Futures
Bitcoin Futures Are Here: The Story So Far
The week ahead will give better future indication of Bitcoin derivatives products as yesterday at 6 p.m. EST, the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE)...
Regulators Greenlight Bitcoin Futures
Bitcoin futures contracts to be offered by CME Group Inc. and Cboe Futures Exchange to mainstream investors.CME Group, the world’s largest futures exchange, has...
Bitcoin Transactions and American Taxation: An Interview With Daniel Winters
The rise of bitcoin and other forms of digital currency is fueling a wealth of questions about tax enforcement: what sort of tax treatment...
Coinpit Takes First Steps Toward Trustless Bitcoin Futures Exchange
Coinpit is taking significant and innovative steps to offer a safer alternative to Bitcoin’s custodial futures exchanges. Thanks to Bitcoin’s multi-signature technology, users that...
Straits Financial Enables Bitcoin Payments for Futures Trading
Straits Financial now allows bitcoin holders to gain quick access to their futures trading platform. The ability to accept bitcoin payments was made possible by...
CFTC Appoints Bitcoin Expert, First 2016 Meeting Will Have Blockchain Focus
Every financial regulatory body around the world seems to be trying to wrap their heads around Bitcoin and its underlying blockchain technology these days,...
Bitcoin According to Regulators: Money, Currency, Property and Now a Commodity
Bitcoin is now officially a commodity according to U.S. regulators, Bloomberg Businessreports. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced on Thursday that it had filed and settled...
Blockchain Prediction Market Augur Elected as a ‘Breakthrough’ Finalist at Exponential Finance 2015
Augur, a fully-decentralized, open-source prediction market platform based on blockchain technology, intended to revolutionize forecasting, decision-making and the manner in which information consensus is...
Former Goldman Sachs Director Launches Bitcoin Derivatives Brokerage Crypto Facilities
Crypto Facilities Ltd., a London-based broker founded by former Goldman Sachs Executive Director Timo Schlaefer, has announced the launch of its bitcoin derivatives trading...
Markets, Institutions and Currencies – A New Method of Social Incentivization
Up until this point the problem of incentivizing productive activity has essentially been dominated by two major categories of solutions: markets and institutions. Markets,...
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