How tech beyond Wall Street's control pushed big money to embrace once-fringe crowds, from crypto to meme stocks
In late 2012, WordPress became the first major merchant to accept payment in Bitcoin. Others, including online electronics retailer Newegg.com, Expedia, Microsoft, and Tesla followed. Countless merchants now view the world’s most popular cryptocurrency as a legitimate payment method.
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Before this latest surge for the top two cryptos, recent sudden drops followed a ban on cryptocurrency transactions and mining from China’s central bank, which declared all cryptocurrencies illegal in the country. After previously topping $52,000 in early September, Bitcoin’s price had dropped and struggled to get back over $50,000 until this month.
If this type of extreme drop bothers you, you may have too much riding on your crypto investments. You should only invest what you’re OK losing. But even if the drop is making you rethink your crypto allocations, the same advice still stands — don’t act rashly or upend your strategy too quickly. Reconsider what you might be more comfortable with going forward, such as allocating less to crypto in the future or diversifying through crypto-related stocks and blockchain funds rather than directly buying crypto (though you should still expect volatility when cryptocurrency markets fluctuate).
Safemoon offers a unique way of investing in cryptocurrency, as people who hold Safemoon and then sell it are subject to a 10% fee. This fee is halved, with 5% of it being given back to other Safemoon holders – the developers call this ‘reflection’. The additional 5% is split again, with 2.5% being used within the liquidity pools on exchanges such Pancake Swap, with the other portion being converted into BNB.
This question does not have a plain vanilla answer in ‘yes’ or ‘no’, as the government and the central bank still look unsure as to how to deal with this new-age phenomenon. In 2018, The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) came out strongly and kind of banned these tokens in India. Then in 2020, the Supreme Court of India reversed the RBI ban. That move was welcomed by the crypto exchanges and investors throughout the country. After this, Indian banks have tried to curtail transactions with crypto-exchanges as, in their view, they are governed by RBI. But later, RBI mentioned that banks cannot quote its 2018 ban to customers as it was overruled by the Supreme Court, paving the way for crypto trading to continue in India.
We do not know which characteristics affect cryptocurrency prices, if any. The column argues that there are two fundamental factors that drive prices in the long run: the trustworthiness of the cryptocurrency’s blockchain and the adoption of the blockchain. Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Monero are affected by these fundamentals. In some periods prices deviate, but eventually retrace the trend.
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Under the new law, El Salvador will “promote necessary training and mechanisms so that the population can access [Bitcoin] transactions.”
In the last 24 hours, Bitcoin peaked at a new record high price of $68,568.85 according to Coinbase.
“Don’t panic and puke,” Noble says. “If you keep your positions small, you can try to tolerate the volatility.” Cryptocurrency prices today: Bitcoin gains 7%; Ethereum, Dogecoin & XRP rise up to 9.7%
No intermediaries. Unlike fiat, virtual currency transactions are conducted directly between two parties, on a peer-to-peer basis, using a decentralized computer network that involves no banks or other intermediaries. Trust in the system is based on digital proof, or the ability of users to access a permanent record of all of the transactions that have taken place.
But one of these sessions caused SafeMoon’s price to plummet by more than 50 per cent.
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Additionally, EverGrow's creators have cleverly split its TokenEconomics to make it more resilient to market fluctuations. EverGrow burnt almost 50% of its supply at launch, and burned tokens were obliterated from circulation before launch. The remaining 45 percent is reserved for PancakeSawp's pre-sale and Initial Liquidity Lock, with the remaining 5% reserved for its team members and airdrop. The Innovative TokenEconomics will ensure that EvegGrow has all the features to become the Next Big Cryptocurrency.
Subscriber growth is harder to track than the other metrics. Only the current subscriber count is displayed for a particular subreddit, and historical data cannot be rebuilt retrospectively as subscribers do not have a visible historical imprint. A third-party website, RedditMetrics (http://redditmetrics.com/), has been retrieving and storing real-time subscriber counts; however their data on the particular subreddits of interest only reaches back to 2012 so the subscriber growth analysis can only start at this point. Fig 2 shows the three social media metric time series for each cryptocurrency; note that subscriber growth is the only metric that can have negative associated values, caused by more users unsubscribing than subscribing on a particular day.
Initially, Binance.US considered listing up to 30 crypto assets, with those deemed most important making it to the Phase 1 list. Some have noted the absence of high-profile Binance IEOs (initial exchange offerings) from this list as well as the lack of support for Tron (13th by market capitalization at the moment).