Bitcoin and Ethereum are in retreat following a flash crash. Binance U.S. was hit with a bug Thursday, resulting in a flash crash that saw Bitcoin’s price plummet by around 90%. Ethereum also dipped 50% on the exchange.
Cryptocurrency(c) 2021 BloombergNick Baker, BloombergUpdated: October 22, 2021 9:31 am IST
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Knez, P. J., R. Litterman, and J. Scheinkman (1994), “Explorations into factors explaining money market returns”, The Journal of Finance 49 (5), 1861–1882.
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From the perspective of technical analysis, profit-taking near all-time highs and the need for a retest of lower support levels are normal processes for most cryptocurrencies. In fact, a quick glance over discussions by many analysts and traders on Twitter shows that most expected BTC to revisit lower support levels at $64,000 and below before recapturing bullish momentum and moving higher.
A petition to 'Get Safemoon Listed On Coinbase' has currently gained 4,646 signatures.
BusinessCryptocurrencyBitcoin Crashed 87% On Binance's U.S. Exchange Due To Algo Bug Another day, another major snafu in cryptocurrency trading. The price of Bitcoin rapidly plunged about 87% on Binance's U.S. exchange Thursday morning.
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“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 an emailed 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.”
Several other regulators, including from Hong Kong, Germany, Japan, Italy, and Thailand, followed with various warnings, with the Netherlands the latest to do so this week. Hong Kong initially raised the alarm over crypto derivatives related to listed stocks which Binance stopped offering last month. In late July, Binance said it would cease to offer all derivative products in Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. Does Twitter’s new crypto leader signal end to Dorsey’s Bitcoin maximalism? Stablecoin issuer Circle launches venture fund, invests in JPYC Ripple launches new crypto solution Liquidity Hub, beyond XRP Ex SEC Chair Jay Clayton to advise crypto custody firm Fireblocks
Distributed ledger technology (DLT) is a decentralized database that various network participants administer. Blockchain is a type of DLT where transactions are recorded using a hash, which is an immutable cryptographic signature. This means that if a single block in a chain is modified, it will be immediately clear that the chain has been tampered with. Private and centralized blockchains, on the other hand, exist in which all of the computers that make up the network are owned and operated by a single company.
Even if this were the case, and Safemoon coin was to increase in price dramatically before an instant fall, it would still represent a good investment for purely speculative investors. For example, if Safemoon were to simply return to the all-time high experienced on April 20th, then that would represent an incredible 921% return from today’s price!
We further explore the significance of cryptocurrency fundamentals at the aggregate market level using traditional asset pricing tests. For this analysis, we construct risk factors that are based on aggregate values of computing power and network. We denote the aggregate computing power factor with ACP and aggregate network factor with ANET. The innovation in constructing these factors is that we express them in cryptocurrency return units following the factor mimicking portfolio approach (Knez et al. 1994, Lamont 2001, Vassalou 2003).
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Released in 2011, Litecoin (LTC) uses the same basic structure as Bitcoin. Key differences include a higher programmed supply limit (84 million units) and a shorter target blockchain creation time (2.5 minutes).
Gensler recently went so far as to say investors are “likely to get hurt” if stricter regulation is not introduced. Plus, the IRS has an obvious interest in making sure investors know how to report virtual currency when they file their taxes.
A layer-one smart contract platform, Fantom, is another take on smart blockchain commonly represented by Ethereum, Solana and the likes. However, its compatibility with the ERC20 standard ensures that users can purchase an Ethereum-compatible FTM token, which can be converted to a native FTM compatible token once they initiate a transfer to their wallet.