Bitcoin In 2018: Can Futures, Mainstream Investors Tame The Hysteria? Bitcoin began 2017 trading under $1,000. Then it got much bigger. Investors big and small arrived, sometimes bailed hard — as they did on Friday — then arrived some more. Concerns were raised that Bitcoin barely qualified as money. Concerns were raised that its immense … Read more
Bitcoin is a ‘dicey investment’ — why one veteran gold analyst predicts it could burn a lot of investors: There are dangers lurking in the cryptocurrency market that could burn a lot of investors, according to Michael Dudas, a veteran gold analyst. Dudas, a partner at Vertical Research, refers to the emerging asset class as … Read more
Indian Police Forces Break up Gang Preying on Bitcoin Investors: The incredible bitcoin price rally this year has attracted a lot of new people to the cryptocurrency world, many of them just looking to make a quick buck without understanding too much what they are getting into. Naturally, this kind of situation attracts criminals that … Read more
Bitcoin fever is drawing investors into the stock market, Laszlo Birinyi says: The stock market may be catching a bit of crypto fever. “Bitcoin has woken up a lot of people,” said Laszlo Birinyi, the stock guru and founder of Birinyi Associates. The cryptocurrency phenomena have more investors watching screens, where they track bitcoin but … Read more
CFTC Launches Online Resources for Bitcoin Investors: The top derivatives regulator in the U.S. has created a new information portal for cryptocurrencies, a move that came just days ahead of a major bitcoin futures launch. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) unveiled its new cryptocurrency resource website, which is aimed at educating the public … Read more
Japanese Investors Increasingly Switching From Traditional FX Trading to Bitcoin: Report reaching us has it that a growing number of Japanese retail investors are switching from leveraged FX trading to leveraged cryptocurrency trading, thus driving the crypto market, according to a recent Deutsche Bank’s research. Operators of Japan’s largest FX platforms are launching their own crypto … Read more