Four days ago, on February 1, 2018, BINANCE one of the top cryptocurrency exchanges added STEEM coin in its currency trading portfolio.
At the moment STEEM can be traded on the Binance Exchange by Bitcoin (BTC), Ehtereum (ETH) and Binance Coin (BNB).
Binance Limited is a relatively new private company, according to Craft founded in 2017 with headquarter in Hong Kong and several offices around the globe. The company is led by Mr. Changpeng Zhao (founder and CEO) and Mr. James Hofbauer (co-founder). In the Binance management team also sits former branding and marketing head manager of OKCoin and Yixia Tech, Yi He, one of the outstanding female entrepreneurs in the Blockchain industry. As well, Yi He is one of the Binance co-founders. Beside her, with huge expertise in finance and technology industry, there is also Roger Wang, a previous employee of Morgan Stanley where he was working as the senior architect who at Binance Ltd. holds the position of chief technology officer (CTO). With the latest funding round in September 2017, Binance Ltd. has raised its total funds to USD 10 million. The primary investors are Sequoia Capital a top Silicon Valley venture capital firm who invested in Apple and Google (currently targeting a new up to $6 billion funds according to last CNBC news), Black Hole Capital Ltd., China company founded in 2014 by Liang Zhang and Funcity Capital founded by Weixing Chen, founder of Kuaidi which by merging with Didi became one of the world largest smartphone-based transport services providers. Binance Limited launched Binance Exchange on July 14, 2017, and only in first three months became one of the top ten cryptocurrency exchanges, capable of processing 1.4 million orders per second with 20 million simultaneous users on the platform. Besides main and most popular cryptocurrencies (BTC, ETH, LTC) Binance Exchange supports over 90 coins including BitShares (BTS), EOS, WAVES, NEO, some tokens, and now as well STEEM coin too. It's a bit strange that they didn't simultaneously list on its exchange Steem Dollar (SBD) as well, as an almost inseparable part of Steemit platform and its constitutive functionality. But at least, that somewhat explains the rise of STEEM coin value in last few days which now again exceeds the amount of Steem Dollar (SBD). In their assets' introductory post about STEEM, posted a day before they officially announced Steem as their new listings they described Steem as... ...the first cryptocurrency that attempts to accurately and transparently reward an unbounded number of individuals who make subjective contributions to its community. Steem is the fundamental unit of account on the Steem blockchain. According to that introductory description, they apparently see STEEM coin as the one and only relevant unit of accounts on the Steem blockchain, what from my understanding and point of view it's not, if I understood right Steemit WhitePaper explanation of Steem Dollar (SBD) creation after all. Creating token-convertible-dollars enables blockchains to grow their network effect while maximizing the return for token holders. But, I believe they would realize soon enough that Steemit users are not rewarded for their work only in Steem (coin) as they stated in their assets' introductory post about STEEM... Users create and curate content on Steemit just like other social news platforms and get rewarded in Steem for their work. ...but as well in Steem Dollars (SBD) too. Of course, there could be some more profound reasons why they didn't list Steem Dollar (SBD) as well. But, it could also be very simple reasons like Steemit, Inc. management for some reason decided to apply on Binance exchange listing, for the beginning, only with STEEM or maybe they asked for both (STEEM and SBD), but for now, Binnance exchange decided to register just STEEM. However, although as one of younger crypto exchanges out there Binance seems as highly reputable one, and by far one of the fastest growing cryptocurrency exchanges which in a single day added near 250,000 new users according to the bitStarz report from two weeks ago. As well, if you take a look at CoinmarketCap site the ranking list of exchanges by trading volume, you will find Binance Exchange listed as second in past 24 hours. Another very important fact is that Binance Exchange has significantly lower trading fee than for instance Bittrex or Poloniex. As Binance also has own coin called Binance Coin (BNB), for the members who hold any amount of it the exchange will automatically use it (by default) to pay the transaction fees. In that case and at the current moment (as those discount rates are planned to change through time) the fee would be calculated with 50% discount or only 0.05%. TV* - Trading Volume Besides all of that, Binance platform currently supports eight languages (English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, French and German) with more to be added and it's available on all devices. Besides all of above said, how important might be to have Binance trading account especially now when they included STEEM in its trading list, I believe, for itself could speak the fact that even Bittrex, only in first few hours after Binance has publically announced the STEEM inclusion, moved there over 1 Million STEEM from its Steemit account. Another advantage of having Binance trading account for sure would be lower trading fees in comparison with Poloniex and Bittrex (as shown in above table). Opening a Binance account, it's indeed an easy 1, 2, 3 process. All you have to do is go to the Binance home page and on the right side of the top menu click the link "Register." A new page with registration form will open where you just have to fill your data, wait for the confirmation e-mail and follow the process. Upon registration, I would strongly suggest to use and enable one of available 2FA (Two Factor Authentication). As Binance Exchange has the referral program as well, and in case you would like to reward me for collecting, extracting and bringing you here all this data and information feel free to join through my referral link below or simply by typing in my Referral ID in the appropriate box of the registration form. In case you would rather go alone, here is the direct link without the referral code. Please, do your own due diligence! Disclaimer Bibliography: Posted on Monday, February 5, 2018
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On Bittrex all trades have a 0.25% commission fee.
On Poloniex for the users whose trading volume on the platform averages in past 30 days below 600 BTC (in which range, I assume, every average Joe would find him/herself) it's 0.15% for the Maker and 0.25% for the Taker.
While on Binance trading fee is only 0.1%.
(See the table below to compare the fees!)
For the Maker For the Taker Fee payable with Binance Coin (BNB)
0.05%* - current discount rate is changable.
Maker - a trader whose order exists (it's placed on the market) before the trade happens or the trader who places the limit order below the best ask (for buy) price or above the best bid (for sell) price.
Taker - a trader who places the order immediately matching with existing (Maker's) order.
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Taking into consideration all above said, I find listing a STEEM on Binance.com as a big step ahead and a great accomplishment, as first of Steemit, Inc. management team but as well of the whole Steemit community which would become even more significant and whole when Steem Dollars (SBD) are going to be listed there too.
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