The CME is the largest futures exchange in the world. Since Bitcoin futures became available, public interest in the new derivative has surged. According to Tim McCourt, Managing Director and Global Head of Equity Products and Alternative Investments at CME, the futures trading volume on their platform has increased steadily on a monthly basis since […]
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In 2017, prominent investor bankers like Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase were calling Bitcoin a fraud. This year, they’re singing a different tune, and we’re seeing people of the caliber of George Soros investing in crypto. Now, the Rockefeller family is investing in cryptocurrency. Their $3 billion venture capital firm, Venrock was created by John […]
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Roger Ver has declared Bitcoin Cash as the true Bitcoin, and now Coinbase is adding support for Bitcoin forks, according to their blog. This new functionality will enable Coinbase customers to withdraw Bitcoin forks within a few months, while keeping everything in alignment with their process for adding new digital assets. The current process for […]
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On April 5, 2018 Roger Ver tweeted from Seoul Korea, “Bitcoin Cash is Bitcoin.” He included a diagram that showed three scenarios related to the fork of Bitcoin Cash from Bitcoin. In his diagram, he suggested that people who see Bitcoin Cash (BCH) as a “hard-fork” that branched off of Bitcoin, with Bitcoin (BTC) continuing […]
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As we reported last month, cryptocurrency developers try to optimize their blockchains for standard computer equipment, to discourage large entities from cornering the market in mining their coins. Monero may hard fork to reject a Bitmain ASIC, and the developers of Ethereum have been trying to keep it ASIC-resistant. Bytom is embracing ASICs and the […]
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DoubleLine Capital CEO, Jeffrey Gundlach believes that Bitcoin is proving to be a new stock market indicator. He was one of the “50 Most Influential” according to Bloomberg Markets Magazine in 2012, making his opinions carry a great deal of weight. According to Gundlach, “Bitcoin closed at the low of the year last week, SPX […]
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Health care insurers UnitedHealth Group, Humana and MultiPlan have partnered with provider Quest Diagnostics in a study on utilizing blockchain technology to improve health care data. They are not the first companies to look at marrying healthcare with the blockchain. Medicalchain is one health records company looking to solve this problem, which currently has voluntary […]
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