The genesis of this article was a twitter thread responding to a question from a friend had after trying to do some business. At the time, He was trying to set up a contract for a 10MM reoccurring tranche for a three month period and found that all the names…

a quick review of CryptoWatch Link, a desktop charting client A problem every crypto trader faces at some point is the slow down your trading battle station gets from having so many web-based tools open at once to stay informed. Sometimes this is caused by horribly written javascript. …

Forward The CBOE Futures Exchange or CFE will start trading bitcoin futures under the symbol XBT starting Sunday, December 10th 2017. It is a non-deliverable cash settled contract that uses the Gemini Auction price to settle at NYC close on expiry. The contract sizes are notionally 1 contract = 1 btc…

Forward We decided we wanted to start a series of articles trying to tackle smaller subjects rather than producing full research reports like we’ve done in the past. The motivation is to answer new user questions we get daily, there is just a lot of bad sources of information. Bad information…

Six-year BTCE money laundering scheme shut down. On the afternoon of July 25th in Halkidiki, Greece, Alexander Vinnik was arrested by the FBI under suspicion of laundering a minimum of four billion dollars through BTC-E, one of our oldest cryptocurrency exchanges between 2011–2017. He was traced in part by being the primary beneficiary of Canton Business Corporation…

Redditor “nothematrix” did some investigation in his equipment and found that even more calls backs are possibly to be made to Bitmain via “single-board-test” utility. The end result being to authorize a miner on whether to allow mining service to start or not, this time by a MAC address. The…

Earlier today, April 26th, antbleed.com was purchased, twitter was activated and a news bombshell released exposing a backdoor built into all recently released Bitmain miners or those that recently updated the firmware. (named after the heartbleed bug in the not so distant past) In typical crypto fashion, this blew up…

There is a ton of unsubstantiated fud and misinformation going around about the current state of US Dollar in crypto services to the point where a solid facts only article needs to be written. Bitfinex USD woes By now, most know the Bitfinex situation around withdrawals and deposits. This is the start and…

There has been a lot questions asked on this subject due to uninformed media articles , bias opinions and technical nature of the thing.. This is our attempt to offer a simplified explanation of the situation and offer our opinion to those who want to hear. Nomenclature: Blocks — batches…