NOTICIAS Bitcoin

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http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/09/bitcoin-boosted-by-safe-haven-demand-after-trump-victory.html?__source=twitter

Aqui tienes a kazuaki nagata, periodista del Japan Times que escribió el artículo. Siempre se puede contactar con el , mas adelante, y preguntarle que tal ha funcionado ese asunto.

https://twitter.com/kzinagata?lang=es

Noticia en El País, ahora sin mala baba.

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“I don’t know if it will be Bitcoin or multiples [of different currencies] but there will be a cryptocurrency standard for the world whether governments like it or not,” he said. "The fact is, it will be difficult to find out where money is flowing from and to, therefore making it difficult to collect taxes – they will have to get used to it.
“There will have to be some other mode of collecting taxes, whether it’s a tariff on the use of national parks or the use of the roads – I don’t have a clue – that’s the government’s problem and not mine. But it’s coming and it will change the culture of this world.”

In a recent interview with IBTimes UK, he said it currently had 400 S9s [mining hardware] however that will be upgraded to “about 2,000 machines” by next year.

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¿Alguien podría explicar rápidamente qué es y qué implica esto para los que no estamos familiarizados con estos productos, mercados y demás? ¿Qué importancia tiene este CME?

En Mayo se hablo en este hilo del tema.

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Ya me parecía que me sonaba el cme este, jajaja
Estuve fusilando a preguntas a @criptonauta

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Se pueden consultar ya el BBR y el BRTI? la fecha que ponen es la de hoy.

Parece que han metido también Okcoin :

Several bitcoin exchanges and trading platforms will provide pricing data, including Bitfinex, Bitstamp, Coinbase, itBit, Kraken and now OKCoin.
http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/cf-bitcoin-reference-rate.html

Dentro de lo que son los exchanges chinos, Okcoin es bastante “serio” y transparente. Además tiene a Tim Draper detrás, entre otros inversores.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/okcoin#/entity

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Juraría que ayer también ponía a qué hora sería, y creo que era las 4 de la tarde aquí. Esta tarde debería poder consultarse.

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https://www.vulcandas.com/

Parece que la cosa se pone calentit, ahora losde PWC también se suben al carro de los “Digital Assets”, no termino de entender muy bien qué es pero que salgan pares de BTC con las divisas más comunes ya hace que me suba todo el hype xD

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http://www.cmegroup.com/confluence/display/EPICSANDBOX/Bitcoin+Pricing+Data+via+Streamlined+SBE

http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/files/bitcoin-reference-rate-methodology.pdf

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No he conseguido encontrar todavía el BRTI, que en teoría se actualiza cada segundo, sólo veo ese recuadro del BRR.

Será que sólo es accesible a ciertas plataformas?

En teoría es accesible a cualquier usuario. También he buscado y sólo encontré ese recuadro.

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Hay que estar suscrito para acceder al contenido, así que lo pego:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-futures-might-be-coming-soon-1479143252

Bitcoin has moved one step closer to mainstream credibility after the world’s largest futures exchange operator launched a pair of indexes designed to track the virtual currency’s price.
The gauges from CME Group Inc. could be used as building blocks for futures contracts that would make it easier for both professional and individual investors to trade bitcoin.

The new CME indexes “are clearly precursors to a listing of some kind” of futures contract, said Daniel Masters, chief investment officer at Global Advisors (Jersey) Ltd., which manages $25 million in bitcoin assets. “There is tremendous pent-up demand in the U.S. for bitcoin exposure that doesn’t require an investor to select one of the current bitcoin exchanges in order to invest.”

Trading the virtual currency can be logistically tricky. Since U.S. brokerages generally don’t offer a way to trade it, people who want to buy or sell it need to set up accounts directly with a bitcoin exchange. There are dozens of such exchanges around the world, many of them small and lightly regulated. But if major players such as CME launch exchange-traded funds or futures tied to bitcoin, investing in the digital currency would become similar to trading stocks or commodities.

By entering the bitcoin space, CME is associating itself with a virtual currency with a questionable past. Bitcoin has been linked to criminal enterprises such as Silk Road, the online drug bazaar shut down by the FBI in 2013. It is also notoriously volatile, with the price of a single coin jumping from $552.82 in August to about $700 today, according to CoinDesk.

CME could be risking its reputation by teaming up with the murky overseas bitcoin exchanges where prices are set, said Mark T. Williams, a lecturer at Boston University and critic of the digital currency.
“Bitcoin pricing is still in the Wild West stage with unregulated bucket shops influencing daily price discovery,” Mr. Williams said. More

Bitcoin-Inspired Technology Starts to Reshape Currency Markets
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The reputation of bitcoin exchanges has been tarnished by regulatory scrutiny and a series of high-profile cyberattacks. In August, the Hong Kong-based digital currency exchange Bitfinex said it was hacked, resulting in the theft of more than $60 million worth of bitcoin.
CME said its new indexes are based on data contributed by six bitcoin exchanges, including the international arm of China-based OKCoin, whose mainland Chinese platform is the world’s most active marketplace for trading the digital currency, according to bitcoinity.org.

“Our products launched will bring greater transparency to the bitcoin market,” said a CME spokeswoman. “We have a long history of developing nascent markets across asset classes for this same reason.”
The bitcoin exchanges contributing data to CME’s indexes “have been extensively vetted,” the spokeswoman added.
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CME declined to comment on whether it planned to launch bitcoin futures.

The exchange operator would need approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission before it could move ahead with such a listing.

The new CME indexes shed light on a brewing battle among exchanges to cash in on the seven-year-old digital currency. Bats Global Markets Inc. is seeking regulatory approval to list an ETF linked to bitcoin prices that was developed by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the twin brothers and entrepreneurs made famous by their early role in the creation of Facebook Inc.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to decide whether to allow the proposed ETF by the Winklevoss brothers by early next year. There is already an ETF-style product called the Bitcoin Investment Trust available to U.S. investors, but it trades in the lightly regulated over-the-counter markets and has a spotty record of tracking the price.

The New York Stock Exchange started publishing a daily U.S. dollar price index for bitcoin last year. CME is seeking to one-up NYSE by introducing both a daily index and a real-time index updated every second, saying it has the best methodology for calculating a bitcoin benchmark. The real-time index went live on Sunday, while CME’s first daily index started Monday.

The Chicago-based exchange giant said it designed its new indexes to comply with international standards for the regulation of financial benchmarks. An independent oversight committee will help ensure the gauges aren’t prone to gaming by unscrupulous traders, CME says.
“Non-susceptibility to price manipulation is a core principle that is very important,” said Sandra Ro, executive director and digitization lead at CME.

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http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoins-lightning-network-now-digital-asset-compatible/

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No consigo entender cómo probar la cartera demo que enlazan. No me deja hacer nada. ¿Alguien la ha podido probar?

La pude probar brevemente creando dos monederos en dos ventanas de navegador. No iba muy fino, porque creo que tienen problemas de sobrecarga…