CME is gaining presence in Bitcoin options in a market still dominated by Deribit and exchanges, new data reveals. Bitcoin (BTC) derivatives interest is putting in “fast” growth this quarter — and CME Group is leading the way for options, new data shows. According to monitoring resource Skew, the past weeks have seen CME dramatically […]
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Crypto derivatives monthly volume hit a new all-time high of $602 billion in May. Crypto derivatives monthly volume increased by one-third in May to hit a new all-time high of $602 billion, according to U.K.-based data aggregator CryptoCompare. The new record is only just a shade past the previous record in March of $600 billion, however,. […]
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Speaking to the Coinist Podcast on June 4, CEO Su Zhu said he believes the Bitcoin price pattern that we saw on June 1 is likely to repeat. Su Zhu, the CEO of Three Arrows Capital, thinks that as long as crypto traders continue to do business with derivatives exchanges, you can expect to see […]
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Author Isaiah Jackson says Bitcoin can be an effective protest against financial institutions for those who can’t take to the streets. Bitcoin & Black America author Isaiah Jackson says that people invoking Bitcoin during the protests over the police killing of George Floyd have identified the “real enemy” — a legacy financial system that shuts […]
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Renowned researcher believes that Satoshi was altruistic and thus will never spend his 1.1 Bitcoins, making it the fairest asset. The researcher who identified 1.1 million Bitcoins (BTC) that Satoshi Nakamoto mined, said that his research makes him believe that Satoshi was altruistic and will never spend his coins. Sergio Demian Lerner, the designer of […]
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COVID-19 pandemic seems to be one of the drivers behind the recent sharp increase in Bitcoin trading volume across Russia. On June 4, a new study performed by a number of Russia-based crypto exchanges revealed a significant rise in Bitcoin (BTC) trading across Russia since March amid the COVID-19 lockdown. As RBC reports, representatives from […]
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The advent of digital money will threaten the U.S. dollar’s global dominance, but it won’t be easy to dethrone the current global reserve currency. The global monetary system has been centered around the United States dollar since at least the end of World War II when the 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement formalized the greenback’s ascent […]
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The Ethereum network has become highly congested since the end of April, leading some to entertain a gas limit or block size increase. Continuing congestion on the Ethereum (ETH) network has led some developers and community members to call for increasing the gas limit, which defines its transaction throughput. Data from Etherscan shows that the […]
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Three US-based universities were targeted by the NetWalker ransomware group over the last seven days. A ransomware gang claims to have successfully attacked three universities within the last seven days. They say that their latest attack was against the University of California San Francisco, or UCSF, on June 3. Cointelegraph had access to the evidence […]
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Bloomberg’s report that provides crypto outlook for June says that it expects Tether to pass Ether as the number two cryptocurrency on the strength of the dollar. A report from Bloomberg that provides a crypto market outlook for June says that it expects Tether (USDT) to surpass Ethereum (ETH) in market capitalization. The report notes […]
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