According to the essayontime.co.uk platform, ethereum came out many years after hundreds of cryptocurrencies hit the crypto market but has surpassed them by far due to its unique technology.
The riskiness is taken a step further when it comes to newer coins because they make you more vulnerable to scams when compared to ones that have been around longer such as Bitcoin.
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Last year, a California man pleaded guilty to a mining fraud of at least US$722 million through the BitClub Network. In February, a New York man pleaded guilty to running a Ponzi-like hedge crypto fund that stole about $90 million from more than 100 investors.
Bitcoin is widely regarded as the first modern cryptocurrency — the first publicly used means of exchange to combine decentralized control, user anonymity, record-keeping via a blockchain, and built-in scarcity.
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Bitcoin is down roughly 20% week-over-week, around 30% from its all-time high of nearly $65,000 early last week. The market cap of the coin has dipped below $1 trillion. The tumble has been less severe for Ethereum, which hit an all-time high just yesterday but has since dropped 13% as the broader market has crawled back.
Crypto data aggregation platform, CoinMarketCap, recorded an increase in Bitcoin’s trading volume of almost 21% over the last 24 hours as of 2.25pm, with the cryptocurrency’s trading volume reaching $41,758,072,990.
Interestingly, the breakout was initiated right as a report from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) showed a sharp 6.2% annual rise in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), a figure that has hit its highest mark in 30 years.
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Last year, a California man pleaded guilty to a mining fraud of at least $722 million through the BitClub Network. In February, a New York man pleaded guilty to running a Ponzi-like hedge crypto fund that stole about $90 million from more than 100 investors.
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