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Sam Bankman-Fried – the man in charge of popular and fast-growing cryptocurrency exchange FTX – says there is likely to be more institutional adoption of cryptocurrency in the year 2022 granted regulation becomes a solid thing. Sam Bankman-Fried On What Will Attract Institutions Regulation has been a controversial topic in the crypto space for many years. For some, the idea of bringing regulation into the mix goes against everything crypto stands for. After all, it was...

The worlds of sports and crypto are now only separated by a very thin, blurry line. Both arenas are finding more ways to become connected, with the most recent example coming in the form of the Alabama women’s softball team and its new partnership with popular cryptocurrency exchange FTX. FTX Is Blurring the Line Between Sports and Crypto The trading platform has recently announced a new NIL offer that was made to the team. This is the second partnership of this kind to...

One of the richest people in the digital currency arena is Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO and founder of popular cryptocurrency exchange FTX. He says that one of the big things that helps keep him rich is charity and giving away part of his crypto funds to other needy people and industries. This helps him keep his money in check and consistently reminds him about what’s important in life. Sam Bankman-Fried Says Giving Crypto Away Keeps Him Grounded In an interview,...

Sam Bankman-Fried – the man in charge of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange – has engaged in an online Twitter feud with Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren after the former presidential hopeful claimed that energy usage in the bitcoin community was contributing to the death of the planet. Elizabeth Warren Doesn’t Like Bitcoin Mining Warren – still under the impression that people are paying attention to her – tweeted a New York Times article claiming that the amount of...

The recent bitcoin crash saw the world’s number one digital currency briefly trading below the $30,000 mark. At the time of writing, the asset has shot up to about $42,000 per unit, meaning it has gained roughly $13,000 in just a matter of weeks. Things are going better for BTC, and it looks like the crash may be over. According to Sam Bankman-Fried – one of the world’s youngest crypto billionaires – the recent drop could have been a lot worse and played out rather well...

Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin, Tesla, and Facebook… Over the past several months, many analysts have talked about how all these entities are potentially related and how they correlate with each other. It is widely believed that altcoins like ETH follow bitcoin’s patterns, while it is alleged that bitcoin and stocks will mimic each other’s behavior. Either way, per Sam Bankman-Fried – the CEO and founder of popular cryptocurrency exchange FTX – believes that all these...

29-year-old crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried believes that it would be rather easy for crypto miners to resort to green energy to potentially extract new coins from the blockchain. Sam Bankman-Fried: Miners Can Turn to Green Energy without Hurting Their Industry One of the big arguments hitting the crypto industry as of late is that crypto mining is somehow harmful to the planet. There are reports strewn about suggesting that bitcoin mining requires more energy than...

Bitcoin (BTC) futures options trading is now live on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange – CME. The offering went live yesterday Jan. 13 and began trading after it successfully got approval from regulatory authorities. The CME Group announced this on its website as trading went live. According to the page, Bitcoin futures options were created to satisfy customers’ yearnings. It says it was done “in response to growing interest in cryptocurrencies and customer demand for tools to manage Bitcoin...

FTX crypto derivatives exchange platform has begun services for Bitcoin (BTC) options. The announcement came in a tweet posted on Saturday from FTX CEO Bankman-Fried.Options are live!https://t.co/B85lrLVDQO— SBF (@SBF_Alameda) January 12, 2020The announcement did not include any specific details about the offering, only that its Bitcoin options. However, in another tweet just about two hours later, the CEO said the platform had hit $1m in volume, since the launch.FTX Bitcoin OptionsEven as...

Binance has made a minority investment in the derivatives exchange FTX becoming the first outsider investor in the firm. As part of the deal announced on December 19, the crypto trading platform company acquired equity in the FTX derivatives firm. Additionally, it bought long positions in the FTX native Token, FTT. In that context, Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX founder and CEO said:“The investment will help accelerate the growth of FTX with support and strategic advisory from Binance while FTX...