Timothy Massad Says CFTC Has Legal Supervision on Bitcoin In a testimony before the US Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry the chairman of the US derivatives regulator has said that digital currency derivatives fall within his agency’s remit. The testimony from Timothy Massad, who chairs the Commodity Futures Trading ...
Brent prices rose on Tuesday after five consecutive days of losses and a five-year low. US crude rose with players seeking a sustainable oil price in the market that is being haunted by concerns of oversupply. Light, sweet crude futures for January delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange climbed 1.2% or 77 cents to $63.82 per barrel. On London’s ICE Futures exchange, January Brent crude climbed 1% or 65 cents ending ...
Peter Chasse, President of the Water Project Says Bitcoin Donations Could be Game-Changer In a recently held ‘Giving Tuesday’, Peter Chasse, President and Founder of the Water Project, a nonprofit that does work in Africa and accepts Bitcoin for donations, says that Bitcoin could be game-changer. His opinion is adding ...
Jonah Dorman Joins GAW Miners as GM and VP of the Company Jonah Dorman, a former military intelligence veteran, has joined GAW Miners, one of the world’s foremost Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturers and digital cloud mining providers. Bitcoin is not new for him as he has been following the world of Bitcoin since its inception ...
US stocks dropped on Friday putting the S&P 500 on track to snap the seven weeks of gains with oil prices dropping to fresh lows of five years after disappointing China data. The S&P 500 ended the day 1.6% lower to $2,002.70, taking the losses for the week to 3.5%. The last time that it suffered such a decline was in May 2012, as reported by The Financial Times. ...