Winklevoss Exchange Gemini to Launch Daily Bitcoin Auctions
Gemini Trading, the bitcoin and ethereum exchange founded by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, is set to begin hosting daily bitcoin auctions. While such auctions are commonplace as a way to determine more accurate closing prices for the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq, Gemini is positioning the auction as more than a first for its exchange. Tyler Winklevoss told CoinDesk: "It's the first ever end-of-day auction on a bitcoin exchange. It's a pretty standard feature on traditional exchanges that didn't exist on a bitcoin exchange until now." The launch represents the latest effort....
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Gemini Trust Co., the New York-based digital currency exchange founded by the Winklevoss Brothers has begun the first-ever daily bitcoin auction in a bid to facilitate trading with higher volumes at lower costs with better prices. Starting today, the bitcoin ecosystem will see an exchange adopt a daily bitcoin auction at 4 P.M New York time, every day including holidays and weekends. In an announcement, Gemini said it ushered in its daily bitcoin auction to remedy the “incredibly inefficient” method of bitcoin trading today, wherein exchanges are missing mechanisms that are otherwise....
Gemini exchange, based out of New York’s Flatiron District, is launching what may be a first within the Bitcoin ecosystem - daily Bitcoin auctions. The very first official auction on Gemini will be a BTC/USD pairing and will occur today at 4:00pm Eastern Time. Future auctions will occur every day, including weekends and holidays, at 4:00pm ET. Tyler Winklevoss, Gemini Chief Executive Officer, said to Bloomberg: "We believe this is the first-ever end-of-day Bitcoin exchange auction. Auctions create greater price discovery and liquidity, resulting in a very meaningful final auction....
Gemini, a regulated Bitcoin exchange founded by the Winklevoss Twins, is officially expanding its services to Hong Kong and Singapore. Registered users based in Hong Kong and Singapore can already begin trading USD with Bitcoin and Ethereum on Gemini’s advanced digital asset exchange. Although the Gemini trading platform in both countries only support US Dollars at the moment, Cameron announced that the company is working on adding HKD and SGD as it continues to expand to additional areas in Singapore and Hong Kong. Cameron Winklevoss announced: “As of today, registered customers in both....
Investors have been watching and waiting for the launch of Gemini, the bitcoin exchange launched by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, since it was first announced on January 23. The wait is over. Customers have been begun receiving instructions for onboarding and will be able to officially begin trading on the Gemini exchange starting Thursday, October 8 at 9:30 a.m. EST. The nine months it took for Gemini to go from announcement to launch is due to a belief in the need to "ask for permission, not forgiveness." However, on September 23, Gemini Trust Company received approval for its Articles....
Entrepreneurs Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have filed an application for a limited liability trust company in New York. The filing for Gemini Trust Company, if approved by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), would enable the Winklevoss brothers to launch Gemini, their forthcoming bitcoin exchange product first announced in January. The announcement notably follows itBit's May announcement that it received a trust company charter from the NYDFS. Under New York banking law, trust companies are financial institutions that, while unique from banks, are able to take....