Bitcoin price skyrocketed to USD 67,803 and Ether price has gone up to USD 4,825 in the Asian trade market. Both cryptocurrencies have more than doubled since June and added nearly 70 per cent against the dollar since the start of October. While Bitcoin has a market capitalisation of USD 1 trillion, Ether is the second-biggest cryptocurrency by market value, the Reuters report said. Also Read - Diwali, Dhanteras Investment Tips: Check Top Cryptocurrencies Other Than Bitcoin
Among those who called it, hedge fund manager Mark Dow wrote almost exactly a year ago about his decision to short bitcoin after future trading on it first began:
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And while the cryptocurrency has since dipped slightly on Tuesday afternoon, it is still up by a whopping 350% on Bitcoin’s price at 7 November 2020 after nearing the new $70,000 threshold.
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Yet tales of meme-coin holders becoming millionaires have attracted new waves of retail investors to crypto — along with a growing number of nefarious players. In May, the Federal Trade Commission tallied a record number of crypto investment scams, with Americans’ losses totalling around US$80 million since October.
People can also borrow crypto assets on various platforms and earn interest for loaning out assets. This niche of the cryptocurrency space is what is known as decentralized finance, or DeFi. Based on the DLT, various platforms facilitate the lending and borrowing of crypto without requiring the user to submit to the control of a centralized entity. DeFi also includes other aspects as well such as decentralized exchanges, or DEXs.
Despite its size and name recognition, Binance has had issues with regulators. In 2017, Binance left China and re-located to Japan and Taiwan before eventually moving to Malta. However, in February 2020, after Malta announced that Binance was not actually within its jurisdiction, the exchange quickly changed positions and declared that it doesn’t have a headquarters because Bitcoin doesn’t have a central headquarters.