Looking into Bitcoin for a while, global giant broker TP ICAP decided to eventually enter the crypto game. The broker announced the expansion of its services now offering Bitcoin futures trading.
Binance will introduce crypto-pegged tokens on Binance Chain. A Bitcoin-pegged token (BTCB) will be traded on Binance and proposed for trading on Binance DEX.
Bitcoin achieved a new milestone on Sunday with its price smashing past $9000 levels. Other metrics suggest a strong buildup of the Bitcoin technicals and fundamentals.
Next Bitcoin halvening is in May 2020 and we are expecting to see huge price increase in 2021. Bitcoin miners currently receive 12.5 BTC each time they successfully mine a block. By the end of May 2020 (the next Halvening) they will earn just 6.25 BTC.
A Bitcoin halvening is a fixed event and will occur after every 210,000 blocks are mined, or confirmed, by the system. StillMark Capital analyst Alyse Killeen thinks that there will be even greater demand for Bitcoin.
Even though Binance currently gets approximately 15% of traffic from U.S. customers, they announced that they will stop serving US individual and corporate customers on Binance.com in September.
Visa, Mastercard and PayPal are set to be backers of Facebook’s GlobalCoin along with a number of other companies, including Uber. Each will invest approximately $10 million into a foundation that will govern the coin.
To launch its crypto trading services in the U.S., Binance has partnered with local firm BAM Trading Services Inc. The company will release further details of the launch in the coming days.
The hybrid applications use oracles to bridge the gap between blockchain-based smart contracts and internet cloud services thereby making automated business processes more efficient and robust.
ICE’s Bakkt plans to set a new standard for institutional market quality for digital assets with the launch of its Bitcoin Futures platform on July 22, 2019.
John McAfee released his new cryptocurrency exchange called “McAfeeMagic” together with its own cryptocurrency – Freedom Coin. Interestingly enough, the exchange will allow trading cryptocurrencies on multiple exchanges within one dashboard.
Ubisoft has revealed their interest in the blockchain technology with an official announcement that they could launch several applications on the Ethereum Blockchain causing ETH price surge.
The crypto market has responded positively to apparent demand from venture capitalists and institutional investors. Analysts think that none of the Bitcoin’s previous price rallies had the same optimism.
Radix has managed to achieve a speed of over 1 million transactions per second while replaying Bitcoin transactions history.
As it appears, Telegram GRAM token sale, which was announced yesterday by Liquid, a Japanese exchange, won’t happen after all. At least not on Liquid and not by Gram Asia. This was a big bluff, and many journalists took the bite.