Changpeng Zhao increased crypto-asset availability as one of the founders of Binance, which has grown into one of the largest crypto exchanges. Sam Bankman-Fried, co-creator of the FTX digital asset trading platform, serves as another important individual in the industry that impacts trading, decentralized finance (DeFi) and other aspects of the crypto space.
In what traders call a “scam wick,” the one-minute BTC/USD differed dramatically from other major exchanges, which logged a one-minute candle with a floor of around $64,200.
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Zhao said the U.S. division won't initially launch in New York since it has not obtained a BitLicense (which is issued by the New York State Department of Financial Services) and neither has BAM, which is regulated by the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). Coley, the CEO of BAM and Binance.US declined to comment on plans to apply for one.
“We are concerned about rapid increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, which has the worst emissions of any fuel,” Musk said on Twitter...
For every transaction carried out on the blockchain, 4JNET will withhold 90% of the transaction amount. This will be the service charge. This way, 4JNET can maintain stable prices for the token. Then 6% will be distributed to all token holders, while the remainder will be transferred into a 4JNET liquidity pool.
Meanwhile, apart from regulatory attention, Binance is likely to get sued over a platform outage during a price crash on May 19. A Swiss crypto fund is financing litigation and a UK academic has made various allegations based on her research.
World's largest cryptocurrency Bitcoin was trading over 7% higher today. The price of Bitcoin rose 7.34% to $66,119 on Coinmarketcap. Market cap of the cryptocurrency reached $1,252.44 billion.
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This question does not have a plain vanilla answer in ‘yes’ or ‘no’, as the government and the central bank still look unsure as to how to deal with this new-age phenomenon. In 2018, The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) came out strongly and kind of banned these tokens in India. Then in 2020, the Supreme Court of India reversed the RBI ban. That move was welcomed by the crypto exchanges and investors throughout the country. After this, Indian banks have tried to curtail transactions with crypto-exchanges as, in their view, they are governed by RBI. But later, RBI mentioned that banks cannot quote its 2018 ban to customers as it was overruled by the Supreme Court, paving the way for crypto trading to continue in India.
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.
4JNET will introduce a decreasing service charge mechanism to stabilize prices. To be specific, 90% of initial transaction amounts will be used as the service charge, 6% to be distributed to all token holders through tokens, and the remaining part to be automatically transferred into the liquidity pool.
It seems all too fitting that Facebook’s plans to launch a digital coin were leaked in the second-to-last week of a year that saw the tech giant’s reputation pummeled and cryptocurrencies crash and burn. It’s like grilling a shit sandwich over a dumpster fire.
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In 2016, this became apparent with the DAO hack. One way to fix the problem was to implement what’s known as a “hard fork,” which would essentially update the Ethereum-based software to fix the technical gaffe that caused the hack to begin with. But DAO users had to agree to this change, and there were dissenters. Though the hard fork was approved, it created two active blockchains with two different sets of rules. Ultimately, this hack–coupled with the inability to deal with it–caused the DAO to end in 2016.