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Bakkt began user acceptance testing for its Bitcoin futures contracts today. Unlike other contracts, Bakkt’s will be redeemable in the underlying BTC providing greater opportunity for institutional price discovery while increasing real trading volumes for the cryptocurrency. Bakkt, a subsidiary of the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), which owns the New York Stock Exchange, announced that it […]

ConsenSys founder and Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin was summoned to court in a $13 million lawsuit connected to failed ConsenSys spinout Token Foundry. Charges levied against Lubin by the startup’s former CEO, Harrison Hines, include fraud, unjust enrichment, and breach of contract. Joseph Lubin appeared in court this month, according to a court summons filed […]

Bitcoin dominance over the market continues increasing while the interest for altcoins declines without any clear signs of a bullish breakout. But, if the cryptocurrency market behaves like it has in the past, altcoins could soon make a major come back that initiates their bull run. Bitcoin has been in the spotlight after rising nearly 350 […]

Contrary to the popular media narrative, new research finds that Bitcoin and Litecoin prices are unimpacted by block reward halvings. Searching for cause and effect People crave cause and effect relationships. The crypto markets are the opposite of what people want—a near perfect machine of randomness and volatility. Nonetheless, people’s desire for cause-and-effect cause the […]

In Craig Wright’s latest marketing attempt, Bitcoin SV will increase its block size cap from 128MB to 2GB. The upgrade will make BSV less secure, more centralized, and more costly for infrastructure providers to maintain. Craig Wright—who has been deemed a fraud by a large portion of the crypto community for claiming to be Bitcoin […]

Bakkt, an Atlanta-based subsidiary of the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), an American firm that owns the New York Stock Exchange, will begin user acceptance testing for its Bitcoin futures contracts on July 22, 2019. As mentioned in a blog post published by Adam White, the Chief Operating Officer at Bakkt, the company’s Bitcoin futures will be […]

The research arm of Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume, has published a report that analyzes the results of a survey completed by institutional digital asset investors. According to the report, Binance surveyed over 100 institutional and VIP clients. Survey results cannot be generalized due to the small sample size The Binance team mentioned […]

Crypto compliance and investigation provider Chainalysis has become the only blockchain company to make Forbes’ next billion-dollar startups list of 2019, joining the ranks of tech giants—Patreon and Duolingo. Its efforts to tackle crime in the crypto industry and build tools to enable easy regulatory compliance have made it one of the most promising companies […]

We interviewed Tim Coulter, the founder and CEO of Truffle, an Ethereum development environment, testing framework, and asset pipeline. On August 2nd, at the Microsoft Campus outside of Seattle, the company will host its second annual TruffleCon, an event dedicated to ETH developers. Before blockchain, Coulter built a career specializing in software testing and developer support, […]

Congressman Brad Sherman, a vocal critic of the crypto industry, again called for a complete ban on cryptocurrencies. Sherman said Bitcoin had no real use other than to fund illicit activities and warned about the risks cryptocurrencies pose to the political and financial stability in the U.S., he said in an interview with Bloomberg. Cryptocurrencies […]