Cryptocurrency — also known as crypto — is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of exchange. It uses cryptography to secure and verify transactions, as well as to control the creation of new units of a particular digital currency.
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Online factors exhibit stronger relationships in the long term, and such relationships were found to be consistently positive. The long term positive relationships suggest long term price trends are linked with online activity. This is an intuitive result, given that successful cryptocurrencies are likely to have active communities; as the community grows, so does belief in the cryptocurrency, and vice versa.
More broadly, the U.S. has been slow to issue regulatory guidance for cryptocurrency businesses. The industry has generally appreciated regulators' care and caution to avoid hampering innovation or overregulating something so misunderstood, but the lack of clarity has also become restrictive for many looking to operate, develop, and grow their products and services. But Zhao appears to be undaunted by that.