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Home / Markets / Cryptocurrency / Bitcoin appears to crash 87% in a flash on Binance’s US venue Bitcoin appears to crash 87% in a flash on Binance’s US venue Premium Volume on the exchange in that minute was 592.8 Bitcoins, which are worth just shy of $40 million at current prevailing prices. (REUTERS) 1 min read . Updated: 21 Oct 2021, 09:54 PM IST Bloomberg The price of Bitcoin appeared to rapidly — and only temporarily — plunge about 87% on Binance’s U.S. exchange Thursday morning, sinking to as low as $8,200 from around $65,000. The price did nothing like that on other venues, and on Binance the level almost immediately snapped back to where it had been. The plunge occurred at 7:34 a.m. New York time, according to Binance’s website. Volume on the exchange in that minute was 592.8 Bitcoins, which are worth just shy of $40 million at current prevailing prices. Mistakes like this happen throughout finance when, for instance, traders mess up details of their intended trades, entering the wrong price or order size. An erroneously large trade, as one example, can overwhelm an exchange’s order book, leading to a quick and massive decline. The entire U.S. stock market famously flash crashed back in May 2010, though equities have mostly avoided trouble since that era. 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%.
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"My advice to mainstream investors is to wait for the Certik audit (Q4 of 2021) and improvements in the liquidity pool before proceeding."
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SafeMoon recorded a 99% rise in one day in April after Bitcoin had its biggest single drop for months.
Bitcoin made a new life high at $66,998 on 20th Oct and since then it entered into a retracement phase and subsequently prices dipped below $59,000 in the following days.
How does cryptocurrency gain value? Like any market, the value of cryptocurrencies fluctuates based on the market’s perception of its value at any given time. These fluctuations may be rooted in some of the supply and demand factors mentioned above or can happen as a result of hidden market factors. Buy low, sell high – using the classic investment strategy, users can increase the value of crypto by buying and holding coins. The buying increases demand and hence crypto value increases.Mining – the act of mining Bitcoins or altcoins can be profitable. It also impacts the supply of cryptocurrencies.Increasing utility – as more institutions invest in crypto and accept it as a form of payment, its utility increases. As a user, you can contribute to this process. This will increase the value of cryptocurrencies over the long term. Media coverage – crypto prices fluctuate according to media coverage. Users can impact this through their social media accounts. Conclusion
Going forward, it's impossible to know for sure how the value will change and whether it could rise further.
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It remains to be seen if Decentraland turns into the next meme coin of choice for retail investors, but it has lately picked up some traction from Reddit users via threads.
— Patrick Uzcategui is now an government relations associate at Sylvamo, a new spinoff company from International Paper Company. He was previously government affairs coordinator at Tyson Foods.
Despite those benefits, Binance.US is much less transparent than many competitor exchanges when it comes to security, storage options, and customer assistance. For most long-term, retirement-minded investors, we’d recommend sticking with exchanges such as Coinbase or Gemini, which are much more transparent about these key operations.
Rising inflationary pressures are dragging stocks and bonds, which may prompt the Fed to hike interest rates earlier than expected, an expert said.
Now that you're familiar with the basics of both Binance and Binance.US, let’s cover some specific topics that you’re interested in.
The price of the bitcoin rose to an intraday high of $69,000 Wednesday, reflecting a 4.6% gain following the release of CPI data.
Safemoon is a member of the group of tokens known as memecoins. Memecoins are crypto tokens or coins based on internet memes. Specifically, Safemoon derives its name from a popular slang term in crypto discussion forums—’going to the moon’. This expression refers to the price of a crypto asset rising very high over a very short period.