The cryptocurrency’s price began to surge on Sunday night (7 November) as investors pumped the price from $62,319.98 at 8pm to $66,101.46 by 10am on Monday morning.
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.
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Without a clear track record to assess long-term value, cryptocurrency rises and falls on an unpredictable demand cycle. And for individual investors, the challenge is “you really don’t know where supply and demand can end up,” Aliaga-Díaz says.
One investor who wasn’t deterred was Barstool Sports Inc. founder Dave Portnoy. In May, he announced to his 2.6 million followers on Twitter that he’d bought US$40,000 worth, despite saying that SafeMoon could be a Ponzi scheme, a scam in which early investors’ returns are paid with funds coming from later buyers that collapses when new deposits dry up or too many people try to cash out.
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The NYDFS is known for being especially rigorous in its approach to cryptocurrency businesses compared to other state regulators, requiring an exacting review of capital requirements and policies regarding money laundering, fraud, capitalization, consumer protection, and cybersecurity. It's an unpopular approach among many in the crypto industry, some of whom have even opted to pull business out of New York rather than bear the high cost of compliance.
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Without a clear track record to assess long-term value, cryptocurrency rises and falls on an unpredictable demand cycle. And for individual investors, the challenge is “you really don’t know where supply and demand can end up,” Aliaga-Díaz says.
At the end of 2017 and beginning of 2018, more people–especially those in the mainstream finance world–were paying attention to bitcoin and cryptocurrency trading. And in early January 2018, the Japanese exchange Coincheck disclosed a hack worth a whopping $534 million. This happened right around the time that bitcoin slipped from its peak value, and it certainly seemed to accelerate its drop.
On the other hand, cryptocurrencies come with a host of risks and drawbacks, such as illiquidity and value volatility, that don’t affect many fiat currencies.
The cryptocurrency industry has come a long way in recent years. More than ever before, crypto traders have endless options on where they want to trade. They can trade on centralized exchanges, decentralized exchanges, and even brokerages such as Robinhood.
In 2019 Facebook said it plans to introduce a cryptocurrency that at the time was called Libra.
Due to this, the process to invest in Safemoon involves transferring funds from a TrustWallet to Pancake Swap and then exchanging them into Safemoon. This process can be hard to follow for beginner investors, so it’s likely better to wait until Safemoon is added to a reliable and licensed broker.
— Ivelisse Porroa-Garcia is now director of government affairs at Ferox Strategies. She previously was policy director for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
Blocto, the NFT and crypto wallet has confirmed that the Dallas Mavericks owner and serial investor Mark Cuban has invested in the company.
A blockchain is spread across many computers that manages and records transactions.
These are just two of the cryptocurrencies that challenge Safemoon’s dominance, and some, like Bitrise, face very stiff competition against Safemoon on the basis of the products on offer, among many other features. From the powerful wallet to exchanges, among many other products, the coin is one of Safemoon’s toughest competitors.