Popular Twitter trader Crypto Chase said "well done Binance U.S." and sarcastically commented that it's a "good thing Americans are forced on to these dogs**t exchanges where they can get completely scammed on unreasonably thin books."
No intermediaries. Unlike fiat, virtual currency transactions are conducted directly between two parties, on a peer-to-peer basis, using a decentralized computer network that involves no banks or other intermediaries. Trust in the system is based on digital proof, or the ability of users to access a permanent record of all of the transactions that have taken place.

Exchange data from Bybt shows that roughly $46 million worth of long ETH positions were liquidated across the board due to the sudden pullback. Since the flash crash, ETH has also failed to hold above $4,000.
Using data from a prominent blockchain research firm, Coinmetrics.io, we explore the relationship between prices, computing power (measured by the hashrate), and network (measured by the number of unique active users). We focus on five major mineable cryptocurrencies (i.e. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, Litecoin, and Dash). In some of our test, we expand our data to include an additional 33 cryptocurrencies. Our sample period spans from 7 August 2015 to 25 January 2019.