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BTC and LTC’s Peak PayPal Volume

Although more emphatic than timely, the reaction of both Bitcoin and Litecoin markets confirm that this week ought to go down in history as one in which cryptocurrency adoption reached a major inflection point.

Ken Odeluga
Ken Odeluga

Ken Odeluga

3 mins read
Bitcoin buyers break little sweat as $12,000 breached

In fact, the breach of $12,000 itself was not accompanied by particularly remarkable volumes. These were not seen till a few hours later, when turnover accelerated to as much as five times the 90-day average as of 04:00 UTC.

Ken Odeluga
Ken Odeluga

Ken Odeluga

3 mins read
CF Benchmarks Recap - Issue 4

- New LINK-USD Benchmarks - Fidelity even more bullish Bitcoin - Stoneridge reveals 10,000 BTC custody empire

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CF Benchmarks

CF Benchmarks

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Why Bitcoin sidesteps OKEx Freeze

Both the price and volume response warrant careful scrutiny, because to be sure, there was no ‘melt-down’.

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CF Benchmarks

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It’s time for a LINK Benchmark

Guess which DeFi-linked coin is now the biggest by market capitalisation? With a full market cap of around $10.9bn, LINK wins that accolade.

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CF Benchmarks

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Square’s Bitcoin news was bigger than it looked

The importance for Bitcoin price sentiment was underscored by a spike in trading volume. The jump ought to be regarded as just as unequivocal as the price move. There was strong corroboration from CF Benchmarks’ regulated volume data.

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CF Benchmarks

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Recap: Our weekly newsletter

• FCA makes its move • Not so Square Inc., buys BTC • Why crypto shrugs off BitMEX

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CF Benchmarks

4 mins read
Why Crypto shrugs off BitMEX’s Disintegration

The charges obviously have several major implications for the cryptocurrency industry. Even so, the market reaction speaks volumes about the dwindling influence of BitMEX on the Bitcoin market.

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CF Benchmarks

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This week's Recap

News that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and federal prosecutors levelled multiple charges against the high-profile crypto and crypto-derivatives platform BitMEX, had a slight chilling effect on market prices.

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CF Benchmarks

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Goodbye to Crypto Hold-outs’ last stand

Though price-manipulation fears are among the last remaining misgivings institutional market participants have against investing in digital assets, methodologies are now available that go a long way towards neutralising those concerns

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CF Benchmarks

CF Benchmarks

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Our Weekly Crypto Recap

• Kraken becomes First Crypto Bank • DeFi still defying gravity, lifting ETH • How much Ether exists? Our take

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CF Benchmarks

4 mins read
All the Ether you can trade

What if your very existence depended on finding a practical answer to the question of how much Ether exists?

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CF Benchmarks

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