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Cboe Global Markets Reports Surge in Options ADV during Q1 2021

April 7, 2021

Cboe, a leading market operator and trading solutions provider, yesterday announced its trading volume for March and Q1 of 2021. Options ADV jumped 18.2% during the first three months of 2021, compared to the...

CFTC Orders Binary Options Fraud to Pay $1 Million

April 7, 2021

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has settled charges with Glenn Olson for his role in binary options fraud and ordered him to pay over a million dollars, combining the disgorgement of the ill-...

Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary Won’t Buy Bitcoin Mined in China

April 6, 2021

Celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary (aka “Mr. Wonderful”) says he will only buy Bitcoin mined sustainably in countries that use clean energy. Speaking in an interview with CNBC, O’Leary said he would not buy “b...

$XRP Price Going Parabolic, Breaks $1 for First Time Since 5 March 2018

April 6, 2021

At 08:55 UTC on Tuesday (April 6), on crypto exchange Bitstamp, the XRP price reached an intraday high of $1.01307. This is the highest price XRP has seen in 1,128 days. According to data by TradingView, cur...

Tether Is Planning to Launch New Version of USDT on Polkadot and Kusama

April 6, 2021

On Tuesday (April 6), Tether Operations Limited (“Tether”), the company that issues the largest stablecoin by market capitalization, announced that it is planning to launch Tether tokens (“USDt”) on the Polka...

CryptoQuant CEO Says “Don’t Worry”, “$BTC Fundamentals Still Look Good”

April 5, 2021

On Sunday (March 4), Ki Young Ju, the CEO of South Korean blockchain analytics startup CryptoQuant, talked about the increasing “Kimchi premium” and why this does not mean that the Bitcoin price is about to c...

“U.S. Isn’t Going To Ban Bitcoin,” Says Renowned Financial Historian Niall Ferguson

April 5, 2021

Recently, renowned financial historian Dr. Niall Ferguson wrote about Bitcoin as part of an article about the future of money. According to the bio on his website, Ferguson is currently the Milbank Family Se...

XRP Price Reaches the Highest Level in 3 Years

April 5, 2021

XRP price touched $0.75 on Monday after the digital currency jumped approximately 20% in the last 24 hours. XRP has now reached its highest level since May 2018. The price of the cryptocurrency received a push ...

Binance Coin Crosses $50 Billion Market Cap

April 5, 2021

Binance Coin (BNB) became the third digital currency in the world to reach a market cap of $50 billion after BNB jumped nearly 25% in the last 7 days. As of writing, BNB is trading near $350 with a market cap o...

Billionaire Mark Cuban Has ‘A Lot of Ethereum’, Wishes He ‘Had Bought It Sooner’

April 2, 2021

In a recent interview, billionaire investor and entrepreneur Mark Cuban explains why he owns both Bitcoin and Ethereum. Cuban is the majority owner of the professional basketball team Dallas Mavericks, as we...