Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Following acrimonious debates within the bitcoin and ethereum communities over the past few years regarding governance decisions that ended in forks, there has been a wave of projects offering on-chain governance.

The South Korean government will invest 10 billion Korean won to support blockchain development in the country, with plans to carry out six pilots using blockchain technology.

In a forum post published Tuesday, the sole maintainer of the Windows zcash wallet software, D. Jane Mercer, said he was going to cease development of the clients and release a zcash competitor "Rebranded as another coin," if he didn't get further funding for his work.

The co-founder of Irish Bitcoin broker Eircoin accused the Banking and Payments Federation of Ireland of discriminating against crypto-related accounts, The Irish Times reports June 21.

Ukrainian police have arrested a group of four men suspected of running six fake cryptocurrency exchanges, Bleeping Computer reported June 21.Four men between ages 20 and 26 allegedly launched at least six digital currency exchanges, where they deceived users, subsequently stealing money from them.

U.S. Representative Warren Davidson said the initial coin offering market needs "Light touch" regulation on CNBC's Squawk Box today, June 21.When asked about cryptocurrency regulation, Davidson argued that the "Big thing" the market needs is a "Light touch regulatory framework" which, according to the congressman, would provide more certainty.

Technology giant Tencent is teaming up with the Chinese government to fight blockchain-related security issues.

Board director of the Swiss National Bank Thomas Moser said that cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology are too primitive to consider issuing a state-backed digital currency, local news outlet swissinfo.

Millions of dollars worth of ICON tokens are now on the move - as the cryptocurrency project begins its token migration.

Stellar Lumens is currently discussing the possibility of acquiring Chain - a San Francisco-based startup building cryptographic ledgers for the finance industry.

Provincial utility Hydro-Quebec has proposed new rules, under which blockchain companies will be required to bid for electricity and quantify the jobs and investment they expect to generate per megawatt, Hydro-Quebec announced in a press release June 21.The new regime seeks to allocate up to 500 megawatts, in addition to 120 megawatts of already existing initiatives.

Posted on June 19 by Mark Wilcox, the hashtag actually represents a cryptographic code known as a hash that's produced each time new transactions are validated and written onto the bitcoin blockchain.

The 10th most valuable cryptocurrency in the world is set to commence its token migration process on Thursday.

U.S. crypto entrepreneurs Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have won a patent for a system to provide crypto-based exchange-traded products, according to a patent filing published by the U.S. Patent and Trademarks Office June 19.

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis will now be tracking the prices of four cryptocurrencies on their research database, according to a June 19 post on the bank's website.

Sheila Bair, a former chairperson of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, believes the U.S. should create a wholly new regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies.

"Hardly anyone still doubts that blockchain will penetrate our entire economy."

South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb has today confirmed it will reimburse users affected by the theft of 35 bln won from its hot wallet two days ago, in an official announcement today, June 21.

Today, June 21, Cointelegraph is launching a listings platform for crypto and Blockchain-specific job opportunities.

Bloomberg Terminal, a paid financial data monitoring service, will now list crypto exchange Huobi's Cryptocurrency Index, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph today, June 21.

"Let's be clear: Ripple is different than XRP," Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of distributed ledger startup Ripple, argued during CB Insights' Future of Fintech conference on Thursday.

The Ethics Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives has issued a memorandum requiring all House Members to disclose their cryptocurrency holdings worth over $1,000, Bloomberg reported yesterday, June 20.

A group of crypto startups and organizations are sponsoring a new blockchain research center headquartered at Stanford University.

South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT has announced a major Blockchain Technology Development Strategy that aims to raise 230 bln won by 2022, The News Asia reports today, June 21.

That's not something you see every day: an opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court that makes a reference to cryptocurrencies.

In early May 2018, Goldman Sachs confirmed plans to launch a Bitcoin futures trading desks to meet client demand.

Bluehill, a startup incubator for global blockchain projects, launched on Thursday after raising $50 million to support the IOST blockchain ecosystem.

South Korea's Bithumb cryptocurrency exchange said Thursday that it may be able to reduce the financial damage arising from a multi-million dollar hack earlier this week.

Recently at BlockShow Europe 2018, Cointelegraph got the chance to speak to Bobby Lee - co-founder of Chinese crypto exchange BTCC and a board member at the Bitcoin Foundation - about what he's been up to in the crypto space since BTCC shut down last fall.

Stanford has created the Center for Blockchain Research, supported in part by the Ethereum Foundation, Stanford Engineering's website posted yesterday, June 20.