Bakkt has launched two new regulated bitcoin derivatives products. Within hours of launch, Bakkt announced that over 1,000 futures contracts had been traded in Asia. https://news.bitcoin.com/bakkt-launches-bitcoin-options-in-us-futures-in-asia/
Libra’s ongoing organizational snags and run-ins with regulators continue into December, as EU finance ministers agreed Thursday that Libra cannot be launched in the EU until concerns are adequately addressed… https://news.bitcoin.com/eu-finance-ministers-place-defacto-ban-on-libra/
Bank of China, one of the four major commercial banks in China, has issued 20 billion yuan ($2.8 billion) in blockchain-based bonds… https://www.coindesk.com/bank-of-china-issues-2-8b-in-bonds-for-small-businesses-using-blockchain-tech
With the Supreme Court of India postponing the crypto hearing, the Indian crypto community is calling for better protection when trading on P2P platforms.. https://news.bitcoin.com/what-indian-crypto-exchanges-are-doing-to-protect-p2p-users/
The BRICS association of major emerging economies has discussed developing a digital currency to ease trade in the bloc and reduce its reliance on U.S. dollars in settlement…
Custody bank Northern Trust is testing the trading of fractionalized bonds on a blockchain… https://www.coindesk.com/northern-trust-testing-fractionlized-bonds-on-blockchain
More than six months after the China National Development and Reform Commission proposed to categorize bitcoin mining as an industry to be phased out from the country, it appears the agency has now scrapped that plan…
On October 31, 2008, on the eve of Halloween, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper… https://news.bitcoin.com/how-bitcoins-peer-to-peer-cash-system-was-revealed-11-years-ago/
Payments are in a state of flux, and innovation is extensive. Domestic payments, in most instances, are increasingly convenient, instantaneous and available 24/7… https://www.bis.org/cpmi/publ/d187.htm
Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, said the country needs to “seize the opportunity” afforded by blockchain technology…