Bitcoin News Roundup for April 7, 2020

Feb 19, 2020 at 17:00 UTCUpdated Feb 19, 2020 at 17:15 UTCKey image via Shutterstock Openfinance, a platform for secondary market trading of digital assets, is listing Lottery.com’s LDCC security token for U.S. investors.Both accredited and unaccredited investors can buy and trade the LDCC token on Openfinance's alternative trading system (ATS), the company announced Wednesday.…

Apr 17, 2020 at 18:07 UTCUpdated Apr 17, 2020 at 18:10 UTCSearches for “bitcoin halving” on Google Trends recently reached record highs, suggesting peak interest in the retail crowd about the upcoming supply altering event. Queries about the highly anticipated event peaked in the week ending April 11, the highest in bitcoin’s (BTC) 11-year history. It…

NYDIG is purchasing British payments startup Bottlepay for between $280 million and $300 million in stock, the company confirmed Friday.The bitcoin investment firm closed the deal earlier this week. The Block first reported the news.U.K.-based Bottlepay is a global payments firm powered by the Lightning Network. Users can make micropayments of “as little as a…

The plaintiff lost 15 bitcoin after an interaction with a T-mobile customer who had been victim of a SIM-swapping attack.(Ronstik/Shutterstock)Feb 12, 2021 at 11:15 a.m. UTCUpdated Feb 12, 2021 at 11:16 a.m. UTCT-Mobile Sued Over SIM Attack That Resulted in Loss of $450K in BitcoinT-Mobile is being sued by a customer as a result of…

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Digital asset manager Onramp Invest is using the CoinDesk 20 (CD20) index to benchmark the performance of its portfolios.The CD20 is a measure of market performance for crypto, similar to the S&P 500 or Dow Jones Industrial average for traditional finance.Onramp Invest, a digital asset manager, announced that it has integrated the CoinDesk 20 (CD20)

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The weekly expiry limits basis and caps rollover costs, facilitating improved profitability. Chicago Mercantile Exchange's (CME) bitcoin (BTC) futures that expire on Friday are ideally suited for news traders looking to bet on key U.S. economic data releases, CF Benchmarks' CEO Sui Chung said, explaining the performance of the recently launched contracts. The CME debuted

A group of Polygon founders and researchers proposed a token upgrade that would replace the network's MATIC token with POL in a move that lets POL function as a single token for all Polygon-based networks.These networks include the main Polygon blockchain, the Polygon zkEVM network, and various supernets – application-specific blockchains that run atop the…