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Billy Assimos

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Billy Assimos is a Chicago-based former trader and retired restaurant manager who was the manager at Ceres Cafe in the Chicago Board of Trade Building for 26 years. He was a member of the Chicago Board of Trade, trading primarily stock indexes.
== Background ==
Assimos grew up in the restaurant world and the world of trading, following in his father's footsteps in both. He started out peeling potatoes in his father's restaurant, Orlando's, in the Chicago Loop, and later became partner in the business and then chef of the whole restaurant. Fellow restaurateurs Louis Bournakis and his son Peter, who started another restaurant called the Brokers' Inn, bought the Sign of the Trader from Jack Bolling in 1986 and renamed it Ceres Cafe, moving it into the CBOT Building. Billy Assimos eventually went to work for Bournakis.
Assimos' father George had also been a member of the Chicago Board of Trade.
Assimos bought an IDEM (Index, Debt and Energy Market ) and a COM (Commodity Options Market) membership at the Chicago Board of Trade in 1986.
In 2016, Assimos was profiled by John Lothian News in an article by Sarah Rudolph. Assimos was given the moniker, "The Face of Ceres."
== Education ==
Assimos graduated from Purdue University in Indiana.
== References ==	
Category:CBOT Members
Binance.US

Binance.US, an affiliate of Binance, one of the largest cryptocurrency trading platforms in the world, is a U.S. based cryptocurrency trading platform. Binance.US launched trading with 13 fiat- and cryptocurrency-to-cryptocurrency pairs of BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH, LTC, BNB and USDT on September 24, 2019.
In a June 14, 2019, announcement, Binance said that as of September it would no longer provide services to U.S. business or retail customers. Earlier, Binance had revealed in a blog post that it had partnered with BAM Trading Services to launch a U.S. dedicated service, Binance.US. The post said that Binance was licensing its trading platform as well as its wallet technologies to BAM. BAM received a FinCEN registration on June 11 according to Binance. 
According to CryptoCompare, an online data aggregator, Binance US was the 34h largest cryptocurrency trading platform in the world by trading volume for the 24 preceding hours on April 2, 2020. 
Binance.US joined the Blockchain Association in August 2020, prompting Coinbase, a founding member of the association, to quit. 
Brian Brooks, who was acting head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency under the Trump Administration for about eight months in 2020, was named CEO of Binance.US in April 2021. Brooks had earlier been chief legal officer at Coinbase. The trading platform added Manny Alvarez, a former commissioner at the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI), as its new chief administrative officer in July 2021.
 
==References==
Category: exchange
Category: Trading
Category: CryptoMarketsWiki
Binary Options Fraud

Binary options fraud is a widespread form of financial scam that has affected numerous investors worldwide. This type of fraud typically involves the use of online trading platforms that offer binary options, which are financial instruments where the payoff is either a fixed monetary amount or nothing at all.
== Nature of the Fraud ==
Binary options fraud often operates through the following methods:
# Manipulated Software: Fraudulent companies modify their trading software to make it nearly impossible for investors to profit.
# Refusal to Pay: Some fraudulent operators refuse to credit customer accounts or reimburse funds.
# Identity Theft: Scammers may steal personal and financial information provided by investors.
# False Advertising: Fraudulent binary options firms often use aggressive marketing tactics and misleading information to attract investors.
 
== Regulatory Actions and Bans ==
Due to the high risk of fraud, several regulatory bodies have taken action against binary options:
* The U.S. FBI has been investigating binary option scams globally.
* The Israeli police have linked the industry to criminal syndicates.
* The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has banned retail binary options trading.
* The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) banned binary options sales to retail investors in 2021.
== Scale and Impact ==
The FBI estimates that scammers steal approximately US$10 billion annually worldwide through binary options fraud. Many victims have lost significant sums of money, with some cases involving millions of dollars in losses.
== Notable Cases ==
One high-profile case involved Banc De Binary, which was ordered by a U.S. court to pay over $11 million in restitution in 2016 for illegally selling binary options to U.S. investors.
The Nevada District Court imposed heavy penalties on Pini Peter and Spot Option for a binary options fraud scheme. The court had ordered Spot Option to pay over $140 million and Peter to pay over $87 million to the SEC for defrauding US investors from 2012 to 2017. The SEC accused Spot Option of deceptive practices, including rigging trading platforms and misleading investors. Peter and Spot Option are appealing the ruling to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The case involved significant losses for investors, while Spot Option and its partners made substantial profits.
== Prevention and Awareness ==
To combat binary options fraud, regulators and law enforcement agencies have increased efforts to educate the public. Social media platforms like Facebook, Google, and Twitter have banned advertisements for binary options trading.
== References ==
Category:Types of Fraud
Category:Scams
Biofuel

