SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador became the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender Tuesday, but the rollout stumbled in its first hours and President Nayib Bukele said the digital wallet used for transactions was not functioning.
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"For any centralized service, we have to do [client verification] and hold customer data," Zhao said. "On top of that we have to hold customer assets. Unlike banks, when the assets get stolen it's difficult to get them back. There's a high responsibility on the centralized exchanges we need to carry out well."
Cryptocurrency prices can move in spectacular fashion, and there are a variety of triggers for such volatility. Here are a few of them:
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The debacle was tinged with irony, coming just as Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, also known as CZ, warned about incoming volatility.
He likens the drop to the stock market crash of 1987, from which the markets took months to recover. But because crypto moves a lot faster today than equities did in the 1980s, Noble says we may see a quicker recovery.
But the hacks didn’t stop. In 2016, the DAO–a blockchain organization that was based on Ethereum–lost what was worth $50 million at the time, due to a technical error someone seized upon. This, once again, sent shockwaves through the community–but also had the unfortunate impact of normalizing these types of hacks for some people.
BEIJING (AP) — China’s central bank on Friday declared all transactions involving Bitcoin and other virtual currencies illegal, stepping up a campaign to block use of unofficial digital money.
Even if they are on the list the city watchdog is not responsible for regulating them and they don't have any power over how they conduct business with customers.
Notes: This figure plots weekly averages of log price and log computing power (log hashrate) of Bitcoin and Ethereum over the period from August 2015 to January 2019. We normalise both time series by subtracting their mean and dividing by the standard deviation.
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Usually, when you buy stocks or cryptocurrency, the price chart is a valuable tool in your analysis. However, the combination of Safemoon’s short price history and low liquidity means that the price chart doesn’t tell us as much as it would with other cryptos. The huge spikes in April and May have been followed by a sustained decline, which has led the price to where it is right now.
The United States has many crypto users and owners within its borders. That means that it is a valuable market for Binance. That is why the company was willing to take the steps and suffer the expense of creating a version of the exchange just for one country.
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