Blockchain technology can be conceived as a form of next-generation business process optimization software from a business standpoint. Collaborative technology, such as blockchain, promises to improve business procedures between firms, cutting the “cost of trust” dramatically. As a result, it may provide much better returns per dollar invested than most traditional internal investments.
According to Stephen Innes, the head of Asian trading for the foreign exchange Oanda, hacks were the first element to have a chilling effect on crypto. Hearing the amount of money that thieves were able to take, he says, “Consumers got very concerned that their money could go missing.”
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The former US banking regulator and crypto enthusiast is resigning at a time when regulators in Hong Kong, Britain, Germany, Japan, Italy and Thailand have cracked down on Binance due to worries over investor protection. Watchdogs globally also fret that the boom in cryptocurrencies is aiding money laundering and increasing systemic risks.
Bitcoin (BTC) plummeted 2.18% to $66k at the time of writing. Bitcoin’s dominance is currently 43.35%, a decrease of 0.34% over the day.
Each asset holds a value, often priced in U.S. dollars, which leads to another use case: trading and investing. Aside from stablecoins — which seek to stabilize the instability of cryptocurrencies by pegging an asset to something else, such as the U.S. dollar — most cryptocurrencies constantly fluctuate in price. You can trade between cryptocurrencies and national currencies (called fiat currencies) on exchanges, depending on the trading pairs available on the platform of choice.
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The term “miners” relates to the fact that miners’ work literally creates wealth in the form of brand-new cryptocurrency units.
Whitepaper. A startup or established company publishes a whitepaper to tell potential investors about its ICO, or Initial Coin Offering — the technical details, objectives of the product, information about the team behind the company, and other details.
The launch of NYCCoin follows MiamiCoin, which to date has earned more than $21.3 million since its August 2020 launch, the nonprofit said.
"After hitting fresh milestones and hitting new ATH’s backed on the US CPI Inflation figures for October, traders began to book profits," it added. "Such corrections do not seem to be a major cause of concern just yet."
The liquidity pool of a crypto exchange is important because it determines what kind of crypto can be exchanged or traded and how much each trade will change the price. The liquidity pool is the total of all of the currency deposited on the exchange by every trader. If this pool is small, then every transaction can have a noticeable effect on the price of the crypto in the exchange. This instability makes it very difficult for a trader to predict how much of each currency they can get at any given time.
"After hitting fresh milestones and hitting new ATH’s backed on the US CPI Inflation figures for October, traders began to book profits," it added. "Such corrections do not seem to be a major cause of concern just yet."
Typically, meme coins don’t gain on fundamentals. Instead, they are usually driven by an internet-based joke.
Yet in some ways, the crypto crowd were not wrong. In the almost 18 months since Covid-19 was declared a pandemic, the price of bitcoin has risen by about 525 per cent, from just under $8,000 to a three-month high just above $50,000 on Monday. XRP has climbed by a similar amount to trade around the $1.25 mark.
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A feature of the Ethereum network is that it enables its users to create decentralised apps, known as ’dapps’, and smart contracts.
Overall, Coinmarketcap estimates the global crypto market has shrunk around 10% in the past 24 hours.