Category: Bitcoin

CME Group
May 04, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Cash-settled micro-Bitcoin futures launched for CME Group

Coinciding with Bitcoin first reaching $20,000 – a monumental milestone for the cryptocurrency – CME Group first launched  Bitcoin derivatives back in December of 2017. To reflect US demand for crypto derivatives, the company then further expanded its selection of offerings by launching Ethereum futures and  Bitcoin options. It has since become the world’s third-largest…

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CME Group
March 31, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CME Group to expand crypto derivatives with Micro Bitcoin

Reports have found that an average of 13.8K contracts in CME Bitcoin futures, which are equivalent to around 69K bitcoin, have been traded on a daily basis as of March 2021. Additionally, the recently launched CME Ether futures has witnessed trades of 767 contracts (the equivalent of 38.4K ether) on average per day since it…

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CAPEX.com expands crypto offering with Bitcoin Spot
March 16, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CAPEX.com expands crypto offering with Bitcoin Spot

CAPEX.com’s crypto offer includes: Bitcoin Cash Bitcoin Spot Ethereum USD Ethereum EUR Litecoin USD Litecoin EUR Ripple Wasim Zayed, the Executive Director at Key Way Investments Ltd, the company operating CAPEX.com under its CySEC regulation, commented: Educating our clients sits at the heart of our strategy. We've always been bound to rendering the best knowledge…

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Bitcoin
February 19, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Tesla’s bitcoin purchase brokered by Coinbase

Not only has Coinbase facilitated major purchases from Tesla, but its agency OTC desk also acted as the primary execution partner for a multi-billion bitcoin investment throughout last year for business intelligence service, MicroStrategy. Instead of executing client trades on an exchange, the OTC agency unit earns its commission by completing client deals directly between…

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December 16, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Bitcoin broke the $20K threshold for the first time in history

Other popular cryptocurrencies, including ethereum (ETH, +6.02%), litecoin (LTC, +7.3%) and XRP (+7.04%) are still down 58% to 88% from their respective lifetime highs reached three years ago. Bitcoin has double its price in the past three months. Unlike its previous rally in 2017, when the demand came from the retail market, this time it’s…

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May 13, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Bitcoin “halving”, what’s next?

Jean-Marie Mognetti, CEO of CoinShares - a digital asset manager said: The rest of the world needs to either keep printing money or see their own currency eroding drastically in front of the unbeatable dollars. Turkey, Brazil, or Argentina are the perfect examples of this. Consequently, in a world where investors continue to seek protection…

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bitcoin
January 29, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Will Bitcoin adoption in the US spike in 2020?

The following article was submitted by Tamara Backovic, Content Specialist at fortunly.com. Bitcoin has been teeming with potential since the day it was rolled out. Of course, the timing of its introduction helped, giving humankind a promising alternative to the fundamentally broken fiat money at the height of the 2008 financial crisis. Many people around the world…

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