The CME Group, one of the world’s leading derivatives marketplaces, has announced the launch of a new trading product aimed at making Bitcoin futures more accessible to retail investors. Named the “Small Bitcoin Friday Futures,” this new offering is set to be introduced on a weekly basis, every Friday. The contract is designed to appeal to smaller investors by providing a lower-cost entry point into the Bitcoin futures market, which has traditionally been dominated by institutional players.
The Small Bitcoin Friday Futures contracts will be based on one-tenth of a Bitcoin, compared to CME’s standard Bitcoin futures, which represent five Bitcoins per contract. This reduced size lowers the financial barrier for entry, making it possible for more investors to participate in the Bitcoin derivatives market without the need to commit large amounts of capital. The initiative aims to provide a more flexible and accessible way for traders to gain exposure to the volatility and potential upside of Bitcoin.
CME’s decision to launch these smaller contracts comes amid growing interest in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies from retail investors. The launch also aligns with CME’s strategy to expand its cryptocurrency offerings and cater to a broader range of market participants. Since launching its original Bitcoin futures in December 2017, CME has seen steady growth in trading volumes and open interest, reflecting the increasing demand for regulated Bitcoin futures contracts.
Tim McCourt, Global Head of Equity and FX Products at CME Group, commented on the launch, stating, “Our new Small Bitcoin Friday Futures contracts provide a more cost-effective and accessible way for individual investors to gain exposure to Bitcoin’s price movements. By introducing these smaller contracts, we hope to meet the needs of retail investors looking for efficient risk management tools in the cryptocurrency space.”
The introduction of Small Bitcoin Friday Futures is also expected to provide additional liquidity to CME’s existing Bitcoin futures market. It will offer more flexibility for investors looking to hedge their positions or speculate on Bitcoin’s price changes within a shorter time frame. As interest in cryptocurrencies continues to grow, CME’s move to cater to smaller investors may further solidify its position as a leading player in the regulated crypto derivatives market.
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This might be the most important Bitcoin (BTC) news of 2020, says Mike Novogratz.
Massachusetts-based insurance firm MassMutual just announced that it has purchased $100 million in Bitcoin for its general investment account.
According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, the company purchased the Bitcoins – purportedly 5,470 BTC given the current price of $18,279 — through New York-based fund management company NYDIG.
MassMutual also reportedly bought a $5 million equity stake in the firm, which holds $2.3 billion in cryptocurrency.
MassMutual told Cointelegraph that the investment is part of a broad strategy, with the goal of achieving “measured yet meaningful exposure to a growing economic aspect of our increasingly digital world.” The company clarified that:
“Our $100 million investment in Bitcoin through NYDIG will represent .04 percent – or less than one tenth of one percent – of our total GIA.”
The purchase comes as major institutional players are adopting Bitcoin for the first time and going longer on crypto investments. In September, business intelligence firm
MicroStrategy purchased more than $425 million in Bitcoin as a reserve asset. Earlier this week, the company announced it would invest the proceeds from a $400 million securities offering into Bitcoin as well.
MassMutual told Cointelegraph that the company oversees more than $235 billion in its general investment account as of Sept. 30.
In other trending Bitcoin News today:
‘Insanely bullish’: Glassnode CTO Predicts BTC Price Will Rise 10X From Here
The chief technical officer of crypto market data aggregator Glassnode, Rafael Schultze-Kraft, has described a slew of Bitcoin (BTC) market indicators as “insanely bullish,” and predicted prices are set to increase by more than 10 times.
On Dec. 9, Schulze-Kraft tweeted a thread providing the basis for his ultra-optimistic prediction, presenting six of “the most important on-chain market indicators that are currently hovering at the same levels they were at the start of 2017.”
Each of Schulze-Kraft’s predictions (or estimates) see Bitcoin breaking into six figures, with all but one suggesting that BTC will exceed $200,000.
