Crypto exchange OKX will discontinue its mining pool services due to “business adjustments” reasons, according to a Jan. 26 statement. The platform said it had halted new customer registrations, effective immediately. Existing users will retain access to the platform until Feb. 25, after which all mining pool-related services will be discontinued by Feb. 26. “Due
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$1.2 million is one of the largest amounts offered in a security review competition to date

Quick Take A Sharpe Ratio for Bitcoin (BTC) +0.97  over the past five years presents a noteworthy observation, according to Jurrien Timmer, director of Global Macro at Fidelity. Despite the renowned volatility of Bitcoin, this ratio suggests that the digital asset has offered a close to even exchange between risk and excess return over the
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Former federal prosecutor James Filan recently revealed that Judge Sarah Netburn has granted a motion that Ripple recently filed with the court in its case against the SEC. This could end up being a turning point, considering that the crypto firm had noted in its motion that the “court would benefit” if it were allowed

A novel aspect of the new spot Bitcoin ETFs, as approved by the SEC, is the cash-creation mechanism for issuing and redeeming shares. The ETFs are considered commodity-shares ETFs, yet, as BlackRock points out in its iShares Bitcoin ETF (IBIT) prospectus, “all spot-market commodities other than bitcoin, such as gold and silver, employ in-kind creations
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The Bitcoin price has faced tremendous selling pressure since the SEC’s approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs. BTC has experienced…

The anticipation of the first spot Bitcoin ETFs in the U.S. fueled Bitcoin to a 21-month high of $49,000. However, the high it reached on Jan. 10 was short-lived, as the price dropped swiftly and sharply to a low of $39,450 on Jan. 21. This sharp decline, which many deemed a classic case of “buy
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The US filed a notice to sell over 2,900 bitcoin, some of which is linked to a former Secret Service agent

Some crypto market analysts have weighed in on what must happen before the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) can approve a Spot XRP ETF. Calls for this kind of investment fund have become louder since the Commission approved the Spot Bitcoin ETFs. An XRP ETF Isn’t Feasible Until This Happens Sharing his opinion with Cointelegraph,

The United States plans to sell a substantial stash of Bitcoin forfeited by a convicted Silk Road drug trafficker from Maryland.