Bitcoin News Roundup for March 2, 2020

news Bitcoin wallet and blockchain explorer provider Blockchain announced a partnership with the largest bitcoin processor, BitPay. According to a blog post published today, Blockchain will integrate BitPay’s payment architecture into its wallet service. This partnership will allow Blockchain wallet users to pay merchants online or on mobile. BitPay processes approximately $1 billion in bitcoin…

Jan 8, 2021 at 10:15 p.m. UTCTraders Can Now Bet on ‘Bitcoin $300K’ as Options Keep Pace With Rising PriceTraders can now bet on whether bitcoin will hit $300,000 by year’s end.Crypto derivatives exchange Deribit has added a $300,000 option to keep up with BTC's blistering price performance in recent weeks.The $200,000 option came into…

Investment banking giant Goldman Sachs brought forward its estimate for the Federal Reserve's first interest-rate cut to third-quarter 2024 from a previous forecast of the fourth quarter, Reuters reported Monday.The shift comes as bitcoin (BTC) and the broader crypto market has surged in recent weeks on a bullish cocktail of an expected spot ETF launch

Last week’s launch of the ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BITO) was a smash hit by any measure. Yet it may be that at least part of its success could in part be the result of how the instrument is structured rather than pure demand from buyers hoping for bitcoin exposure.In just a few hours, the…

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Bitcoin (BTC) remains the world's biggest and most liquid digital asset. Still, crypto traders are increasingly pricing higher volatility in bitcoin relative to ether (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by market value.The spread between dominant crypto options exchange Deribit's forward-looking 30-day implied volatility index for ether (ETH DVOL) and bitcoin (BTC DVOL) has been consistently negative

news A system-wide upgrade is coming to ethereum’s Ropsten test network on Wednesday. And while “Istanbul” should ultimately introduce network efficiencies, the testnet launch won’t be smooth sailing for everyone. For governance platform Aragon, in particular, the code changes are expected to break roughly 680 smart contracts, according to Aragon One CTO Jorge Izquierdo. These…

Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has made an exception, allowing institutional investors and very high-net-worth individuals to invest in crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs).The SEC will now allow asset managers to invest in spot bitcoin (BTC) ETFs on U.S. exchanges, said Pornanong Budsaratragoon, the SEC’s Secretary-General, on Monday.Spot bitcoin ETFs are classified as securities rather

Jul 27, 2020 at 16:58 UTCUpdated Jul 27, 2020 at 17:40 UTC(solarseven/Shutterstock)Crypto services provider Matrixport has launched its own derivatives exchange to go after surging activity in the options space. The Singapore-based company said the new derivatives exchange, dubbed Bit.com, would first list a BTC/USD perpetual swap on Aug. 3, before adding a series of…