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Crypto Retail Demand Improving, JPMorgan Says – Coast Is Clear?

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Analysts at JPMorgan now assert that optimism among individual investors in cryptocurrencies is on the rise, with a brighter market forecast following extreme downturns.

JPMorgan revealed in a research released on Friday that it expects retail demand for cryptocurrencies to increase. The bank added that the severe phase of deleveraging brought on by falling digital currency prices and deleveraging by prominent lenders is also coming to an end.

Following months of prolonged dips, the global market capitalization for cryptocurrencies has surpassed $ 1 trillion, with small advances. Consequently, investors are closely monitoring the market for the next price movement.  Read more...

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Bitcoin Cash Multi-Party Escrow, Retail Adoption, and Upgrade Discussions

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Bitcoin Cash Multi-Party Escrow, Retail Adoption, and Upgrade Discussions

Another week has passed for the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) community and as usual, there’s been a bunch of announcements and developments. BCH supporters this week saw the release of a multi-party onchain escrow system, Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin discussed using the BCH chain as a data layer, and more BCH-accepting merchants were onboarded.

Also Read: Crypto Terminals Offer Venezuelans a Bridge to Economic Prosperity  Read more...

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Binance Whale Sells 6,500 Bitcoin (BTC) in Retail Trading

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Bitcoin (BTC) has seen a notable increase in price over the course of the last week, jumping from lows of $ 9,700 to roughly $ 13,000. This price boost was so attractive that an anonymous individual or entity deemed it fit to exit some or all of their BTC position on the open market. The trade occurred […]
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LedgerX Gains U.S. Regulatory Approval for Retail Bitcoin (BTC) Derivative Trading

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LedgerX, the first CFTC-regulated cryptocurrency asset management platform to offer physically-settled Bitcoin (BTC) derivatives, has obtained regulatory approval as a designated contract market. #Bitcoin derivatives trading for everyone is finally here! The CFTC has officially approved our DCM application! https://t.co/D8ZkhdQWc2 — LedgerX (@ledgerx) June 25, 2019 According to the recent announcement, LedgerX will soon begin […]
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Ledgerx Approved to Offer Regulated Bitcoin Derivatives to Retail Investors

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Ledgerx Approved to Offer Regulated Bitcoin Derivatives to Retail Investors

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has approved Ledgerx to offer physically-settled bitcoin spot and derivatives trading, previously available only to institutional investors, to retail investors of any size. Ledgerx explained that its new platform will share the same order book as the current institutional offering so plenty of liquidity is expected from day one.

Also read: Indian Cryptocurrency Regulation Is Ready, Official Confirms

New License From CFTC

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced Tuesday that it has approved the application of Ledgerx as a Designated Contract Market (DCM), effective Monday. The New York-based subsidiary of Ledger Holdings Inc. subsequently announced:  Read more...

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Italian Retail Deposits Reach All-Time Highs and is Screaming for Bitcoin

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By CCN Markets: The Italian government is reportedly trying to be lenient on some forms of hard-to-tax savings, such as that held in safe deposit boxes. Bitcoin could be a viable investment for these retail investors. The reality is that no government can track every dollar – unless they have something like a blockchain to help them. This reality is part of the reason people believe the dawn of cryptocurrency may come at the hands of certain governments, intent on having a traceable monetary supply. For now, governments mostly benefit from there being an unknown amount of counterfeit fiat currency  Read more...

