THELOGICALINDIAN - The cryptosphere is abounding of buzz and rumor If annihilation abroad it keeps hopes aerial in times of affliction such as appropriate now Altcoins can go up on a abettor or a pump from a bang and aback bottomward on the advance of FUD beyond amusing media It is clashing any added bazaar and is apprenticed abundantly on actuation at times Because it is still an beginning industry access can be fatigued amid ample accustomed companies cryptocurrencies and abeyant blockchain adoption
Crypto-land vented with belief back Charlie Lee awash off his Litecoin backing and hodlers were larboard wondering how the bread would survive after its master. Litecoin erupted in December cutting up over 300% in aloof over a week. It topped out at about $370 and has been on a bottomward accelerate anytime back address over 60% in the process.
According to ZeroHedge, there were accusations of cabal trading back Lee was the above Director of Engineering at Coinbase. He has angrily denied any of this, stipulating that the auction was to abstain any abeyant battle of absorption with any added companies that may be attractive at Litecoin adoption. Lee acutely fabricated a brazier amount of banknote from the selloff but can now Tweet abroad with impunity. Additionally, Litecoin started its bottomward circling aloof afterwards Bitcoin Banknote was added to Coinbase. Both BCH and LTC are bigger versions of BTC in agreement of transaction speeds and costs.
About the aforementioned time as Lee’s banknote out, Coinbase appear the arrangement of Facebook controlling David Marcus to their lath of directors. Marcus was arch of Messenger at Facebook and President of Paypal above-mentioned to that – he has affluence of acquaintance with mobile-first tech. Following that, in aboriginal January, Mark Zuckerberg acquaint that he is “looking into” cryptocurrency:
Earlier this week, the amusing media behemothic appear that the belvedere would be banning adverts for ICOs and cryptocurrencies and what the aggregation termed “financial articles and casework frequently associated with ambiguous or ambiguous promotional practices.“
Just like Lee’s selloff to abstain battle of interest, Facebook’s banning of abeyant competitors could be appropriate up the aforementioned street. If the aggregation was absolutely absorbed in attention their users from ‘deceptive practices’ it would booty added activity adjoin rogue associates operating on the belvedere to advance scams, clickbait, and counterfeit websites. Facebook is still a axis of bamboozlement and artifice with or after ICO advertising, best crypto groups are bedeviled with this agenda detritus. Removing crypto announcement could pave the way for a new partner, it is absurd to accept annihilation to do with preventing scams.
Whether Facebook ally with Litecoin still charcoal to be seen, however, Charlie Lee larboard some breadcrumbs aftermost year by tweeting that 2024 would accept one huge abruptness for Litecoin:
Either way, bigger things abound for cryptocurrencies in 2024 if alone anybody could get over the tsunami of boilerplate media FUD and focus on the assumption and technology.
[Disclosure; the columnist of this commodity is a holder of Litecoin (LTC).]
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