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Crypto market capital shoots to $2.34 trillion with Ethereum occupying 20% of crypto economy
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Cryptocurrency transactions are recorded on a decentralized ledger. This ledger is called a blockchain. Every time crypto is bought or sold, the transaction is added to the blockchain — a public database of the transactions, which is available to other crypto holders. Anyone can join and participate in the blockchain, but data on individual transactions — and the people involved with them — are secured using cryptography (the basis for the term cryptocurrency). For each transaction added to the blockchain, there’s a digital validation process to verify it and prevent fraud.
Shares of Tellurian (NASDAQ: TELL) tumbled more than 15% by 2:30 p.m. EST on Wednesday. Weighing on the liquified natural gas (LNG) stock was news that it closed a debt offering. Tellurian closed its previously announced public offering of senior notes.
We’ll go through the several factors that influence demand for a particular crypto, but before we do that, it’s important to note that cryptocurrencies don’t fit comfortably into our existing asset categories.
Despite its size and name recognition, Binance has had issues with regulators. In 2017, Binance left China and re-located to Japan and Taiwan before eventually moving to Malta. However, in February 2020, after Malta announced that Binance was not actually within its jurisdiction, the exchange quickly changed positions and declared that it doesn’t have a headquarters because Bitcoin doesn’t have a central headquarters.
Although cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are virtual currencies, they are treated as an asset for capital gains tax purposes, and “ordinary” investors who purchase Bitcoin as an investment will experience a capital gain or loss when they exchange it for traditional currency, products, or services.
Worth noting: Once upon a time, cryptocurrency mining was a potentially lucrative side business for those with the resources to invest in power- and hardware-intensive mining operations.
Laith Khalaf, financial analyst at investment platform AJ Bell, previously told The Sun that although long-term investment is encouraged, SafeMoon "doesn't sound too different from a pyramid selling scheme".
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