Singapore’s main derivatives exchange will introduce two new cryptocurrency futures products this month, citing rising institutional interest in digital assets. SGX Derivatives is launching Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) perpetual futures, which are financial derivatives contracts enabling investors to bet on the spot price of the underlying asset without an expiration date. In a Monday…
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Bitcoin (BTC) starts a new week with the bull market at stake as BTC price predictions diverge wildly. Bitcoin traders are stuck between hope and capitulation as BTC/USD returns to its yearly open level. Price eyes a key “magnet” in the form of an old CME futures gap left over from April. The loss of…
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Bitcoin’s total circulating supply has just crossed 95% of its 21 million hard supply cap — a massive milestone baked in nearly 17 years ago when creator Satoshi Nakamoto mined the genesis block on Jan. 3, 2009. With 19.95 million Bitcoin now in circulation, this leaves just 2.05 million Bitcoin to be mined. The question…
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Adam Back, the cryptographer and cypherpunk cited in the Bitcoin white paper, said Bitcoin is unlikely to face a meaningful threat from quantum computing for at least two to four decades. Responding to an X user on Nov. 15 who asked whether Bitcoin (BTC) is at risk, Back wrote that “probably not for 20–40 years,”…
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US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) closed a third straight week in the red, deepening concerns that one of Bitcoin’s biggest institutional demand engines is stalling. Spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs saw $1.1 billion in net negative outflows during the past trading week, marking their fourth-largest week of outflows on record, according to Farside Investors data.…
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The lawyer for Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao has denied that he somehow paid for a pardon from US President Donald Trump. Appearing on Anthony Pompliano’s “Pomp Podcast” on Friday, CZ’s personal attorney Teresa Goody Guillén described the criticism around CZ’s pardoning as a “pile up of a lot of false statements.” “The media continues…
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The majority of institutional Bitcoin investors don’t seem to know or care about the Bitcoin Core vs Knots debate that has been raging on for the past few months, according to Galaxy Digital’s head of research, Alex Thorn. The debate centers on arguments about what Bitcoin (BTC) should be used for and whether non-financial transactions…
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Bitcoin may not be as resilient to network attacks as most think, according to Bitcoin pioneer Nick Szabo, who argues that while Bitcoin is a trust-minimized network, it isn’t entirely trustless and can still be “attacked” by nation-states and corporations. In a post to X on Sunday, Szabo explained that every cryptocurrency and layer 1…
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Crypto executives speculate that outflows from crypto exchange-traded funds, long-term whale sales and escalating geopolitical tensions may be to blame for the recent market slump, as Bitcoin dropped to nearly $93,000 on Sunday. Bitcoin briefly fell to a year-to-date low of $93,029 on Sunday. The overall market capitalization has also seen a pullback in the…
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Harvard University boosted its investment in BlackRock’s Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) by over 250% in the third quarter after the Ivy League school first bought into the fund earlier this year. Harvard Management Company, the business that manages the university’s $57 billion endowment fund, reported in a regulatory filing on Friday that it held over…
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