The History of HODL

Notional open interest in BTC options listed on Deribit set a new peak of $15 billion last week.Record activity points to an increased preference for options for hedging and leveraging gains.Trading in bitcoin (BTC) options listed on the cryptocurrency exchange Deribit is more popular than ever.On Friday, the notional bitcoin (BTC) open interest, or the

DYDX, the native token of the newly-released dYdX chain, has risen by more than 20% in the past 24 hours, just 16 days before more than $500 million worth of tokens will be unlocked to early investors and core team members.The surge in the DYDX price comes as the project, previously just a decentralized exchange

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) was the top performing digital asset this month, with most of the gains coming in the last week and a half following its listing on EDX Markets, the crypto exchange backed by Fidelity, Charles Schwab and Citadel, that debuted June 20.The token gained 171% over the month, outperforming bitcoin (BTC), the world’s…

Oct 27, 2020 at 08:00 UTCOcean V3 Brings Wave of Data Monetization Tools to EthereumA third and all-encompassing version of Ocean Protocol has been released, fleshing out its vision for “datatokens” and decentralized data marketplaces.Announced Tuesday, Ocean v3 brings the Ocean data market proposal to life with Ethereum-based datatokens, as well as a range of…

Short traders took on the biggest single-day losses since April as over $178 million worth of bets against crypto tokens were liquidated in the past 24 hours, CoinGlass data shows.The total liquidations - including longs and shorts - exceeded $203 million, with bitcoin (BTC) futures racking up $75 million in losses followed by ether (ETH)…

Despite the big drops in cryptocurrency prices since late last year, ICO projects haven't lost money on average, according to new research from BitMEX. The research team from the cryptocurrency trading platform published the new work Monday, having teamed up with crypto data cruncher TokenAnalyst to track the ethereum (ETH) balances of 222 ICOs over time. Specifically, the…

Samson Mow is chief strategy officer at Blockstream.  This exclusive opinion piece is part of CoinDesk's "Bitcoin at 10: The Satoshi White Paper" series. It's been 10 years since Bitcoin's white paper was released, and the world has had 10 years to understand the profound impact of Bitcoin. We've also had 10 years of development…

Nasdaq is seeking approval to launch and trade bitcoin options. This follows an announcement by the New York Stock Exchange earlier this year that is was also looking to list bitcoin index options. Neither have yet received the green light from regulators. Nasdaq is seeking approval from regulators to allow the launch and trading of

Feb 7, 2020 at 11:20 UTCUpdated Feb 7, 2020 at 11:22 UTCBTC price chart (Dec. 25 2019-Feb. 7 2020)ViewBitcoin's bullish momentum is staying strong and resistance at $10,000 could soon be put to test. A break higher would expose the October high of $10,350. The hourly chart shows $9,850 has emerged as resistance in the…