For each of the indicators, Schultze-Kraft measured the gains produced when the metric moved from a similar position in 2017 until it posted an all-time high later that year. He then multiplied Bitcoin’s current price by the same percentage increase.
Schultze-Kraft noted that Bitcoin’s Net Unrealized Profit/Loss, or NUPL — “the difference between unrealized gains and losses based on when coins last moved on chain” — has climbed back up to 78% of its 2017 ATH.
Bitcoin’s price gained 1,400% to its peak, as NUPL ascended from its current level to all-time highs in 201. If the same scenario played out, Kraft estimates that Bitcoin’s price could reach $286,000 this cycle.
BTC’s Market Cap to Thermocap ratio — which assesses Bitcoin’s price premium relative to miner expenditure — is currently sitting at just one-quarter of its 2017 high. In 2017, Bitcoin’s price gained 625% as the metric rose to its all-time highs, suggesting BTC could tag $138,000 in future.
Bitcoin’s MVRV Z-Score — which seeks to identify when Bitcoin is “over/undervalued relative to its “fair value’” — currently sits at 34% of its 2017 top, the ascent to which accompanied a 1,150% price gain. Should BTC rally with the same strength as in 2017, Kraft-Schulze estimates Bitcoin will be worth $240,000 each.
Kraft-Shulze identified that metrics looking at longer-term hodler behavior suggested even higher price targets.
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1/ Where are we in the #Bitcoin market cycle?A look at some of the most important on-chain market indicators.
TLDR: Insanely bullish, most metrics are far from the top. If things develop anything like 2017, we could see more than 10x $BTC from here.
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— Rafael Schultze-Kraft (@n3ocortex) December 8, 2020
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Bitcoin Price K ‘Within Weeks’? Recovery Mimics 2013 700% Bull Run | BTC Will Shatter 0K
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Bitcoin (BTC) is looking like it will hit $75,000 — and that could happen “within weeks,” one analyst has found.
Uploading a fresh BTC/USD price chart to Twitter on June 7, Cane Island Alternative Advisors’ Timothy Peterson unearthed an uncanny similarity to Bitcoin in 2013.
Tracking the Bitcoin price recovery from its lows of $3,600 in mid-March, Peterson noted that its recovery almost exactly tracked price action from seven years ago.
The result, he argued, could keep up the copycat move: BTC topped out at $1,300 in 2013, and a similar 700% bull run at today’s prices would give a target of $75,000.
“The 2020 bitcoin recovery has tracked the 2013a recovery almost perfectly. Are we weeks away from $75,000?”
While such a spike seems unlikely, Bitcoin is already exhibiting strong signs that it is in recovery mode from lows that will never reappear.
Specifically, miner activity and associated data have mimicked December 2018, when Bitcoin bounced out of a year-long bear market at $3,100.
Nonetheless, comparing today’s Bitcoin market with that of 2013 is all but impossible.
At the time, Mt. Gox was the only major exchange, itself imploding to cause a massive price crash.
Many argue that Mt. Gox was responsible for the run to $1,300.
In other trending Bitcoin News today:
Bitcoin (BTC) Will Shatter $520,000 According to New Stock-to-Flow Model – Here’s When It Would Happen
A new twist on the Bitcoin stock-to-flow model (S2F) suggests the crypto king will blow past $520,000 – but it may take a while.
A pseudonymous quantitative analyst named QuantMario says PlanB’s popular S2F ratio, which divides the amount of BTC in circulation by the amount of Bitcoin mined per year, is overly bullish.
“After the fifth halving in about eight years from now, the original S2F model predicts the Bitcoin market capitalization to be higher than the value of all the property in the world: equities, real estate, fiat money, gold, etc. Sounds impossible? Right.”
Crypt∞li, an editor at the crypto exchange startup SAFEX, says the new model, which shows BTC will make a slow and steady march to about $520,000 over the next two decades, places more realistic expectations on miner profitability and the overall use of electricity on the network.
