Square founder Jack Dorsey is aiming to make it easier for small investors to buy bitcoin in CashApp by setting up regular daily, weekly, or biweekly purchases at a set dollar amount.
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Jamie Dimon may consider Bitcoin a "fraud" but that didn't stop JPMorgan Chase from becoming the first major bank to take U.S. crypto exchanges as clients (Photo: WEF/Wikimedia Commons).Major bank haul: Coinbase, Gemini break into JPMorgan Chase
By taking on the regulator-friendly Coinbase and Gemini as clients, JPMorgan Chase has become the first large bank to knowingly agree to do business with cryptocurrency exchanges in years.
Two major U.S. cryptocurrency exchanges known for aggressively seeking regulatory approval, Coinbase and Gemini, have been accepted as JPMorgan Chase customers, breaking through an important glass ceiling in the financial industry.
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Tether/Bitfinex study gets updated while Crypto Twitter gets angry
The report that claimed Bitcoin prices were manipulated via Tether now says a single “whale” was behind the trades; those with skin in the game react negatively
The lead academic in that (in)famous study postulating that Bitcoin prices were manipulated by Tether updated it with this added doozey: a single “whale” was behind most of it, trading large amounts of bitcoin against tether on Bitfinex, Tether’s sister company.
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Cboe pulls Bitcoin index fund application—again
The BZX Exchange had asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to approve an ETF tracking the price of Bitcoin
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton may feel that his agency is getting closer to approving an index fund tracking cryptocurrencies, but it’s apparently not close enough for the Chicago Board Options Exchange, which just withdrew its application to create a Bitcoin EFT.
