Notes: This figure plots weekly averages of log price and log computing power (log hashrate) of Bitcoin and Ethereum over the period from August 2015 to January 2019. We normalise both time series by subtracting their mean and dividing by the standard deviation.
As recently as May 2021, Binance was under investigation by the U.S. government for tax fraud and money laundering, according to reporting by Bloomberg.
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Despite the massive swing in value on the Binance US exchange, Bitcoin’s value on other exchanges remained stable. There has been speculation on the exact cause of the spike, though Binance offered a short statement to Bloomberg explaining that one of its institutional traders was responsible.
Wavelet coherence plots between (a) Bitcoin and Litecoin prices; (b) Bitcoin and Monero prices; (c) Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Notes: This figure plots weekly averages of log price and log network size (log of unique active addresses) of Bitcoin and Ethereum over the period from August 2015 to January 2019. We normalise both the time series by subtracting their mean and dividing by their standard deviation.
The price hike of Bitcoin, along with Ethereum, represents another wave of support for major cryptocurrencies as investors and crypto fans hope to usher the coin to a landmark $100,000 in value for 2022.
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Cryptocurrencies do not exist as a stack of notes or coins. Instead, they live only on the internet. Consider them virtual tokens, the value of which is decided by market forces created by those seeking to purchase or sell them.
“The exchange business is currently profitable, but not necessarily innovation,” Brooks said, adding that Bitfury’s position as the only mining chip producer outside of China has taken the lead. ..
Coins supported currently are: VET, XTZ, ATOM, EOS, ONE, and ALGO. You can earn up to 10% annually through staking with Binance.US, and you may still make trades while taking part.
There have been previous reports that Binance.US keeps users’ USD in FDIC-insured accounts, but posts on the Binance.US site containing that information have since been deleted. While it doesn’t guarantee the same in case of a Binance.US hack, the international version of the exchange, Binance, covered all consumer losses after a $40 million hack in 2019.
(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.
According to Cointelegraph business editor Sam Bourgi, Bitcoin is viewed by many as the best “hard money” alternative to sovereign currencies and:
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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.
Although rewards are dispensed automatically, EverGrow Holders may actively claim their USDT reward tokens and get those benefits sooner.
Both ideas are about making a few people rich, not about building a decentralised paradise where everyone prospers