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Feb 25, 2020

Announcement of the Removal of Bitfinex as a Constituent Exchange to the CF Ripple-Bitcoin Settlement Price and CF Ripple-Bitcoin Spot Rate

The Administrator shall implement the removal of Bitfinex as a constituent exchange to the CF Ripple-Bitcoin Settlement Price and the CF Ripple-Bitcoin Spot Rate on July 2nd 2019 at around 1630 LDN time.  This means from that time Bitfinex will no longer contribute to the CF Bitcoin-Ripple Spot Rate and also means that the calculation of the CF Ripple-Bitcoin Settlement Price for July 3rd 2019 onwards will not include any transactions from Bitfinex.


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