Bitcoin News Roundup for April 16, 2020

news Coinbase is adding EOS, Augur’s REP and MakerDAO’s MKR to its professional trading platform Monday. The company announced that customers would be able to begin depositing the tokens as of 19:oo UTC, with EOS and Augur’s REP now available in every jurisdiction that Coinbase Pro serves, except New York state. MKR can be bought in…

Sep 16, 2020 at 15:53 UTCUpdated Sep 16, 2020 at 16:40 UTCEcological Sanity Is Compatible With Human FreedomIn the early days, Bitcoin proposed a simple model of how the world could be transformed: The free market was going to produce inflation-proof money with strong privacy features, which could be used to avoid taxes. Over time,…

Feb 19, 2020 at 22:50 UTCUpdated Feb 19, 2020 at 23:33 UTCAs the name implies, flash loans are paid back quickly – in the same transaction in which they are taken out. (Image via NASA)Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the DeFi ‘Flash Loan’ AttackThere’s now a case study for how DeFi can go…

Hong Kong financial regulators published proposals for supervising stablecoin issuers through a licensing regime and a regulatory sandbox to communicate "supervisory expectations and guidance on compliance" to prospective issuers.The jurisdiction's central bank, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), and the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau (FSTB) are seeking feedback by Feb. 29. Fiat-referenced stablecoins

Founded by Barry Silbert in 2015, Digital Currency Group (DCG) is a venture capital firm that invests solely in the digital currency industry. Digital Currency Group has three subsidiaries: CoinDesk, which was purchased in January 2016, digital currency brokerage firm Genesis Trading and digital asset management firm Grayscale Investments. Headquartered in New York City, DCG has…

This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.Latest PricesTop StoriesDeutsche Bank and Standard Chartered’s SC Ventures are testing a system that will allow blockchain-based transactions, stablecoins, and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) to talk to

Bitcoin Futures open interest is nearing all-time highs, currently valued at approximately 478k BTC ($31.8 billion). Open interest in cash-margined futures has reached an all-time high of 384k BTC ($25.5 billion), driven primarily by institutional activity on the CME. Crypto-margin as a percentage of total open interest is approaching an all-time low, currently around 18.5%.

Bitcoin (BTC) will rise to as high as $56,000 if a BlackRock spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) is approved, crypto services provider Matrixport said in a report Thursday.At the low end, $42,000 is a "conservative estimate" based on the assumption that 10%-20% of gold ETF investors will take a stake in a spot bitcoin ETF."Assuming

Ark Labs has been established to respond to the need for scalable, low-cost bitcoin payments.Ark's creator Burak Keceli has moved on to other things, but the protocol and now Ark Labs is continuing to pursue the goal of building on and enhancing what Lightning has brought to Bitcoin.The team behind Bitcoin layer-2 protocol Ark has