It ensures a fast, instant and simple trading process in comparison with the
other bitcoin trading platforms, since the trading is between person to person.
«Generally, bot trading can be profitable beyond a short period of time if it involves a sort of insightful arbitrage,» Petar Zivkovski, director of operations for
leveraged bitcoin trading platform Whaleclub told CoinDesk.
On Thursday, second largest
Bitcoin trading platform in China, BTCC announced that registration for new accounts for the trading platforms was stopped from that day onwards.
Market observers have been aware of the upcoming halving for years, a development recognized by Petar Zivkovski, director of operations
for bitcoin trading platform Whaleclub.
Announced this weekend, BTCC, Huobi and OKCoin - the country's
largest bitcoin trading platforms by volume - jointly revealed their intention to end their years - long practice of offering no - fee bitcoin trades, introducing a 0.2 % fixed - rate fee on all buy and sell orders for bitcoin and the alternative digital currency litecoin beginning 24th January.
Going forward, bitcoin could easily enjoy further appreciation, as data provided
by bitcoin trading platform Whaleclub indicates short interest has dwindled to practically zero while long interest has hit an all - time high.
Arthur Hayes, co-founder and CEO of leveraged
bitcoin trading platform BitMEX, stated that the digital currency's recent pullbacks in price represent a «healthy correction».
San Francisco - based Coinbase, one of the world's largest and most prominent
bitcoin trading platforms with operations in over 30 countries, is presumably feeling the stress of heightened traffic and / or trading, forcing the operator to suspend operations temporarily to undergo maintenance.
Digital payments firm Square published its first - quarter earnings report this week, providing insight into how much revenue the company has raised from its recently -
launched bitcoin trading platform.
The central bank also started investigations into the practices of
several Bitcoin trading platforms that were offering too - good - to - be-true offers, such as zero - trading fees.
At press time, at least one notable industry analyst, along with a host of exchange users are suggesting that margin trading may have once again played a factor in today's decline, as a flash crash observed on popular
bitcoin trading platform BTC - e caused the price of bitcoin on its exchange to decline sharply to a low of $ 309.
«What are commenters» views,» the SEC asks in question 11, «on how an investor may evaluate the price of the Shares in light of the risk of potential price manipulation and fraud in the
underlying bitcoin trading platforms and in light of the potentially significant spread between the price of the Bitcoin Futures Contracts and the spot price of bitcoin?»
Bitcoin's value decreased this Tuesday right after Coinbase, the
leading Bitcoin trading platform in the United States, announced that it will offer support for Bitcoin Cash.
Several analysts, including Joe Lee, founder of leveraged
bitcoin trading platform Magnr, emphasized bitcoin's role as a safe - haven asset to explain the significant volatility the cryptocurrency experienced before and after the Brexit referendum.
According to several information sources, Vinnik and his platform BTC - e were the key points through which ransomware authors cashed in their earnings and hackers laundered money stolen from other
hacked Bitcoin trading platforms.
That wariness has been shared by the governments of Egypt, Nigeria, and Tanzania, and by giant telecom operators such as Safaricom — 35 % of which is owned by the Kenyan government — which
terminated bitcoin trading platforms like Kipochi from using their dominant mobile money service M - Pesa.
Vaurum raises $ 4m in seed funding:
Bitcoin trading platform Vaurum has raised $ 4m in funding from a group of investors including former AOL CEO Steve Case and venture capitalist Tim Draper.