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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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Recap: Our weekly newsletter

• 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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