Goldman Sachs will start trading bitcoin futures.
Thus, the bank responds to customers' desire to expand their investment portfolio through electronic assets. Goldman Sachs will use its own version of derivatives - a forward settlement contract. This is a great achievement and positive news for the crypto community.
Wall Street Journal: Telegram refused to hold a public ICO.
In March, the Telegram Group, which owns the Telegram messenger and is the organizer of the ICO Telegram Open Network (TON), reported on raising 1.7 billion dollars in two closed rounds of the initial placement of the tokens. The company has enough money, so it refused the public stage of the ICO. This means that private investors will not be able to buy platform tokens called Gram.
The co-founder of the media platform Reddit, which plans to resume bitcoin reception and add support for ETH and LTC, Alexis Ohanyan is confident in the bright future of the first crypto currency and Ethereum. He believes that by the end of the year, bitcoin will cost $ 20,000, and Ethereum - $ 15,000.
Oganyan's opinion on the future of bitcoin was also agreed by the analyst of CoinDesk Omkar Godbow. However, he gave a more short-term forecast - Godboul believes that the price of the first crypto currency can overcome the mark of $ 10,000 as early as this month.
Cryptobloger Pavel Nyashin was found dead in St. Petersburg
Founder of Youtube channel "Cryptach" Pavel Nyashin (real name Makushin) was found dead in his own apartment in St. Petersburg. According to preliminary data, suicide could be the cause of death.
The authorities of South Korea can again resolve ICO
Soon members of the National Assembly of South Korea can discuss the long-awaited bill, due to which the ban on ICO will be lifted. This is reported by Cryptovest.
The Eurasian Economic Union will work out a unified approach to the regulation of the crypto-currency market. The EAEC believes that this will help create a single financial space between Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan.
The Poloniex platform announced a decrease in trade commissions since May 15, as well as changes in the process of their calculation. Now the commission will be calculated on the basis of a 30-day trading volume in US dollars, not in bitcoin.
The media reported that Coinbase will launch a platform aimed at institutional investors for a "wholesale" over-the-counter trade in crypto-currencies. Some believe that in this way Coinbase wants to compete with other platforms that provide similar services.