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Cryptocurrency Trading This Year
Not exact matches
Cryptocurrency trading saw a massive uptick in the past
year as bitcoin's price skyrocketed to new highs.
The U.S. Commodity Futures
Trading Commission (CFTC) subpoenaed
cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex, and Tether, a digital coin company at the end of last
year.
South Korea's new management - minded approach is a dramatic turnaround from its energetic regulatory crackdown on
cryptocurrency exchanges this past
year, alarmed at a heated market that saw local prices of Bitcoin and other virtual currencies in South Korea
trade for higher than international levels.
One other product launched earlier this
year was
cryptocurrency trading.
LONDON — Revenue at
trading platform Plus500 jumped 284 % in the first quarter of the
year, led by a surge in
cryptocurrency trading, the company said on Tuesday.
The
cryptocurrency is down more than 50 percent
year to date and was
trading near $ 6,850 at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday, according to CoinDesk.
Part of the reason for the lack of filings — especially for a
year that saw investor interest in
cryptocurrencies surge — is that every single
trade and purchase using
cryptocurrencies is considered a taxable event by the IRS.
Investors who sold or even
traded bitcoin last
year owe taxes since the IRS views
cryptocurrencies as property, meaning transactions are generally taxed.
Since then, the value of the
cryptocurrency has come off its all - time highs and
trades for around C$ 13,000, but remains up significantly from where it was a
year ago.
At least 3.5 million people were
trading cryptocurrency on Japan's 17 domestic exchanges as of the end of March this
year, according to Coindesk's translation of statistics from the country's Financial Services Agency (FSA).
LONDON — Online
trading platform Plus500 raised its profit forecasts for the
year on Wednesday, saying it has benefitted from the booming popularity of
cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.
Bitcoin has exploded in popularity in China over the last 3
years and now accounts for an estimated 99 % of all
trade in the
cryptocurrency.
China has boomed as a
cryptocurrency trading location in recent
years, as investors and speculators flocked to domestic exchanges that formerly allowed users to conduct
trades for free, boosting demand.
He also pledged that Chinese authorities would continue to apply pressure to the
trade of digital assets, which was significantly ratcheted up last
year with bans on token offerings, colloquially known as ICOs, and on
cryptocurrency exchanges, which had to either cease or dramatically reconfigure their operations, or move abroad.
The U.S. Commodities Futures
Trading Commission classified bitcoin as a commodity in September 2015 and this year approved the first cryptocurrency options trading, clearing and settlemen
Trading Commission classified bitcoin as a commodity in September 2015 and this
year approved the first
cryptocurrency options
trading, clearing and settlemen
trading, clearing and settlement firm.
In one of its Financial Services Policy updates, Google has decided to ban advertisements promoting
cryptocurrencies and the related content which includes initial coin offerings (ICOs),
cryptocurrency exchanges,
cryptocurrency wallets, and
cryptocurrency trading advice, starting from June this
year.
Financial services group Nordea, which banned its employees from engaging in off - the - clock
cryptocurrency trading earlier this
year, said at the time that financial institutions often «restrict the personal account dealing of staff to prevent them taking positions in speculative investments, or which might expose them to a risk of financial loss and therefore impact their financial standing.»
Charlie was a former employee of Google and he was also the director of engineering at coin base for several
years and for anybody that doesn't know what coin base is it's one of the biggest exchanges in the world for
trading fiat currencies for
cryptocurrencies.
Last
year, Chinese authorities outlawed
trading platforms which involved
cryptocurrencies.
As of now it supports only BTC / EUR
trading, but they are planning to include other
cryptocurrencies by the end of this
year.
Japan effectively legalized
cryptocurrency trade last
year.
Less than a
year old, and currently the world's largest
cryptocurrency exchange by
trade volume Binance has to date posted quarterly profits higher than that of Deutsche Bank.
Last
year, Chinese investors were at the forefront of
cryptocurrency trade and they stayed there for quite some time.
In fact, the majority of
cryptocurrencies» performance in 2017 gave indications that 2018 would indeed be a
year when digital assets will grow by heap and bounds going through waves of heightened
trade volumes and of course, mass adoption.
