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Binance users pull over $1 billion from the exchange after CEO leaves, pleads guilty::Binance has seen outflows amounting to more than $1 billion in the past 24 hours, not including bitcoin, according to data from blockchain analysis firm Nansen.

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[โ€“] realharo@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Well the practical difference is that money is something people actually use, where as crypto is mostly something they just hope to resell later to a higher bidder - who will only buy it because they hope to resell later to an even higher bidder.

[โ€“] stifle867@programming.dev 0 points 11 months ago

Oh people definitely use crypto all right! That's why they had to pay $4.6B to settle a money laundering case.