It has been another positive weekend for Bitcoin trading. But this time, it seems as though there was some method to the madness. After spending most of Friday trading in the $16,000-$17,000 range - up from the $13,000 range just last weekend - Bitcoin prices rose throughout the weekend and spent most of Sunday bouncing…
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LeapRate Exclusive... It looks like there indeed is a downside to the rapid runup in cryptocurrency trading at Retail FX shops. With the surge in interest from retail traders to trade bitcoin, ethereum and their various crypto cousins, some FX brokers - always welcoming new clients, of course, alongside increased trading volume from existing clients…
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As many countries and businesses have used blockchain and bitcoin to improve the economy of their own, the real estate market is taking full advantage of what seems to be the most popular topic and currency of the year: Bitcoin. Mirror, a UK online newspaper, confirmed that a four-bedroom home in Essex is the first…
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Nuco, an enterprise blockchain company and the team behind Aion, today announced that Aion has partnered with with Bancor, Bitt, Enigma, Metaverse, SingularityNET, and SONM to expand blockchain interoperability on a global scale. These projects have partnered with Aion to connect independent blockchains allowing for the instant transfer and recording of data and value. Aion…
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After bitcoin futures launched on December 10th, Bitcoin's price has skyrocketed to new levels of almost $18,000. Now, probably the most influential and well-respected investment bank in the world, Goldman Sachs, is trying to set a 100% margin on some bitcoin futures. As the CEO of Goldman, Lloyd Blankfein has said many times that he…
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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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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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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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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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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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