Biofuels are fuels, such as ethanol, produced from living organisms or from metabolic by-products (organic or food waste products). In order to be considered a biofuel the fuel must contain over 80 percent renewable materials. It is originally derived from the photosynthesis process and can therefore often be referred to as a solar energy source.
Some of the agricultural products used in biofuels are: corn, sugarcane, soy 
== References ==
Category:Energy
Category:Ethanol
Category:Renewable Energy
Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee

The Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee was established by the White House and the Biomass Research and Development Act of 2000. This committee is part of a federal government-wide initiative lead by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of Energy. 
The committee assists the federal government in meeting the Act’s goals of promoting a cleaner environment and greater energy security by the coordination and encouragement of biobased product research and development. Thomas W. Ewing serves as chairman of the committee.
Specifically, the committee advises DOE and USDA on strategic planning, the development of requests for proposals under the Biomass Research and Development Initiative of 2000; and the review and evaluation of funding proposals. They also work to encourage collaboration among government, industry, and growers. The 30 committee members represent industry, state governments, academia, trade associations, non-profits, and the agricultural and forestry sectors. The 12 new members come from Alabama, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, Virginia, and Washington.
== References ==
Category:Definitions
Bionic Trader Systems

Bionic Trader Systems is a Chicago-based technology firm that produces software and customizable keyboards for manual futures traders. The firm, created in 2010 by trader Adam Sheldon, aims to make manual trading faster. Bionic Trader Systems launched its first product called Keyboard Trader in September 2012. The software component connects to markets through the APIs of leading futures front-ends; Keyboards are also offered by Bionic Trader Systems that work with the software.
== Products and Services ==
The goal of Keyboard Trader is to provide manual traders a faster way to trade than using a mouse. The product is configurable so users can trade spreads, baskets, single products, or a full portfolio with single keys, or a combination of keys. Users can also adjust the meanings of the keys on the fly, enabling them to quickly adjust the products they trade each day with the same keyboard interface.
Traders will look to Keyboard Trader for different reasons with speed of execution being a common element. Active intraday traders can use it for fast scalping and quick position changes. Spread traders may use it if auto-spreading doesn't work well for their trading strategies, or if they prefer to work the legs of their spreads manually but faster than with a mouse. Others may use Keyboard Trader as an position management tool or insurance policy given its ability to execute orders on many products quickly.
Risk management components are included within Keyboard Trader that allow traders to reduce their position limits on the fly to figures below what their broker provides. Keyboard Trader also includes a macro builder for custom development of order entry techniques, and a set of utilities for quick rollovers, macro import/export, and other workspace adjustments. 
In October 2012, Bionic Trader Systems became a connected partner on Trading Technologies' X TRADER platform. On April 1, 2013, Keyboard Trader launched as an add-on for CQG Integrated Client. On April 5, 2013, Bionic Trader Systems became a Certified CQG API Partner. On June 17, 2013, Keyboard Trader launched as an add-on for T4 by CTS.
==Video: Keyboard Trader Demo==
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==John Lothian News Interview==
*Five Minutes With Adam Sheldon, Founder Of Bionic Trader Systems
== Key People ==
*Adam Sheldon, Founder
== References ==
Bison

