Innovative and top tier German stock exchange Boerse Stuttgart is the second largest in terms of trading volume and number of deals and has introduced a digital asset exchange called BSDEX, which goes live today. Currently, the platform offers Bitcoin spot trading. The platform will be open to German residents this year and early next year the exchange will be open to the residents of the European Union. Immediately though only a few chosen traders are allowed to trade on the platform. Retail...
Read More »Bakkt Bitcoin Futures Gets Mild-Response on Day 1, BTC Price Drops Below $9800
On Monday, September, Bakkt announced the commencement of the trading facility for its physically-settled Bitcoin Futures contracts. Bakkt‘s Bitcoin Futures contracts offer both, daily contracts and monthly contract settlement options. Besides, that Bakkt platform also provides Warehouse facility for storing the physically-delivered Bitcoin tokens upon contracts expiry.But despite much hype surrounding the launch of Bakkt Bitcoin Futures, the first day of trading was not very impactful. On...
Read More »Kik Shutting Down Its Messaging App, CEO Threatens to Quit
The Canadian social media and messaging app company Kik said to be thinking about possible shutting down of its popular Kik messaging app.Two people familiar with the matter claim that the company is moving all the app’s users to alternative platforms. They also added 70 employees of Kik’s Israeli cryptocurrency subsidiary Kin being noticed about possible layoffs even though some will allegedly be offered the option of transferring to a new company that is based on the same technology, the...
Read More »PBOC: China’s Digital Currency Not Launching in November
The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) announced that the long-awaited central bank-issued digital currency will not be ready in November as it had been predicted in crypto circles. From the bank, they added that reports saying Alibaba and Tencent are among the first financial institutions to receive the currency was incorrect.This came as a surprise because just few weeks ago we could hear that it will “be better than Libra“, and they even enthroned their new digital currency chief Changchun Mu...
Read More »SIX Launches Digital Asset Exchange Pilot
Swiss stock exchange SIX announced that they have launched a pilot version of its exchange and central securities depository (CSD) for digital assets.This prototype platform, launched under SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) which is its digital assets branch, is expected to experience the even better performance as it will be proceeding towards a full launch slated for Q4 2020.According to Jos Dijsselhof, who is the head of SIX, the existing system could be completely replaced by the SDX within just...
Read More »Binance’s US Crypto Exchange Will Start Crypto Trading Facility on Tuesday
The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volumes, Binance, will debut its trading operations in the United States from Tuesday, September 24. For this, Binance has launched a completely different American subsidiary Binance US following the country’s regulatory laws.Starting Tuesday, Binance US will offer the trading facility in crypto-to-crypto and fiat-to-crypto trading pairs. Moreover, Binance US plans to list seven cryptocurrencies immediately upon launch. These include...
Read More »Google Claims That They Have Reached Quantum Supremacy
Ever since Google announced that they are working on a Quantum super-computer the world has been eager to see the results of such a scientific and technological breakthrough. Last year in March, they presented the super-computer which boasted a 72-qubit computing power. Since then the word quantum computing has become very popular and nations around the world cannot wait to get their hands on this remarkable discovery. But why?The main reasons might be the fact that quantum computing can...
Read More »Bitcoin Trading on ICE’s Bakkt Futures Platform Breaks $290,000 Barrier
Earlier today, Bakkt announced the live trading for its much-awaited Bitcoin Futures contracts. Bakkt Bitcoin Futures Contracts come with daily and monthly settlement periods along with its safe custodial solution called the Bakkt Warehouse.Bakkt Bitcoin Futures are now actively trading on ICE Futures U.S., while the Bakkt Warehouse continues to onboard bitcoinWe take our customers’ trust seriously, and are excited to serve this market— Bakkt (@Bakkt) September 23, 2019Bakkt entry to the...
Read More »‘The Business Blockchain’ Author Predicts $25k for Bitcoin, $1k for Ethereum by the End of 2019
Popular cryptocurrency evangelist and author of “The Business Blockchain: Promise, Practice, and Application of the Next Internet Technology,” William Mougayar took to Twitter last week to make big and bold predictions for several cryptocurrency tokens; among them Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Binance Coin (BNB) and others.In his extremely bullish prediction, he put Bitcoin’s price as at the end of the year to be $25,0000, Ethereum at $1,000, BNB at $50, EOS at $7 and even STEEM at $.50....
Read More »Facebook Acquires ServiceFriend, Possibly Building a Chatbot for Calibra Wallet
While Facebook is prepping for its Libra launch in 2020, it also has acquired ServiceFriend which is a start-up that builds bots. Experts already have speculated that this is possibly meant for the Calibra wallet support service. First, this news was published in an Israel where ServiceFriend is situated. One of its largest investors, Roberto Singler, alerted one of the local publications about this matter. While Facebook hasn’t yet approved the relevance to Calibra on this deal,...
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