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Huobi, one of the market’s most-popular crypto-exchanges and one synonymous with Seychelles, is in the news today after the archipelago’s Financial Services Authority clarified that it has never supervised or regulated the exchange in question. This is an interesting development, especially since Huobi, with a daily trading volume of over $29 billion at press time, has often been perceived as being headquartered in Seychelles.

Via a notice issued today, the agency informed investors that Huobi Global Limited does not hold any license issued by the FSA to undertake any activity related to online trading of virtual assets.

“The FSA strongly urges investors and members of the public to exercise caution in respect to the services offered by the above mentioned IBC and any other company providing such services,” it said, with IBC bearing reference to Huobi’s International Business Company number.

What’s odd and interesting here is that according to the crypto-platform, Huobi Global Limited “is a company incorporated in the Republic of Seychelles under the laws of the Republic of Seychelles.” In fact, its User Agreement “in its entirety is a contract concluded under the laws of the Republic of Seychelles, and relevant laws of the Republic of Seychelles shall apply to its establishment, interpretation, content, and enforcement.”

Also, Seychelles’ actions are uncannily similar to Malta’s handling of Binance in 2020.

On 21 February 2020, the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) issued a similar statement to investors stating that Binance is not authorized by the MFSA to operate in the cryptocurrency sphere and is therefore not subject to regulatory oversight by the MFSA.

To this date, there is much ambiguity around the cryptocurrency exchange’s “real headquarters” since Binance Holding Company has reportedly been established in the Cayman Islands, with several other offices across the globe.

“We have offices in Malta for customer services, and some compliance people there, but it’s not the headquarters per se. It’s the spiritual headquarters,” Ted Lin, Binance’s Chief Growth Officer had said in an old interview.

After multiple attempts to extract information regarding where exactly the company’s headquarters are, Binance CEO CZ had gone on record to state that Binance has multiple offices across different cities with staff across 50 countries.

“It’s not that we don’t want to admit it, it’s not that we want to obfuscate it or we want to kind of hide it. We’re not hiding, we’re in the open,” he had said. According to CZ, Binance is a new type of organization that doesn’t need registered bank accounts and postal addresses.

Here, it’s worth noting that some have speculated that Seychelles FSA’s actions in this regard may force Huobi to relocate its official place of business to an entirely new geography. At the time of writing, Huobi was yet to come out with a statement regarding the development in question.

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Source: https://ambcrypto.com/seychelles-fsa-issues-notice-cautioning-against-use-of-huobi-services

Bitcoin (BTC) whales and institutions alike have made the most of the recent BTC price “dip” by buying big, data suggests.

In an update on March 9, on-chain analytics service Material Indicators noted that buy orders of $100,000 and higher on Binance — the biggest cryptocurrency exchange by volume worldwide — are reaching all-time highs.

Big Bitcoin buyers don’t hesitate

In stark contrast to orders worth less than $100,000, larger buys are more frequent than ever before in Bitcoin’s history. 

Smaller allocations have plummeted in 2021, matching an existing narrative that institutions are scooping up liquidity on exchanges which surfaced during the recent bull run.

“The $100k – $1M class is now also about to make a new ATH,” Material Indicators commented on Twitter alongside a chart.

“Meaning, they bought the dip.”

Material Indicators previously voiced concerns about this week’s price rise, arguing that whales could “sell into” the surge, producing a repeat of the run to $58,000 all-time highs and subsequent 25% correction.

While this has so far not come to pass, analysts also noted that macroeconomic factors were also having a different impact to that which was expected.

Whale orders declined after news that the United States’ $1.9 trillion stimulus package had passed the Senate, while China providing support to tech stocks had the opposite effect. As Cointelegraph reported, tech had led a dramatic change of fortunes on equities markets.

$54,500 surge followed major Coinbase buy

Later, meanwhile, another batch of nearly 12,000 BTC left professional trading platform Coinbase Pro as an example of major BTC allocations continuing at current prices.

“That happened just before the recent surge in price. Nice coincidence,” quant analyst Lex Moskovski commented on data from fellow on-chain analytics resource Glassnode.

BTC/USD hit two-week highs of $54,500 earlier on Tuesday.

Zooming out, the increasing institutional involvement around Bitcoin could fuel its entry as a standard for investors alongside traditional plays.

“We do think it will behave, actually, I would say more like the fixed income markets, believe it or not,” Cathie Wood, founder and CEO of ARK Investment Management, told CNBC this week.

Binance orderbooks show the next major BTC/USDT resistances for the bulls are around $58,000 — the all-time high — and $59,500.

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Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-whales-bought-the-dip-as-orders-for-100k-or-more-hit-all-time-highs