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Second-Best Month For Bitcoin Futures on CME + More News
11.2.2020
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Exchanges news
Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group), a major financial derivatives marketplace, said today that January 2020...
Bitcoin Cash Trades at a 7-Month High as it Takes a Steep Rise
10.2.2020
Bitcoin Cash experiences a steep rise as it hits a fresh 7-month high at $461.50 after June 2019. At the time of writing this article, BCH/USD was trading at $444.98, withholding volatility. Impressive to note that the coin has gained over 150% in two trading months from the 90-day low price...
BSV and BCH Are Surging With Their Halvings a Month Before Bitcoin
8.2.2020
With less than 60 days away, the halving effect appears to be pushing up the price of BSV and BCH
Above $10K: CME Bitcoin Futures Hit 3.5-Month Highs
7.2.2020
Bitcoin futures listed on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange rose to multi-month highs, breaking above $10,000 early Friday
Bitcoin Blockchain Daily Confirmed Transactions Hit 5-Month High
7.2.2020
Fresh data reveals a weekly high of 368,604 transactions confirmed per day on the Bitcoin blockchain
Browser Version Release Spectrum
6.2.2020
Whenever a browser upgrades versions, it's a little marketing event, and rightly so. Looks like for Firefox it's about once a month, Chrome is ~6 weeks, and Safari is once a year.
Chrome 80 just dropped, as they say, and we get a video and blog post. What strikes me about releases like this these...
Hong Kong Crypto Exchange Bitspark Shuts Down Amid Coronavirus Outbreak and Protests
5.2.2020
Crypto exchange service provider Bitspark is shutting down next month despite reporting exponential growth following the launch of its cash point product. The CEO of the company explained that its internal restructuring has not worked out but insisted that the ongoing protests in Hong Kong...
Russian Parliament Could Pass Digital Financial Assets Bill Next Month
5.2.2020
Source: iStock/Baris-Ozer
Russia’s parliament, the State Duma, could pass its long-awaited crypto laws as early as March – and it appears that the impasse between pro-crypto businesses and the crypto-skeptic central bank may finally be over.
Anatoly Aksakov, the chairman of the Duma’s financial...
US Marshals Will Auction $40M in Bitcoin This Month
3.2.2020
The U.S. Marshals Service plans to auction more than 4,000 bitcoin, worth about $37.7 million at press time, later this month
Bitcoin Price Spikes to Three-Month High as Bull Cross Approaches
3.2.2020
Bitcoin printed a three-month high on major exchanges early on Monday with a key indicator eyeing its first bullish turn in 11 months
A Month After Launch, Bakkt Bitcoin Options Volumes Are Lackluster
29.1.2020
Barely more than a month after launch, no one has has been trading Bitcoin options contracts on ICE’s digital asset platform Bakkt for eleven days
Bitcoin Cracks $9,400 to Reach Nearly 3-Month High in ‘Asia-Driven Rally’
29.1.2020
Bitcoin has risen above a key area of resistance to reach its highest point in nearly 3 months
Cardano Breaks 6-Month Slump, Signaling Potential Altcoin Revival
28.1.2020
Not just Bitcoin — altcoin cryptocurrencies break above their long-term downtrends
Heated Debate Continues Over Bitcoin Cash Infrastructure Funding Plan
27.1.2020
Last Wednesday, the founder of the mining operation Btc.top announced a proposal that would fund Bitcoin Cash (BCH) development over the course of six months. Over the last five days, the funding plan has been the most dominant conversation within the BCH ecosystem, as supporters debate the merits...
Bitcoin Breaks 7-Month Downtrend But Must Clear These Hurdles to $10K
27.1.2020
Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are showing healthy bull market signs
Over 700 Blockchain Firms Founded This Month in China, Over 26,000 In Operation
27.1.2020
Over 700 blockchain firms have already been founded in China in 2020, though registered operating capital among the vast majority of them is very low
ECB Keeps Subzero Interest Rates and Open-Ended QE Worth €20B a Month But Launches Policy Review
24.1.2020
The European Central Bank (ECB) has launched an extensive review that will examine a wide range of its policies by the end of this year. Under its new president, Christine Lagarde, the bank will try to establish why its monetary stimulus has failed to achieve the Eurozone’s goal of close...
Bitcoin Cash Miner Jiang Zhuoer Answers Infrastructure Funding Questions
23.1.2020
On Wednesday, Btc.top founder Jiang Zhuoer disclosed that five mining operations had plans to donate roughly $6 million in coinbase rewards (depending on market prices) to developers building Bitcoin Cash infrastructure. The news was met with mixed reviews as some of the specifics of the deal were...
Bitcoin Cash Miners Plan $6M Development Fund by Leveraging Block Rewards
22.1.2020
A group of Bitcoin Cash mining pool operations have decided to help fund BCH infrastructure development. On January 22, Btc.top founder Jiang Zhuoer revealed that five mining pools are preparing a short-term developers donation plan. Miners from Btc.top, Bitcoin.com, Viabtc, Antpool, and Btc.com...
Bull Breather? Bitcoin Market Turns Indecisive at Two-Month High
16.1.2020
Bitcoin's bulls are showing signs of exhaustion, having engineered a speedy rally to $8,900