When demand from these two sources alone exceeds the entire supply of newly minted bitcoins, expect serious supply pressure to follow.
Quick Take
- The Bitcoin community has expressed broad support for Taproot, a planned privacy-oriented upgrade to the protocol.
- But the community still lacks a detailed activation plan for Taproot.
As central banks everywhere gear up to launch digital currencies, it’s time to consider the possible downsides.
The newly launched GnosisDAO will allow Gnosis users to vote on platform governance and development.
Options on BTC and ETH have drawn renewed interest, market data shows.
The post Aggregated open interest on Bitcoin, Ethereum options hit all-time highs this weekend appeared first on The Block.
The U.S. government uses USDC to bypass Venezuelan blockades. Chainalaysis eyes a $100 million raise. BTC is less volatile than 22% of S&P500 stocks, VanEck finds.
It looks like investors are dropping gold ETFs, according to a new analysis out of JPM.
The post JPMorgan reports ‘modest outflows’ for gold funds as more than $1 billion poured into Grayscale in Q3 appeared first on The Block.
Bitcoin prices are near all-time high, while its one-month implied volatility metric has jumped to four-month highs.
Decentralizing the financial sector and putting trust in distributed ledgers means less reliance on the continent’s corrupt intermediaries.
Quick Take
- Institutional spot exchange LMAX Digital is seeing record volumes as interest soars
- LMAX Digital has the second-highest monthly volume of all exchanges that support fiat currencies
- Its average trade size is more than three times higher than the trailing Bitstamp
