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May 20, 2020 at 11:29 UTCUpdated May 20, 2020 at 12:48 UTCCredit: Shutterstock/Oleg TroinoBitcoin Options: Deribit Exchange Sees Record Open Interest of $1BBitcoin’s option market continues to grow, signaling an increased influx of sophisticated traders and institutions into the crypto space.Open interest (or open positions) in options listed on the Panama-based Deribit exchange jumped to a…

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markets View Bitcoin’s weekly Chaikin Money Flow index is reporting the strongest bearish bias since February. Other weekly chart indicators are also calling a deeper drop, possibly to levels below recent lows near $7,750. The daily chart indicators suggest the corrective bounce has ended and sellers are again gaining strength. The ongoing risk aversion in…

news Residents of Bermuda can now pay their taxes in cryptocurrency. The Government of Bermuda announced Wednesday it will accept payments in USD Coin (USDC) “for taxes, fees and other government services,” according to a press release by crypto finance startup Circle. USDC is a stablecoin pegged to the U.S. dollar launched a year ago…

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Sometimes an idea, stated simply and dramatically, takes hold of the collective imagination and persists. That is why Bitcoin has been associated with consuming more energy than a “small country,” according to the Harvard Business Review, or even “many countries”, according to the New York Times. But five years have passed since this alarming analogy…

24H Low$119.9424H High$123.44PriceMarket Stats24H Average Transaction Fee$0.071087About DecredThe Decred project was started in 2016 by Company 0 and launched its mainnet soon after. It was led by Jake Yocom-Piatt and other software developers who previously contributed to btcsuite. It forked bitcoin to enable a hybrid consensus system combining Proof-of-Work (PoW) and Proof-of-Stake (PoS) into the…

The much-awaited approval of spot bitcoin [BTC] exchange-traded funds (ETFs) by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) can give unprecedented momentum for similar regulatory approvals in and around Asia, even if some regions may not necessarily or immediately be able to create the ideal policies for such a move, multiple analysts have told CoinDesk.U.S.

When it comes to trading in the crypto space there are three common mistakes new traders make: going against the trend, trading in consolidation periods and forgetting to reduce their risk. This is especially true when it comes to trading highly volatile coins with a low market capitalization and it pays to remember that when bitcoin's…