2018 October

Slain Bitcoin Investor Was Cashing out to Buy an Apartment

The Norwegian cryptocurrency investor who earlier this week was brutally murdered following a cash-for-bitcoin exchange was reportedly liquidating his holdings so that he could buy his own apartment. CCN reported yesterday that the 24-year-old investor had been stabbed to death in his apartment on Monday morning, sometime between 7:50 am and 12:10 pm, when one […]

Bitcoin Price Not Correlated to Futures Expiration Dates: Research

The common idea that the bitcoin price drops just before the cryptocurrency futures contracts expire has no solid basis, a new study published by Cindicator suggests. The report, titled Bitcoin Futures: Market Evolution, studied bitcoin volumes on futures and spot cryptocurrency exchanges to get an idea about the liquidity and development of the holistic trading market. […]

Demand for Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Talent Booms, Signals Maturing Market

As the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry continues its rapid growth and widespread adoption, companies are offering experienced workers significantly higher-than-average salaries, signaling that the industry is maturing despite the current bear market and low market sentiment. A recent report from Glassdoor found that new job positions within the blockchain industry are up 300% over a one-year […]

SEC Sets Up Open Line of Communication for Fintech Projects With FinHub

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched a new office to engage with cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. Called the Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology (FinHub), the division will make it easier for fintech startups to interact with the regulator on related issues and the legal implications of products before they launch […]

Decentralization Gains Traction: Go-Ethereum Fifth Most Active on Github

Bear markets refine industries. Overall sentiment becomes negative from all angles, and naysayers proclaim that crypto is “dead.” Underneath all the fear, uncertainty and doubt, though, developers are still building. Case in point, Go-Ethereum (or geth), a command-line interface for running an Ethereum node using the Go programming language, is now the fifth fastest growing […]

CME Bitcoin Futures Contract Hits Volume High of 5,053 Contracts in Q3, up by 41%

CME Group announced its average daily volumes in the third quarter. Bitcoin futures ADV rose 41 percent to 5,053 contracts with open interest increasing by 19 percent to 2,873. CME Group Announces Bitcoin Futures Contracts Volume Up By 41% Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), described by The Economist as “the biggest financial exchange you have never heard […]

Cryptocurrency Fever is Starting to Fade: Russian Central Bank

Elvira Nabiullina, the head of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, claimed that investors’ excitement toward cryptocurrency has begun to cool. Her remarks came at the FINOPOLIS innovative financial technology forum. Cryptocurrency Fever ‘Beginning to Disappear’ The famed Russian economist and former economic advisor to the Russian President Vladimir Putin represented businesses’ point of view […]

Could Celebrity-Issued Cryptocurrencies Become a New Trend?

World number two tennis professional, Caroline Wozniacki plans to issue her own digital token with celebrity blockchain platform Global Crypto Offering Exchange (GCOX). Fans of the Danish ace will eventually be able to trade the tokens for various exclusive perks. Celebrity Tokens: Next Big Thing or Blatant Attempt to Cash In? Tennis professional Wozniacki has […]