap Up
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March 13th 2020 – Wrap Up
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- 1:30 - About 2 months ago the repo markets dried up, meaning banks stopped to lend each other, the FED jumped in with $500 Billion Dollars, but nothing happened which tells us there is a much bigger problem coming. The last 10 years the FED just kicked the economic problems down the road printing more money than during the last 100 years, but finally financial markets said enough is enough. For normal we would now see Gold and Crypto prices up while Stocks are going down and Bonds up, but if stock markets drop that deep and leveraged investments get margin calls, Traders need Cash and are forced to sell everything for Cash no matter if it’s stocks, Gold or Bitcoin.
- 4:40 - Bitmex had over $500 Million in forced liquidations and dropped Bitcoin prices to bear market lows. There was a huge demand for borrowing during this time, and interest rates at which we lend out Crypto shot through the roof. Celsius did exceptionally well during the market turbulences, credit goes to our amazing team that worked 24/7.
- 8:20 - We will be raising rates, we earned more so we will be paying more. We got to lend some ETH at up to 247% and BTC at 120% APR for a short period of time. We are excited to be paying this out to our depositors over time. The flywheel is working just as it was designed to and during the hardest day in finance we just performed perfectly.
- 30:35 - We just announced we hired a new Chief Risk Officer and a Chief Security Officer. We also teamed up ith Fireblocks to add an additional layer of security and insurance with additional $10 million in hot wallet insurance.
- 32:20 - Chain Analysis added our token & there is also a ton of information available on Celsians.com. We are also partnering with a major blockchain to add more transparency, security, and decentralization in our model. We are building a bridge between the fiat world and the crypto world. We really recommend people start with stablecoins, they are the easiest to understand.
- 34:25 - We love our community and are working hard to bring an app that provides amazing financial services to you! We have continued to add assets, earnings, and we are continuing to scale.
- 36:10 - Thank you very much! Stay safe and stay healthy!
Meet the Tel Aviv Team – February 27th 2020
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- Ashley - Content Manager
- Leon - Business Development Manager
- Nir - Director of Product and Customer Success
- Tal - Director of Lending Operations
- Nira - Marketing Partnerships Manager - Ambassador program
- Aliza - VP of Lening
February 26th 2020 – Wrap Up
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- 2:40 - I got into the internet very early and realized we could take the monopoly away from the phone companies.
- 3:34 - The people can have the pride of the money working for them, not just working for money.
- 4:00 - This is a war between centralization and decentralization.
- 5:01 - This chart shows how the Federal Reserve has printed 3x as much money in the last 10 years as they did in the previous 100 years.
- 5:50 - The only way they can keep the economy going the way it is, is by printing unbelievable amounts of money.
- 7:50 - The majority of the economy today is financial engineering.
- 8:30 - Money is going to move from diluted fiat into undilutable crypto.
- 9:56 - When you withdraw $1 from the bank, you force the bank to withdraw $10 from the economy.
- 13:09 - Why do banks only pay you less than 1%/ Because they don't have to pay you any more. There are very few competitors and they also pay less than 1%.
- 14:12 - We give you back 80% of what we earn. That's the difference.
- 19:38 - We need the help of the community to communicate that we have been paying 8% interest for the last 2 years.
- 22:30 - The last thing our competition wants to do is give you 80%.
- 25:41 - CELpay, the service in our wallet, allows you to circumvent the banking system and transfer with 0 fees.
- 30:01 - When we wanted to hand it off to institutions, they laughed at us.
- 33:35 - There will be 3 types of blockchains. Corporate, government, and public.
- 39:28 - Banks are charging you 24% on your credit card and paying depositors less than 1%.
- 40:45 You have to choose, the one who acts in your best interest, or the guys who just want to take your money away.
- 42:19 - We have more users and more assets in the wallet every day.
- 45:01 - In 2019 we did 5.47 Billion in loans, 81% of users deposited more than once, $610 million in AUM, 93% of CEL is being HODLed.
- 49:06 - We are going to do another buyback program of 10 BTC and 200 ETH either starting this week or next
- 50:10 - We finally got listed on CMC and will be correcting our numbers soon.
- 50:25 - We are working on listing, working with two exchanges, and I refuse to pay listing fees.
- 51:43 - Almost every day we are setting a record on new depositos signing up.
- 52:15 - Will be in Toronto on April 1st for an event!
- 55:26 - Bitcoin will replace gold, Ethereum will replace the banks.
- 58:33 - The US Dollar is a phenomenal form of payment, but a terrible store of value.
- 59:00 - Bitcoin is a bad form of payment, but an excellent store of value.
- 1:00:52 - Your job is to bring more people into crypto, that is the key message of this presentation
Ask Aliza Anything – 2/6/2020
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22th January 2020 – Wrap Up
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8th January 2020 – Wrap Up
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19th December 2019 – Wrap Up
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I’ve published several articles recently, one of them on CoinDesk about my view what’s good and bad about DeFi, how do we make DeFi mainstream. And also Rachel Wolfson, who already wrote about Celsius on Forbes and Cointelegraph, did a feature story about my presentation at Elev8 Las Vegas. Rachel did a great story about how the internet will one day be an application on the internet.
We are redirecting 80% of our marketing dollars from Google, Facebook & Apple ads to incentives for people to share the vision of Celsius Network. Our Community can help us grow using CelPay or earn $10 in BTC for every customer they refer with their own Referral Codes.
10th December 2019 – Wrap Up
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26th November 2019 – Wrap Up
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25th November 2019 – Interview
CryptoSlate recently had the opportunity to chat with Celsius Network CEO Alex Mashinsky. Mashinsky is a serial entrepreneur and founder of seven NYC based startups, having raised over $1 billion and exiting over $3 billion.
Celsius was recently in the news for having surpassed more than $4 billion in crypto loans — a 93 percent increase from the $2.2 billion at the beginning of 2019.
In our interview with Alex, we discussed why he built Celsius, the risks of using crypto lending platforms, the challenges of building an app for crypto users, and why Mashinsky believes Bitcoin will not be the winning blockchain.