December 13, 2017 BY Mariela Naydenova

Starbucks' WiFi hijacked customers' laptops for mining Monero

Brittany Roston from Slash Gear reported that one of Starbucks stores in Buenos Aires was caught mining digital currencies through the use of customers' laptops that essentially used the store's WiFi. The Starbucks store did not know of the mining, until notified by a customer, Noah Dunkin through a tweet. According to his tweet, the…

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December 13, 2017 BY Mariela Naydenova

Bitcoin down with 7%, futures trading at a halt

After reaching a new all-time high of $17,600 on Tuesday, Bitcoin is down 7% today and slumping below the $16,000 level. While this correction may be normal in value after a steep rise, the decline caused a freeze on the futures trading and contracts on CBOE, which launched bitcoin futures this week on Sunday, December…

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December 13, 2017 BY Mariela Naydenova

Scholarships in the form of Bitcoin in Bulgarian university

Bitcoin is now of one the modern "wonders" and has escalated to a price of almost $18,000 on international exchanges. Blockchain, the technology behind bitcoin, is disrupting major markets and industries, and education is not behind. For the very first time, a university in Bulgaria will offer scholarships to incoming students in the form of…

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December 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cboe launches Cboe Gemini Bitcoin Futures Index (XBTX)

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) today announced it has created the Cboe Gemini Bitcoin Futures Index (ticker symbol: XBTX), a new strategy performance benchmark index designed to replicate a constant one-month position in Cboe XBTSM Bitcoin Futures (ticker symbol: XBT). XBT futures began trading on Cboe Futures Exchange (CFE) on Sunday, December 10. More…

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December 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Xtrade.io launching to bring FIX API access for banks and large institutional traders to cryptocurrency markets

Xtrade.io, a technology company founded by veteran Wall Street trading specialists, is introducing a new infrastructure that would allow banks, hedge funds, and large institutional traders to easily access cryptocurrency markets. By building a low-latency infrastructure with a unified FIX API, a technology used on Wall Street for over 25 years, along with a standalone…

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December 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

MarketFactory enables Bitcoin Futures trading on the CME with Whisperer FX API

MarketFactory, the foreign exchange technology platform, just announced that market participants using their ultra-low latency API for foreign exchange trading, Whisperer, can seamlessly trade Bitcoin futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (NASDAQ:CME) when they launch on December 18. Additionally, Whisperer provides access to Bitcoin market data. Our Whisperer API and connectivity solution simplifies and reduces…

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December 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

London Stock Exchange welcomes the listing of pioneering Komodo Bond Market

London Stock Exchange has today welcomed the listing of the world’s first Indonesian offshore rupiah-denominated bond – a Komodo bond - issued by an Indonesian State Owned Enterprise to its new International Securities Market. The landmark bond issuance from Jasa Marga, state-owned Indonesian toll road operator, was close to four times over subscribed. The listing…

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