Blockchain Bites: Paul Tudor Jones, Open Options and Why Bitcoin Looks Strong Heading to the Halving

The notional open interest in CME’s bitcoin futures has risen past the $10 billion market for the first time.CME's futures market is now bigger than the market cap of litecoin, bitcoin cash and other top 25 cryptocurrencies.The Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s (CME) bitcoin (BTC) futures market is busier than ever.On Friday, a record 28,899 standard futures

When BitTorrent sold to the founder of controversial crypto startup Tron, it wasn't just one of web 2.0's earliest and most prestigious startups that changed hands. It turns out, the peer-to-peer sharing company now owned by Tron founder Justin Sun also took a small stake in Chia Network, a soon-to-be-launched cryptocurrency protocol helmed by BitTorrent…

Feb 13, 2020 at 15:25 UTCUpdated Feb 13, 2020 at 15:26 UTCTorus CEO Zhen Yu Yong. (Photo courtesy of Torus)Torus, a key-management startup offering one-click logins for decentralized apps (dapps), launched out of beta Thursday, announcing eight initial hosting partners for its Web 3.0 product.Alongside Torus itself, Binance, Ethereum Name Service (ENS), Etherscan, Matic Network,…

Crypto scammers are getting savvier in their efforts to steal digital assets, warns blockchain analytics company Chainalysis in a new report. Scams are driving the majority in 2024's multibillion-dollar crypto-crime sector, per the report published Thursday. Though large by dollar value, this sum is still relatively small: less than 1% of on-chain value is linked

“If two people want to transfer value from one country to another country, the level of compliance and verification needed is complex,” said Raj Dhamodharan Head of Crypto and Blockchain at Mastercard. “So how do you identify those wallets, and how do you exchange enough information about the other party?"

Musk was apparently welcoming dogecoin's latest price bounce.Feb 4, 2021 at 9:39 a.m. UTCUpdated Feb 4, 2021 at 9:55 a.m. UTCElon Musk Is Back Tweeting About Dogecoin as Price Rises 50%Dogecoin (DOGE) surged more than 50% on Thursday morning to trade around $0.059 per coin.The news was apparently welcomed by Elon Musk who made several…

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Mar 20, 2020 at 09:00 UTCWhat an Uptick in ‘Coinjoins’ Says About Bitcoin’s Value PropositionWith the global economy reeling from the coronavirus crisis, bitcoiners are increasingly turning to crypto wallets with privacy features.  A masking feature called “coinjoin” batches transactions together so it’s harder to identify specific participants. Some refer to it as “mixing,” but others…

The North Korean entity responsible for the hack on India's WazirX crypto exchange moved over $11 million in stolen ether (ETH) to Tornado Cash early Monday, aiming to mask the transaction trail. The breach in July resulted in the loss of over $100 million in SHIB, $52 million in ETH, and other assets, representing a