Crypto crash wipes out $1.7 billion in leveraged positions, Bitcoin plunges toward $94,000

The crypto market's volatility highlights the risks of leveraged trading and raises concerns about the potential impact of quantum computing on digital asset security. The post Crypto crash wipes out $1.

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European eToro Traders Call Foul Over Closure of Leveraged Crypto Contracts

Traders in Europe are threatening legal action against eToro for allegedly closing their leveraged crypto positions without enough notice.

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UK Regulator Moves To Ban Leveraged Crypto Derivatives

The UK could be heading towards an outright ban on crypto leveraged trading products and contracts for difference (CFDs), which would make it one of the first developed economies to move towards strict regulation on a growing aspect of digital asset trading.

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Binance Research: азиатские страны толкают вверх цену биткоина

Согласно наблюдениям аналитиков Binance Research, в азиатских странах биткоин торгуется на 3-5% выше, чем на других рынках. Are East Asian countries going all in on Crypto? — Leveraged $BTC on @Bitflyer has persisted since mid-May 2019 — BTC / $KRW has recently seen premiums of up to 5% on @BithumbOfficial, a 7 month high — […]

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Bitcoin margin trading on crypto exchange Bit-Z goes live

CryptoNinjas Today, bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange Bit-Z has launched margin trading capabilities. For now, leveraged trading supports the BTC/USDT market with up to 3x leverage. The BTC daily leverage rate is 0.

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Bitfinex Faces Legal Action From NY Attorney General: Here’s What This Means

The New York Office of the Attorney General (AG) wants to take a closer look into the business operations of Bitfinex and related stablecoin issuer Tether (USDT). According to a legal petition filed with the Supreme Court of New York, the NY Attorney General Office of Letitia James is applying for a court order to investigate Bitfinex’s suite of interrelated companies (including its umbrella firm iFinex and Tether Holdings Limited) for “ongoing fraud” to the tune of $850 million.

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Platform Launches Leveraged Bitcoin CFDs for Speculation on Movements Against JPY and USD

A global crypto platform says it is reacting to rising demand by offering a leveraged bitcoin CFD for speculation on price movements against two major fiat currencies, JPY and USD #SPONSORED

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Xena Exchange launches new cryptocurrency desktop terminal

CryptoNinjas Xena Exchange, a crypto and blockchain asset exchange with leveraged contracts, this week released a new desktop trading terminal, Xena Pro Desktop Terminal, to complement its already existing web version.

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Xena Launches Leveraged Contract for Yet to Be Released Telegram Token

The Telegram token (gram) has started trading as a perpetual contract on London-based Xena Exchange. On Mar. 12, the crypto exchange launched a derivative contract for grams, with up to 100x leverage.

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Investous: What to Make of this Crypto Broker Trading Offer?

What Is Investous? Owned by FI Markets Limited, Investous is a brokerage platform that provides traders with access to Contracts For Difference (CFDs). CFDs are derivative assets that are traded on the margin and can be leveraged in order to increase the traders’ returns.

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Revolutionary margin trading platform Monfex is set to take crypto finance to the next level

With tight margins and stagnant markets across most coins, there is a huge demand to trade leveraged cryptos. Monfex, is a new player on the scene that is making leveraged crypto trading and even investing.

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The Next Big Innovation in Crypto Trading: Delta Exchange’s Stablecoin-settled Futures

Speculation still remains the number one use case for cryptocurrencies. The launch of stablecoins, especially USDT, led to an explosion in spot crypto-to-crypto trading. Delta-Exchange believes that its USDC (a Circle backed stablecoin pegged to the US Dollar) settled futures will have similar impact on the leveraged or margin trading of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin.

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Big Bitcoin Break Sees Currency.com Enable Traders to Procure ‘Leveraged Equities, Indices and Metals’

As many of our readers probably already know, until quite recently it was difficult for crypto traders to get their hands on stocks and other such commodities. However, as per an official blog post released earlier today, Currency.

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Currency.com Allows Crypto Traders to Buy Leveraged Equities, Indices and Metals

The worlds of traditional finance and cryptocurrency have always been divided, for regulatory and technical reasons. Until recently, it was difficult for cryptocurrency traders to gain exposure to stocks and commodities.

