Tag Archives: Bitcoin (BTC)

It seems that France decided to go rigorous on Facebook’s Libra by entirely blocking the development of it. When Facebook announced their Libra project in June this year, they called it a “global currency and financial infrastructure powered by a version of blockchain – the technology that underpins Bitcoin”.However, a lot of governments were really against even the idea and France was the harshest of them all. French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire then called out on Libra saying it...

Photo: BinanceCryptocurrency exchange Binance has already finished the total setup for operations in the United States. In a post on their official medium handle, Binance US using the domain name: binance.us gave the required steps that will ensure users based in the United States get to operate the platform.Binance pulled out of the United States due to uncertainty in the regulatory environment and the US government’s recent anti-crypto stance.The United States Operates by a Different Set...

Photo: Bitwise / TwitterBitwise has tapped into the experience of the Bank of New York Mellon. It has appointed the BNY Mellon to serve as the administrator and transfer agent for its forthcoming Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). Bitwise filed an amendment to its Bitwise Bitcoin ETF S-1 form on September 11. It then submitted the amendment to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on the same day.The amendment lists Foreside Fund Services as the marketing agent, BNY...

Seed CX is a cryptocurrency derivatives platform. Now with the help of its subsidiary Zero Hash, the company plans to offer bilateral crypto derivatives transactions. That way, Seed CX aims to attract financial institutions to settle derivatives on their platform.The company announced that initially, it will support back-office settlement functions for Bitcoin forwards. Later, the firm plans to add support for options as well, but the approximate time frame wasn’t specified.As the company...

One of the core elements to business strategies is name branding, as businesses always want to leave an impression that speaks of their products or services and to stand out among the competition. Gaming infrastructure platform DAO.Casino is one such firm to use this strategy to bring its users the best of blockchain to the gambling industry. The new name, DAObet, is one it believes will help provide more visibility for the platform with regards to their core operation.The responsibility of...

Leading Cryptocurrency exchange Binance recently launched its Tether (USDT) backed futures trading platform. The platform which is still in the early testing phase is available by invitation only. A Reddit post indicates that the platform has already reached an all-time high of $150 million within the past twenty-four hours. The futures platform covers only the USDT/BTC platform at this time.This comes after Binances’ announcement of the creation of the testnet for the futures platform...

The cryptocurrency market is more than a few years old now and is still waxing strong. Bitcoin, the first major decentralized digital asset was released back in 2009 and even though that’s about a decade ago, it might not be a very long time in the grand scheme of things.New innovation always comes with some skepticism and cryptocurrency is no different. With the crypto market, four main factors have been identified as the major factors stifling growth in the market. They are general...

Photo: GeeksHostedRomania-based web hosting provider GeeksHosted has recently announced a new payment option within its web hosting ecosystem. Now, they are proud to accept Bitcoin hosting, which opens a perfect opportunity to broaden the access to the GeeksHosted range of services, as well as to connect Web 3.0 to the blockchain.According to Catalin Florica, the representative of GeeksHosted, the company’s recent acceptance of Bitcoin hosting will place GeeksHosted among few web hosting...

For a while now, one of the most anticipated events in the crypto sector has been the official launch of Bakkt which the market has been waiting for since last year when the firm was officially announced.Last week, the official Twitter account announced that the Bakkt Warehouse had been thrown open and had begun receiving deposits and withdrawals, in preparation for its Bitcoin Daily & Monthly Futures, expected to launch on the 23rd of September.Now, the firm’s Chief Operating Officer...

On Monday, September 9, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao announced the official launch of Binance Futures. To get an early idea of the market before launch, Binance unveiled its crypto futures testnet last week. The futures testnet was available for a period of five days and launched on two platforms Futures A and Futures B.The two platforms were pitched against each other to see which one performs better. Binance’s own development team created the Futures A platform whereas Binance’s crypto...