Statistics show that the Bitcoin price may be on the verge of seeing a red week. No, by red I don’t mean Christmas, I mean a week in which the cryptocurrency falls, potentially to enter back in the range of the $6,000s.Related Reading: Lightning Works: Bitcoin Podcaster Finds Restaurant Shunning Banks for BTCBitcoin Futures’ Imply BTC…
For a while now, investors have been waiting on futures for Ethereum (ETH), the second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. These expectations have been stifled though, with regulatory uncertainty and interest concerns about the crypto asset. But, according to a recent report from The Block, the CME Group, one of the world’s largest financial exchanges,…
Holding onto and storing digital assets for clients has become one of the key criteria in offering crypto services, at least according to Goldman Sachs. The Wall Street banking giant said that it is not any closer to offering cryptocurrency products amid this year’s bear market according to Bloomberg. The bank’s head of digital asset…
After bitcoin popped and fizzled last year, no institutional body was willing to touch it. Banking giant Goldman Sachs abruptly went quiet on its proposals to open a digital asset trading desk. Meanwhile, JP Morgan Chase head Jamie Dimon last October said that he does not “give a shit” about bitcoin. Deja Vu This year…
At long last, the CME — one of the first regulated institutions to offer Bitcoin futures — will be launching options for its BTC futures contracts. The launch will be taking place on January 13th (today, as of the time of publishing this).Related Reading: Ripple CEO: These 3 Key Reasons Are Why XRP is Not…
Data on Bitcoin futures from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), on the Commitments of Traders (CoT), shows a sharp decline in aggregate holdings by institutional traders for June. Bitcoin price with open interest on CME. Source: TradingView.comIn early February this year, which was the previous instance of this happening, a downturn in the Bitcoin price…
The Friday before last, the Bitcoin futures contract on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) closed the week at $8,715. It was a strong performance, especially considering that on Wednesday of that week, the leading cryptocurrency had plunged to $7,300 in a flash crash event. The thing is, shortly after the CME closed up shop for…
After failing to break past $10,500, Bitcoin has posted weak performance after weak performance, failing to hold key support levels. Just last week, the price of the leading cryptocurrency fell off a cliff, so to say, breaking below key supports at $9,500, $9,000, and $8,700 as bulls provided no resistance to the selling pressure.This weakness…
As Bitcoin (BTC) has entered a launchpad-like state, finding itself in a lull as sentiment is beginning to trend positive again, institutions have started to accrue long positions of the cryptocurrency. This may imply that the crypto market is about to see its next leg higher. Related Reading: Crypto Tidbits: Bitcoin Stuck In $9,000s, Starbucks…
Ever since the CME launched futures for Bitcoin, investors have been asking for Wall Street-centric Ethereum futures. The reason: cryptocurrency investors believe these derivatives will catalyze ETH buying by an institutional audience.Analyst Expects Ethereum Futures to Send Price FlyingAccording to a prominent crypto trader, “it won’t be long before we see [Ethereum] futures launch [on…