Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

At press time, BTC is trading at $6,575 on Bitfinex - up 3.4 percent in the last 24 hours.

Trade confirmed it had completed its first live operations today, July 3, involving twenty companies and five major banks.

Smartphone maker Xiaomi said it has not authorized and has no connections to an initial coin offering scheme that is selling a token which is said to peg to Xiaomi's stock price in its upcoming initial public offering.

The company behind OK Cashbag, the oldest and most popular mileage point program in South Korea, is mulling a plan to convert cash points accumulated by its users into cryptocurrency.

At least, that was the impression given at the Blockchain Summit in London this week, where a range of bankers talked enthusiastically about the digital trade finance platforms they are building and the cost reductions they believe will result.

One of the premier dApps on the Ethereum blockchain last year, CryptoKitties played a central role in bringing global attention to cryptocurrencies.

Bitcoin is up 4.88% over the past 24 hours.

A group of European banks announced they have completed first live blockchain-based financial trades across borders via their jointly developed we.

"The fintech industry's success globally depends on the ability of the businesses operating in this space to enjoy the necessary banking services. In other jurisdictions, banking has been the greatest challenge and for us in Bermuda, it is equally so and therefore it must be resolved."

With the TRON mainnet swap underway, the Tron Foundation started the process of destroying, also known as "Burning," its old ERC20 tokens.

An investigative article raising concerns about possible market manipulation of tether has sparked a social media firestorm, with the dollar-pegged cryptocurrency's detractors, supporters and seemingly everyone in between weighing in.

Japanese financial regulator the Financial Services Agency is considering to change the legal basis for how it regulates cryptocurrency exchanges, local media Sankei reports July 3.The FSA reportedly is considering to regulate crypto exchanges by the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, instead of its current legal foundation, the Payment Services Act.

Mohamed El-Erian, a chief economic advisor at Allianz, wants to buy Bitcoin if it declines to $5,000 levels.

Blackmoon, a company based in Moscow, Russia, has offered the world's fourth-largest smartphone producer Xiaomi to tokenize its initial public offering, news outlet South China Morning Post reported July 2.Blackmoon, which is a blockchain fintech company that establishes and runs tokenized funds, has reportedly offered Xiaomi to sell digitized tokens for its stock on a dollar-for-dollar basis.

A debate between an infamous bitcoin detractor and one of the cryptocurrency's most well-known entrepreneurs made sparks fly in New York City Monday.

Two Nevada citizens agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission, which accused them of profiting from the illegal sale of stocks of UBI Blockchain Internet Ltd., Bloomberg reported July 2.On Monday, the SEC filed a lawsuit in a New York federal court, accusing Nevada attorney T.J. Jesky and his firm's manager Mark F. DeStefano of earning around $1.4 million by illegally selling shares in UBI Blockchain Internet Ltd. from December 2017 to January 2018.UBI Blockchain Internet Ltd., formerly known as JA Energy, is a Hong Kong based company engaged in the research and application of blockchain technology primarily focused on Internet of Things.

Coinbase, the world's largest crypto exchange with more than 20 million active users, launched a custodian solution for large-scale institutional investors that could potentially attract billions of dollars worth of new capital into the crypto market.

UK food regulator the Food Standard Agency has successfully accomplished a pilot using blockchain technology according to an announcement published July 2.

While several emerging smart contract platforms make only slight revisions to derivative blockchains, Burst combines several unique features and mechanisms to bring users a truly distinct distributed ledger experience.

Zug, a city in Switzerland known as the "Crypto Valley," has successfully completed its first test of a local blockchain-based voting system.

The U.K.'s Food Standards Agency, a safety watchdog, announced Monday it has successfully piloted a blockchain-based supply chain monitoring system.

The Bank of Finland released a paper on June 21 titled "The Great Illusion of Cryptocurrencies," explaining why they think the concept of a digital currency is a "Fallacy."

Security researchers have discovered MacOS malware attacks targeting Slack and Discord users talking about cryptocurrencies, SC Media UK reports July 2.Remco Verhoef, founder of network security firm DutchSec, posted about the malware on June 30th in a blog post for the information security and cybersecurity training Sans Institute.

Bitcoin is building on Friday's sharp recovery from lows below $5,800, indicating the corrective rally has more substance than what many presumed to be another "Dead cat bounce."

John McAfee took aim at the centralized cryptocurrency exchange paradigm this week, firing a salvo of warlike tweets at 9th-highest ranked crypto exchange HitBTC and calling for a boycott of the platform.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged two Nevada residents with illegally profiting off stock sales from a self-described blockchain startup.

The Russian Ministry of Defense is launching a research lab to analyze how blockchain technology can be used to mitigate cybersecurity attacks, a local newspaper reported Friday.

The Association of Thai Securities Companies is considering establishing a joint cryptocurrency exchange, with plans for several firms to apply together for a crypto exchange license, local news outlet Bangkok Post reports July 2.Pattera Dilokrungthirapop, ASCO chairperson, told the Bangkok Post that several Thai securities firms will apply for a joint crypto operating license with the Thai Securities and Exchange Commission in order to reduce costs and share technologies.

Major U.S. crypto exchange and wallet provider Coinbase has announced that its digital assets custodian solution for institutional investors is now launched, in an official blog post July 2.Coinbase first revealed its plans for its 'Coinbase Custody' venture in late 2017, saying at the time that it was seeking to address what it considers to be the "Number one" concern of institutional investors, namely, security.

After proposing to streamline the process of launching an exchange-traded fund, the United States' Securities and Exchange Commission may be giving blockchain funds easier access to a $3.4 trillion market.