Popular online exchange Coinbase is releasing a weighted index fund for cryptocurrencies.

"It's a very simple to use, easy way to get exposure to the crypto-assets that we offer on our exchange," Coinbase President and COO Asiff Hirji told CNBC's "Fast Money" Tuesday.

The Coinbase Index Fund will give accredited U.S. investors exposure to all assets listed on the company's current exchange, GDAX. The currencies will be weighted based on market capitalization.

In the last two months we've seen a few bigger ups and downs in both the Crypto- and the Stock market.
Sometimes the drops were happening simultaneously.

What do you think, how strong are the ties beweet those two markets?
Are there e.g. people taking money out of the Stock market while it drops and putting it into Cryptos or vice versa?

that's a good information but i rather to stay away from pump dump signals or telegram signals group , it usually comes with loss because whales already have bought the coins and trying to sell it to you in telegram signal groups!
usually coz they choose shitcoins , coins go dump as hell after it!

By what year will we switch to Bitcoin? Is it possible in your opinion?

i don't know if it is because of the translation from Chinese to English or is it just me but this statement doesn't even make sense to me.
first of all blockchain is not a software, it is just a ledger, or a chain of blocks and nothing about it is centralized.
even if they meant the technology and development of it, it is still not centralized.

and making anything centralized about cryptocurrencies is practically killing them. that is why altcoins that went that way are never going to succeed.

Overstock.com is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding its activity in the cryptocurrency field.

A company subsidiary, tZero, is hoping to raise $250 million through a token sale. But in an 8K filing Thursday morning, the online retailer said the SEC’s enforcement division requested “certain documents related to the offering and the tokens” in February.

Overstock said it is cooperating with the investigation.

It’s part of a larger cryptocurrency probe by the SEC that’s looking into whether there have been violations of securities laws as Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have traded in a largely unregulated environment. The Wall Street Journal said multiple companies have been put on notice in the past several months, but did not name them.

Eleven people, including a security guard, were arrested in Iceland in connection with the theft of almost $2 million worth of cryptocurrency-mining equipment from local data centers.

Icelandic media are referring to the theft as the “Big Bitcoin Heist.” It’s not so much about the theft of Bitcoins themselves, though, but rather that of the equipment used to earn them.

According to the Associated Press, a judge on Friday ordered two of the arrested people to remain in custody.

There were actually four burglaries: three in December and one in January. The police held off from telling the public for a while, in order not to compromise their investigation.

Two of the burglaries took place on the southwestern Reykjanes peninsula, where local police commissioner Olafur Helgi Kjartansson said: “Everything points to this being a highly organized crime.”

Cryptocurrency might already be the rage of the day, but it just got a whole lot more legitimate.

Among more than 850 new words and definitions added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary this month, some cryptocurrency-related words are making their debut.

The online version of the dictionary will now feature blockchain, defined as “a digital database containing information (such as records of financial transactions) that can be simultaneously used and shared within a large decentralized, publicly accessible network.” The word cryptocurrency itself and the term “initial coin offering” will also be added.

Cambodia is considering the development of its own national cryptocurrency after being inspired by the launch of the Venezuelan Petro in February.

The Cambodian crypto project would be named Entapay, and is expected to be proposed at a blockchain summit of Southeast Asian nations in its capital, Phnom Penh, on Wednesday, which will be attended by the country’s deputy prime minister, Men Sam An.

A press release issued ahead of the summit described Entapay ambitiously as “the connection between integration payment of encrypted currency and the real world. It has the great potential to even replace Visa as the new mainstream payment mode.”

Bitit, a cryptocurrency exchanger service hosted and regulated in France today announced they have added support for Ripple and Litecoin purchases.

Users can now buy Ripple, Litecoin, Bitcoin and Ethereum by credit card, cash and wire transfer using more than 14 fiat currencies (such as USD, EUR, JPY, KRW, CNY, TRY and more).

According to the company, they plan to add as many altcoins as it can in 2018.

The Bitit team said, “since we aim to remove the technical barriers of traditional cryptocurrency exchanges, making cryptocurrency easier for all, we are proud to provide a safe and intuitive solution that lets you access the leading blockchain assets from more than 50 countries using your own currency and preferred payment method.”

I think,

binance and kucoin is low fees. or try cryptopia or use etherdelta low fees.

I don't care if you need ID verification or not the problem is that right now most of them work extremely slow or just do not work. I tried Bitwala but they stopped their services, CEX.io works extremely slow and bitstamp seems to require a lot of information before allowing you to withdraw fiat so what other alternatives are there? I tried localbitcoins and it was ok but I'd rather not use it again.

When we will use cryptocurrencies ofr our everyday life?

Basically, they can now accept party "funding" from any company they want discreetly.

Campaign funding is just legalized bribery! 

Yeah that’s not going to happen. Feel free to ban bitcoin again China, we’ve proved we can absorb the news & carry on trucking before.

An official from one of China's financial regulators argued at the "Two Sessions" conference in Beijing on Sunday that blockchains are better if not completely decentralized.

Acting as a policy advisor at the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference this week, Zhang Ye, head of the technology unit at China's Securities Regulatory Commission, encouraged the public sector in China to embrace advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain technology in public services.

However, at the same time, he cautioned that, while he believes in the potential of blockchain, to fully achieve its benefits will rely on using a centralized infrastructure.

"Blockchain's advocates for absolute decentralization have no solid ground, because [blockchain] itself is a software developed in a centralized way. So is the public key infrastructure, which remains an important feature adopted by blockchain," Zhang said in an interview with Securities Times, an official mouthpiece that covers the securities industry in China.

So, what are the thoughts? Coinbase or not Coinbase.

Question for 400th page.

Our January 4th, 2018 statement continues to stand: we have made no decision to add additional assets to either GDAX or Coinbase. Any statement to the contrary is untrue and not authorized by the company.

If bitcoin is worthless then why is the author writing an article and his praising decentralization?

Traders and miners aren’t the only ones cashing in on the cryptocurrency boom. Digital-asset exchanges are emerging as one of the biggest winners with the top 10 generating as much $3 million in fees a day, or heading for more than $1 billion per year, according to estimates compiled by Bloomberg. “The exchanges and transaction processors are the biggest winners in the space because they’re allowing people to transact and participate in this burgeoning sector,” said Gil Luria, an equity analyst at D.A. Davidson & Co.