The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) on Monday January 13 opened trading in options issued on the basis of bitcoin futures. Over the first day, their trading volumes exceeded $ 2 million. Thus, the Chicago Exchange surpassed the Bakkt platform, which launched a similar product last year, but was able to earn the first million in just a month. Against the background of this news, the Bitcoin exchange rate rose by 5%: today it is trading at $ 8500.
The New York Court has supported the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in its request to Telegram to provide all financial documents containing information about investors of the Gram cryptocurrency. Data must be transferred to the regulator by February 26th.
For 2019, cryptocurrency companies paid $ 968,000 to white hackers for searching and detecting vulnerabilities in their projects. All of them were users of the HackerOne platform.
Coinbase agreed to pay $ 962,500 to customers at Cryptsy, which closed in 2016. They filed a class action lawsuit against Coinbase on charges of inaction when through it the owner of Cryptsy laundered funds stolen from users.
Heath Tarbert, head of the United States Derivatives Exchange Commission (CFTC) on Cheddar's business channel, said that the XRP cryptocurrency belongs to the security class.
Entrepreneur Igor Ashmanov commented on the assumption made yesterday by the owner of the MoneyPolo payment system, Sergey Mayzus, about the connection of the WEX exchange with Neklis-Bank, owned by Natalya Kasperskaya. He called Maisus a “cryptocurrency” trying to get his head out of WEX history.
TRON creator Justin Sun has expressed his willingness to pay for the Internet troll TRX promotion. He offered Bitcoin enthusiast Udi Wertheimer 1 million TRX for such an activity.
Senegal’s authorities have approved the intention of rapper Akon (Aliam Damal Badar Akon Tiam) to build the Akon City cryptocurrency town on the territory of the country. All calculations in it will be made in digital currencies.