Chief among them was PayPal, which made Tesla founder and noted cryptocurrency advocate Elon Musk’s first fortune and proved to be a harbinger of today’s mobile payment technologies that have exploded in popularity over the past 10 years.
“One of our institutional traders indicated to us that they had a bug in their trading algorithm, which appears to have caused the sell-off,” Binance.US said in an emailed statement. “We are continuing to look into the event, but understand from the trader that they have now fixed their bug and that the issue appears to have been resolved.”
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Crypto data aggregation platform, CoinMarketCap, recorded an increase in Bitcoin’s trading volume of almost 21% over the last 24 hours as of 2.25pm, with the cryptocurrency’s trading volume reaching $41,758,072,990.
“This is a legitimate technology–it’s going to expand,” he says, “My longer-term view is nowhere near where some of [my current] views are.” It could even perhaps hit $10,000 again, he says. But that will probably take a few years. For now, we wait and see.
There is no publicly available information about what percentage of assets held by the exchange are kept in secure, offline cold storage vs. online hot wallets, or if there is an insurance policy that protects investors. You must have a Binance.US account to send queries to the help desk, so we were unable to get more information that way.
Headed by Canadian Changpeng Zhao, Binance offers a wide range of services globally, from crypto spot and derivatives trading to tokenised versions of stocks, as well as its own cryptocurrency, Binance Coin.
Additionally, 4JNET has its smart contract audited by a world-leading blockchain network security firm. CertiK is known for working with big platforms. Their portfolio includes providing audit services for Binance, Huobi, and OKEx, in addition to blockchain ecosystems like Ethereum, Terra, and Neo.
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We reached out to Binance.US for more information about its security measures and received no response. We’ll update the review if Binance.US gets back to us.
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.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is calling on Congress to pass legislation that would strengthen government regulation of stablecoins, a form of cryptocurrency that has soared in popularity in the past year.
Brooks, who was acting US Comptroller of the Currency from May 2020 to January 2021, joined Binance US as chief executive officer at the beginning of May. Prior to joining the regulator, Brooks had been Chief Legal Officer of Coinbase Global. During his time as acting Comptroller, Brooks led efforts to provide regulatory clarity for stablecoins and digital asset custody.
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The Fibonacci retracement indicator, measured from the Oct. 17 swing low at $3,640 to the Oct. 21 swing high at $4,375, suggests that Ethereum is sitting on stable support. The combination of the 50% Fibonacci retracement level with the 50 four-hour moving average at $3,922 is the most significant interest area underneath ETH.
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