Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest tracks every important crypto news story from the previous week. Essential reading for all Hodlers!   Top Stories This Week   CFTC charges BitMEX with illegally operating derivatives exchange The…

Former Member of the European Parliament Godfrey Bloom has bought his first bitcoin. The British politician is famed for numerous controversial views, such as calling the entire banking system a scam and the state an…

Privacy means different things to different people. To some, it’s secrecy. To others, it means anonymity. To some others, it’s associated with criminality.  But privacy is really about power.  When the web was invented, its…

Bitcoin (BTC) price has been stuck in a range for weeks now but traders generally expect a slow fourth quarter for the top-ranked digital asset. Bitcoin quarterly returns (%). Source: Skew.com In 2018 and 2019…

2020 has been the year of stablecoins, as the token supply has doubled in the last three months. The aggregate market capitalization of 28 stablecoins captures over $20 billion on October 4, 2020. While tether…

Open interest for Bitcoin options hit their all-time high of $2.14 billion on Sept. 24, a day before a huge quarterly expiry of 89,100 contracts — i.e., 47% of existing options contracts at the time.…

Africa is the home to 1.2 billion people and what has been described as the world’s largest trade area — the African Continental Free Trade Area. Africa is forging a new path to driving development,…