The market for cryptocurrencies has roughly quadrupled from its 2020 year-end value [File: Paul Yeung/Bloomberg]
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A further blow was dealt when China ordered Bitcoin mining in its Sichuan province to shut down completely and furthermore told banks to stop supporting crypto transactions, in a latest wave of restrictions on cryptos.
Binance launched the U.S. arm in 2019. But the company’s main exchange, initially based in China, blocked Americans in an effort to stay on the right side of regulators.
Cryptocurrency — also known as crypto — is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of exchange. It uses cryptography to secure and verify transactions, as well as to control the creation of new units of a particular digital currency.
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Although mining periodically produces new cryptocurrency units, most cryptocurrencies are designed to have a finite supply — a key guarantor of value.
Binance and Coinbase listings remain a coveted goal for new cryptocurrencies such as SafeMoon. However, it can take some time to achieve this. For example, Coinbase only listed Shiba Inu Coin in mid-June.
Safemoon members are now joining competing crypto coins, like Bitrise, in thousands, and this could continue if Safemoon team does not address the fundamental issues. However, Safemoon remains as one of the strong crypto coins, but the dominance might be short-lived.
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Alternatively, if the price breaks below the 20-day EMA, the next stop could be the 50-day SMA ($0.24). If this support is breached, the selling could intensify and the pair may drop to the strong support at $0.19.
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Unlike traditional currencies, cryptocurrencies exist only as a shared digital record of ownership, stored on a blockchain. When a user wants to send cryptocurrency units to another user, they send it to that user’s digital wallet. The transaction isn’t considered final until it has been verified and added to the blockchain through a process called mining. This is also how new cryptocurrency tokens are usually created.
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As of 9:54 a.m. in New York, the overall market cap of cryptocurrencies hit $3.3 trillion, according to CoinGecko pricing. The third- and fourth-biggest tokens, Binance Coin and Solana, have added more than 20% in the past seven days; all of the seven biggest coins are up over the last week.