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The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group) will increase its monthly limit on open positions to 10,000 BTC or 2,000 contracts. Increased spot-month position limits in CME Bitcoin futures will be available Sept 30, pending reg review. Limits will increase to 2K contracts, equal to 10K bitcoin, to provide customers greater flexibility to trade and hedge bitcoin […]

Representatives of the Bakkt platform have confirmed that they will start accepting bitcoin deposits on Friday, September 6. Today our Warehouse opens for customer bitcoin deposits and withdrawals as we prepare for the Bakkt Bitcoin Daily & Monthly Futures, launching September 23 The availability of physical delivery brings more flexibility in managing bitcoin exposure – Bakkt (@Bakkt) September 6, 2019 Launch [… ]

The Bakkt cryptocurrency platform from Intercontinental Exchange Corporation (ICE) has announced that as early as September 6, customers awaiting the launch of trading in Bitcoin deliverable futures will be able to make deposits. On Sept 6, our Warehouse will begin offering secure storage of customer bitcoin to prepare for the launch of Bakkt Bitcoin Daily & Monthly Futures when they launch on Sept […]

The operator of the largest BitMEX derivatives exchange, BitMEX, HDR Global Trading Limited, announced the limitation of services in three new jurisdictions. According to a statement on the exchange’s website, from today “to ensure the safety of user funds”, BitMEX services are not available in the Seychelles, Bermuda and Hong Kong. It is noteworthy that HDR Global Trading Limited is registered in the Seychelles, in […]

The full-scale launch of the Bakkt platform daily and monthly delivery Bitcoin futures trading from the Intercontinental Exchange Corporation (ICE) will be held on September 23. According to Kelly Loeffler, CEO of Bakkt, the United States Derivatives Exchange Commission (CFTC) “gave the green light to contracts” through a self-certification process. We have some news https://t.co/ykUvQ31cGz – Bakkt (@Bakkt) August 16, 2019 At the same time, Bakkt Trust […]

The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), which is a self-regulatory organization, has notified HDR Global Trading Ltd (BitMEX operator) that the first cryptocurrency ad, posted on January 3 of this year in The Times, is misleading , and also contains exaggerations. So, the ASA emphasized that on the logarithmic graph of Bitcoin prices published in […]