Bitcoin Options on Deribet Now Go to $200K After Recent Surge

(BTCKeychain/Flickr Creative Commons)Bitcoin Twitter interprets today’s massive price action.For more episodes and free early access before our regular 3 p.m. Eastern time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica, iHeartRadio or RSS.This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com and Nexo.io.As the U.S. election picture starts to become more clear, bitcoin has smashed through $15,000 –…

news Financial services giant Fidelity Investments is said to be launching cryptocurrency trading service soon. A Bloomberg report on Monday, citing “a person familiar with the matter,” said that Fidelity will roll out the service for trading bitcoin “within a few weeks” and will focus on institutional, not retail, customers. Fidelity spokeswoman Arlene Roberts told…

The cryptocurrency industry is going through a period of intense growing pains. Like a lanky tween, it is running faster and jumping higher than ever before, thanks to major milestones such as bitcoin adoption in El Salvador, a continuing surge in non-fungible token (NFT) interest and ever more involvement from established players like Visa.But, again…

Featured SpeakerDeep Dive: EthereumProtocol VillageAustin Convention CenterJoin an hour long exploration of the advancements defining the Ethereum community in 2023.Featured SpeakerDeep Dive: EthereumProtocol VillageAustin Convention CenterJoin an hour long exploration of the advancements defining the Ethereum community in 2023.It might not be time yet to launch yETH, Yearn.finance’s proposed token which tracks a basket of…

news A U.S.-based blockchain startup working to “democratize the energy industry” has raised an undisclosed sum from oil multinational Shell and Japanese business giant Sumitomo Corporation Group. In an announcement published on Wednesday, LO3 Energy said it has developed a “transactive energy platform” to address the challenge of tracking energy from different sources across supply networks. “As we…

Jul 19, 2020 at 18:00 UTC(George Pagan III/Unsplash)Long Reads Sunday features two essays previously published on CoinDesk that show the trajectory of stablecoins in the global economy in 2020. For more episodes and free early access before our regular 3 p.m. Eastern time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica, iHeartRadio or RSS. This episode…

Whether the U.S. government likes it or not, the world is demanding crypto-dollars and the private market is ready to supply them.  For more episodes and free early access before our regular 3 p.m. Eastern time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica, iHeartRadio or RSS. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io. On this special Labor…

Oct 14, 2020 at 03:59 UTCUpdated Oct 14, 2020 at 04:00 UTCAustralian Central Bank Sees ‘No Strong Public Policy Case’ for CBDCThe Australian central bank sees no need to issue its own retail digital currency just yet, a top official said Wednesday.Tony Richards, head of payments policy at the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), told…

21Shares, a provider of crypto exchange-traded products (ETP), introduced a way of gaining exposure to Lido DAO, offering traditional investors single asset exposure to the largest participant in the liquid-staking ecosystem.According to the Switzerland-based company’s issue-specific summary, “21Shares Lido DAO ETP (LIDO) is a non-interest bearing, open-ended security. Each series of the product is linked…