$4 Billion Bitcoin Option Contract To Expire On Friday, What This Means For BTC

Regardless of the market’s condition, Bitcoin (BTC) options contracts worth roughly $4 billion will expire by Friday. According to past option contracts expiration, this huge amount could impact the Bitcoin market significantly over the weekend.

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Bitcoin CME Front-Month Futures Reach Deepest Discount Ever Recorded

It’s a new record for the CME. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s front-month contracts exhibit a large discount compared to bitcoin’s spot market price. These are the futures contracts that are soon to expire.

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Dfinity Foundation Set To Unlock Smart Contracts On Bitcoin, Advancing Further Into Ethereum’s Orbit

The long wait for Bitcoin’s smart contracts could soon change after the Dfinity foundation disclosed an elaborate plan which will see a BTC-ICP direct integration, ushering Bitcoin into the smart contracts era.

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Bitfinex launches perpetual contracts for Litecoin/Bitcoin and Polkadot/Bitcoin

In a new addition to its perpetual contracts, Bitfinex made news today with the launch of its new contracts for cryptocurrencies paired with Bitcoin such as Litecoin/Bitcoin (LTCF0:BTCF0) and PolkadotThe post Bitfinex launches perpetual contracts for Litecoin/Bitcoin and Polkadot/Bitcoin appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Blockstack Upgrade Introduces Smart Contracts for Bitcoin

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Bitcoin Futures, Options, and Open Interest: Crypto Derivatives Break Records After the Halving 

Since the market rout on March 12, otherwise known as ‘Black Thursday,’ bitcoin futures and options contracts have seen significant demand. On May 14, CME Group saw the total number of outstanding derivatives contracts (open interest) touch a high of $142 million.

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Bitcoin Options volume drops, but trading of June contracts may spike IV

After lacking any substantial activity towards the end of March, Bitcoin's derivatives market registered a certain buzz around itself in the month of April. At the time of writing, Bitcoin's price The post Bitcoin Options volume drops, but trading of June contracts may spike IV appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Bitcoin Volatility as 50K BTC Options Contracts Expire

Bitcoin may soon go through high levels of volatility as a significant number of outstanding derivative contracts are scheduled to expire tomorrow. Multiple technical indexes and renowned analysts estimate that...The post Bitcoin Volatility as 50K BTC Options Contracts Expire appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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Bitcoin derivatives exchange LedgerX migrating to mini contracts

LedgerX, a CFTC regulated platform for bitcoin derivatives, announced today it will soon be rolling out Bitcoin Mini contracts for both Next-Day Bitcoin and Bitcoin Options. Bitcoin Minis will allow participants to employ customized strategies in their trading by granting 100x more flexibility in asset allocation.

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CME Group is introducing Bitcoin options contracts in 2020

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group announced that it will launch Bitcoin options contracts early next year to complement its Bitcoin futures. CME Bitcoin trading instruments CME Group’s Bitcoin futures contracts have been a success.

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LedgerX gets license to offer retail bitcoin spot, options, and futures contracts

LedgerX, a bitcoin trading venue, today received approval from regulators to offer retail clients of any size access to bitcoin spot, options, futures contracts, and more. If you live in the US or Singapore, have a drivers license or other form of government ID, it will be possible to sign up. The company accepts both […]

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Bakkt Announces Details of Bitcoin Futures Contracts

The much anticipated Bakkt platform by the Intercontinental Exchange has today announced further details about its Bitcoin Futures product that was due to launch today. The forthcoming exchange platform will be offering physically delivered daily futures contracts with an aim to bring greater regulatory oversight to Bitcoin price discovery.

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Bitcoin.com’s Oracle Aims to Bolster BCH-Powered Smart Contracts

Bitcoin. com is pleased to unveil plans to offer one of the world’s first oracles for smart contracts on the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) blockchain. The autonomous feature will allow specialized prediction markets and decision-based transactions for sports scores, political results, and market exchange rates.

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Bitcoin Falls 9% To Go Below $4,000 Again As CME Bitcoin Futures Expire

Many CME Bitcoin futures contracts are expiring today. Unfortunately, this may have caused some impact on the Bitcoin market as the token has fallen behind $4,000 USD again at the time of this report.

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Next Set of CME Bitcoin Futures Contracts Expire Today: What Can We Expect?

Back in December 2017, Bitcoin reached an all-time high after the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) launched Bitcoin futures trading. The trading of Bitcoin futures contracts takes place in periods of three months.

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ICE’s Bakkt Officially Reveals First Crypto Product: Bitcoin (BTC) Futures Contracts

Bakkt Reveals First Crypto Product: Bitcoin Futures A tweet made on Tuesday, September 25, revealed that Bakkt’s first contracts will be that of Bitcoin futures, which will be backed against fiat currency.

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Could Bakkt Futures Contracts Announcement bring the Bulls?

