So the quarterly Binance Coin (BNB) burn is approaching rapidly. What is exactly the BNB token and why the burn? And what effect does it have on the market? ambcrypto.com takes a look.
The BNB token is obtainable on the Binance Exchange platform and it makes use of the ERC-20 standard. While you can easily trade it, sell it, buy it, holding BNB to pay fees carries significant advantages.
Namely, paying various fees with BNB token can halve your trading costs for the first year and significantly reducing the fees for the next years.
Now we get to the burning of the tokens.
Once every quarter, Binance uses 20% of it's profits to buy back BNB and destory them, until 50% of the BNB is bought back. How is the destroying done? They send it to an invalid address that has no private keys to access it, making these tokens inaccessible for future uses.
Basically, burning of tokens should increase scarcity and drive price up significantly. According to ambcrypto.com, 2 of the 3 burns so far have not created any significant price volatility or increase, but one of the burns saw a cool 50%+ increase in price of the BNB token.
Perhaps it will stop the price decay? we'll see. AFAIK the dates for burns are not pre-announced (feel free to correct me) to prevent price manipulation, but so far all the burns have taken place on the 18th of every 3rd month. Let's see, if there is any pattern and it falls to the same time when major crypto markets find a bottom, we might see a price appreciation.
Materials:
ambcrypto.com
ethereumworldnews.com
Satoshi's wallets
Did you know there's more than a million Bitcoins in the mysterious creator of Bitcoins wallets? While there is no specific wallet to monitor, analysts have determined that there ara thousands of wallets containing insane amounts of coins, just lying dormant.
Read more about these addresses here at bitcointalk.org
But what happens if these coins suddenly start moving? Has the creator destroyed these coins, by discarding private keys and all access to these? Or perhaps, he just doesn't need the money, yet.
There are theories about what could happen. Should these coins suddenly move to an exchange, this would create a crapstorm of an insane magnitude, blowing over markets and seeing wave after wave of selling from panic hodlers. But there's also another theory.
If the Bitcoin was actually created by some government organization, for example the NSA, what better way to discredit cryptocurrencies than destory the markets by dumping all their Bitcoin, destroying all hodlers except very early adopters?
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Lets hope this theory is not true - my personal belief is that the creator is one or a small group of people, who already have made their fortunes and are fully aware of the implications that moving of these millions of coins would have on cryptocurrencies in general.
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