A daily roundup of news and information about Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin and more, this page has everything you need to know about cryptocurrency. The pricing of cryptocurrency changes very frequently and remains highly volatile. Even looking at only the most well-known crypto tokens such as Bitcoin, Ether (not to be confused with the Ethereum network for which it is the native token), Dogecoin, Litecoin and Ripple, there has been a lot of movement in their value.
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The former US banking regulator and crypto enthusiast is resigning at a time when regulators in Hong Kong, Britain, Germany, Japan, Italy and Thailand have cracked down on Binance due to worries over investor protection. Watchdogs globally also fret that the boom in cryptocurrencies is aiding money laundering and increasing systemic risks.
Alexis Ohanian has partnered with the Solana Foundation to invest $100 million to build social-media projects on the solana blockchain.
Although short term relationships are erratic and sparse, this is the period band that contains most of the negative—although usually fleeting—relationships (shown by leftward facing arrows). The relationships link online activity increases to price falls (the converse is not observed). It is not surprising that occasionally discussion is associated with price falls, as negative events (e.g. blockchain bugs, and exchange hacks) are newsworthy in the community.
The U.S. firm shares a name with Binance Holdings Ltd., the world’s biggest crypto exchange -- and Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of Binance Holdings, is chairman of the board at Binance.US. Binance Holdings faces a U.S. Justice Department investigation into whether its platform has facilitated money laundering and tax evasion. Numerous countries have also announced probes and demanded that Binance curtail or amend operations within their borders.
Crypto market capital shoots to $2.34 trillion with Ethereum occupying 20% of crypto economy
As recently as May 2021, Binance was under investigation by the U.S. government for tax fraud and money laundering, according to reporting by Bloomberg.
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Charlie Barton, an investment specialist at comparison site Finder, warned in mid-May: “The performance of Polygon has been extremely strong recently, achieving 10,000% growth in the last year.”