- CME trades 54 Options on Bitcoin Futures contracts in debut(news)
(bloomberg.com) - Chinese telecom giant preps for 5G era with plans to utilize blockchain(news)
(it.chinanews.com) - Japan crypto exchanges face margin trading limit dropping from 4x to 2x of deposits held(news)(japantimes.co.jp)
- JPMorgan strategist sees “strong activity" and "high anticipation” of CME’s Jan. 13th Bitcoin options launch(news)(opinion)(bloombergquint.com)
- European crypto firms brace for higher costs as new Euro AML law is officially enforced today(news)(eur-lex.europa.eu)
- Cobinhood altcoin exchange shuts down "for audit"(news)(twitter.com)
- Deribit exchange moves from Amsterdam to Panama citing regulatory concerns(news)(blog.deribit.com)
- China's new encryption law defines state, business, & private password use(news)(chinamoneynetwork.com)
- Canadian BTC miner DMG installs 1,000 new machines for US based client(news)(globenewswire.com)
- Bitcoin's Taproot/Schnorr upgrade proposal is almost ready, it's now in the developer feedback phase(news)(lists.linuxfoundation.org)
- Trend Micro assists Interpol to remove malware from MicroTik routers(news)(blog.trendmicro.com)
- Bloomberg analyst report: BTC winning adoption race due to limited supply & increasing demand for store of value(opinion)(data.bloomberglp.com)
- Russian nuclear plant sells electricity to Bitcoin miners(news)(coindesk.com)
- Swiss Bitcoin broker - Bitcoin Suisse - plans IPO & expansion(news)(finews.com)
- Two Japanese mega-firms sign deal to build world’s largest Bitcoin mining facility in Texas(news)(bnnbloomberg.ca)
- South Korean presidential committee recommends allowing Bitcoin derivatives(news)(businesskorea.co.kr)
- Qatar bans crypto, local BTC nodes still operational(news)(internationalinvestment.net)
- Bitcoin’s 2019 USD transaction volume ($3.8T) nearly surpassed the entire internet’s USD digital tx vol. ($4.1T)(opinion)(news)(statista.com)
- Bitcoin hash rate hits ATH, now 8x higher than $20,000 price top(opinion)(news)(blockchain.com)
- Poloniex denies suffering a data leak after resetting some users’ passwords(news)(infosecurity-magazine.com)
- Venezuela to sell oil and gold for petro(news)(opinion)(elnacional.com)
- Former head of Barclays Technology launching crypto/fiat banking w/mastercard, for UK only(opinion)(news)(ziglu.io)
- Bitcoin miner Argo installs 3,600 new Bitmain machines, increasing its capacity by 75%(news)(londonstockexchange.com)