It seems that once again, a crypto exchange has beat Bakkt, the Bitcoin (BTC) venture launched by the New York Stock Exchange, to the punch. Announced Monday afternoon, ErisX, a Chicago-based cryptocurrency startup, has secured a “derivatives clearing organization” (DCO) license from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Our DCO license is the next step…
After managing to stay situated above $11,000 for a number of days, Bitcoin (BTC) has begun to slip. This is a far cry from the performance seen earlier this week, with one day seeing Bitcoin post a 20% daily gain. Related Reading: Bitcoin Must Break Above $12,444 Or Else Price Breakdown May Occur, Claims Prominent…
By many measures, the recent Bitcoin (BTC) bull run has just started. Despite being early on in this market cycle though, crypto investors have already begun to look ahead, speculating as to where certain digital assets will top out. Related Reading: Economist Flips From Bitcoin Skeptic to Savant, Acknowledges Crypto’s Staying Power Due to Bitcoin’s…
To most in the Bitcoin (BTC) and crypto community, mainstream media is viewed with intense skepticism. Case in point, the leading cryptocurrency has been declared dead over 360 times according to 99Bitcoins. Most of these attacks come from mainstream outlets, from CNBC and Forbes to the New York Post and Bloomberg. For instance, one Bloomberg…
Believe it or not, China was once the de-facto capital of Bitcoin (BTC). The nation, after all, spawned Bitmain and many early crypto asset investors, presumably due to the culture of risk, speculation, and technological development. Related Reading: China Banned Everything Bitcoin, Video Games Seem To Be Next But, ever since the ban on cryptocurrency…
Goldman Sachs Group is interested in exploring the possibilities of launching a crypto asset like bitcoin, according to the bank’s chief executive officer David Solomon. The prominent investment banker told France’s Les Echos newspaper that Goldman is conducting thorough research on tokenization, the method of digitizing currencies or assets to enable their smooth transfer over…
The pool of government debt with negative yields pushed past the $13 trillion-level last week, after the dovish outlooks in both the US and Europe intensified concerns over the health of the economy. Around the same time, a market that is entirely independent of the impacts the central banks’ policies netted approx a 275 percent…
The crypto markets are continuing to grow and develop by leaps and bounds each day, and the latest piece of positive news that elucidates just how rapidly the markets are maturing is the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s decision to approve LedgerX for offering physically settled Bitcoin futures contracts. The announcement, which was made by the…
Delegated Proof-of-Stake (DPoS) platforms are becoming the new norm in the cryptocurrency space, steadily pushing out their Proof-of-Work (PoW) predecessors. The reasons for that are quite evident. First, DPoS appears to be much more sustainable as a model: instead of relying on the loud, energy-consuming process of mining, it utilizes an algorithm that involves validators…
As much as “FOMO” is a meme in the Bitcoin (BTC) community, the fear of missing out seems to be an entirely real phenomenon. It’s been just a day since the cryptocurrency rocketed past $10,000, and data is already revealing that more money (and investors) are already flooding into these markets, ready to throw their…