Bison is a cryptocurrency trading app developed by Boerse Stuttgart.
== Overview ==
Boerse Stuttgart announced on April 12, 2018 that its subsidiary, Sowa Labs, had developed an application for cryptocurrency trading called Bison. Bison will support trading in bitcoin, Ether, XRP and Litecoin. Among other features, the platform provides an information service that scans Twitter for news about cryptocurrencies.
In January 2019, Boerse Stuttgart launched Bison for German residents only. In doing so, it became the first fully-regulated stock exchange to offer cryptocurrency trading services. Alexander Höptner, the company's CEO and former IT chief, led the creation of the platform, which relies on two foreign cryptocurrency exchanges - the U.S. exchange Kraken and the U.K. exchange Bitstamp. The app was available only to German residents at first, but the company planned to open it up to non-German residents in the future. As announced, the app launched supporting trading services for bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and XRP.
Bison announced in early December 2020 that it had already traded more than €1 billion ($1.21 billion) that year. 
==References==
Category: regulation
Category: exchanges
Category: mobile apps
Category: CryptoMarketsWiki
Bit-Z

Bit-Z is a Hong Kong based cryptocurrency-to-cryptocurrency exchange, which offers more than 200 trading pairs. 
In late March 2019 Bit-Z was ranked second by the U.S. dollar value of its traded volume according to CoinMarketCap, an online industry statistics reporting service. Its trading volume reporting has attracted attention because it uses the so-called "transaction fee mining" model for payment of exchange fees. According to its white paper, Bit-Z's BZ coin is created when a user pays its fees in cryptocurrency and the exchange reimburses the fee with BZ, thus incenting valueless trading in order to pay fees which are reimbursed. 
 
== References ==
Category:Cryptocurrency
Category:Mining
Category:CryptoMarketsWiki
BitFlyer

Tokyo-based bitFlyer was already one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world when it opened bitFlyer USA in November 2017 after receiving a bitlicense from New York State. 
==History==
BitFlyer was launched in Japan in April 2014. Although it received a $236,000 investment from U.S. investor Barry Silbert's Bitcoin Opportunity to help support its international expansion shortly after its founding, until 2018 bitFlyer limited its fiat product to Japanese yen and its cryptocurrencies to bitcoin and ether.
BitFlyer claims to have had the largest monthly trading volume recorded between April 2016 and January 2018 in Japan. Its growth was supported when it was one of the first eleven cryptocurrency exchanges to receive a license from the Japanese Financial Services Agency in September 2017. Focusing on professional traders, bitFlyer internationalized its business in November 2017 when it received a New York State Bitlicense and introduced bitcoin/U.S. dollar trading for U.S. residents on its Lightning. In January 2018 bitFlyer announced that it had received a Luxembourg registration that allowed it to do business in the EU where it launched bitcoin/euro trading. BitFlyer claims to be the first cryptocurrency exchange to be licensed to do business in Japan, Europe and the U.S.
On its Japanese marketplaces, bitFlyer allows spot, margined and futures trading. Its margined bitcoin/yen contracts reportedly allow the most creditworthy traders to leverage their positions up to 15 times the amount on deposit. 
After bitFlyer's first year of operation, later funding rounds reportedly focused on more than bitFlyer's cryptocurrency exchange. At the completion of its Series C funding round in 2016, which was co-led by SBI Investment, Yuzo Kano, bitFlyer's founder and CEO, said that bitFlyer's banking investors are primarily interested in its blockchain technology work as well as what he described as "various FinTech related resources" that the company has in addition to its digital currency exchange. Crunchbase, an information service that tracks start-ups, reports that bitFlyer has taken in more than $36 million in investor funding.
On August 20, 2018 bitFlyer USA joined Bitstamp, Bittrex, and Gemini to announce the formation of the Virtual Commodity Association Working Group.
In 2019, Yuzo Kano stepped down as CEO. He was replaced by Yoshio Hirako.
BitFlyer Europe announced on September 21, 2020 that it had integrated euro payments with PayPal, which is a dominant operator in the European payments space.
== Key People ==
*Yuzo Kano - Founder
*Yoshio Hirako - CEO
==References==
Category:Trading
Category:CryptoMarketsWiki
BitForex

