While the current level of currency support leaves room for improvement, it is necessary to remember that it is still early to make the final judgment on the Binance’s policy, particularly regarding the outcomes of its initial implementation at the time of writing this Binance.US review. The platform advises holders of currently unsupported assets to use services of other custodians in any form (cold storage, hot wallet) while other currencies await approval.
Bitcoin notches new all-time high after inflation data shows prices are surging at the fastest rate in 30 years
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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.
IG offers trading on nine of the most valuable cryptocurrencies: bitcoin, bitcoin cash, bitcoin gold, ether, ripple, litecoin, EOS, stellar (XLM) and NEO.
Its market cap and individual unit value consistently dwarf (by a factor of 10 or more) that of the next most popular cryptocurrency. Bitcoin has a programmed supply limit of 21 million Bitcoin.
Shortly after achieving these astronomical new heights, Bitcoin’s price fell back toward $62,700 before recovering slightly to around $64,500, while most altcoins endured near double-digit losses.
While paying for things in cryptocurrencies doesn’t make sense for most people right now, more retailers accepting payments might change that landscape in the future. It’ll likely be much longer before it’ll be a smart financial decision to spend Bitcoin on goods or services, but further institutional adoption could bring about more use-cases for everyday users, and in turn, have an impact on crypto prices. Nothing is guaranteed, but if you buy cryptocurrency as a long-term store of value, the more “real world” uses it has, the more likely demand and value will increase.
Although you can create another private key and start accumulating cryptocurrency again, you can’t recover the holdings protected by your old, lost key.
When the spectre of restrictive regulation hovers over the cryptocurrency markets, steep drops invariably occur. If it happens to concern China or the US, brace yourself if you’re an investor—the market never stops trading, and what took months to build can crumble to nothing in an afternoon.
“One of our institutional traders indicated to us that they had a bug in their trading algorithm, which appears to have caused the sell-off,” Binance.US said in the statement. “We are continuing to look into the event, but understand from the trader that they have now fixed their bug and that the issue appears to have been resolved.”
Harrison, who still owns SafeMoon, said that the developers have become more professional since the AMA incident: “They’re a bit more scripted, they sit down, they’re in suits.”
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