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• FCA makes its move • Not so Square Inc., buys BTC • Why crypto shrugs off BitMEX
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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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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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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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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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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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An early look at the CF Benchmarks weekly newsletter
Look out for our newsletter each week for updates on our indices and other products, plus news and thoughtful views about the markets we list.
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Crypto Market-Cap Concerns solved - ‘FUD’ not so much
The chief concern for the institutional market segment is that the task of replicating an asset class becomes more difficult following actual or even just perceived liquidity changes
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Crypto Busts Highlight Fake Price Risks
With recent reminders that the crypto market boom can all too easily be followed by busts of one kind or another, the need for rock solid price data of the standard set by CF Benchmarks is only set to increase.
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Implementation Change to the Potentially Erroneous Data Parameter for all CF Spot Rates
The Administrator announces a change to the implementation of the Potentially Erroneous Data Parameter as described in section 5.3 of the CF Spot Rate Methodology Guide that will become effective September 14th c. 1630 London time. Exclusion of a constituent exchange orderbook from the calculation continues to be triggered by it exhibiting a mid-price that is deviated from the other valid exchanges by a percentage that exceeds the Potentially Erroneous Data Parameter. However, from this time on
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Implementation Change to the Potentially Erroneous Data Parameter for all CME CF Real Time Indices
The Administrator announces a change to the implementation of the Potentially Erroneous Data Parameter as described in section 5.3 of the CME CF Real Time Indices Methodology Guide that will become effective September 14th c. 1630 London time. Exclusion of a constituent exchange orderbook from the calculation continues to be triggered by it exhibiting a mid-price that is deviated from the other valid exchanges by a percentage that exceeds the Potentially Erroneous Data Parameter. However, from
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How BlockFi beats the great crypto pricing conundrum
One of the crypto world’s greatest (and oldest) conundrums: how to establish the price of an asset, like Bitcoin, at any given time
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