Options Giant Cboe Applies for Six Bitcoin-Based ETFs

It’s been over two weeks since the largest U.S. options platform, the Chicago Board of Trade (Cboe), launched its bitcoin-based futures products. Now over the past week, the firm has applied for six individual exchange-traded funds (ETF) and is waiting for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) approval. Also Read: Popular Chat App Kakao’s Exchange … Read more

Ron Paul, Tequila, Sun, Fun, and Crypto Coming up at Anarchapulco 2018

One of the most anticipated conferences of the year brings together disparate voices from the around the world: leaders such as statesmen, business owners, philosophers, rappers, coders, authors, thought and opinion moulders. They’re gathering for four days mid-February 2018 in Acapulco, Mexico. It’s the fourth year of Anarchapulco, and the just announced keynote speaker is … Read more

A New Line of Sex Toys Lets You ‘Get Off’ With the Price of Bitcoin

Bitcoin markets and the overall value of cryptocurrencies have been going crazy with price swings over the past few months. To add a little more excitement to following the charts, a porn firm called, Camsoda, offers an interactive sex toy that reacts with the price changes of ethereum, litecoin, and bitcoin. Now individuals can literally have sex … Read more

Michael Novogratz: “Bitcoin May Dip to $8K” — Puts Crypto-Hedge Fund on Hiatus

The financial mogul Michael Novogratz, a former Fortress Investment Group executive, stated back in September that he planned to start a cryptocurrency hedge fund. Now according to reports, the former macro trader is putting the hedge fund on hold as he’s not as confident as he once was, regarding bitcoin’s price. Novogratz believes the price of … Read more

Coinbase Accused of Technical Incompetence After Hoarding Millions of UTXOs

The Coinbase development team has been accused of “technical incompetence” after amassing millions of UTXOs through careless housekeeping. Unspent Transaction Outputs, or UTXOs, are the change that’s left after sending a bitcoin payment. Wallet providers are supposed to sweep these crumbs up and bundle them in with future transactions. Coinbase, it transpires, has been hoarding … Read more

Indian Couple Asked to Be Gifted Bitcoin at Wedding

An Indian couple requested for friends and family to gift them bitcoin at their wedding earlier this month. The couple, Prashant Sharma and Niti Shree, are the founders of a startup in the technology industry and hold high hopes for the future of bitcoin and distributed ledger technology. Also Read: India’s Crypto Crackdown: Wealthy Bitcoiners Targeted, … Read more

A Ledger X Bitcoin Contract is Still Pegged for $50K Amid This Week’s Price Decline

Bitcoin’s price has been in a slump this week after reaching record highs in the USD $19K territory. Since then the price has drifted into the $13K, region losing $6,000 in gains this week. Although the price has seen better days, an unknown trader utilizing the Ledger X options market purchased a contract that predicts … Read more

Doing a 180 – Goldman Sachs Goes Crypto

The Year of Bitcoin continues to get more interesting, as reports surfaced today that legacy bank Goldman Sachs will open a cryptocurrency trading desk by mid 2018. It’s a momentous occasion for many reasons, but not least of which is the  influence the bank carries in terms of respect within the industry.  Also read: Championing … Read more

Forum Wars: r/btc Mod Hacked and r/Bitcoin Continues to Censor

One of the worst aspects of modern culture is that many people have gotten used to living only in their own media bubbles. Any differing opinion must be wrong and all information from outside our own echo-chamber is automatically labeled FUD, Russian propaganda or #FakeNews. Sadly, some in the bitcoin community not only do this … Read more

Tether Won’t Redeem Americans, Terrorists and Other Bad Actors

Living in a country known for having some of the toughest financial regulators in the world has its advantages and disadvantages. While it may deter the more cautious international scammers from targeting you it can also hurt your ability to conduct normal business. American cryptocurrency traders are now facing this situation with Tether. Also Read: Exchanges … Read more