Bakkt has announced on Twitter that their first Bitcoin futures contracts are coming.  In August, the International Stock Exchange or ICE, the owner of NYSE, the New York Stock Exchange, came together with Microsoft, Starbucks, and BCG to launch Bakkt.

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Bakkt Announces its First Bitcoin (BTC) Futures Contracts

In a major twitter announcement, the team at the highly anticipated Wall Street firm of Bakkt, informed the crypto and investing community, of its first physically settled Bitcoin futures contracts.

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NEM Cofounder Preaches Safety Is What Sets Them Apart From Ethereum

When a co-founder of a blockchain platform like NEM takes some light shots at Ethereum and smart contracts, in general, it’s gold! That is essentially what happened when Jeff McDonald, co-founder of NEM, had a sitdown with a journalist to talk about the difference between the NEM blockchain and Ethereum.

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PR: Last Chance to Contribute to Modex Tech ICO

The Modex ITO closes this Monday, on September 24t (6:00 pm CET). This is your chance to sign up and support the company developing the world’s First Multi-Protocol Smart Contract Marketplace with comprehensive dev tools, meant to help developers make smart contracts event smarter.

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Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review: Making Strides Across Industries

Industry buzz surrounded Ethereum this week as community members await the next stage of the coin’s development. The protocol also served as the jumping-off point for a new fully regulated stablecoin.

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Morgan Stanley Eyes Bitcoin Swap Contracts Tied to Futures Prices

Morgan Stanley is joining Wall Street’s race toward an institutional-friendly bitcoin derivative. According to anonymous sources reporting to Bloomberg, the financial institution is devising price return swaps tied to bitcoin.

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Bitcoin Trading Options Given To Morgan Stanley Customers

The global investment bank based in the United States, Morgan Stanley is looking to offer Bitcoin swap trading for its clients according to sources. According to Alistair Marsh, a reporter from Bloomberg, people who are familiar to the matter have said that the giant company “plans to offer trading in complex derivatives” linked to Bitcoin.

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Morgan Stanley wants to sell Bitcoin – without actually selling it

Morgan Stanley plans to offer a new way for clients to invest in Bitcoin and potentially benefit from its growth without actually buying any of the cryptocurrency itself. The US investment bank will offer contracts that are tied to the value fluctuations of the cryptocurrency.

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US Morgan Stanley Mulls Bitcoin (BTC) Swap Trading – Report

The derivatives contracts will be introduced after proven institutional client demands and internal approval process, a person familiar with the bank’s plan revealed.

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Morgan Stanley To Give Clients Bitcoin Trading Options

US multinational investment bank Morgan Stanley is preparing to offer Bitcoin swap trading for its clients, unconfirmed sources report on September 13. Sources Say Morgan Stanley Preparing Swap Trades Citing “people familiar with the matter” in an article from Bloomberg reporter Alistair Marsh, Business Insider’s Frank Chaparro revealed the giant “plans to offer trading in complex derivatives” linked to Bitcoin .

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Federal Judge Applies Long-Established Securities Law to ICOs

Does a decades-old securities law apply to an initial coin offering (ICO)? In a case that represents the first time securities laws have been applied to cryptocurrencies, a district judge says it may.

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DevCon 4 Will Set the Stage for Ethereum’s Next Milestone: Constantinople

Ethereum is embracing the Constantinople milestone at the end of November 2018, after DevCon4 in Prague. Constantinople is the latest Ethereum release, introduced through a hard fork, that will include five Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs):Bitwise shifting instructions (EIP 145) in the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) allow for direct manipulation of bytes on the EVM layer.

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[promoted] Hashtoro Propels Cryptocurrency Cloud Mining

As an emerging cog in the global digital economy, cloud mining offers a tool for enthusiasts to mine cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin without having to acquire hardware or other oft-required elements.

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A Look at Cloud Mining Contracts: Are they a Good Investment?

Cloud mining and traditional mining are very different from each other. But, what exactly it is? Basically, when the bitcoin mining is done using the data center with shared power processing then it is known as Cloud Mining.

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Is NASDAQ Working to List Cryptocurrencies on Its Exchange?

NASDAQ, the second largest exchange by market capitalization, has had a few run-ins with cryptocurrencies. After CME and CBOE listed Bitcoin futures on their platforms, NASDAQ was keen to follow suit.

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Goldman Sachs Dropping Plan of Crypto Trading Desk Turns Out to be Fake News

Goldman Sachs will continue working on cryptocurrency trading desk as well Bitcoin derivate products and clearing physical futures contracts. The post Goldman Sachs Dropping Plan of Crypto Trading Desk Turns Out to be Fake News appeared first on CoinSpeaker.

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Goldman Sachs Puts Plans for a Crypto Trading Desk on Backburner (Updated)

Update (September 7): Goldman Sach’s CFO Martin Chavez has since called reports of dropping the bitcoin trading desk “fake news. ” (The original Business Insider report quoted unnamed sources as the basis of the information.

