Mikhael Karkhalev, financial analyst at currency.com, said: “Growing concerns around inflation and global rate hikes are clearly on investors’ minds.
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NEW BUSINESS: Binance.US, the American arm of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, hired its first lobbying firms last month, newly filed disclosures show, as policymakers in Washington face calls to rein in the rapidly growing and mostly unregulated industry. Hogan Lovells’ Ivan Zapien, a Democratic lobbyist who previously was chief of staff to now-Senate Foreign Relations Chair Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), and former House GOP aides Aaron Cutler and Chase Kroll will lobby for the exchange.
— Meanwhile, Rover, the pet care site sometimes referred to along with its competitor Wag as the Uber of dog walking, has retained Mercury Public Affairs as its first outside lobbying firm. Mercury’s Mike McSherry, an alum of the RNC, Republican Governors’ Association and Labor Department, will lobby for Rover on tax and labor classification issues — a development that comes as the Biden administration has pledged to recognize workers dispatched by apps as employees rather than contractors. Gig companies are also facing new tax reporting requirements beginning next year, thanks to the coronavirus stimulus bill signed into law by President Joe Biden in March.
Landry’s Select Club members will be able to earn Bitcoin-centric rewards points at 500 restaurant locations around the United States. Fresh Bitcoin price highs put bulls in profit for Friday’s $1.2B BTC options expiry
— Ivelisse Porroa-Garcia is now director of government affairs at Ferox Strategies. She previously was policy director for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
CRYPTO UPDATE All of the largest cryptocurrencies were up during morning trading on Thursday, with Polkadot (DOTUSD) seeing the biggest move, climbing 5.83% to $48.18. Dogecoin (DOGEUSD) rose 5.73% to 26 cents, while Ethereum (ETHUSD) increased 3.
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Cryptocurrency transactions are recorded on a decentralized ledger. This ledger is called a blockchain. Every time crypto is bought or sold, the transaction is added to the blockchain — a public database of the transactions, which is available to other crypto holders. Anyone can join and participate in the blockchain, but data on individual transactions — and the people involved with them — are secured using cryptography (the basis for the term cryptocurrency). For each transaction added to the blockchain, there’s a digital validation process to verify it and prevent fraud.
Some of the features they refer to include a dual cryptocurrency distribution system that allows investors to claim BNB (Binance). You can claim BNB once you have used the unique referral code that you receive when opening a wallet. Once the person you referred uses the unique code, you receive 10% of their initial investment as BNB. Between this and their 3000 professional influencers, HUH Token could turn your $1000 investment into over one million.
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.
There is a lot of volatility in the cryptocurrency space due to the industry’s newness. Investors are seeking to experiment with their money to generate riches quickly and figure out how cryptocurrency prices vary and whether they can affect them.
“Everybody’s definition of a headquarters of a company is different. When you ask how you define a headquarters --- is that an office where people sit? I worked from home for the last three and a half years. Our leadership team are not sitting in one office, we don’t have a clear place where we can go, by most people’s normal definitions of a headquarters that we can call a headquarters. So, when people ask me, I don’t want to give them a wrong answer just to satisfy their definition.”
Musk has been a long-time advocate of cryptocurrencies and the Tesla decision was felt across the market, with other digital tokens going down in price.
Mexico’s central bank on Monday swatted down the cryptocurrency enthusiasm expressed over the weekend by one of the country's leading bankers.
Earlier, we presented a chart indicating how Binance has gone from essentially a non-player in the U.S. crypto market a few quarters ago to now doing significant volume. With the recent hiring of Brian Brooks, who certainly has the connections to tap into the right areas, Binance.US could be set up for a very bright future.
Born in Latvia, Vavilov founded Bitfury in 2011 as a Bitcoin mining operation, but has expanded its business to include infrastructure projects such as data center operations, computer chips and software development for the crypto industry.