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Hedge Funds Are on the Losing Side of the Bitcoin Futures Bet Lately

25/06/2019

As speculative interest has returned to bitcoin futures markets, so too have short sellers. According to the most recent CFTC ...

What Cboe’s Looming Crypto Futures Exit Means for the Bitcoin Price

by Joseph Young

07/06/2019

By CCN: After nearly 18 months of operation, the Cboe bitcoin futures market is closing for good, or at least ...

$546 Million: CME Bitcoin Futures Hits Record 1-Day Volume; Could Spike BTC Beyond $6,000

by Joseph Young

09/04/2019

Throughout the past seven days, following its initial rally on April 1 from $4,200, the bitcoin price increased from around ...

Bitcoin Price Plunge to $3,700 Expected, Say Traders; Retreat is a Blessing For Crypto

by Joseph Young

22/02/2019

Following a rapid surge in the Bitcoin price from $3,614 to $4,000 within a span of three days, traders are ...

Bitcoin Needs to Kiss the Government’s Ring, Claims CME Chief Terry Duffy

by Samantha Chang

15/02/2019

Crypto will never be anything more than a fringe investment until it gets government backing. That's the assessment of Terry Duffy, ...

Bitcoin Futures Manipulation: How it Works and How to Reduce It

by Nic Puckrin

19/12/2018

The markets were euphoric. The community was cheer-leading the imminent launch of Bitcoin futures first on the CBOE and then ...

Newsflash: UK Govt. Halts Royal Mint’s Plans for Gold-Backed Cryptocurrency

by Josiah Wilmoth

25/10/2018

The UK government has blocked a Royal Mint plan to create a "digital gold" token that would trade on a ...

Bitcoin Futures Trading Rose 41 Percent in Q3: CME

by Josiah Wilmoth

17/10/2018

Bitcoin futures trading volumes continued to rise in Q3, with derivatives exchange CME reporting a 41 percent quarter-over-quarter increase in ...

U.K. Exchange Crypto Facilities Launches Bitcoin Cash Futures

by Josiah Wilmoth

18/08/2018 - Updated on 17/08/2018

Bitcoin cash, the fourth-largest cryptocurrency, took another step into the big leagues on Friday when a European derivatives trading platform ...

CME Won’t Be Listing New Cryptocurrency Futures Anytime Soon: CEO

by Josiah Wilmoth

27/07/2018

CME Group, the second regulated U.S. derivatives market to list bitcoin futures and by far the largest trading venue for ...

Wall Street Traded $572 Million in Bitcoin Futures During Tuesday’s Bull Run

by Josiah Wilmoth

25/07/2018

The bitcoin price is rallying, and this time, it looks like Wall Street has shown up to the party. On ...

Institutional Investors Swap Bitcoin Futures for Physical BTC in Wall Street First

by Josiah Wilmoth

24/07/2018

Bitcoin took a significant step toward becoming a mainstream financial instrument this week, as two institutional investors completed the first-ever ...

CME Bitcoin Futures Daily Volume Spikes 93% in Q2 2018

by Lester Coleman

21/07/2018

CME Group’s bitcoin futures average daily volume spiked 93% in the second quarter over the previous quarter, while open interest ...

Economist Claims Bitcoin Futures Killed the Strong Rally in Early 2018

by Joseph Young

03/07/2018

The FED and prominent economists believe that the bitcoin futures market ultimately led the cryptocurrency market to crash and record ...

SEC Statement on Ether ‘Clears Stumbling Block’ for Ethereum Futures: CBOE President

by Josiah Wilmoth

15/06/2018

A top executive at the first US exchange to list bitcoin futures contracts said that the Securities and Exchange Commission’s ...

CFTC Demands Trading Data From Bitcoin Exchanges In Price Manipulation Probe

by Lester Coleman

09/06/2018

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has told certain bitcoin exchanges to provide extensive trading data to determine whether or ...

Ethereum Futures Watch: CME Group Says It’s Gauging Client Interest

by Josiah Wilmoth

16/05/2018

Chicago-based derivatives exchange CME Group said that it plans to gauge client interest for an ethereum futures product now that ...

Bitcoin Price Decline Driven by Q4 Futures Launch, Fed Researchers Claim

by Lester Coleman

08/05/2018

Bitcoin’s winter price peak and subsequent decline coincided with the introduction of bitcoin futures trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. ...

Central Bank Cryptos, Vitalik Trolls and Hard Forks: This week in Crypto

by Jake Sylvestre

07/04/2018 - Updated on 08/04/2018

Make sure you check out last weeks post here, now let’s go over what happened in crypto this week. Price Watch: ...

CBOE Completes Upgrade, Other Crypto Futures Coming?

by Jake Sylvestre

01/03/2018

When the Commodity Futures and Trading Commission announced that two major exchanges could begin to offer bitcoin futures to investors, ...

Bitcoin Futures: A Way to Control Cryptocurrency Markets?

by Eric Eissler

21/01/2018

Can Wall Street investors manipulate the cryptocurrency markets via Bitcoin futures? Based on the recent fall in the markets during ...

Betting against Bitcoin: Low Number of Shorts Shows Skeptics are Scared

by Joseph Young

13/01/2018

Economists, bank executives, and a small portion of investors in the traditional finance industry have publicly condemned bitcoin, falsely describing ...