Brian was appointed Binance US CEO after his time as the Comptroller of the Currency. His appointment was in line with Binance strategy to employ regulatory professionals in key offices to help it end it tackle continued crackdown in the hand of regulators.
Yet some crypto watchers have raised red flags over SafeMoon’s unusual structure. It charges a 10% fee to buy tokens and another 10% to sell -- almost unheard of in the digital currency world. Half of these fees are paid to owners as an incentive to keep holding and the other half goes into a liquidity pool controlled by the developers. SafeMoon calls itself a DeFi token, or one that uses decentralized finance to govern functions through software, but it has a chief executive officer and chief operating officer. Critics also worry about the discretionary nature of the “manual” coin burns used to adjust its circulation.
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Cryptocurrency is going mainstream — and becoming increasingly difficult for investors to ignore.
In the meantime, the Indian government is considering a middle path on cryptocurrencies, as it finalises legislation on the virtual asset to be introduced in the upcoming winter session of Parliament. The hard-line stance for an outright ban of cryptos is not being found feasible in view of large investments in such instruments by Indians, and these unregulated virtual currencies are also unlikely to be allowed as a legal tender.
The spread is the difference between the buy and sell prices quoted for a cryptocurrency. Like many financial markets, when you open a position on a cryptocurrency market, you’ll be presented with two prices. If you want to open a long position, you trade at the buy price, which is slightly above the market price. If you want to open a short position, you trade at the sell price – slightly below the market price.
There are also petitions through Change.org to have DogeZilla listed on major exchanges including Robinhood, Crypto.com, and WeBull.
While its price swiftly dropped to below $65,000 after hitting the new all-time high Wednesday, Bitcoin’s latest new record is an impressive feat considering just a year ago the currency hovered around $15,000 per coin. Ethereum — the next most popular crypto — has seen a recent surge as well, and on Wednesday notched another new all-time high of its own above $4,800.
Here is Bitcoin’s price today, why Bitcoin is up and the latest crypto news and prices for Ethereum, Shiba Inu coin, Dogecoin, XRP and more.
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First launched in March of 2021, Safemoon began to surge in price about a month later, thanks to effective marketing by the founding team.
Binance U.S.’ trading algorithm suffered from a bug that resulted in a Bitcoin flash crash on Oct. 21. Although prices recovered quickly, both cryptocurrencies are now trying to hold support to avoid further losses.
At the time of writing, Bitcoin’s value was fluctuating at around $67,921.67, or £50,107 according to Coinbase.
"Brian's work for Binance.US has been invaluable and we hope he will continue to be an integral part of the crypto industry’s growth, advocating for regulations that move our industry forward," Zhao Tweeted on Friday.
But even this kind of pullback could not kill the inherent uptrend and in one of our previous reports, we mentioned that a breakout above $62,500 was required for BTC to resume strength.
Since the Great Recession ended more than 12 years ago, growth stocks have been the talk of Wall Street. Historically low lending rates and an accommodative Federal Reserve have paved the way for fast-paced companies to borrow cheaply in order to hire, acquire, and innovate. A report from J.P. Morgan Asset Management, a division of JPMorgan Chase, found the average annual return for companies that initiated and grew their payouts between 1972 and 2012 completely trounced the average annual return of companies that didn't pay a dividend over the same four-decade span (9.5% vs. 1.6%).
Cryptocurrencies, or virtual currencies, are digital means of exchange created and used by private individuals or groups.
Cardano is up over 9 percent in the last 24 hours and nearly 14 percent in the previous week. It is priced at around $2.23.