{"id":2848,"date":"2017-12-02T23:45:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T23:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=2848"},"modified":"2018-04-25T20:12:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T20:12:53","slug":"news-coinbase-payout-trouble-cftc-vs-cme-and-cboe-bitcoin-futures-bitfinex-and-bitfinexed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/12\/02\/news-coinbase-payout-trouble-cftc-vs-cme-and-cboe-bitcoin-futures-bitfinex-and-bitfinexed\/","title":{"rendered":"News: Coinbase payout trouble, CFTC vs CME and CBOE Bitcoin futures, Bitfinex and Bitfinexed"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Congratulations to all the new Bitcoin paper millionaires! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/BitcoinMarkets\/comments\/7gwn5m\/coinbase_has_been_holding_onto_7k_of_my_money_for\/\">&#8220;Coinbase has been holding onto $7k+ of my money for 24 days and will not tell me when it will be returned.&#8221;<\/a> You can cash out any time you like, but it can never leave.\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/12\/02\/news-coinbase-payout-trouble-cftc-vs-cme-and-cboe-bitcoin-futures-bitfinex-and-bitfinexed\/coinbase-error\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2852\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2852\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/coinbase-error.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"70%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/coinbase-error.png 966w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/coinbase-error-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/coinbase-error-768x440.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 966px) 100vw, 966px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cftc.gov\/PressRoom\/PressReleases\/pr7654-17\">CFTC<\/a>: &#8220;Bitcoin is garbage&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmegroup.com\/trading\/bitcoin-futures.html\">CME<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/cfe.cboe.com\/cfe-products\/xbt-cboe-bitcoin-futures\">CBOE<\/a>: &#8220;YOLOOOOOO&#8221;<br \/>\n(HT Preston Byrne, who warns of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/business\/2017\/12\/01\/despite-run-bitcoin-future-still-uncertain\/eRfo1tbwoEyKqyfyOrR92I\/story.html\">doom and futility stalking the land<\/a> \u2014 but, welcome to Bitcoin)\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I mentioned it in the <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/12\/01\/bitfinex-tether-and-5w-pr-mount-the-worst-public-relations-campaign-ive-seen-in-a-while\/\">Bitfinex\/Tether PR post<\/a>, but it&#8217;s worth noting again: from blockchain evidence, SpeedyflyChris has found that both the 2015 Bitfinex hack and the 2017 Tether hack <a href=\"https:\/\/np.reddit.com\/r\/Bitcoin\/comments\/7gnpt2\/tether_hack_connection_to_2015_bitfinex_hack\/\">seem to have involved the same person or group<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>By the way, <em>someone<\/em> has spammed &#8220;Bitfinexed&#8221;&#8216;s Twitter account with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bitfinexed\/status\/936810822591905798\">12,000 fake followers<\/a>. &#8220;I\u2019ve been assured the Twitter bot accounts are 100% backed by real people. Audit is in progress.&#8221; \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveSaleeba\/status\/936813538156232704\">Steve Saleeba<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Book news:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s supposed to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.in\/s\/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=node%3D6612085031&amp;field-keywords=\">Kindle Monthly Deal on Amazon India<\/a> this month to get <em>Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain<\/em> for INR 103.5, down from the usual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.in\/Attack-50-Foot-Blockchain-Contracts-ebook\/dp\/B073CPP581\/\">INR 414<\/a>. I couldn&#8217;t find it, but you may want to have a look &#8230;\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t forget to get a copy of the book for your aged parents <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/11\/02\/book-news-stock-up-on-50-foot-blockchains-for-christmas-with-affiliate-links\/\">for Christmas<\/a>, so they know to shiv the crypto salesman who&#8217;s come to talk to their retiree group!\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>At least Amazon&#8217;s figured out my taste this well:\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/12\/02\/news-coinbase-payout-trouble-cftc-vs-cme-and-cboe-bitcoin-futures-bitfinex-and-bitfinexed\/amazon-email-50ft\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2849\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2849\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/amazon-email-50ft.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"80%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/amazon-email-50ft.png 1146w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/amazon-email-50ft-300x139.png 300w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/amazon-email-50ft-768x356.png 768w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/amazon-email-50ft-1024x474.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1146px) 100vw, 1146px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/YoloCapMgmt\/status\/936045815973294080<\/p>\n<br><br><div align=\"center\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\"><img src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/become_a_patron_button.svg\" alt=\"Become a Patron!\" title=\"Become a Patron!\" width=217 height=51><\/a><br><p style=\"align:center;\" class=\"patreon-badge\"><i>Your subscriptions keep this site going. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\">Sign up today!<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus book news. There <i>should<\/i> be a cheap deal on Kindle India this month, but I can&#8217;t find it &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,38,84,289,167,282,288,6,258,39],"class_list":["post-2848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-attack-of-the-50-foot-blockchain","tag-bitfinex","tag-bitfinexed","tag-cboe","tag-cftc","tag-cme","tag-coinbase","tag-links","tag-speedyflychris","tag-tether"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2848"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2859,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}