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Coinbase Lists EOS (EOS) on Its Retail Platform

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San Francisco-based crypto exchange Coinbase announced Thursday that it has officially listed EOS (EOS) on its retail trading platform. EOS is launching at https://t.co/iQARfi557o and in the iOS and Android apps within the next 15 minutes. You may need to update your app to properly buy, sell, convert, send, receive, or store EOS. We will update when […]
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Coinbase Adds Support for Dai (DAI) on Its Retail Platform

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San Francisco-based crypto exchange Coinbase announced Thursday that it has officially listed Maker’s (MKR) stablecoin Dai (DAI) on its retail trading platform. DAI is launching at https://t.co/iQARfimGvY and in the iOS and Android apps within the next 15 minutes. You may need to update your app to properly buy, sell, convert, send, receive, or store DAI. We […]
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Watching the Pennies Excessively? Pound Falls from Two-Month High as UK Retail Sales Disappoint

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The British pound fell from its two-month high early Friday as fears of a no-deal exit from the European Union rescinded. After hitting the $ 1.3000 mark on Thursday, the sterling pound is now trading around the $ 1.2940 level. While the sterling had hovered above the $ 1.2965 mark since the New York close, the decline accelerated

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Fortnite’s Retail Store Removes Monero (XMR), CEO Calls Its Inclusion “Accidental”

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Last week, we first reported that Epic Games’ official Fortnite merchandise store, Retail Row, was exclusively accepting Monero (XMR) as a payment option through GloBee, a global cryptocurrency payment provider which enables merchants to accept cryptocurrencies without risk. While we found the inclusion of a cryptocurrency payment option and the exclusivity of Monero intriguing, we noted that no […]
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Full Crypto: Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne Selling Retail Business to Focus on Blockchain

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Overstock’s highly-touted tZero project has been something of a money pit for the company, costing nearly $ 170 million in overall development costs with no live product yet available. Medici Ventures, Overstock’s blockchain investment arm, has acquired additional subsidiaries on the order of several more millions of dollars in an effort to expand its crypto portfolio. The

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Do Wages Need to be Paid in Bitcoin for Retail Adoption to Happen?

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Do Wages Need to be Paid in Bitcoin for Retailer Adoption to Happen?

Is this a case of chicken and egg? If more retailers accepted Bitcoin, would more employees expect their wages paid in Bitcoin? Or, does Bitcoin need to be viewed more widely as a replacement for fiat first?

A recent tweet by Francis Pouliot, CEO of Canadian Bitcoin (BTC) 00 payments startup Bylls began a discussion as to whether retailer adoption of Bitcoin payments is being stalled by the lack of wages paid in Bitcoin.

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0x (ZRX) Is Now Available to Retail Investors on the Coinbase App

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Five days after unveiling the listing of 0x (ZRX) on its Pro trading platform, Coinbase has announced that ZRX is now available to all retail investors on Coinbase.com and the exchange’s iOS and Android apps. According to the announcement, 0x is now available to buy, sell, send, receive and store on the Coinbase retail app. This marks […]
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Coinbase Ditches Its Index Fund in Favor of a New Retail Feature

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Coinbase – one of the largest digital currency exchanges in the U.S. – is nixing its index fund designed for accredited investors and shifting its focus to a new retail product, The Block reports

Coinbase is shutting down its fund aimed at big investors as it pivots to a new retail product

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Coinbase first announced its fund back in March of 2018. The project was designed to give institutional investors easy access to the digital currency market by offering them an index that represents a basket of Coinbase’s listed assets. During this time, Coinbase representatives stated that they were “seeing strong demand from institutional and high net worth individuals.”  Read more...

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Coinbase Shuts Down Its Index Fund in Favor of Retail Offerings

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San Francisco-based Coinbase is reportedly planning to shut down its index trading product targeting accredited investors after user-demand failed to reach expectations. According to a recent report by The Block that cites insiders familiar with the matter, Coinbase has made the decision to forego its market-cap-weighted index fund after raising less than the firm expected. [Read: Coinbase […]
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Institutions More Bullish on Bitcoin than Retail Investors: Fundstrat

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There’s a general perception that retail investors are susceptible to rosy-eyed forecasts about the future of bitcoin, while institutions are more clear-headed about the prospects of this nascent asset class. However, a new survey conducted by Wall Street strategy firm Fundstrat suggests that once institutional investors are interested in bitcoin, they become even more bullish

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