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Cryptocurrency prices continued to tumble Friday with Bitcoin leading the charge, with prices for the internet currency dipping below $50,000 for the first time since early March.
Currently, the price of Safemoon is hovering around the $0.0000014 level. This is around 90% down from the heights the coin reached in April 2021.
The 2-year-old exchange, already the largest in the world by volume, revealed in June that it would stop serving U.S. customers on September 12 as it plans to formally enter the American market with a regulated fiat-to-crypto exchange.
Any claims that a particular cryptocurrency confers total anonymity or immunity from legal accountability are worthy of deep skepticism, as are claims that individual cryptocurrencies represent foolproof investment opportunities or inflation hedges.
And cryptocurrency exchanges are somewhat vulnerable to hacking, representing the most common venue for digital currency theft by hackers and cybercriminals like those responsible for taking down Mt. Gox.
Bitcoin futures ETFs are designed to allow investors to make trades on futures contracts and away from the usual means of crypto exchanges like Binance, which have come under greater scrutiny from regulators worldwide.
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For instance, whereas a government can easily freeze or even seize a bank account located in its jurisdiction, it’s very difficult for it to do the same with funds held in cryptocurrency — even if the holder is a citizen or legal resident.
SafeMoon recorded a 99% rise in one day in April after Bitcoin had its biggest single drop for months.
Even with its usual ups and downs, Bitcoin has mostly been on the rise following a drop under $30,000 in July.
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"There are a lot of things in flux, but I would say [we'll launch] in a month or two," Zhao, better known as CZ, told Cheddar in an interview Wednesday.
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— Ivelisse Porroa-Garcia is now director of government affairs at Ferox Strategies. She previously was policy director for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
ETF approval has been in consideration by the SEC multiple times over the past few years, but BITO is the first to gain approval.