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It might be time to remind the millennials that all that glitters is not gold. At least some cryptocurrencies — the new-age investment asset class — are on the verge of extinction. After all, not all tokens are created equal.
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The first cryptocurrency was bitcoin. The bitcoin domain was registered in 2008, but the first transaction took place in 2009. It was developed by someone called ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’. However, there is speculation that Nakamoto is a pseudonym as the bitcoin creator is notoriously secretive, and no one knows whether ‘he’ is a person or a group.
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The 2-year-old exchange, already the largest in the world by volume, revealed in June that it would stop serving U.S. customers on September 12 as it plans to formally enter the American market with a regulated fiat-to-crypto exchange.
Based on a mathematical and scientific blockchain algorithm, it is highly unlikely that SafeMoon gets hacked. As owners of SafeMoon, you are anyway masters of your wallet, and hence safekeeping thereof falls in your periphery of accountability.
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Over the last few weeks, rumors have been gaining traction on the internet that GameStop is partnering up with Loopring to launch an NFT marketplace.
With all these shortcomings when put against most of the competition, Safemoon is definitely in trouble. There is a lot that Safemoon team needs to do to make the coin competitive. Otherwise, few people will be interested in this Safemoon. This means low demand, and that's how Safemoon's coin value will crumble.
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.
But before you look further make sure you’re aware of the risks when it comes to cryptocurrencies in general.
New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams pledged Thursday that he would accept his first three paychecks in bitcoin when he formally takes office next year.
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This is the latest in a string of recent high-profile trading problems in crypto. Synthetify, a new decentralized exchange, was forced to shut down for a while earlier this month shortly after its debut because of bad data provided by the Pyth Network, a price feed backed by some of the world's most well-known trading and exchange firms. Pyth malfunctioned another time in September, erroneously making it appear that Bitcoin had crashed 90%.
A look at the recent charts shows that Safemoon has been on a downward trend since the start of November. Safemoon has also not been doing very well since its last all-time high around 21st April 2021. Despite a surge in mid-May, the next time Safemoon experienced bullish growth was the end of October.