Institutional and Retail Bitcoin Futures Demand Continues to Climb
2019 saw significant bitcoin derivatives action from firms like CME Group and Bakkt. This year, demand for CME’s bitcoin futures remains strong and the firm’s options products may be available this week. Additionally, Bakkt’s physically-delivered bitcoin futures have consistently seen growth in daily volumes and open interest in 2020. Despite the growth, institutional futures have a long way to go to catch up to the...
Kim Dotcom’s K.im Domain Goes Up For Sale, Displays Google SEO Rant
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has announced the development of many projects since the destruction of his file-hosting platform in 2012. With a stated aim of revolutionizing the file-sharing space, one of the most prominent was initially dubbed Megaupload 2 (MU2). Utilizing investment platform BnkToTheFuture, in 2016 it raised over a million dollars from 354 investors in just two weeks. MU2 and the associated BitCache platform were...
Dish Network Proposes Blockchain Based Anti-Piracy System
American satellite and broadcast provider Dish Network has fought several legal battles against alleged pirate streaming tools in recent years. The company filed a lawsuit against the people behind TVAddons, for example. More recently the company went after multiple pirate streaming sites and IPTV reseller Boom Media. In addition to using well-established legal options, the company is also thinking ahead. That became clear this week...
Keep your email in sync with OfflineIMAP
Last year, I brought you 19 days of new (to you) productivity tools for 2019. This year, I’m taking a different approach: building an environment that will allow you to be more productive in the new year, using tools you may or may not already be using. read...
setV: A Bash function to maintain Python virtual environments
For more than a year, setV has been hidden away within my bash_scripts project, but it’s time for it to become public. setV is a Bash function I use as an alternative to virtualenvwrapper. It provides basic features that enable you to do things such as: read...
