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Binance Blamed for Purposely Choking Ethereum’s Network

22/02/2021 by Idelto Editor

The recent ramp higher in cryptocurrency prices has assuredly attracted its fair share of cheerleaders and detractors alike, but the reality of this climb has been a concurrent increase in network fees from rising transaction volumes.

Binance is Blamed for Purposely Choking Ethereum’s Network to Drive More Users to Its Own Platform

The resulting volumes have clogged networks like Ethereum, which have seen gas costs climb almost 20x over the last 12 months. For the growing DeFi market, these sky-high costs have elicited significant criticism from the community and mobilized the ecosystem to hunt for more affordable options. Enter Binance, which may dethrone Ethereum as the new DeFi hotspot due to its interoperability and lower transaction costs.

Binance Smart Chain (BSC), which works on a Proof of Authority (POA) model, is centralized (Binance picks the authorities that run each node) relative to Ethereum’s entirely decentralized approach. This has prompted some users to criticize the approach, believing that Binance is abusing its clout and market power to intentionally clog the Ethereum network. However, this sharp critique misses the bigger picture.

Binance Blamed for Purposely Choking Ethereum’s Network

A quick look at wallet and gas data highlights that Binance is the largest single gas spender. For instance, the image above tweeted by Nansen AI highlights from February 12th to the 18th, Binance spent the equivalent of nearly 5,000 ETH in gas alone. Although many users are quick to criticize publicized data of Asian exchanges which are known for inflating trading volume, this data can be corroborated by Etherscan data.

Binance Blamed for Purposely Choking Ethereum’s Network

Binance Blamed for Purposely Choking Ethereum’s Network

The data demonstrate that both in terms of gas spent and transaction volume over the last seven days, wallets attributed to Binance accounted for six out of 10 of the most active wallets in the entire Ethereum ecosystem. While it could be inferred that Binance’s volume is propelling Ether costs upward and doing so intentionally to attract more volume to its smart chain, this argument misses out on the blockchain interoperability that Binance has promoted. Moreover, Binance hasn’t shut off the taps to Ethereum, making the argument of it clogging the network somewhat moot.

Binance Pancakeswap Has Overtaken Uniswap

The costs of switching from Ethereum to Binance are very low, especially for smart contracts and Dapps. By improving the interoperability and reducing switching costs along with rebating developers who bring valuable projects online, Binance has built itself up as a formidable destination for all manner of activities.

Given the volumes of DeFi, any reduction in network fees and costs is likely to attract greater adoption. By filling this void quicker than competitors or more established chains, Binance is now home to PancakeSwap, which has overtaken Uniswap (based on Ethereum) in terms of volume.

Because the barriers of switching from Uniswap to PancakeSwap (which is effectively a copy of Uniswap on BSC), are fairly low, it’s no wonder why DeFi users have made the jump. Moreover, it has caused a sharp incline in Binance Coin’s (BNB) valuation, making transactions also more expensive on its own native chain.

Yet, unlike Ethereum, by building a more cost-effective ecosystem that rewards smart contract developers, Binance is actually incentivizing development and smart contract use, and not necessarily using its market power to clog other competing networks.

FTX Quick to Criticize

Still, that hasn’t been enough to silence critics like FTX, which blame Binance for the default chains where it sends transactions. In a recent tweet critique, cryptocurrency derivatives exchange FTX was quick to pile onto Binance’s withdrawal process which effectively defaults to promoting its own chains and creates a conflict due to the fees it reaps in return.

As a result, it has cost FTX dearly due to coins being sent to the wrong chains. Accordingly, the service has decided to pass along the extra costs to users in the form of a 5% deposit surcharge for tokens sent to the wrong chain. However, in large this argument speaks more towards user mistakes than Binance’s default settings.

While the Binance universe is undoubtedly growing, and exchange volumes speak credible truth to this reality, the self-promotion of its own tools will continue to spark the same sort of denunciations that marked the decentralized versus centralized exchange debate. Ultimately though, utility speaks the loudest.

What do you think – is Binance purposely choking the Ethereum network to gain more users? Let us know in the comments section below.

Filed Under: Binance, crypto exchange, defi, English, ETH transaction, Ethereum, Exchanges, gas fees, News Bitcoin

Skeptics Concerned Plustoken Scammers Plan to Dump $187M Worth of Ethereum

28/06/2020 by Idelto Editor

Skeptics Concerned Plustoken Scammers Plan to Dump $187M Worth of Ethereum

Crypto market skeptics and speculators are concerned about 789,000 ETH that started moving four days ago last Wednesday. The transaction was recorded by Whale Alert, and the $187 million worth of ether stems from the Plustoken scammers.

On Wednesday, June 24, 2020, at approximately 9:46 a.m. (ET) the Plustoken scammers who have yet to be arrested, moved 789,534 ETH worth $187,847,550 USD at today’s exchange rates.

Cryptocurrency traders are concerned that this stash of ETH will be dumped on numerous digital currency spot markets. Additionally, the Plustoken scammers moved $67 million worth of EOS tokens two days before the 789,000 ETH transaction.

A number of crypto traders and organizations like Chainalysis and Cyphertrace have reported on the Plustoken scammers’ transactions.

Speculators have assumed that Plustoken coins that were dumped on spot markets caused the price of BTC to slide at the end of 2019. Plustoken scammers have been accused of fueling the March 12, 2020 dump often referred to as ‘Black Thursday.’

On March 9, 2020, crypto market observers witnessed 13,000 BTC sent to bitcoin mixers and crypto speculators assume the scammers are selling. Chainalysis said after March 12, that the organization didn’t believe the sell-off stemmed from Plustoken coins sold.

“In this case, we don’t believe Plustoken liquidations are responsible for bitcoin’s price drop. While Bitcoin did move from Plustoken addresses over the weekend, very little has gone to exchanges,” Chainalysis wrote.

The recent 789,000 ETH transaction may have been shuffled or obfuscated through a number of hops. The $187 million was split into 50 different addresses on the Ethereum network.

Findings stemming from Cyphertrace and Chainalysis have noted that the Plustoken scammers still own large amounts of ETH, BTC, EOS, and a few other types of digital assets. To this day, the scammers who are still at large, hold large swathes of these coins and no one is sure how they will be sold, but many suspect over-the-counter (OTC) operations.

The ETH address where the $187 million in ether was stored, still has $139.70 worth of ETH in the wallet today. 192 days ago, the wallet started with 10 ETH deposited, but 789,524.6 ETH was deposited immediately after.

What do you think about the Plustoken ether on the move? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.

The post Skeptics Concerned Plustoken Scammers Plan to Dump $187M Worth of Ethereum appeared first on Bitcoin News.

Filed Under: Altcoins, Chainalysis, Crypto Market Dump, cryptocurrency, English, ETH, ETH transaction, Ethereum, Exchanges, Mixers, News Bitcoin, OTC Trades, Over-the-counter, plustoken, Plustoken Scammers, Whale Alert

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