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The bitcoin price crashed back below $10,000 on Monday despite the much-hyped launch of Bakkt - an institutional-grade BTC futures trading platform. Bakkt opened its doors for business on Sunday night but any hopes for fireworks were quickly dampened. The platform, operated by the New York Stock Exchange parent company, Intercontinental Exchange, opened to a muted response and a trickle of volume. Bakkt: “a trickle and then a flood” for bitcoin As Three Arrows Capital CEO Su Zhu explained,...

On September 18, the Federal Reserve announced another 25 basis point interests rate cut, bringing interest rates down to 1.75% to 2%. This is the second rate cut by Federal Reserve since 2008. The last rate cut was on August 1 this year, with an interval of only 48 days.Notably, at least seven of 17 fed members think they will cut rates again this year. Meanwhile, US President Trump has publicly said he lacks the courage to cut interest rates and will continue to press federal reserve.On the...

ICE‘s Bakkt platform has finally announced its Bitcoin Futures contracts going live today, September 23. Bakkt‘s Bitcoin Futures launch comes as per its earlier announced schedule after the U.S. Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) gave the exchange a green signal last month.We’re live!The first Bakkt Bitcoin Futures trade was executed at 8:02pm ET at a price of $10,115— Bakkt (@Bakkt) September 23, 2019As part of the announcement, Bakkt provides two contracts – Bitcoin Daily...

Hey Krypto Fans, willkommen zur Bitcoin-Informant Show Nr. 712. Heute geht’s um folgende Themen: Bakkt Bitcoin Futures live, 2 Angeklagte im Ether Delta Hack & US Federal Reserve pumpt Milliarden US-Dollar in die Wirtschaft [embedded content] 1.) Bakkt’s Much-Anticipated Bitcoin Futures Trading Platform Goes Livehttps://cointelegraph.com/news/bakkts-much-anticipated-bitcoin-futures-trading-platform-goes-live 2.) EtherDelta Hack: Zwei Tatverdächtige...

Photo: Crypto Compliance SummitSolidus Labs‘ one-day event, taking place at Hogan Lovells, Madison Avenue on Thursday, will culminate in a talk by reigning SEC Commissioner Hester M. Peirce.Also speaking at the event, which includes a series of panel discussions, will be Coinbase Chief Compliance Officer Jeff Horowitz and representatives from Circle, CryptoCompare, and David Weild IV, former Vice-Chairman of NASDAQ.Not Your Usual CommissionerCryptocurrency regulators aren’t often spoken of...

Le premier enseignement du bref sondage (toujours ouvert) que nous avons réalisé ce week end auprès lecteurs de bitcoin.fr, c’est que les bitcoiners – ou tout au moins ceux de nos lecteurs qui affirment posséder des bitcoins – sont très peu nombreux à rejeter massivement les altcoins. Seuls 6,2 % des participants estiment que les « cryptomonnaies alternatives » sont toutes dénuées d’intérêt. 1....

Kann man mit Bitcoins Geld machen Heute hört man immer wieder davon, dass Menschen mit Bitcoins Geld machen. Für die meisten Menschen aber ist der Bitcoin immer noch sehr abstrakt. Die Tatsache, dass man sein hart erarbeitetes Geld in Kryptowährungen investiert, ist für viele Neueinsteiger sein sehr gewagter Schritt. Trotzdem aber gibt es heute erstaunlich viele Möglichkeiten, wie man mit Bitcoins Geld machen kann. Diese Möglichkeiten...

Vidéos du meetup Crypto Alsace organisé par Julien Brodier le 17 septembre à l’Epitech Strasbourg. Rejoindre le groupe Blockchain Alsace : facebook.com/groups/1215483745147553 [embedded content] Introduction de Julien Brodier et Bernard Bloch [embedded content] Julien Brodier présente DeeFi, plateforme de gestion de titres financiers digitalisés (Security Tokens) [embedded content] David Guitton et Nicolas Sarrut présentent...

Bit Farms, a cryptocurrency mining company stationed in Canada, has bought more than 2,000 new A10 Avalon mining machines to improve its mining capabilities. Bit Farms Is Moving Up the Mining RanksCanada has proven to be very attractive to foreign crypto miners, who see the company as a prime haven thanks, in part, to its low energy costs and vast open spaces – perfect for building new mining businesses. At press time, the bitcoin hash rate is breaking all sorts of records, which means that...

Patrick Byrne, the former chief executive of Overstock.com who sent shockwaves through the blockchain community not too long ago when he resigned from his post, has decided to sell all his company shares – worth roughly $90 million before taxes – and commit all his money to crypto and precious metals. Byrne Is Getting Ready for a Financial BreakdownByrne comments that he’s ready to go to war with the “deep state” and its “pet” the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).In 2014, Byrne was...