“One of our institutional traders indicated to us that they had a bug in their trading algorithm, which appears to have caused the sell-off,” Binance.US said in the statement. “We are continuing to look into the event, but understand from the trader that they have now fixed their bug and that the issue appears to have been resolved.”
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Blocks are linked together by cryptography – complex mathematics and computer science. Any attempt to alter data disrupts the cryptographic links between blocks, and can quickly be identified as fraudulent by computers in the network.
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Wallets used by cryptocurrency exchanges are somewhat vulnerable to hacking. For instance, Japan-based Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox shut down and declared bankruptcy a few years back after hackers systematically relieved it of more than $450 million in Bitcoin exchanged over its servers.
Stellar Lumens presents a noble case for itself. The blockchain network wants to allow users to send money anywhere. This is very similar to the goal of XRP or ripple. Ripple is six times larger than Stellar and easier to use.
Despite the concerning news and slight pullback in traditional markets, BTC and ETH prices rose, a dynamic that analysts such as Anthony Pompliano refer to as “asymmetric price action” where investors see a red hot stock market and unsustainable central bank monetary policymaking risk-on assets like Bitcoin as attractive investments and hedges against gold, the dollar and inflation.
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Although the hype around this coin isn’t as much as it was at some point, it is still a strong digital coin that’s attracting several investors. While cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin have limited coin supply, Dogecoin doesn’t have limits. As a result, something that started is now a cryptocurrency with several supporters and investors, including celebrities and billionaires, notably Elon Musk.
Fig 5. Wavelet coherence scalograms between online factors and price (with GSADF test bubble overlay) for Litecoin and Bitcoin.
The Bitrise coin has been a very aggressive coin in the crypto market in the last few months. Since the coin hit the market in July, the value growth has been impressive. The first investors who bought the token are now sitting at thousands and millions of dollars in profit.
Bitcoin’s price spiked above its previous record high of $67,700 seen in late October on Tuesday morning in a continued surge of support for the world’s most popular cryptocurrency.
Fig 8(A) shows many significant positive correlations between Bitcoin and Litecoin. This is an expected relationship given Litecoin is technically very similar to Bitcoin (Litecoin is essentially Bitcoin with faster block confirmations). Overall, there is no clear leader in the relationship. However during the interval of the late 2013 price bubble (where Bitcoin and Litecoin reached around $1000 and $40 respectively) it can be seen that Bitcoin is leading Litecoin (slightly downward facing arrows across all periods).
DAVIDSON: Maybe the best answer is slowly at first and then all of a sudden, which is the same way people go bankrupt, by the way.
And while proponents tout cryptocurrencies as potentially lucrative alternative investments, few serious financial professionals view most coins — with the important exception of Bitcoin and a few others — as suitable for anything other than pure speculation.
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