BitForex is a cryptocurrency-to-cryptocurrency exchange based in Hong Kong. It lists approximately 165 cryptocurrency pairs. In late March 2019 it was ranked fifth worldwide among cryptocurrency exchanges by the U.S. dollar value of its traded volume according to CoinMarketCap, an online industry statistics reporting service. 
BitForex provides tools including Spot Trading, Perpetual Futures, and Turbo Starter. As of January 2023, more than 300 projects were being offered at BitForex, and the company served over 6 million users in over 200 countries and regions.
On February 23, 2024, BitForex abruptly shut down all operations, with no prior warning or explanation, after $57 million was reportedly withdrawn from the exchange's hot wallets. The company also went silent on all official communication channels. Users reported being unable to access their accounts, with some claiming they had zeroed-out balances. 
Before it shut down, the daily trading volume on BitForex was approximately $1,355,432,020. 
== Company Overview ==
BitForex obtained funding from crypto investors like Crypto Capital, QTUM, and TRON, raising $20 million. The company claims that its core employees include former employees of Merrill Lynch, World Bank, McKinsey, Microsoft, Tencent, and Lenovo. The company is headquartered in Hong Kong and has teams operating in Korea, Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Japan. 
== Products and Services ==
BitForex operates an exchange that offers more than 300 trading pairs for digital assets. These include BTC/USDT, ETH/USDT, EOS/USDT, DOGE/USDT, and other pairs consisting of top-performing, as well as more obscure cryptocurrencies.
BitForex Token is the native token of BitForex. Holders of the coin get a trading bonus and may participate in BitForex global conferences and KOL meetings, and may attend various events. BitForex token can also be used in BitForex Insight and entertainments.
== References ==
Category:Cryptocurrency
Category:trading
Category:Asia
Category:exchanges
Category:bitcoin
Category:Fintech
Category:CryptoMarketsWiki
BitGrail

BitGrail is an Italian cryptocurrency exchange whose nano (or "XRB") cryptocurrency wallet was hacked on February 8, 2018. BitGrail halted trading and announced that 17 million nano (worth approximately $187 million) were missing. Until shortly before the hack on February 8, nano had been known as RaiBlocks. For the month prior to July 9, 2018, Nano was the 77th most actively traded cryptocurrency by U.S. dollar value of trades. 
Shortly after the hack was reported, the finger pointing started. On February 9, 2018 the nano developers published a report that the BitGrail owner, Francesco Firano, had asked them to alter the nano ledger in order to cover the loss. Mr. Firano noted that the developers had recently distributed some changes to the nano blockchain protocol that were to be implemented by exchanges and he alleged that these changes rendered the currency vulnerable to hacking. At least one publication noted that the funds reportedly were stolen from a cold wallet - one stored offline - which would not have been vulnerable to problems in the protocol changes. In April 2018, a class action suit was entered in a U.S. court against BitGrail and the nano developers committed to help fund the prosecution of the case. BitGrail has announced that it would make some compensation directly and would issue customers affected by the hack a new coin whose value over time should compensate for losses.
On May 1, 2018 BitGrail announced that it would resume operations the next day. On May 2, BitGrail was forced to again suspend trading by the authorities. Then in June 2018, BitGrail reported that its holdings first of bitcoin and then of nano were seized by the Tribunal of Florence, which was hearing cases against BitGrail. 
== References ==
Category: digital assets
Category: blockchain
Category: bitcoin
Category: CryptoMarketsWiki
BitPay

