Issuers of tokens that link crypto and traditional markets should function as banks, watchdogs urge
However, in the wake of the technical issues, the DeFi protocol has met its share of criticisms and FUD. Some Twitter users have even accused SafeMoon of scamming its users.
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The SafeMoon crypto wallet has been drumming up excitement among users because the team has been adding support for more coins. SafeMoon’s Karony revealed that the wallet would see additional listings this week and asked his followers which coins they would like to see.
The coin's tokenomics show that the team is building a platform that rewards investors handsomely. First, the token is a hyper-deflationary payment network token, which rewards investors for holding tokens in BNB. For every transaction, 12% is charged, only 3% of the collected tax goes to marketing. The 4% is awarded to the token holders in BNB. It is this active income from the rewards, which is paid every 60 minutes, that is attracting most Safemoon members and thousands of other investors.
Dogecoin has added nearly 3 percent over the last day and is priced at $0.28. In the last week, it has climbed over 2 percent.
Unlike the money you save in a bank insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), “If a virtual currency company fails – and many have – the government will not cover the loss,” the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warned in a 2014 notice about cryptocurrency (its most recent guidance).
Laith Khalaf, financial analyst at investment platform AJ Bell, previously told The Sun that although long-term investment is encouraged, SafeMoon "doesn't sound too different from a pyramid selling scheme".
Bitcoin hit another new all-time high above $68,000 Wednesday, two days after its previous all-time high when it went over $68,000 for the first time on Monday.
Both ideas are about making a few people rich, not about building a decentralised paradise where everyone prospers
“It was almost like you just gave a 21-year-old a million dollars,” Harrison said. “I get it — they were excited to be so popular.”
Regarding regulatory attention, in late June, the UK’s regulator, the FCA, issued a statement that “Binance Markets Limited is not permitted to undertake any regulated activity in the UK.”
(Bloomberg) -- To investors hunting for the next Dogecoin, the more than 19,000% price gain that cryptocurrency SafeMoon posted in its early weeks was like catnip. Though the price of the four-month-old token has dropped since then, more than 2.4 million investors have bought it, according to its developers.
GURA: Lummis' approach to regulation puts her at odds with another outspoken member of the Senate Banking Committee. That's Democrat Elizabeth Warren, who wants tougher rules. Cryptocurrency has become a popular investment, but it's also gotten a bad name because of how it's being used for money laundering and in ransomware attacks. Warren told Bloomberg TV, cryptocurrency is like the Wild West.
Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) have again risen to a new all-time high on Nov. 10, indicating that the trend remains firmly in favor of the bulls.
While, theoretically, U.K. users are still able to fully use the platform, responding to the ruling, a number of U.K. banks, including Barclays and HSBC, have since banned their customers from depositing into Binance.
About 15 years later, an accomplished software engineer named Wei Dai published a white paper on b-money, a virtual currency architecture that included many of the basic components of modern cryptocurrencies, such as complex anonymity protections and decentralization.
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