SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly has approved legislation making the cryptocurrency Bitcoin legal tender in the country, the first nation to do so, just days after President Nayib Bukele made the proposal at a Bitcoin conference.
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You might recall that back in the very early days of Covid-19 (or just “coronavirus” as it was then known), some crypto nutters enthusiasts started getting excited about the idea that the virus would be good for bitcoin because “paper money” “might be the source of #CORONAVIRUS #SARS2 infection”. After all, “fiat is dirty”:
Crypto prices have been on a tear for the past several months, but the past week has been the clearest sign of a correction to climbing prices, though many see news of President Biden’s adjustment to the hikes on the capital gains tax as the most apparent reason for the market’s slide as investors cash out hoping their gains won’t be reached by a retroactive application of the rules.
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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.
Bitcoin’s surge to $69,000 took bears by surprise and cemented bulls expected $400 million profit at Friday’s $1.2 billion options expiry.
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The team announced a few days back that Safemoon whales had joined the coin. Since then, there has been an influx of new crypto members joining Bitrise coin. All these factors have significantly driven the market cap up by +$200 at the time of writing. But what are the underlying factors driving the huge number of investors joining Bitrise crypto coins every day?
Much like Dogecoin, it is cryptocurrency that was started off the back of an internet meme.
In the case of cryptocurrencies, academia has barely scratched the surface with respect to identifying the determinants of their prices. For example, studies by Cheah and Fry (2015) and Corbet et al. (2018) claim that Bitcoin has no intrinsic value and that its price has persistently exhibited ‘bubble-like’ behaviour. Makarov and Schoar (2018) find that the prices of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple differ across exchanges for weeks. Outside of academia, the President of the United States recently tweeted that cryptocurrencies are based on “thin air”.1
The scope of the Binance.US error, however, was in a league of its own and did not go unnoticed by market participants.
Safemoon offers a unique way of investing in cryptocurrency, as people who hold Safemoon and then sell it are subject to a 10% fee. This fee is halved, with 5% of it being given back to other Safemoon holders – the developers call this ‘reflection’. The additional 5% is split again, with 2.5% being used within the liquidity pools on exchanges such Pancake Swap, with the other portion being converted into BNB.
Of late, crypto prices have risen on the back of comments from billionaire Elon Musk and Ark Investment Management LLC's Cathie Wood.
Plenty of altcoins have also taken a beating. Dogecoin erased the breakneck gains of the week and then some, nearly halving its price after a meteoric climb last weekend. XRP is down 35% week-over-week, Stellar is down 30% and Polkadot is down 25% since last week.
During the lag time between the transaction’s initiation and finalization, the units aren’t available for use by either party. Instead, they’re held in a sort of escrow — limbo, for all intents and purposes.