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The United States Marshals Service has issued an auction notice for $4.3 million worth of Bitcoin. The auction will take place on November 5, 2018. The notice also sets out the instructions and requirements for participation in the tender.
Tether (USDT), the world's best-known stablecoin, broke its peg against the dollar in reverse, falling to an 18-month low and halving trading volumes.
Investment bank Goldman Sachs and Bitcoin bull Mike Novogratz have invested $15 million in BitGo Holdings Inc., which will provide a secure asset custody facility for institutional investors and wealthy clients. The company considers its $1 trillion BitGo crypto wallet to be such a tool.
The absence of impulse movement does not yet confirm the forecast of an upcoming price decline
Despite the approaching 10-year anniversary of cryptocurrency, skeptics have not yet exhausted their argument that this technology is nothing more than a digital money laundering tool. In an attempt to refute unfair accusations, the Binance exchange has joined the Chainalysis cryptocurrency study in order to preserve its transcontinental ecosystem.
Texas finance professor John Griffin and his colleague Amin Shams published a study claiming that once the price of Bitcoin fell to a certain level, some traders would buy up the sagging asset through the Tether stablecoin, bringing the price back to its previous level.
Forecasts for price reductions remain valid for now. We believe that on the eve of the impulse the market will be in a fever and the pairs’ maneuvers will contain deceptive movements
When trading digital assets, speed is of the essence. Executing orders a fraction of a second ahead of the market makes a significant difference between profit and loss. It is not surprising that the cryptocurrency platform Deribit decided to analyze the speed of closing orders, since it showed the best results. In addition to Deribit, the analysis included exchanges Bitfinex, Binance, Coinbase, Bitmex and Okex.
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