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Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage The CEO of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange, Sam Bankman-Fried, has said that he supports having knowledge tests and disclosures on derivatives trading platforms. This will ensure retail investors are protected. However, Bankman-Fried said that these conditions should not be specific to cryptocurrencies. FTX CEO supports knowledge tests on derivatives trading The FTX CEO shared his thoughts in response to an idea shared by a commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Christy Goldsmith Romero. On October 15, Romero said that better consumer protection measures would be guaranteed if there is a “household retail investor” division for derivatives trading. Romero has also added that the crypto industry was paving the way for more retail traders to venture into derivatives markets . The commissioner has also called upon the CFTC to separate retail investors from high-networth ...

In this edition of the Bitcoin.com News week in Review: never-before-seen notations discovered from Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, an update on progress toward the next Bitcoin halving event, Mad Money’s Jim Cramer challenging crypto investors to bet against him, and more. Sleuth Discovers Satoshi’s Long-Lost Bitcoin Version 0.1 Codebase, Raw Code Contains Bitcoin Inventor’s Never-Before-Seen Personal Notations On October 7, 2022, a bitcoin supporter named Jim Blasko claimed that he discovered the oldest upload of Bitcoin’s version 0.1 codebase. The original code was thought to have been lost for more than a decade and with a “little browser hacking” Blasko was able to find the lost version 0 .1 raw data and files stored on sourceforge.net. Read More Progress Toward Bitcoin’s Halving Is 60% Complete, Block Times Suggest Reduction Could Happen Next Year According to countdown statistics based on the average block generation time of around ten minutes , progress tow...

Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage A concerted effort is being made to control the cryptocurrency market by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and other U.S. market regulators. But a significant unanswered query that is essential to their objectives is: Bitcoin: A security or not? The word “currency,” which was specifically chosen by the founders of the movement to emphasize their desire to replace fiat currencies as both a store of value and a medium of trade, belies the problem. Since the debut of Bitcoin (BTC) in January 2009, it’s safe to say that the cryptocurrency market has evolved into the “Wild West” of financial markets. It was previously shielded from governments and other regulatory agencies’ prying eyes by the decentralized architecture of the system. The exact lack of regulation surrounding cryptocurrencies is what makes them so alluring to many aficionados. But because there aren...

Top10 News 1、BNB Chain hacked, over $500 million in funds involved (updating) link 2、Solana Suffers Another Major Outage link A misconfigured node caused the Solana network to stop processing transactions and go offline on Friday.Solana validator behind Stakewiz.com tweeted about the incident:"It appears a misconfigured node caused an unrecoverable partition in the network.A validator was running a duplicate validator instance. Meaning when it was their turn to produce a block, they produced one from each instance, for the same slot, so some validators saw the one block, some the others, then couldn't agree which one was correct." 3、Token Pocket's Flash Exchange DEX Transit Swap Attacked (Updating) link The hacker who stole the most money from Transit Finance has returned more than $18.9 million, or 83.6 percent of the total funds stolen, and Transit Finance says it will refund 100 percent of its users' losses. Priority will be given to returning the assets return...