The latest sign that China's regulators are actively scrutinizing
cryptocurrency exchanges, the report further explained that the execution plan came into effect in September last
year when People's Bank of China (PBoC) put out its ban on initial coin offerings (ICO) and ordered closure of fiat - to - crypto
trading.
The pace at which bitcoin cash — the
cryptocurrency that forked off the main bitcoin blockchain earlier this
year — gained
trading volume was «shocking,» according to Circle's head of
trading.
About a
year ago, the Chinese
cryptocurrencies dominated the
trading volume for Bitcoin and most altcoins.
He is a
cryptocurrency enthusiast who has been
trading altcoins for several
years.
The Ether
cryptocurrency based on the Ethereum blockchain has risen sharply since it first went live on 30th July 2015
trading at just # 2.15 to # 214.99 in 1st July 2017 representing a 9899 % rise in 2
years.
Derivatives
trading platform provider Plus500 posted a 284 % increase in revenues in the first quarter of this
year compared to the previous
year, largely due to high levels of interest in its
cryptocurrency CFDs offerings.
This could be the
year cryptocurrency trading gains momentum within financial firms, including hedge funds and
trading desks at Wall Street's biggest banks, according...
In their view, only a private, permissioned blockchain could satisfy this requirement.Going GlobalBitFlyer's CEO Yuzo Kano has said he wants the company to go global in the near future and will start by expanding to the U.S. market this fall, initially offering bitcoin
trading but expanding to other
cryptocurrencies within the next
year.
The New
Year has started with a bang for
cryptocurrencies as most of them are posting gains again on day three of 2018 during the Asian
trading session.
«The very strong start to the
year resulted from a period of relatively volatile markets and high levels of interest in the company's
cryptocurrency CFDs offering, and in turn encouraged high levels of new customer sign ups and record
trading in Q1 2018.»
According to a recent survey conducted by Thompson Reuters, one in five traditional financiers is considering
cryptocurrency trading as early as this
year.
Two best mates who began
trading in
cryptocurrency just a few months ago say they will be millionaires before the end of the
year, having started out with
We'll see more and more women
trading stocks, futures,
cryptocurrencies, etc. in the
years ahead.
If you
trade the
cryptocurrency within a
year of first purchasing it, you have to pay short - term capital gains.
The value of the
cryptocurrency has since come off its all - time highs and
trades for around C$ 13,000, but remains up significantly from where it was a
year ago.
In a breakout
year for
cryptocurrency trading, the biggest winners were Ripple, which is touted -LSB-...]»
In May, he set out a 10 -
year forecast for bitcoin hitting a whopping $ 100,000, based on
cryptocurrencies capturing 10 % of all currency
trading volume within a decade.
Last
year in July, Coindash - an Israeli
cryptocurrency trading platform - was preparing to launch its initial coin offering (ICO), but in the earliest stages of the sale,...
Last
year in July, Coindash - an Israeli
cryptocurrency trading platform - was preparing to launch its initial coin offering (ICO), but in the earliest stages of the sale, a hacker seized the company's website and stole more than 43,000 ether tokens.
After the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) circulated a number of warnings to investors about the «risks» of Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) in 2017, the SEC and the US Commodity Futures
Trading Commission (CFTC) held a joint hearing on
cryptocurrencies on Feb. 6 of this
year.
It appears that more and more traders are jumping onto the
cryptocurrency bandwagon, as is evident by the CME Group announcing that they were launching Bitcoin futures
trading by the end of the
year.
The Reserve Bank of India, the country's central bank, has all but banned
cryptocurrency trading nationwide, with the release of its first monetary policy for the financial
year.
When China closed its local
cryptocurrency exchanges late last
year, an underground ecosystem of bitcoin «mules» and peer - to - peer platforms sprung up to allow bitcoin
trading to thrive, away from regulators» watchful eyes.
In just a taste of what's to come: After a two -
year battle with the IRS, Coinbase, one of the largest
cryptocurrency exchanges, recently turned over information about 13,000 customers who had
traded more than $ 20,000 worth over a two -
year period.