We’ve seen Bitcoin hit multiple new all-time high prices, regulatory talks with potential to have big impact on the industry, and more institutional buy-in from major companies. All the while, people’s interest in crypto has skyrocketed this year: it’s a hot topic not only among investors but in popular culture too, thanks to everyone from long-standing investors like Elon Musk to that kid from your high school on Facebook.
But some say the BITO ETF is not enough, because while the fund is linked to Bitcoin, it does not actually hold the crypto directly. The fund instead holds Bitcoin futures contracts. While Bitcoin futures follow the general trends of the actual crypto, experts say it may not track the price of Bitcoin directly. For now, investors must continue waiting for an ETF that holds Bitcoin directly.
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But whether that growth is sustainable, and what it means long-term, is still in question. “This crypto, blockchain technology, the public interest in it right now is being driven by a kind of speculative fever,” says Dr. Richard Smith, executive director of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles, a nonprofit organization dedicated to studying recurring patterns throughout economies and cultures.
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Today, many countries have understood that depending on conventional money alone is not losing any brighter future advantages and thus gradually moving towards cryptocurrencies. As a deflationary asset and digital, safety and decentralization are ensured with SafeMoon as much as value appreciation.
Currently, the global crypto market cap stands at $2.94 trillion, an increase of 3.21%. Other cryptocurrencies were also trading in the green.
Dow, the man who first shorted bitcoin, for instance, even mentioned in his initial post that a person can be “simultaneously bullish on blockchain and bearish on bitcoin.” And he just announced that he’s ending his short.
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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.
Its competitors, Dogecoin and Shiba Inu faced several lows for months and years straight but are at a different position now. SafeMoon could walk the same path as its competitors and would find a ‘breakout’ all of a sudden.
Whereas in the original SADF test the starting value of the window, r1, was fixed to 0, in the GSADF test the starting point can now vary from 0 to r2 − r0 (this is the last possible starting point, near the end of the data set, that allows the test to be run on the minimum window size).
Additionally, crypto regulation outside the U.S. has changed over time, based on evolving regulatory guidelines. The fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive from the European Union, for example, entails that crypto buying, selling and other operations must comply with certain guidelines in certain regions.
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In the United States, Binance is also being probed by the Department of Justice, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and tax authorities, Bloomberg News has reported.
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