Bitcoin price has been trapped in a symmetrical triangle for weeks now, bouncing back and forth between the top and bottom resistance and supports, making increasingly lower peaks and higher…
Continue ReadingAs the appeal of cryptocurrency has grown, so has the opportunity for scammers to part naive investors from their money. 2019 has been no exception, with cryptocurrency and blockchain forensics…
Continue ReadingNoelle Acheson is a veteran of company analysis and CoinDesk’s Director of Research. The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own. The following article originally appeared in Institutional Crypto by…
Continue ReadingThe U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is losing another senior level staffer. Bloomberg Law reports Friday that a number of sources have said Amir Zaidi, director of the CFTC’s Division of…
Continue ReadingAmir Zaidi, the director of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC’s) Division of Market Oversight (DMO) is rumored to be leaving the CFTC within weeks. Multiple anonymous sources…
Continue ReadingEarlier this week, United States-regulated crypto derivatives and clearing platform LedgerX was reported to launch the first physically settled Bitcoin futures contracts in the country, therefore stealing a march on…
Continue ReadingA new database called the Blockchain Litigation Database is making easier for law firms to provide legal services to crypto-sector clients concerned about compliance issues with the SEC and CFTC.…
Continue ReadingBitMEX, the second top crypto exchange by reported trading volume to date, experienced record outflows during the month of July. According to the blockchain data provider TokenAnalyst, the total outflow…
Continue ReadingA day after LedgerX announced the launch of its physically-settled Bitcoin Futures contracts; the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has denied issuing any approvals. In a statement, CFTC said…
Continue ReadingThe director of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) experimental fintech initiative will step down. According to a statement released Friday, LabCFTC’s director and chief innovation officer, Daniel Gorfine,…
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