Kraken has launched support for trading and funding in AUD six months after acquiring veteran Australian crypto exchange Bit Trade. Major cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has announced support for Aussie dollar (AUD) trading pairs and account funding. Australian dollars will be tradeable against Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), Ripple (XRP), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), and Tether […]
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The Bitcoin uptrend could be in peril, QuadrigaCX described as a “Ponzi scheme,” and Coinbase is punished for outages. Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week […]
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Daily trade volume for Bitcoin futures contracts has dropped to a new year-to-date low. However, open interest in both BTC and Ether futures are rallying into record highs. Trade volume on Bitcoin (BTC) futures exchanges has plummeted to new lows for 2020, with the BTC futures markets collective posting just shy of $5 billion in […]
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2020 has been one of BTC’s most volatile periods, but why do cryptocurrency exchanges keep crashing under high demand? Nobody can really predict Bitcoin’s (BTC) price volatility. But one thing is becoming painfully predictable when the price of Bitcoin suddenly lurches in one direction or another: One or more of the major cryptocurrency exchanges simply […]
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Crypto exchanges such as OKEx, Binance, Huobi, Kraken and Bitmex outline the key challenges they face in pushing to establish global operations. Cryptocurrency exchanges have an important role in driving adoption around the world, but even the biggest operations face significant challenges when trying to expand their services. The advent of Bitcoin (BTC) and the […]
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A cautious mood in the Bitcoin futures markets contrasts with Binance’s optimistic launch of quarterly contracts. Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has launched a new Bitcoin (BTC) futures product despite institutional investors showing fresh uncertainty about the future. In a blog post on June 11, Binance revealed its quarterly futures contracts had gone live, with settlement due […]
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Bug bounties have emerged as one of the key ways for companies to prevent catastrophic hacks. In the past decade, hacking gradually became a respectable and potentially rewarding career thanks to the introduction of bug bounties. While some organizations like Mozilla launched bug bounties all the way back in 2004, major impetus to the industry […]
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DEX tokens have outperformed their centralized counterparts by 5X this year, with an average increase of 240% according to Messari. Decentralized exchange (DEX) tokens’ year-to-date returns are more than five times that of their centralized counterparts according to the latest DeFi report by cryptocurrency research platform Messari. DEX tokens have increased on average 241% so […]
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Experts say CoinMarketCap’s update is not good enough after the latest method tweak causes further controversy among the community. For reasons of vanity as well as for those of industry health, it’s important to have a good method for ranking crypto exchanges and coins. But as the past few years have shown, no foolproof method […]
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Here’s how the crypto derivatives market compares to the traditional derivatives one. Crypto derivatives volumes have hit a new record high in May 2020. The early generation of crypto investors mostly worked with a hold-and-sell perspective. With the inevitable evolution of the market and the advent of cryptocurrency derivatives, investors with varied agendas — such […]
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