The growth of SafeMoon, coupled with its online slogan, has drawn comparisons to the surge in popularity of another cryptocurrency Dogecoin. (Pic: Shutterstock)
There are over 2000 cryptocurrencies available to buy and sell, though most have little value. Of these, bitcoin, ether (the token of the Ethereum network), ripple, bitcoin cash (an offshoot of bitcoin) and litecoin are among the most valuable by market capitalisation.
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Meanwhile, Ethereum also hit a record — rising to $4,837.59, according to CoinMarketCap.
“Bitcoin has outperformed gold, the most widely regarded inflation hedge, by a considerable margin year-to-date, having gained over 130% compared with gold’s 4% decline.”BTC/USDT daily chart: Source: TradingView
“It’s easy to get carried away, but such aggressive growth is highly unlikely to continue forever.”
Other tokens, known as utility tokens, are only meant to be used within the context of a particular network, so they can’t even technically be classified as tradable assets in the same manner of security tokens.
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Ethereum gained 1.66% to $4,808 and Dogecoin was trading 4.08% higher at $0.2837. Digital token Stellar climbed 3.56% to $0.3817 and XRP rose 0.01% to $1.27.
Each major cryptocurrency has its own Wikipedia page providing an introduction to the cryptocurrency. Monitoring Wikipedia views has been seen to be a good way to track the number of new users learning about a cryptocurrency [22], and may offer different insights to the other online factors considered, being focussed primarily on less knowledgeable users.
In the U.S., Binance has been the subject of an investigation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which is probing whether the platform allowed users to trade derivatives, Bloomberg reported in March, citing sources familiar with the matter. The CFTC investigation is directed at Binance, even though Americans must use Binance.US instead. And in May, the Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service commenced money laundering investigations related to the company.
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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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Additionally, there are a few ways in which customers can reduce the amount of fees they pay. If customers choose to pay trading fees with Binance’s native token, BNB, the fees will be reduced by 25%. The second way in which fees can be reduced is by referring friends to Binance. If a user pays fees with BNB and refers a friend, the most they will end up paying in trading fees is 0.06% for each trade. That is one of the best deals in all of crypto.
Bitcoin set another new all-time high Wednesday afternoon over $68,000. And then it promptly dropped down to below $65,000, where it remains Thursday morning.