Deribit Exchange Raises Maximum Bitcoin Options Strike Price to $400K

Aug 19, 2020 at 16:00 UTCBitcoin News Roundup for Aug. 19, 2020With bitcoin pulling back from its bull run and the emergence of YAM-inspired “Spaghetti Money,” CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back for your latest crypto news roundup! For early access before our regular noon Eastern time releases , subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica or RSS. This episode is…

The wife of Tigran Gambaryan, the American Binance employee detained in Nigeria, released a new video statement on Monday pleading for his immediate release from prison. "It has been six months since I last saw my husband, since our children last held their father’s hand," Yuki Gambaryan said in the video. "His health is deteriorating

Aug 5, 2020 at 09:30 UTCUpdated Aug 5, 2020 at 09:41 UTCSquare CEO Jack Dorsey. Credit: ShutterstockSquare’s bitcoin business is continuing its rapid growth, with Q2 revenue 600% up year-on-year. Announcing Tuesday, the San Francisco payments company said revenue made from selling bitcoin to its Cash App customers in Q2 came to a total of…

Kerrisdale Capital is short MicroStrategy stock and long bitcoin.The stock’s relative attractiveness doesn't justify paying more than double for the same coin, Kerrisdale said.MicroStrategy is no longer a unique way to gain access to bitcoin, it said.MicroStrategy's (MSTR) shares fell as much as 14% on Thursday after a prominent short seller, Kerrisdale Capital, said in

Blockchain network developer Cronos Labs has started looking for eight startups to take part in the third cohort of its $100 million accelerator program aimed at supporting early stage crypto projects.The recruitment phase of the 12-week program commenced Sept. 4 to coincide with the start of Korea Blockchain Week, which runs until Sept. 10, and

Optimism about the approval of a spot bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded-fund (ETF) by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) continues to grow, JPMorgan (JPM) said in a research report on Wednesday.This optimism is reflected in bitcoin’s strong outperformance versus other digital assets, the report said, noting that the world’s largest cryptocurrency recently made a new

Jim Cramer, former hedge fund manager and host of CNBC’s Mad Money, Tuesday morning reversed his previously bearish stance on bitcoin (BTC) ahead of what's expected to be U.S. regulatory approval of a spot ETF and as the price rose above $45,000 for the first time in 21 months."This thing, you can't kill it," Cramer

This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.On today’s episode, NLW catches up on a variety of topics from the past week, including:How the first day of trading the ProShares $BITO bitcoin futures ETF is going (and why it could be headed for record breaking volume).Grayscale formally starting the process to convert GBTC into a bitcoin spot ETFThe…

Jan 30, 2020 at 19:16 UTCUpdated Jan 30, 2020 at 19:21 UTCLine graph showing exchange token and bitcoin returns' correlation vs timeThey're definitely not equity, but could "exchange tokens" be bellwethers for one of crypto's best use cases? (Spoiler: Probably not)Among thousands of venture-backed startups, tokens, coins, blockchains and open-source technology projects, exchange operators now…