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UK’s Financial Watchdog May Soon Ban Sale of Crypto Derivatives

UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is consulting today on a cryptoassets guidance. The financial watchdog will decide later this year whether to outlaw certain cryptocurrency derivatives.

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New Prediction Market And Derivatives Trading Platform Veil Launches on Ethereum

On Januar 16, co-founder and CEO at Veil, Paul Fletcher-Hill, announced in a blog post that the new peer-to-peer prediction market Veil has gone live on the Ethereum Mainnet. Prediction Markets and Leveraged Crypto Trading Veil describes itself as “a peer-to-peer trading platform for prediction markets and derivatives on Augur.

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Japanese crypto regulations to tighten

With its Financial Services Agency releasing a draft cryptocurrency reform bill, Japanese regulators seek to curtail highly leveraged crypto derivatives trading and redefine ‘virtual currencies’ as ‘crypto assets’.

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Ethereum Community Band Together To Create Crypto Job Board During Hard Times

During the bearish cryptocurrency winter, many blockchain and cryptocurrency-related companies laid off large numbers of staff, from ConsenSys trimming down 13 percent of the team to Steemit laying off 70 percent of their staff.

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“Guidance by Enforcement”: How the SEC Is Slowly Shaping ICO Regulation

On November 27, 2018, a California judge turned back the SEC’s request for an injunction against token company BlockVest, a company the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is pursuing for allegedly conducting an unregistered securities offering.

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BitMEX Launches ‘BitMEX Ventures’ To Join Rivals With Its Own Crypto Venture Capital Arm

BitMEX Joins Rivals In Launching Its Own Venture Capital Arm BitMEX, a platform that offers P2P trading and leveraged Bitcoin contracts. The company, according to The Block Crypto, has followed the path of its rivals to launch a new company focused venture investments.

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Quoine’s Liquid Trading Platform Opens 25x Margin Trading on BCH Pairings

Quoine's Liquid Trading Platform Allows 25x Margin on BCH Pairings Liquid is a cryptocurrency trading platform which seeks to make trading more accessible to the average trader by further linking fiat and crypto to one another.

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Boomstarter.Network Shares Insights From Top Asian Crypto Markets

A New Blockchain Hub in South Korea Boomstarter. Network team is back from a big roadshow in Asia which included South Korea and Hong Kong and featured private meetups with funds, blockchain influencers and crypto-community.

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Kraken: An Overview of One of Europe's Top Bitcoin Exchanges

In this overview, we explore Kraken and its journey from a Mt. Gox alternative to soften the blow of bitcoin’s dependence on just one exchange to becoming one of the most respected cryptocurrency exchanges in the world.

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Expo Lets Ethereum Haters Short ETH on First Completely Trustless Margin Trading Platform

As the cryptocurrency market matures, a number of exchanges have begun to offer crypto derivatives contracts. To margin trade on these platforms, users are forced to trust their crypto capital on centralized exchange wallets.

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Europol: Terrorists Still Use Banks, Fail To Abuse Cryptocurrencies

A new assessment by Europol this week reveals a growing schism between the use of cryptocurrencies by terrorists and other criminals. No European Terrorist Attacks Leveraged Crypto Funds In its Internet Organized Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA), the organization highlights that while the use of Bitcoin in particular by cybercriminals is growing, terrorists still prefer conventional money transfer methods — banks and wire transfers.

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Crypto Wallet Protection App Wants to Secure Your Wallets Against Malware

Malware, a persistent thorn in the side of the internet’s wider community, has become an increasing concern for cryptocurrency users. A problem that comes in many forms, malicious software is leveraged by hackers to rob community members of their funds.

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Leverage for Crypto / CFDs – Here’s What You Need to Know

Leveraged trading sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it?

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SEC Puts Off Decision on 5 Bitcoin ETFs Till September 2018

The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has postponed the review of Bitcoin ETFs proposed by investment firm Direxion Asset Management, as it needs more time to study the proposal before reaching a final decision.

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Home Equity Loans for Crypto Trading Banned by Australian Banks

The Australian Bank of Queensland has banned property buyers from using home equity to buy cryptocurrencies, the Financial Review reported July 12. The Bank of Queensland is reportedly the latest institution to bar credit lines from loans to be used for leveraged purchases or trading of cryptocurrencies. The Bank of Queensland is updating loan contracts,

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