“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
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Keep your crypto safe and access your funds seamlessly with the Binance.US multi-crypto wallet. USD deposits are protected by FDIC insurance.
At the moment, it is too early to say if Binance.US will employ security technologies from the global Binance platform which are usually described as being solid, despite a major hack this platform suffered in May 2019. Yet, the platform also responded to this incident in a generally well-received and timely manner.
Dogecoin, at the time of writing, has a market price of close to $0.216 according to CoinMarketCap - the result of an 8,325.23% increase in value since the start of 2021.
“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.”
This saw Bitcoin prices tumble to below $30,000 in a dramatic plummet from its soaring success.
Once there are enough transactions in the block, more information is added such as the header data and hash from the previous block in the chain and a new hash for the current block.
Users can buy SafeMoon by setting up a crypto wallet on the Binance Chain Network and add Binance (BNB) coins to your account.
Additionally, because there is no physical product or centralized organizing body, it is hard to point to anything and say “see, that good thing happened, crypto values will increase now”. So how does cryptocurrency gain value?
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Other cryptocurrencies are also now strong investment options and the Shiba Inu-themed Dogecoin, whose symbol is DOGE, which was initially created as a joke, is now one of the best known tokens. It is now priced at ₹21.14, down from ₹21.83, a change of -3.15% in 24-hours. It’s market cap is currently ₹2.6T.
Despite the massive swing in value on the Binance US exchange, Bitcoin’s value on other exchanges remained stable. There has been speculation on the exact cause of the spike, though Binance offered a short statement to Bloomberg explaining that one of its institutional traders was responsible.
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The Binance international exchange offers a huge variety of cryptocurrencies. This includes the top 20 coins such as Bitcoin, Ether, and Ada. In addition, Binance also offers several hundred less well-known altcoins. Binance also offers many trading pairs. In total, Binance offers exchange in over 500 cryptocurrencies and trading in more than 1200 trading pairs. This number is lower than on leading decentralized platforms like Uniswap but is still among the highest centralized exchanges.
The former head of the Office of the Comptroller of Currency (OCC), Brian Brooks, resigned as CEO of Binance.US last week, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing a post from him on the social media platform Twitter. Brooks had only recently joined the company in the role on May 1.