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Brian Shroder, who was previously an executive at Ant Group Co. and Uber Technologies Inc., will oversee the crypto exchange’s strategy, execution, fundraising, business and corporate development, and manage its legal, human resources and product and technology functions, the company said in a statement. Brian Brooks, who had been CEO, resigned recently just months into his tenure amid a slew of compliance setbacks and regulatory scrutiny tied to the crypto exchange’s sister company.
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.
As far as India is concerned, in 2018, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had banned banks and other financial institutions from facilitating cryptocurrency transactions. In 2020, the Supreme Court reversed the order. Since then, though trading is allowed on these virtual coins, they have not yet received the status of a legal tender. However, that doesn't spare anyone from paying tax on cryptocurrency trades.
As recently as May 2021, Binance was under investigation by the U.S. government for tax fraud and money laundering, according to reporting by Bloomberg.
The outputs of ciphers, hash functions, signature algorithms, and key derivation functions are pseudorandom byte sequences and should not be used as Unicode strings.
But no true cryptocurrency emerged until the late 2000s when Bitcoin came onto the scene.
“We’re working around the clock to fix the issues and to ensure we give you the quality experience you deserve,” the tweet assured users. “So we can manage demand, will be [sic] releasing each product in a staggered approach (one-by-one) – starting with the website buy & swap function – today.”
The phenomenon has occurred more frequently in recent days, with Bitstamp also seeing freak order-book events.
Many cryptocurrency observers had sounded the alarm about Squid even before the “rug pull,” citing warning signals such as social media accounts that did not allow followers or subscribers to comment and the amateurish white paper. CoinMarketCap, a data provider, had urged potential traders to take “extreme caution” after Squid buyers told the platform that their coins could not be sold.
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"We feel very, very good about the coins that we're currently listing on our platform. And for any new coins that we add, we want to feel equally, if not more good," he added.
Currently, the price of Safemoon is hovering around the $0.0000014 level. This is around 90% down from the heights the coin reached in April 2021.
Bitcoin operates on its own blockchain, and so does Ether. The Binance Smart Chain is a separate blockchain that inherits many software features and protocols from the Ethereum network. One feature of the Ethereum network (and thus also the BSC) is the ability to host software programs (called smart contracts).
Cryptocurrencies’ supply and value are controlled by the activities of their users and highly complex protocols built into their governing codes, not the conscious decisions of central banks or other regulatory authorities.
Today, it’s impractical for hobbyists without thousands of dollars to invest in professional-grade mining equipment. If your aim is simply to supplement your regular income, plenty of freelance gigs offer better returns.