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After Sudden 8% Drop, Bitcoin Bulls Must Defend Price Support at $8,460

Bitcoin's dramatic overnight fall from $9,200 is telling a tale of buyer exhaustion.

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Markets

Bitcoin Falls Back After Briefly Breaking $9k Resistance

Bitcoin's bulls have failed to make a solid move above $9,000, having briefly topped the psychological resistance level earlier on Friday.

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Markets

Deribit Using New Trading Tools to Capture 'Exploding' Options Market

Global provider of professional trading software Trading Technologies announced Wednesday it would provide connectivity to leading derivatives exchange, Deribit

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Bull Breather? Bitcoin Market Turns Indecisive at Two-Month High

Bitcoin's bulls are showing signs of exhaustion, having engineered a speedy rally to $8,900.

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Tech

JPMorgan Veterans' Kadena Launches Public Blockchain, Integrates Wallet to Cosmos Network

Kadena, a startup spun out of JPMorgan’s blockchain center, has taken a step toward its vision of creating interoperable, scalable public blockchains with a full launch Wednesday.

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Bitcoin Eyes $9K After Biggest Single-Day Rise in a Month

Tuesday's sharp rise looks to have put bitcoin on path toward the 200-day average at $9,100.

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Policy

Ahead of Davos, What Can Cash Teach Us About Crypto?

"I have long held that, were cash invented today, it would be dismissed by policymakers, bankers and law enforcement as dystopian, absurd and dangerous."

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Markets

CME's Bitcoin Options See First-Day Volume of $2.3M

Options on bitcoin futures from Chicago Mercantile Exchange got off to a good start on Monday, seeing trading volume reach 55 contracts in the opening session.

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Markets

Resurgent Bitcoin Will Likely Shrug Off Long-Term Bear Cross

A bitcoin chart indicator is about to turn bearish for the first time since June 2018, but should have little effect on prices.

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Markets

Bitcoin Price Rallies 3.7 Percent to Hit Two-Month High

The price of bitcoin (BTC) has risen once again after a successful launch of CME’s bitcoin options.

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