“The S2F model’s output basically demands a 10x price increase from one cycle to the next cycle. If a constant profitability of miners is assumed (equilibrium of price and miner adoption), then the mining effort has to quintuple every four years – the combination of a tenfold increase of price and a halving of the block reward results in a five-fold increase of reward in fiat currency every four years.”
To address these issues, the adjusted S2F model predicts a significantly slower pace of growth for BTC.
In contrast, PlanB’s model predicts Bitcoin will hit $1 million by 2028.
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MAX KEISER SAYS BITCOIN WILL GO TO $1M AS GOVERNMENTS START PUTTING BTC ON THEIR BALANCE SHEET!!
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Bitcoin bull and Wall Street veteran Max Keiser has issued a massive BTC price prediction, saying as game theory suggest, governments around the world will start putting Bitcoin on their balance sheet sending BTC parabolic to $1,000,000.
The RT host of the Keiser Report shared the following:
“As long as governments control money, there could be no advances in money. Along comes bitcoin, it separates government from money. No government can touch btc, they’re completely divided & divorced.
And as I predicted, if you gave people hard money like bitcoin to transact without the interference of government it would be an economic global boom, a renaissance.
We can transact in unconfiscatable, uncensorable money when nobody can stop us because we’re protected by this encrypted shield called the bitcoin protocol that’s impenetrable & nobody can stop us.
Governments have flapped their gums a lot & suggested oh we are against it but none of them can stop it. Eventually one of these governments according to game theory is gonna say you know what, enough is enough we’re gonna start putting it on our balance sheet here.
And whatever country that might be & then every other country will do exactly the same thing and the price of course will go $500K, $600K, $1,000,000 a bitcoin and Max & Stacy will be once again 100% right.”
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A Bitcoin Price Dip For Ants? BTC Quickly Rebounds to a New High Above $57,800
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) dipped to as low as $53,905 on Binance overnight, recording a sudden 6% drop. But despite the minor correction, the price of Bitcoin quickly recovered thereafter, reaching a new all-time high above $57,800 on Feb. 21.
Although Bitcoin saw a steep drop within merely hours, analysts pinpointed that it fell to the exact bottom of a short-term trendline.
John Cho, the Director of Global Expansion at Ground X, noted that the drop was a liquidity fill at a lower price.
A liquidity fill simply means when an asset drops after stagnating to fill buy orders at the bottom of the range
A drop was expected because Bitcoin was consolidating with the futures funding rate at around 0.15%.
Across major futures exchanges, the Bitcoin futures funding rate was hovering between 0.1% to 0.2%, and it was particularly high for stablecoin pairs.
Bitcoin futures exchanges use a mechanism called funding to incentivize buyers or sellers based on market sentiment.
For example, when there are more buyers in the market, the funding rate turns positive. When that happens, buyers have to pay sellers a portion of their position every eight hours.
When the funding rate is high but the price of Bitcoin is consolidating, the risk of a big short-term drop increases.
The funding rate for altcoins, including Ether (ETH) and DeFi tokens, reset to around 0.05%. As such, altcoins saw a stronger bounce than BTC.
Misa Christanto, an analyst at Messari, said that in a bear market, everything is correlated. But Bitcoin, which is also considered a “reflation trade,” has been resilient. She wrote:
“US Treasury curve is steepening. Why should we care? Because in a bear market, everything is correlated. So far the headwinds have been on equity returns, on unprofitable tech names. Reflation trades like $BTC unaffected.”
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“These banks will not compete. They will not introduce anything near a #Bitcoin. Just like there was only one Joan of Arc, there was only one Virgin Mary, there was only one Allah, there can be only one #BTC & it rules supreme.” – @MaxKeiser (Keiser Report 443, May 11, 2013) 🍊💊
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In percentage terms, Bitcoin growing from $57K to $1M is the same as going from $3,249 to $57K.
— Stack Hödler (@stackhodler) February 20, 2021
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