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Ross Ulbricht, serving life without parole for allegedly running the Silk Road marketplace, hasn’t allowed his detention to deprive him from monitoring bitcoin’s price action. In a new blog series titled Bitcoin by Ross, Ulbricht reveals that he is closely attuned to BTC’s price movements, and shares some suggestions as […]
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2019 has seen no shortage of fraud and scams targeting investors. This includes a fake attempt to copy TIOmarkets, which is duping investors into accepting deposits as would-be clients. TIOmarkets is the FX trading brand of the Lausanne-based blockchain company Trade.io, having launched with the full capacity earlier this year. Discover […]
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Bakkt has launched two new regulated bitcoin derivatives products. Within hours of launch, Bakkt announced that over 1,000 futures contracts had been traded in Asia. The platform now offers four types of regulated bitcoin derivatives products: monthly and daily physically delivered bitcoin futures, cash settled bitcoin futures, and options on […]
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Just one month after seeing a mild rebound in its trading volumes, GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GCAP) saw its key metrics take a tumble in November 2019. On par with the rest of the retail industry, Gain Capital’s trading statistics were the result of declining volatility in the industry. […]
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November has proven to be a tough month for trading providers, with firms widely reporting a drop in their trading volumes. Joining the growing list of brokers in this situation is Saxo Bank. During the month of November, the multi-asset broker posted a month-on-month drop across the board for foreign […]
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Since mid-September, the Federal Reserve has injected three trillion U.S. dollars into the hands of private banks and Wall Street. Despite the fact that massive amounts of money was created out of thin air, the central bank still believes repurchase agreements (repos) are needed to tame the turbulent economy. Nearly […]
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The number of user accounts on commission-free investing app Robinhood has exploded to more than 10 million. The six-year-old startup has been growing at an explosive rate, and the number of brokerage accounts on its platform is double than it was a year ago. The impressive metrics mean that the […]
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Litecoin has undertaken to create a new privacy upgrade, using techniques that were initially developed for Bitcoin. The proposal will enable users to access an opt-in privacy software by making MimbleWimble transactions on an Extension Blocks kind of side-chain. Litecoin’s MimbleWimble privacy upgrade is Bitcoin friendly, so let’s take a […]
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As far as prices are concerned, 2019’s cryptocurrency markets fared much better than the year prior. Currently, the entire market capitalization of all digital assets is hovering just above the $200 billion mark. The following is a look at the cryptocurrency market’s biggest gainers and worst losers so far in […]
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GO Markets, an Australian foreign exchange (forex) broker, is continuing its global expansion by heading to Europe with the acquisition of Cyprus-based financial services provider, Galactus Ltd, the company revealed to Finance Magnates exclusively. Galactus Ltd is an investment firm authorised by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) and […]
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