Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Recent data published by trader and investor Sylvain Ribes provides compelling evidence that fake volume is a very real issue within the crypto market, stating that major exchanges fake volume "In a laughingly obvious and artificial way."

ConsenSys is launching Tachyon, the first ethereum-focused accelerator program in San Francisco, the firm announced Thursday.

Stock and crypto trading app Robinhood plans to offer banking services to its 4 mln users, Bloomberg reported June 20, citing anonymous sources.

Cheetah Mobile, a Beijing-based app developer, announced on Thursday that it's releasing an app aimed to make it simpler for investors to monitor their cryptocurrency portfolios.

So much so it seems that a startup looking to release movies - early offerings include a biopic about the founder of the car company and his feud with the founder of Ferrari - has raised a whopping $575 million off its private sale of TTU crypto tokens from investors including BlockTower Capital and even a prince.

Decentralized application platform Enigma will partner with Intel on privacy research as it prepares to launch its blockchain testnet, the two companies confirmed June 20.

Cryptocurrency is a poor substitute for fiat money, claims the Bank of International Settlements in a chapter of its annual report, released on June 17.

Bitcoin's bulls are struggling to push prices higher, despite a still-favorable short-term set-up on the technical charts.

Cryptocurrency markets continue to find support near monthly lows.

The world's largest brewer, Anheuser-Busch InBev is an age-old brewing company that values tradition and is now looking to expand through innovation.

Schiphol - the international airport serving the Netherlands' capital city, Amsterdam - is launching an ATM that will allow travelers to exchange their euros for bitcoin or ethereum.

Major Spanish banking group BBVA and Spanish energy company Repsol have signed an agreement to develop blockchain-based solutions for corporate banking, according to an announcement published June 20.

The St. Louis division of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank is now tracking the prices of four cryptocurrencies in its research database.

USD-paired stablecoin Tether released a report that indicates the company behind USDT does possess sufficient capital to back each individual token on a 1:1 basis.

China's federal science institution, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is taking part in a new research effort around blockchain.

Cryptocurrency exchange Huobi announced that financial data firm Bloomberg has added the HB10 crypto market index on its terminal for subscribers.

Speaking at CB Insights' Future of Fintech conference Wednesday, Nasdaq president and CEO Adena Friedman hit on a theme almost everyone at the event echoed: the central role normally marginal figures - small-time investors and millennials in particular - play in the cryptocurrency market.

While Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s shares have seen substantial growth in the past month due to a cryptocurrency mining boom, two analysts warn that investors could be disappointed should mining die down, MarketWatch reported June 20.In the past month, AMD's stock has gained around 30 percent thanks to the graphic processing units produced by the company, which have established themselves as effective hardware for crypto mining.

The recent hack of leading crypto exchange Bithumb "Doesn't really change the fundamentals of Bitcoin" Litecoin founder Charlie Lee stated in an interview with CNBC June 20.According to Lee, the price drop is a typical reaction of the market to the news about the hack, and "It happens all the time," because people get scared.

The Toronto Stock Exchange will list a new blockchain exchange traded fund starting Thursday, Bloomberg reported June 20.

Grammy-nominated artist, producer, and entrepreneur, Aliaune Damala Badara Thiam, better known as Akon, recently announced the launch of his own cryptocurrency Akoin.

Crypto exchange Gemini founders Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have long sought the creation of a bitcoin exchange-traded fund.

Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman recently claimed that initial coin offerings pose "Serious risks" for retail investors, CNBC reports June 20.Speaking at the Future of Fintech conference in New York on Wednesday, Friedman expressed "Real concern" about ICO projects, saying that they can seriously defraud retail investors.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has received an additional emergency court order to freeze the assets of Dominic Lacroix, owner of PlexCorps, in an ongoing enforcement action, Crowdfund Insider reported June 20.

Brazil's central bank has created a permissioned digital ledger platform that will enable data sharing among financial regulators, Finextra reports today, June 20.The ledger, called the Information Integration Platform for Regulators, will be used by regulators to exchange information on general authorization processes of financial institutions, ranging from administrative processes to the conduct of employees.

That's what some are wondering after Tether, the makers of the dollar-pegged crypto asset, USDT, made an announcement Wednesday insisting that its tokens - valued at $2.6 billion - are fully-backed by real cash.

In its World Wealth Report 2018, consulting firm Capgemini identified a marked growth of interest in cryptocurrencies among rich investors, Cointelegraph auf Deutsch reported yesterday, June 19.For the report, Capgemini interviewed high-net-worth individuals and asset managers around the world about their interest in cryptocurrencies.

Leading U.S. investment banking group Goldman Sachs is exploring cryptocurrency trading derivatives, Goldman Sachs Chief Operating Officer said in an interview with Bloomberg June 20.COO David Solomon stated that the company is already assisting clients in publicly-traded derivatives such as Bitcoin futures, and that the company is "Very cautiously" considering "Some other activities" in the field.

The U.S. government needs to find the "Sweet spot" in its oversight of the cryptocurrency ecosystem, Mick Mulvaney, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said on Wednesday.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has taken to Twitter to a share a motivational message to employees and the crypto community, encouraging them to stay optimistic through the wild fluctuations of the cryptocurrency market and stating that downturns and bear runs are the ideal time for Coinbase to make progress as a company.