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PortuguêsThe institutional traders on CME Group’s Bitcoin futures trading desk and the retail traders and crypto whales trading on BitMEX often dominate the market and dictate where the market goes…
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A growing precision in the amount of decimals for Bitcoin (BTC) points to decreasing usage as a unit of account. This is one of the conclusions of a Jan. 27…
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On January 3, 2020, a small group of crypto enthusiasts celebrated the second annual Proof-of-Keys day with hopes to get people to withdraw funds from centralized digital currency exchanges. However,…
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BitMEX is releasing an XRP-U.S. dollar quanto swap targeted at crypto’s budding derivatives market. A quanto swap is a cross-currency interest rate swap where one counterparty pays the other a…
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BitMEX CEO, Arthur Hayes, warned the crypto community about the approaching Chinese New Year, predicting a large drop in volatility and trading volume. Chinese New Year is only two days…
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The bitcoin price just strongly rejected the $8,600 level, breaking down from a tight range for the first time in four days. BTC dropped below $8,400 on major exchanges like…
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A recent crypto exchange review has revealed that the two dominant forces in bitcoin perpetual futures were Binance and BitMEX commanding 40% of the market between them. Top exchanges for…
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The global markets company Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has seen considerable demand since launching its options contracts in the wake of the firm’s bitcoin futures. On the first day of…
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Whales on the world’s largest bitcoin margin trading platform BitMEX are selling large amounts of BTC. After the rejection at $9,200, investors are seemingly moving towards hedging their holdings to…
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The bitcoin price dropped by six percent from $9,060 to $8,505 across major crypto exchanges including Binance in just five minutes. It is the steepest drop in terms of time…
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The bitcoin price is up by 10 percent in the past four days and after such a big rally, a short-term pullback follows. But, a top trader says it will…
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January 14 was the best trading day of the year for many cryptocurrencies, which saw double or even triple-digit percentage gains. It was also a good day for futures markets,…
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Crypto perpetuals exchange Blade will be introducing zero-fee trading next month in a bid to gain market share from rivals. The Coinbase-backed exchange, which began operations in September, will also…
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Whales are mega-rich traders who inhabit the depths of the crypto seas. Theirs is a realm of dark pools, hidden order books, OTC deals, and rich list wallet addresses. Shunning…
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Bitcoin price has made another big move a couple of hours ago as it pulls out of short term consolidation and tapped a two month high. The move came after…
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According of a research report from BitMEX, the largest cryptocurrency margin trading platform in the global market, the usage of the lightning network on bitcoin has surpassed expectations.More than 60,000…
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2019 saw significant bitcoin derivatives action from firms like CME Group and Bakkt. This year, demand for CME’s bitcoin futures remains strong and the firm’s options products may be available…
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For the first time since 2013, the U.S. is no longer the top recipient of Bitcoin (BTC) as valued in USD, as Singapore took the lead over the course of…
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Bitcoin and crypto markets have been on a roll over the past 24 hours. It has been the largest move of the year so far adding $12 billion to total…
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Following the BitMEX Insurance Fund’s continued growth throughout the year, data provider, CryptoQuant, took a deeper look at the derivatives specialist’s on-chain data. Insurance Fund Now Holds 0.18% Of All…
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The last five years have been a test phase for bitcoin derivatives, which began tentatively when Bitmex eased into life in 2014. Now, as the cryptoconomy prepares to enter a…
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The BitMEX Insurance Fund has added nearly 13,000 BTC in 2019, reaching a total of just over 33,491 BTC as of Dec. 30. This is equivalent to 0.19% of the…
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Over the past two years, BitMEX, a prominent Bitcoin derivatives platform, has gained much traction within the cryptocurrency trading community; in 2017, most BTC traders kept to trading on spot…
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BitMEX, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by daily trading volume to date, now holds 0.18% of all Bitcoins (BTC) in circulation. In a Dec. 26 tweet, James Lopp, CTO at…
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BitMEX is currently the dominant trading platform across the cryptocurrency market, and often speaks to or makes predictions about the state of Bitcoin with enough authority that people do indeed…
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Tokens that emerged from Initial Exchange Offerings (IEOs) have demonstrated a poor performance this year, according to BitMEX research. Most IEOs Have Failed Despite Bitcoin Surge In May of this…
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Initial exchange offerings (IEOs), which launched in 2019 have lost investors up to 98% of their money, damning new statistics show. In its latest report on the phenomenon published on…
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Most of the liquidations that occurred on BitMEX on December 18 were short contracts. It shows that over-leveraged shorts were squeezed out, pushing the bitcoin price up so quick in…
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During the most recent slide in Bitcoin (BTC) prices, futures markets caught fire. The Bakkt physical delivery exchange has now reported a new record high in open interest on the…
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In the past month, European business hours became extremely active for bitcoin futures trading on BitMEX futures. European Traders Pick Up the Slack on BitMEX New data shows European bitcoin…
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It’s possible the company sold bitcoins in the cash or futures markets, as options traders often do. Given market prices, the time to expiration and the market’s expected volatility, the…
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Cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX added support for native segregated witness (SegWit) addresses for Bitcoin (BTC) withdrawals, which lets users pay lower transaction fees. According to an announcement on Dec. 12, BitMEX…
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A former JPMorgan derivatives trader is suing one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges for $300 million after it allegedly failed to deliver his equity. According to filing with the…
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Bitcoin and crypto derivatives behemoth BitMEX is being sued for $300 million for providing false equity information to a couple of early investors. According to recent reports, BitMEX is in…
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Crypto markets are depreciating for another day as Bitcoin fails to gain any traction. Volatility appears to be returning as a big spike triggered a lot of liquidation a few…
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Bitcoin price is trading within a tight range as of late. Even the few surges here and there in either direction, have resulted in the leading crypto by market cap…
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For some reason or another, Saturday was an extremely quiet day for Bitcoin and the broader cryptocurrency market. In fact, Alameda Research CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, a crypto trader that has…
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BitMEX, the most active futures market, is slowing down as it grinds towards the end of the year. The BTC volume on the exchange has now dropped to the lowest…
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BitMEX traders that had their details leaked as part of a recent privacy breach have started to receive phishing emails. The crypto exchange accidentally disclosed 23,000 of its users’ email…
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Back in the early days, when Bitcoin (BTC) was but a niche experiment for cypherpunks and basement-dwelling hobbyists, the process of its creation required little more than a budget CPU.…
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