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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This is truly fantastic news, nothing is going to stop Steemit!
Good
Binance seems to be one promising exchange hence its very good for Steem to be up there and its good news for everyone. Thank you for sharing the information @ana-maria
Very good to binance user, i prefer bittrex and poloniex!
Indeed!
It is some very good stuff for sure. I hope steemit and binance both grow hand in hand.
Yeah, I hope so too. 🙂
Binance is great for its huge variety of alt coins. Definitely investing in BNB as that is only going to go up long term. The future for STEEM is looking great, its awesome we are involved on this platform at such an early stage!
Yeah, my speculative thinking also goes in that direction thinking BNB might go up and be a coin for the long run. If STEEM would go hand in hand with it would be great!
Btw - thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment!
Definitely a good idea not only to invest but for trading as well. Don't wanna make the same mistake as me and be stuck with a couple fraction tokens :-/
That 'Dust' you are left with as people call it is kind of ridiculous ! They got to do something about that!
probably gonna try this one. Been trying Bittrex for Nth time, no response. Maybe because of my location
You can make a post to let us know how it went if you are going to try it. 😉
hello ana-maria, I think it's an excellent and very responsible article for you to share with all this data, because through them we could begin to understand the platform better and thus provide better and more solid support to the communities of the platform , certainly those who enter for money will not discover how valuable this information is. thanks for sharing truly amazing
Thank you!
Thanks to you for such valuable content @ ana-maria
Hi Ana-Maria.
Thank you for curating this article, some useful information there! I had not realised that Binance is Sequoia-backed. That makes me feel even more positive about the platform and their coin (after all Sequoia only invests in a few select companies each year and most of them turn out pretty successful).
And then, if I may add, a small point of constructive discussion. As far as I understand it, the addition of STEEM onto Binance did not have much of an impact (if any) on the price of STEEM. This makes sense to me looking at the relative STEEM trading volumes of exchanges (image below). Binance trading volume accounts for less than 1% of overall trading volume.
Steem on!
Flo
Hi Flo! Thank you for stopping by! 🙂
I don't think you are missing anything, although the current trading volume is a bit higher than just 1% (2.49% at the moment). But STEEM just arrived there 4 days ago and I think it's too early for making some conclusions. As well, current Steemit members already have opened accounts on some other exchanges that list both, STEEM and SBD, so I wouldn't expect some big trading rush to arrive from that side (or at least not until SBD would be added to Binance as well). The only ones that might change that are Whales as they, in general, hold more STEEM than SBD, but some average Joe wouldn't be that interested.
While on the other hand, big Binance member base has to get familiar with STEEM and the whole Steem Blockchain first to eventually start investing in it. And that takes time. Therefore, from my point of view, it's a perfect timing to promote Steemit on other networks to intrigue new possible members and investors. Only after that (and when BTC stops falling down, as it also impacts the price of Steem, no matter if we like it or not), we can expect some more significant raise of Steem coin value. That's at least how I see it.
Thanks for elaborating on your view!
Steem on!
Flo
I joined Binance but so far I just stare at it! Looks pretty confusing compared to Bittrex.
lol - I didn't do much there either and for now, but it doesn't seem that complicated to me. Although I can understand if you have been used to Bittrex it's a bit different and it might confuse. But, every exchange has its own look and feel, a bit different than the other one.
Binance has a very steep learning curve, indeed.
I can recommend, you technically just need three functions:
Account, Market, Wallet (Funds).
On the Account page, you find under the small „mannekin“ in the top right corner when clicking on your E-Mail, you can set up things like 2FA or change Password.
When clicking on the BTC-Balance, you can get to your wallet where you can deposit and withdraw.
And „Market“ is the function where you can buy and sell. Simple as that. :D
Everything else is beyond my expertise after five months of Binance. :D
Thanks much for the detailed reply.
its not as difficult as you might think i prefer that advaced tab...you can also download the client which is my personal favorite
I also saw it. Not the best timing. They put it on exchage the day bitcoin lost ground and deep under 10 000.
Yeah, the timing wasn't perfect, but what is the perfect timing on the crypto market!?! 🙂😁
It's such a volatile market that you never know. Crazy!
Whatever move I make on it, I'm trying to remind myself the somewhat real situation would be seen in a year or at least six months. Any shorter time frame seems to me way too speculative, with all those often ungrounded jump ups and fall downs (not to mention upside down pumpings of different pump groups).
This post has been upvoted and resteemed. i also started following you so I can see more of your work.
I am hoping that Binance will also upgrade to work with SBD as well. I currently have an account with poloniex. I transferred over some SBD to sell for BTC, and poloniex has currently disabled the ability to make deposits or withdrawals. There is currently a message that states:
SBD is currently under maintenance or experiencing wallet/ network issues. Deposits and withdrawals will remain disabled until a solution is found, which may require an update from the SBD team. Any updates must be tested and audited before enabling
It has been like this for over a week now. I understand poloniex does this regularly, and the last time it happened, it was down for 2 months, and some reported that their SBD went missing from their account.
Bittrex has not been taking new clients for over 2 months, so that isn't an option as well at this time.
Thank you!
Maybe you should consider Upbit. According to trading volume rankings on CoinmarketCap it's constantly among first ten exchanges. It also accepts both currencies, STEEM and SBD which are tradable with Bitcoin (BTC) and Korean Won (KRW).
The only problem might be that the whole site is in Korean, but maybe with Google's Translate Page, you might manage to get around.
oh dear, all in Korean might be an issue. I will still look into it, and appreciate the information.
