Mining’s latest pivot means adjusting to a higher-cost world

2022-03-31 12:41:23 Mining was one of few industries that saw relatively little disruption at the start of the global Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020. And although miners endured commodity price volatility, they enjoyed low or stable costs in the early part of the pandemic (remember the first-time-ever negative oil price of April 2020, when West […]

Four Years Later, What Bitcoin Means to Retail Traders

2021-12-22 13:37:00 AT A GLANCE CME Group is celebrating the four-year anniversary of its Bitcoin futures contract (BTC), a product that has helped to revolutionize cryptocurrency trading since 2017. Before the introduction of this contract, traders could only trade actual bitcoin. But that has quickly changed, as average daily volume in CME Bitcoin futures soared to […]