Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Union Square Ventures, a private equity and venture capital firm, has plans to invest in blockchain and cryptocurrencies over the course of the next 10 years, CNBC reports June 29.

Board directors of the Austrian Financial Market Authority, Klaus Kumpfmüller and Helmut Ettl, have have offered proposals for stricter regulations on cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings, Cointelegraph auf Deutsch reports today, June 29.

Over the past week, Bitcoin dipped below $6,000 for the first time since October 2017.

39 financial firms partnered with blockchain consortium R3 completed more than 300 transactions via R3's know your customer application, according to a post on R3's blog June 28.

PwC found that ICO volume reached new record highs in the first half of 2018.

tZERO, a security token exchange and subsidiary of Overstock.com, has signed a letter of intent with investment company GSR Capital for the purchase of $160 million in tZERO Security Tokens, according to a press release published June 29.

JD Cloud, a subsidiary of China's largest online retailer JD Group, has partnered with digital currency exchange Huobi to explore blockchain technology applications and cloud computing, according to a press release published June 28.

The Sacramento Kings basketball team has teamed up with a crypto mining hardware firm to install mining machines in an indoor arena, with the crypto earnings funding a scholarship program, local news outlet The Sacramento Bee reported yesterday, June 28.

The Taiwanese subsidiary of tech giant Microsoft has partnered with tech investment company China Binary Sale Technology and High Cloud to create a platform for enterprise blockchain development, according to a press release from Microsoft June 28.

The price of XRP slid below $0.43 on Friday, hitting a new low for 2018.

On June 28, news emerged that a study, conducted by Diar, suggested that the Lightning Network, which is being heralded as a potential way for Bitcoin to scale, is not as effective at routing payments than was first believed.

Fifteen "Financial institutions" have become the subject of a formal complaint to a Polish government authority by cryptocurrency group the Polish Bitcoin Association, it confirmed June 27.

Now Bitcoin is trying to rise above $6,000 levels once again.

The $2 billion cryptocurrency network Tron kicked off an election this week - one of the last steps in its efforts to launch its official blockchain.

CoinText.io, a blockchain startup developing a way to conduct offline bitcoin cash transactions, just closed a $600,000 seed funding round, the company announced Friday.

One has announced it will begin to stake its share of tokens to vote for the network's 21 'Block Producers', in an announcement posted yesterday, June 28.

A new cybersecurity report from Kaspersky Labs notes a significant decline in the amount of ransomware targeting Internet users as compared to the growing increase of cryptojacking, in a report published June 27.

JD Cloud, a subsidiary of Chinese e-commerce giant JD Group is teaming up with crypto exchange Huobi to conduct new research into blockchain technology and cloud computing.

Chief Economic Advisor at financial services company Allianz, Mohamed El-Erian, told CNBC today, June 29, that he thinks Bitcoin will eventually be treated as a store of value - and that he would consider buying if the price hits $5,000.

According the latest statements from both blockchain security firm Slow Mist and Tether, the issue is actually down to an exchange integration flaw.

As one of the earliest adopters of institutional digital assets trading, Susquehanna International Group, founded in 1987, has been ahead of the blockchain curve - actively trading cryptocurrencies for the past two years.

A MultiPoS consensus blockchain and decentralized real-time application platform has revealed how it plans to move away from mining technology in favor of forging - arguing that a multi proof-of-stake method is more effective and rational for its users.

Bitcoin fell below $6,000 for the second time in a week Friday, June 29, the day CME Group's Bitcoin futures end their last day of trading for the month.

An industry group in Poland is attempting to challenge banks that are allegedly refusing to provide services for firms associated with cryptocurrencies.

Major global auditing and consulting firm KPMG has published a study focused on financial crime in Switzerland, with a section on cryptocurrency's role, Cointelegraph auf Deutsch reported June 28.

A group of financial firms and regulators, including big names like BNP Paribas and Deutsche Bank, have conducted a trial of a know-your-customer compliance application built upon R3's Corda blockchain platform.

Many individuals and groups are using blockchain technology to help refugees in innovative ways beyond just remittances.

Among a slew of updates, CryptoKitties is open-sourcing its API and smart contracts for gameplay in the KittyVerse - a virtual world of experiences including catfights, racing and accessories - through a developer toolkit.

Cryptojacking malware activity rose a staggering 629 percent in the first quarter of 2018, according to a new report published by cyber security firm McAfee Labs June 27.

Line, the second-largest chat messaging app in Southeast Asia and the most popular chat service in Japan, announced the impending launch of a new cryptocurrency exchange called BitBox.