From the keynote of Binance's CEO this is good for Steem.
Agree! Additional confidence to me brings the Binance investors like Sequoia is.
Thanks this is a great post. I've been wanting to try one of the international exchanges so I can buy either bitshares or STEEMIT. I think now is probably a good time to buy some STEEM with eth and once the price goes up to exchange it back for ethereum.
Thank you very much! Glad you like it! 🙂
Hope, you'll have some use of it!
Thank I actually put some ethereum into binance and then I bought some STEEM. Thanks :)
This is very good. I personally use binance and have had no issues. I do hope more alt coins get added.
Glad to hear that! I would also like they add more altcoins and apparently they are working on it, but it seems they do not list every that apply. They are kinda picky! 😉 And I think that's good. 🙂
Excelente noticia para todos
Muchas gracias! 🙂
Hello ana-maria I commented to you that it is an excellent way in which you have approached the subject, and I find it particularly striking and formative, do not stop doing it, thanks for your great post
Thank you very much.
Hope Steem to the moon soon...
Well, I think we all hope so... 😉
Very good post,l use binance and lm super happy with it.
Such great news that now we can trade steem there too!
Im quite new to steem but l can see the potential in it,it’s such a powerful platform,lm sure it just gonna go up! :)
Nice to hear that you are satisfied with Binance platform. And I'm glad I was the one that could bring a good news to you.
Regarding Steemit...
I can assure you Steem and Steemit have the potential, especially if it's going to be guided forward wisely.
I'm here over a year, almost year and a half, and I'm still learning almost every day wide and untapped possibilities only of this platform.
I know that Binance will bring a lot more attention to Steem over the next couple months, but hopefully not too fast because I need to buy more Steem before it goes up! 😂
hahaha - Great! I agree with you that Binance would bring more attention to Steem and Steemit. And I wish you good luck on your way to buy Steem as soon as possible and for the good price. 🙂
Already have an account on binance.
Great to know that steem is on binance. Yay!
Nice! It would be easy for you then as you are already familiar with the exchange. 🙂
amazing! great news and thanks for putting so much effort in this article! :)
Thank you!
Another very great choice in part by Binance! Adding great coins like STEEM will continue to keep them in the running to remain as one of the TOP crypto-currency exchanges, therefore, insuring a strong future for its BNB token.
Here is a great talk given by the Binance CEO. His English is fluent, and he’s got interesting thoughts on decentralised exchanges & ICOs, amongst many other topics:
Steem on Binance but looks like the news is not helping Steem prices recover. Going down and down like crazy.
Well, like with all cryptocurrencies, I think it's more connected to Bitcoin who drag them all down with it.
And as well, I think we can't expect all 6 Million Binance users would discover, choose and jump on Steem and Steemit in 4 or 5 first days. It takes time, and it also needs some efforts from our side to promote Steem and Steemit out there.
I don't understand how one market leader can drag the whole market down. By logic, if people are dumping a commodity, they must be buying something else in the same market. Well, maybe this doesn't work with crypto then.
Also, the news that 6 million people will sooner or later discover and start trading on Steem should have created a buzz among the existing market who should have bought Steem while it is down, thus raising demands and prices.
I don't seem to comprehend how all this works in crypto.
I tink binance ia very good crypto exchange, good step for steemians.
Agree!
I joined Binance a few days back, loved the low fee and variety of coins it offers, Only confused about one thing, Although came to know of it on youtube when i tried to register there was a referral code already there and as much as i wanted i could not change it or delete it. I did not get to the site from the youtube link I just googled it and followed the first link that looked like a legitimate link to the site and not a promotion. Why would that have happened ? I signed on nevertheless. Hope its not some sort of Phising scam.
Well, you obvious Google searched it, found something about it on some website who provided a registration link with its referral code. And normally, as Binance Exchange uses cookies as every website today does (at least to a certain extent) it memorized you and that's why you weren't able to get rid of it. It also prevents cheating, meaning being brought to the site with one referral and afterward wanting to assign with a different one.
Maybe you should read Binance Privacy Policy and take a look the paragraph about cookies.
Been using binance for a long time it’s my first choice of any exchange!
Hmmm... - How long that could be when the exchange itself is only 6 months and few days old?!? 😉🙂
Binance exchange officially launched at 12:00 July 14th, 2017 (Beijing Time)
I think I joined late July... but it has become my favourite and main exchange
long overdue. Steem is not just an idea or just a white paper. This will be amongst the most valuable cryptocurrencies in my opinion because of its usefulnes.
I hope so too! 🙂
Glad it’s getting listed! More exposure for steem will bring in more users on steemit, hopefully!
Yeah, that' exactly what I think. We just have to be aware it wouldn't happen literally overnight. 😉
Watch out STEEM to the Moon. Thanks Binance for giving us the chance to rule the world.
Thanks @ana-maria for sharing, the heart warming news.
just upvoted it..nice post..expecting more from u ...i am new on steem it
Upvote eachother - that way we all grow!
i just followed u buddy and wat u said about upvoting is also my top priority!! cheers!!
Lets try to play with it!
if you believe the analyst - the course at the bottom, then we must take!
so it means that it's easier to buy and sell steem
Here it is: https://steemit.com/steem/@cryptopassion/7qbkpl-steem-support-line-broken
very good news @ana-maria
binance + steem = love for life lol
Yes no
Just waiting in time....
Thanks,,
Success is always for you @ana-maria
Thanks for the info. ... U are nice!
You are welcome!
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Great news for STEEM! And great post, thanks for the detailed info. about Binance!
You are welcome.