Britain's financial watchdog has barred Binance from carrying out regulated activities in the country. Japan's regulator has said Binance was operating there illegally and Germany's watchdog has warned it risked fines for offering tokens connected to stocks.
Although short term relationships are erratic and sparse, this is the period band that contains most of the negative—although usually fleeting—relationships (shown by leftward facing arrows). The relationships link online activity increases to price falls (the converse is not observed). It is not surprising that occasionally discussion is associated with price falls, as negative events (e.g. blockchain bugs, and exchange hacks) are newsworthy in the community.

One investor who wasn’t deterred was Barstool Sports Inc. founder Dave Portnoy. In May, he announced to his 2.6 million followers on Twitter that he’d bought $40,000 worth, despite saying that SafeMoon could be a Ponzi scheme, a scam in which early investors’ returns are paid with funds coming from later buyers that collapses when new deposits dry up or too many people try to cash out.
SafeMoon had a very promising launch and maxed out at an impressive market price of $0.00001375. Many tokens and coins have price spikes soon after launch as this is the time when interest is at its peak for new potential investments. Investors were hoping that the market price would settle somewhere around this level and continue to rise at a more sustainable rate. Unfortunately, this was not the case, SafeMoon witnessed its market price continuously drop until it was priced around $0.000003458.