An early morning rally in Bitcoin price filled a CME Futures gap to the upside leftover from the weekends posthalving profittaking drop

The London Bullion Market Association is looking into whether blockchain can reduce money laundering in the spot markets

Its been approximately 37 days since the notorious Bitcoin reward halving that took place on Monday May 11 2023 On June 16 the Bitcoin network saw a large upwards difficulty adjustment making it much harder to mine bitcoins and slowing down the issuance rate because block generation has slowed down Furthermore a recent research report predicts the SHA256 ASIC mining industry will grow more consolidated in the future