Cryptocurrencies work using a technology called blockchain. They are tokens that can be used as a form of payment in exchange for online goods and services. They carry a pre-determined store value of their own, just like any other fiat currency like the US dollar or the Indian rupee. Cryptocurrencies are digitally mined, where very sophisticated computers solve extremely complex computational mathematics problems. Their mining is painstaking, costly and only sporadically rewarding.
Despite the concerning news and slight pullback in traditional markets, BTC and ETH prices rose, a dynamic that analysts such as Anthony Pompliano refer to as “asymmetric price action” where investors see a red hot stock market and unsustainable central bank monetary policymaking risk-on assets like Bitcoin as attractive investments and hedges against gold, the dollar and inflation.
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Besides the products offered, one of the effects of the split of Binance.US from Binance was on the liquidity pool.
Binance has become a favorite among traders because of its low trading fees. Exchanges charge trading fees for actions such as exchanging currency and margin trading. Binance fees are structured in levels so that the higher volume you work at, the less you pay per trade. In addition, Binance offers fee reductions for referrals of new users.
At the lowest volume level, VIP 0, trading fees are 0.1% for both makers and takers. For those customers who generate enough volume to qualify for the top level, VIP 9, trading fees are 0.02% for makers and 0.04% for takers.
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Binance has grown into the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange. During the month of May, Binance had spot trading volume of approximately $1.5 trillion, which was a 63% increase from April. As you can see in the image below, the volume traded on Binance is significantly higher than its closest competitors, Huobi and Okex.
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CFDs are leveraged products, which means you can open a position for a just a fraction of the full value of the trade. Although leveraged products can magnify your profits, they can also magnify losses if the market moves against you.
Cryptocurrencies’ finite supply makes them inherently deflationary, more akin to gold and other precious metals — of which there are finite supplies — than fiat currencies that central banks can, in theory, produce unlimited supplies of.
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Altcoins also sometimes differ in the method of verification used to authenticate transactions. While some altcoins use Proof-of-Work systems, others use Proof-of-Stake consensus, which replaces miners with validators. Proof-Of-Stake mining requires a lot less energy and fewer resources than Proof-Of-Work systems since Proof-Of-Work miners have to do much more ‘work’ to mine blocks.
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Outside of Binance there has been a shift to using Coinbase or Gemini, but out of the two reviewed above, there is one clear leader.
Bitcoin (BTC) -5.11% (£48,199.49)Ethereum (ETH) -2.38% (£3,502.32)Binance Coin (BNB) -5.15% (£463.07)Tether (USDT) +0.91% (£0.75)Solana (SOL) -1.38% (£178.60)Cardano (ADA) -7.61% (£1.55)XRP (XRP) -7.29% (£0.90)Polkadot (DOT) -5.50% (£35.69)Dogecoin (DOGE) -5.65% (£0.19)SHIBA INU (SHIB) +8.29% (£0.00004094)Terra (LUNA) -1.43% (£37.61)