Cryptocurrency price news – Shiba Inu coin and Bitcoin down today as Kraken crypto exchange ‘promises to list coin’

SHIBA Inu coin was down again in the early hours of Thursday morning, as Bitcoin also struggled.

Shiba Inu coin’s price had dropped more than 20 percent as of 10am ET on Thursday, according to CoinBase.

Bitcoin was also slightly lower day-to-day as of 10am ET on Thursday, CoinBase shows.

Shibu Inu is a cryptocurrency token that allows users to hold trillions of them.

Tokens of Shiba Inu feature the same dog as Dogecoin, which has become one of the most popular cryptocurrencies this year.

Earlier this week, trading platform Kraken teased it would list Shiba Inu.

On November 1, 2021, the cryptocurrency trading platform, Kraken, took to its Twitter account to encourage followers to help it list Shiba Inu on the site.

The tweet reads: “@brianchoffman said if we get 2,000 likes we will list $SHIB tomorrow – but he doesn’t think we can do it. #SHIBArmy where you at?”

The 2K challenge was quickly surpassed: the tweet currently has over 17.8K retweets, 1.2K quote tweets, and a whopping 77.2K likes.

The platform followed up by saying it is working on making the coin available.

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  • CRYPTO-TRADING HAMSTER, CONTINUED

    The four-legged financial fiend is not completing transactions himself, of course.

    Instead, Goxx’s trading decisions are made inside a camera-rigged “office” attached to his regular cage.

    Every day, when he enters the office, a stream is started on Twitch and a tweet is sent out to his followers notifying them that trading has begun.

    The hamster then runs on an “intention wheel” that chooses one of 30 different cryptocurrencies to trade.

  • A CRYPTO-TRADING HAMSTER OUTPERFORMS MARKET

    A hamster in Germany is trading in cryptocurrencies and has consistently been outperforming the S&P 500.

    The furry animal, called Mr Goxx, has been busy working since June, thanks to a specially adapted cage.

    He determines which currencies to buy or sell by running on his wheel or walking through one of two tunnels.

    Mr Goxx started trading on June 12 this year.

    The site states that the page is just for fun and does not offer financial advice.

  • MUSK TWEETS ABOUT UNIVERSITY WITH ‘TUITION’ IN ‘DOGECOIN’

    On October 29, Elon Musk tweeted, “Am thinking of starting new university: Texas Institute of Technology & Science.”

    He later added below that tweet on Halloween, “Tuition is in Dogecoin & u get a discount if u have a dog.”

  • WHAT WILL SHIBA INU BE WORTH IN 2022?

    Plenty of cryptocurrency fans have predicted Shiba Inu’s value for 2022, but you should take it with a pinch of salt as those guesses are nowhere near guaranteed.

    For example, crypto website Wallet Investor expects a value of up to $0.000018 in a year’s time.

    Meanwhile, Coin Price Forecast expects Shiba Inu to hit a value of $0.00002336 by the middle of next year.

    It then expects it to end the year at a slightly higher level of $0.00003037.

  • WHAT IS SHIBA INU COIN, CONTINUED

    Whether you’ve already invested or not, keep in mind that making money through cryptocurrencies or other investments is never guaranteed, even with a popular one like Shiba Inu.

    Cryptocurrencies are especially volatile, so their values can crash with little to no notice.

  • WHAT IS SHIBA INU COIN?

    Shiba Inu is a cryptocurrency token that allows users to hold trillions of them.

    The tokens feature the same Shiba Inu dog as Dogecoin, which has risen massively in popularity recently.

  • CRYPTO AUDIO STREAMING

    Audius is a crypto-powered music streaming platform.

    It’s owned and controlled by token holders – and tokens are called Audio.

    According to Audius, over 5.3million people have used the platform this month.

    Audio has been listed on CoinMarketCap since October 2020, and has rocketed in value following a deal with Chinese-owned social media giant TikTok.

  • BITCOIN SCORES NEW HIGH AFTER DORSEY TWEET

    Bitcoin’s price hit a six-month-high of $62,000 after Dorsey tweeted about the possible Square development, according to CoinDesk and Business Insider.

    That surge launched its year-to-date gains to 114 percent.

  • WHO IS BEHIND ALGORAND?

    The Algorand Foundation based in Singapore is behind the project.

    Algorand claims that it speeds up transactions and improves efficiency when compared to bitcoin and other blockchains.

  • WHAT IS ALGORAND?

    Algorand is a cryptocurrency of the Algorand blockchain, a public decentralized network on which smart contracts can be built.

    It was created in 2019 by Silvio Micali, a professor a the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

    The computer scientist has also won the Turing Award for his work in the area of cryptography.

  • WHAT IS HBAR CRYPTO?

    Hashgraph is similar to a blockchain and was created in 2017 by American computer scientist Leemon Baird.

    The Hedera Hashgraph system is a distributed ledger built on Hashgraph and was created by Baird along with Mance Harmon.

    HBAR is the cryptocurrency of the Hedera Hashgraph.

    The company itself expalins: “HBAR is the native, energy-efficient cryptocurrency of the Hedera public network.”

