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PortuguêsVolumes on bitcoin futures offered by Bakkt set a record high on July 27, with 11,500 contracts traded on the institutional exchange. Altogether, the contracts are worth about $126 million,…
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Continue ReadingGifts and Remittances: Bitcoin.com’s New Tools Allow People to Send BCH via Email This month Bitcoin.com launched two services that help facilitate bitcoin cash adoption and crypto remittance via email.…
Continue ReadingAfter the largest options expiry in history, bitcoin ended its fifth week of bouncing around the $9,000s price range. Bitcoin (BTC) was trading around $9,180 as of 20:00 UTC (4…
Continue ReadingWilshire Phoenix Files Publicly-Traded Bitcoin Trust to Challenge Grayscale’s $3.4 Billion Dominance Wilshire Phoenix has filed to launch a publicly-traded trust called Bitcoin Commodity Trust (BCT) – putting the firm…
Continue ReadingScam sales, a big win for privacy from Apple, new jobless claims in the “whack-a-mole” economy and the biggest BTC options expiry ever. Today’s edition of The Breakdown is an…
Continue ReadingBitcoin started the week with a bullish run, but it has now given back all of those gains. Bitcoin (BTC) was trading around $9,296 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m.…
Continue ReadingOver a recent 30-day period, the total open interest for CME bitcoin options increased more than tenfold, from $35 million on May 11 to $373 million on June 10. Moreover,…
Continue ReadingAmid Youtube Censorship, Individuals Flock to Decentralized Video Sharing Apps Like Lbry.tv In mid-May, news.Bitcoin.com reported on one of our mining pool videos being censored and banned from the video-sharing…
Continue ReadingBitcoin options trading is growing faster than the futures and swaps market, according to data from Skew. Measured by the ratio of aggregate open interest in the bitcoin options market…
Continue ReadingOption market traders look to be placing bets for a continued upward move in bitcoin, according to a key metric. The put-call open interest ratio, which measures the number of…
Continue ReadingThe past few months and years have seen derivatives become increasingly important to crypto. This is largely due to the introduction of more institutional-centric fund managers, which can use vehicles…
Continue ReadingThe price of bitcoin (BTC) shot above $9,100 Wednesday in high-volume buying at around 10:00 UTC (6 a.m. ET) thanks to traders feeling optimistic about the crypto markets. As of 20:40…
Continue ReadingOpen interest on Chicago Mercantile Exchange Bitcoin options has skyrocketed over the past few days, to hit $142 million as of May 15. According to data from market analytics company,…
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