And that, we regret to inform you, has led to some rather silly thinking (highly unusual in the crypto community, we know), specifically of the chart-crime variety:
SafeMoon at the time of publishing was trading at $$0.00000397 and is down -3.6% in the 24-hours day trade. Saitama Kitty Spikes 155% on the First Day of its Launch, Doubles Investors Money in 24-Hours Elon Musk Offloads More Than $1.1 Billion in Tesla’s Stock After Controversial Twitter Poll This Country Has the Highest Number of Crypto Investors, Breached the 100 Million Investors Mark

SafeMoon captured attention from the get-go. Its name evokes a prudent form of the “to the moon” mantra embraced by crypto crowds looking for prices to burst straight up.
But to understand the dynamic that led to this year’s depressing year for crypto, we actually should start a few years before 2018. In bitcoin’s early days, Mt. Gox was the go-to service for handling transactions. Then, in 2014, it halted transactions and slowly copped to a crypto-hack to the tune of $473 million, the biggest hack of its kind at the time, and it gave many people pause. But it was still early enough for people to believe that the blockchain system was still getting all the technical kinks out.