Sentences with phrase «version of bitcoin futures»
Bitcoin achieved a huge milestone Monday as the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) officially launched its own version of the bitcoin futures contract.
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The launch of Bitcoin futures at CBOE is set to be followed by its cross-town rival, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group, which plans to launch its own version of Bitcoin futures trading on December 18.
But if you thought that the launch of Bitcoin futures trading ended with CBOE then wait till 18th December when CME also launches its very own version of Bitcoin futures trading over its derivative platform.
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The implementation of this protocol by more exchanges and its future versions may reduce Bitcoin's transaction fees with more than 80 %.
So if required and if technically feasible, we will be able to support both versions of bitcoin in future.
Indeed, for now, certain futures markets are predicting the price of the original bitcoin will be significantly higher post-split than the big block version (it's unclear how reliable these are).
If these kind of activities take place regularly, we may see more hard forks of Bitcoin in coming future resulting into many versions of Bitcoin.
Future versions of bitcoin (should bitcoin remain whole after the fork) and a new Segwit2x bitcoin (should the hard fork create a new coin) are trading on a handful of exchanges.
Update, October 29th: It was pointed out to us that according to the FAQ concerning this futures market, BTCC will after the fork «consider the version of bitcoin that has the most proof - of - work behind it as bitcoin (BTC)».
For the longer term, Bitmain lays out a «future roadmap» that includes a version of Segregated Witness, Extension Blocks, Bitcoin NG, Lumino, Schnorr signatures, Weak Blocks, and Bitcoin Unlimited - inspired base block size increases up to almost 17 megabytes in two years.
The implementation of this protocol by more exchanges and its future versions may reduce Bitcoin's transaction fees with more than 80 %.
The restoration of these opcodes will reopen the door to future developments such as Colored Coins — Bitcoin's version of ERC20 tokens — and binary contracts.
If more exchanges continue to accept forked version of Bitcoin along with the original version, it could revive confusion and incompatibility troubles in the future.