BitPay, an American company, is one of the oldest and largest bitcoin payment services in the world. 
== Services ==
BitPay provides services to enable merchants and other businesses to accept payments in bitcoin. BitPay's software is compatible with numerous point-of-sale as well as e-commerce payment systems so that customers can pay with bitcoin and the merchant can receives fiat bank deposits. Payment processing in bitcoin as compared to processing in fiat currencies can be attractive to merchants when they can get the cost of processing a payment down from a minimum of 3% of the transaction amount for credit cards to as low as 1% for bitcoin. 
BitPay offers individuals several products, for example prepaid Visa debit cards issued by Metropolitan Commercial Bank that can be loaded from a bitcoin wallet and used for purchases denominated in either bitcoin or fiat. It also offers consumers the BitPay wallet.
The New York Department of Financial Services granted BitPay a "Bitlicense" on July 16, 2018 to make payments to and receive payments from New York residents.
On November 27, 2018, media reported BitPay had advised its customers the previous day that the Copay and BitPay applications had been infiltrated by malware. Stating that it was unaware of any losses to its customers or malicious use of customer private information, BitPay advised its customers to take steps to assure that their funds were not compromised. The company learned of the breech from a posting on GitHub, the central developer code repository and news board. According to the GitHub report, an external developer, Dominic Tarr, had earlier turned over his publishing rights to another external developer, right9ctrl, who injected the code into third-party software that is used in BitPay's wallet applications. 
In September 2019, BitPay announced that it had added support for Ethereum. In October 2019, BitPay announced that it had partnered with Ripple’s Xpring unit to integrate XRP on its platform so that businesses and merchants can accept it. 
In December 2019, BitPay announced that it had added support for three stablecoins: Circle's USDC, Gemini's GUSD, Paxos Standard Token (PAX). 
The company launched BitPay Send in November 2020. The new service allows companies to make mass payments of bitcoin to employees, contractors and suppliers. With BitPay Send the payor can pay in fiat or cryptocurrency and the payees receive bitcoin in their own cryptocurrency wallets.
 
== Company ==
According to figures compiled by Crunchbase, an investment data reporting service, BitPay had taken in $72.5 million in start-up funding by July 2018. BitPay processed more than $1 billion worth of bitcoin payments in 2017. 
== References ==
Category: fintech
Category: digital assets
Category: bitcoin
Category: CryptoMarketsWiki
BitShares (BTS)

BitShares Blockchain is a decentralized platform that was build for financial smart contracts. 
BTS is its native coin which allows holders to vote on the future direction for the blockchain. In mid May 2019, According to CoinMarketCap, an online industry data aggregator, BTS was the 48th largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.
== References ==
Category: cryptocurrency
Category: blockchain
Category: trading
Category: fintech
Category: CryptoMarketsWiki
BitTorrent Token (BTT)

In July 2018, Justin Sun, the creator and founder of TRON, purchased BitTorrent for $140 million. BitTorrent is the company that owns uTorrent, a decentralized, peer-to-peer file sharing application that has been responsible for 3 percent of the Internet's daily traffic since at least 2015. The announcement said that BitTorrent's team would be working out of the TRON San Francisco location. 
In January 2019, TRON announced a new digital token, BitTorrent Token (BTT), the new native digital token of BitTorrent, in order to improve the service's content delivery, file storage, and privacy-protecting proxy services. This differs somewhat from BitTorrent's traditional method of providing its content hosting and download services; originally, BitTorrent relied on people using its service to contribute some of their processing power to the service, letting the network use their processing power during and after the user downloads the music, video, or other content that they are downloading - in other words, users paid in bandwidth, not money. The BTT whitepaper acknowledges this, arguing that adding a tokenized store of value could broaden the range of possibilities a service like BitTorrent can achieve. Binance founder Changpeng Zhao praised the token over Twitter.
Binance hosted a successful sale of BTT on January 28, 2019. In two separate markets - one for payers using TRX and one for payers using BNB, Binance's native cryptocurrency - 59.8 billion BTT, worth about $7.2, sold out within minutes. 
In September 2019, BTT had the 51st largest capitalization of all cryptocurrencies according to CoinMarketCap, an online data reporting service.
== References ==
Category: fintech
Category: cryptocurrency
Category: CryptoMarketsWiki
Bitbank (China)

Not to be confused with Bitbank Exchange, a cryptocurrency exchange in Japan, Bitbank is a Chinese bitcoin services provider that includes wallets and investment management. 
Bitbank also provides cryptocurrency technology services and bitcoin mining. In 2016, BBC Future broadcast an interview with the founder and owner of Bitbank, Chandler Guo, who led an on-camera tour of the Bitbank mine in a remote undisclosed mountain location in China. 
== References ==	
Category:Trading
Category:Japan
Category:China
Category:CryptoMarketsWiki