  • SQUARE MAY BUILD BITCOIN MINING HARDWARE

    Square CEO Jack Dorsey said the company may create a bitcoin mining rig in a recent tweet, according to Business Insider.

    “Square is considering building a bitcoin mining system based on custom silicon and open source for individuals and businesses worldwide,” CEO Dorsey said in a tweet.

    “If we do this, we’d follow our hardware wallet model: build in the open in collaboration with the community.”

  • STEVEN SEAGAL’S BITCOIN SCANDAL

    Under Siege and Half Past Dead hardman Seagal was paid to promote “Bitcoiin2Gen” (B2G) which saw 500 investors left out of pocket in cash and other cryptocurrencies as he unwittingly ended up backing the scam.

    Seagal reportedly had been offered $250,000 along with £750,000 worth of B2G for appearing in promotional materials for the con artists.

    He appeared in a press release for them and “wholeheartedly” endorsed the scheme in a post to his 7million followers on Facebook.

  • EXPERTS PREDICT POLYGON’S GROWTH

    How the price of Ethereum will change in the future is impossible to know for certain.

    However, experts and investors have made some predictions.

    Charlie Barton, an investment specialist at comparison site Finder, warned in mid-May: “The performance of Polygon has been extremely strong recently, achieving 10,000% growth in the last year.”

    “It’s easy to get carried away, but such aggressive growth is highly unlikely to continue forever.”

  • WHAT IS POLYGON?

    Polygon is an Ethereum token that powers the Polygon Network, which aims to provide faster transactions on the Ethereum blockchain.

    It was originally known as the Matic Network when it first launched back in 2017.

    Polygon hit its highest ever level on May 18 when it rocketed to $2.4544.

    The price has soared by around 9,200% this year – up from $0.01781 on January 1.

  • DATING APP SCAMS AND CRYPTO

    Some cryptocurrency scam operations have started using dating apps to reel in potential targets.

    In some reports, scammers would pose as a long-distance love interest sharing a hot new cryptocurrency opportunity.

    About 20 percent of the money reportedly lost through dating scams in around the last year involved cryptocurrency.

  • CRYPTOCURRENCY GIVEAWAY SCAMS

    In giveaway scams, scammers often pose as celebrities or well-known figures and ask victims to send Bitcoin, promising to send back a much larger amount.

    Many giveaway scams are marketed over social media, attempting to connect through Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.

    For instance, victims reported sending more than $2million to scammers impersonating Elon Musk.

  • CHINA’S CRACKDOWN ON CRYPTO IS ‘BIG OPPORTUNITY’ FOR US

    China’s crackdown on cryptocurrency transactions “is a big opportunity for the U.S.”, according to Pat Toomey, the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee.

    This comes as the US Securities and Exchange Commission lobbied for more regulations when it comes to cryptocurrency.

  • CHINA’S STATEMENT, CONTINUED

    Bitcoin, the world’s largest digital currency, and other cryptos cannot be traced by a country’s central bank, making them difficult to regulate.

    The crypto crackdown opens the gates for China to introduce its own digital currency, which it is already working on and will allow the central government to monitor transactions.

  • CHINA’S STATEMENT

    The PBOC said it will “resolutely clamp down on virtual currency speculation, and related financial activities and misbehaviour in order to safeguard people’s properties and maintain economic, financial and social order”.

    It said that trading of virtual currencies had become “widespread, disrupting economic and financial order, giving rise to money laundering, illegal fund-raising, fraud, pyramid schemes and other illegal and criminal activities.”

  • CHINA MAKES CRYPTO TRADING ILLEGAL

    China‘s central bank announced that all cryptocurrency trading is illegal in the country and mining the tokens is banned.

    The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) said: “Virtual currency-related business activities are illegal financial activities.”

    The country previously banned financial institutions from offering crypto related transactions, and warned investors against speculative trading in them.

  • CHINA PREVIOUSLY SHUT DOWN CRYPTO EXCHANGES, PART TWO

    While crypto creation and trading have been illegal in China since 2019, further crackdowns this year by Beijing warned banks to halt related transactions and closed much of the country’s vast network of bitcoin miners.

    The previous statement by the central bank sent the strongest yet signal that China is closed to crypto.

  • CHINA PREVIOUSLY SHUT DOWN CRYPTO EXCHANGES

    In 2017, China shut down its local cryptocurrency exchanges.

    Despite the war on crypto, Chinese mines power nearly 80 percent of the global trade in cryptocurrencies.

  • BANKS MAY REGULATE CRYPTO, CONTINUED

    Jelena McWilliams, chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, told Reuters in an interview that US bank regulators are looking for a way to have banks exchange with crypto assets.

    “I think that we need to allow banks in this space, while appropriately managing and mitigating risk,” she said.

    “If we don’t bring this activity inside the banks, it is going to develop outside of the banks. … The federal regulators won’t be able to regulate it.”

  • BANKS MAY REGULATE CRYPTO

    US officials are reportedly exploring how banks could hold cryptocurrencies, in an effort to regulate the the asset.

    Crypto is fast-growing, and if it continues to develop outside of banks, federal regulators will not be able to control it.



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