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Goldman Sachs Puts Plans for a Crypto Trading Desk on Backburner

Goldman Sachs is struggling to find a way to trade bitcoin. The financial services giant has scratched its plans to open a desk for trading cryptocurrencies, at least for the near term, according to a Business Insider report on September 5, 2018.

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Abra CEO Believes Bitcoin ETF Eminent, SEC Just Needs the Right Suitor

Bill Barhydt, founder of bitcoin wallet app Abra, said the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) would approve a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) within a year once the financial regulator feels comfortable with the caliber of the applicants.

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Crypto Facilities Launches Perpetual Futures on Five Cryptocurrencies

UK-based cryptocurrency exchange platform Crypto Facilities has launched perpetual futures contracts on five cryptocurrencies. The platform is registered with the country’s Financial Conduct Authority and already offers fixed maturity futures on six trading pairs.

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Litecoin Price: $70 is Within Reach Thanks to TenX, Atomic Swaps, and Futures Contracts

Looking at the cryptocurrency markets, it is evident there is plenty of green across the board. This trend will most likely continue for some time to come, primarily because Bitcoin is noting some rather impressive gains.

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Japanese Company Trials BTC and Smart Contracts in Real Estate Transactions

A Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed company has built a cryptocurrency settlement platform for real estate transactions. The firm has tested the platform using BTC and smart contracts for property sales and has released its findings; many benefits were observed over the traditional method.

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Markets Update: While Cryptocurrency Traders See Gains, Shorts Stack Up

Cryptocurrency markets have shown some strength over the last seven days as many digital assets are up between 3 to 40 percent. At the time of publication, the entire digital currency market capitalization of all 1600+ cryptocurrencies is around $239B USD.

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Crypto Facilities представила бессрочные фьючерсы на криптовалюты

Криптовалютная торговая платформа из Великобритании Crypto Facilities запустила торги бессрочными фьючерсными контрактами на криптовалюты bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Ripple (XRP), Litecoin (LTC) и Bitcoin Cash (BCH) в паре с американским долларом, а также XRP/BTC.

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Cboe to Launch Ethereum Futures Contracts

Bitcoin futures contracts, when launched in December of last year, created ripples in the cryptocurrency markets. It highlighted the beginning of a new era in the cryptocurrency segment, which allowed for the participation of regulated entities in the wild west of the crypto world.

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California Passes Bill Defining Blockchain and Crypto Terms

A draft law designed to amend California’s legislation to create legal grounds for the implementation of crypto-related technologies has been passed by the state’s legislature. Assembly Bill 2658 amends the California Civil Code, Government Code, Corporations Code, and Insurance Code to legalize the use of blockchain secured data and smart contracts in local and foreign […] The post California Passes Bill Defining Blockchain and Crypto Terms appeared first on Bitcoin News.

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Crypto Facilities запустила криптовалютные бессрочные фьючерсы

Британская платформа торговли цифровыми активами Crypto Facilities запустила бессрочные фьючерсные контракты в парах XBT/USD, ETH/USD, BCH/USD, XRP/USD, LTC/USD и XRP/XBT. We have just launched Perpetual Futures on XBT/USD.

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ETH Futures: Bad for Ethereum, Good for Bitcoin, Says Tom Lee

Tom Lee believes that the introduction of Ether futures trading will have opposing effects on the price trajectories of the top two cryptocurrencies. Lee’s declaration as the Cboe Global Markets gears up to launch Ethereum futures contracts in addition to its Bitcoin futures trading, which debuted in December 2017.

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Bitfinex Service Disruption Leads to Manipulation Rumors as CME Bitcoin Future Contracts Expired

Bitfinex Halts Operations Right Before CME Future Contracts Expired, Customers Accuse The Exchange Of Manipulation Bitfinex, the 5th biggest crypto exchange by daily trading volume temporarily halted their operations due to server connectivity issues on August 31st.

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Op Ed: DApps Can Increase Audience Engagement for Creators and Influencers

Many of us are familiar with the term “DApp,” which stands for “decentralized application. ”Foundationally, a DApp is an application that runs using blockchain technology on a decentralized network of computers instead of on a central database.

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Australian Businesses Will Now Use IBM-Powered Smart Legal Contracts

IBM has had a few experiences in handling blockchain-based projects in Australia. This time, it is partnering with a law firm, Herbert Smith Freehills, to create a blockchain solution that will bring Australian businesses on-board with smart contracts.

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SEC Rejects 9 ETF Proposals From Direxion, ProShares and GraniteShares

The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission has rejected applications from three applicants for nine Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The agency disapproved five leveraged and inverse ETFs from Direxion, one from GraniteShares, and another two from ProShares which would have tracked Bitcoin futures contracts.

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25% of All Smart Contracts Contain Critical Bugs

For every problem that smart contracts solve, they seem to introduce another. In a week in which EOS has made news for all the wrong reasons over a RAM vulnerability, a code auditor has revealed the prevalence of smart contract bugs.

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