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Bakkt has announced that its former chief product officer Mike Blandina will now take the role of CEO after Kelly Loeffler’s departure.
As the overall cryptocurrency market added $10 billion to its valuations, Bitcoin leads the show with 5% gains. With today’s price surge Bitcoin has recovered by 15% from its weekly low of $6600.
The recent news reported that Greece has decided to transfer former BTC-e admin Alexander Vinnik to France. However, he is going to the U.S., according to the RIA news site and his lawyer.
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) postponed its decision on a Bitcoin ETF proposed by Wilshire Phoenix till February 26th, 2020.
The KYC, AML, and Wasabi wallet cause lots of uncertainty in the crypto exchange space. Changpeng Zhao shared his views on some of the common withdrawal issues in a blog post.
Ripple managed to raise $200 million in Series C funding that was led by Tetragon, SBI Holdings and Route 66 Ventures.
Facebook’s Libra, which still has no hard and fast dates for an actual launch, continues to build up its community. The Libra team has released its 2.0 roadmap.
Trump has now gone down in history as the third American president to ever be impeached. Even though he runs the risk of removal, the stock market and investors aren’t bothered.
The patent filing explains an automatic email system that can send Bitcoins from the sender to the receiver’s wallet linked to their email addresses.
Tim Draper says that within half-a-year or a year after the approaching Bitcoin halving in May, the father crypto is bound to hit the astronomic mark of $250,000. And that’s a modest forecast, as he said in one of his earlier interviews.
On Wednesday, the U.S. House voted to impeach Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The proceedings are forwarded to the Senate which will make the final call on Trump’s impeachment.
Bitcoin price recovers after massive dumping as the volumes for the Bakkt Bitcoin Futures reach a new high. The Bakkt futures volume indicates that institutional interest for Bitcoin continues to be on the rise.
Kraken has announced that it acquired the Circle Trade OTC platform. While specific details are unknown, Circle’s decision to offload its OTC desk was done to focus on its stablecoin USDC.
ErisX has launched its physically-settled Bitcoin futures contracts pitching a direct competition to Bakkt.
The EU clients who admire honest trading and compliance with the laws will have one more crypto trading option offered by the almighty Fidelity.