Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

The University of Texas at Austin is among one of the first academic institutions to receive funding from Ripple, the San Francisco-based distributed ledger technology startup.

Created by a developer who goes by the handle "Lightning K0ala," the project is inspired by Reddit's massive multiplayer art experiment, "Place," a three-day effort in collaborative drawing that garnered hype in 2017.

Despite a recent market downturn, cryptocurrencies continue to make regulatory progress.

U.S. retail giant Walmart has won a patent for the development of an electrical grid that will be powered by Bitcoin or other digital currency, according to a patent application published June 14 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

AlphaPoint Corp. has raised $15 mln in funding from digital assets merchant bank Galaxy Digital LP founded by billionaire investor Mike Novogratz, Bloomberg reported June 14.

Microsoft has partnered with Ardents, a supply tracking solutions provider, to develop a new product tracking platform using blockchain technology and artificial intelligence, Food Engineering reported June 14.The new blockchain solution, which is called Ardents NovaTrack, was presented at Viva Tech 2018 in Paris.

According to Fundstrat head of research Thomas Lee, the recent decline in Bitcoin price is likely the result of the expiration of Bitcoin futures, Bloomberg reports June 14.In a report, Lee explained that the "Gut wrenching" weakness in Bitcoin, which dropped upwards of 20 percent earlier this week, was the result of futures contracts expiring.

Six months ago, Western Union began testing Ripple's XRP for payments, but the money transfer company states it has yet to see any financial benefit.

Billionaire venture capitalist, Tom Draper, has reiterated his prediction that Bitcoin will reach $250,000 by 2022, stating that "Fiat is the past," with both crypto and Bitcoin being the future.

South Korea has revealed plans to launch a blockchain center in Busan city modeled on the Swiss Crypto Valley, local news outlet Edaily reported June 14.At a recent blockchain event in Seoul "2018 Global Blockchain Conference," chairman of the Korea ICT Financial Convergence Association Oh Jung-geun claimed that the organization seeks to build a space similar to the "Crypto Valley" located in the Swiss canton of Zug."We need a place to concentrate on the cryptographic industry in Korea like the Crypto Valley in Switzerland," Oh said at the event.

A group of Oxford professors are seeking full-degree granting powers in the EU for the world's first "Blockchain university", according to an email shared with Cointelegraph today, June 14.According to the team of academics behind Woolf Development, led by Joshua Broggi from the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford, blockchain tech and smart contracts can help democratize the traditional structure of higher education.

The Russian Association of Corporate Treasurers is joining the nation's central bank in trialing the government-run Masterchain blockchain platform, the group announced last week.

"Using this technology, execution, clearing and settlement could occur simultaneously, minimizing liquidity and credit risks. Custody and other post-trade security services also are under threat from new technologies."

"The problem of regulation of cryptocurrencies is being discussed very intensively. The AIFC has a solid position on this issue - it is crucial to regulate the circulation of cryptocurrencies."

Global logistics giant DB Schenker is to launch a supplier evaluation system on the VeChainThor platform - the first of its kind, according to the Singapore-based blockchain.

Gains in of over 10 percent in some coins are a welcome respite for investors after crypto markets took a battering over the course of last month.

A Bank of Canada official questioned the effectiveness and security of using blockchain tech for banking at a conference in South Korea today, June 14, according to local reports.

Crypto services company AlphaPoint successfully raised $15 million in its first major round of venture capital funding, the firm announced Thursday.

The price of Bitcoin may be up slightly Wednesday, but that hasn't exactly raised the spirits of the asset's most avid investors.

The US SEC has again clarified its position on both Ethereum and Bitcoin, stating that neither cryptocurrencies are securities.

At press time, the blockchain has received more than the 150 million votes needed to determine the individuals or entities that will maintain the distributed network, the world's fifth largest by total value, thus ending a weeks-long process that had been among the most complex the evolving cryptocurrency market has perhaps ever seen.

A senior U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission official has said that leading altcoin Ethereum will not be regulated as a security, the Wall Street Journal reports today, June 14.

Ethereum is not a security, says U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission director of corporate finance William Hinman.

Stephen Bannon, co-founder of Breitbart News and former Chief Strategist for U.S. President Donald Trump's administration, is planning to enter the world of crypto, the New York Times reports today, June 14.

Thailand's financial regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission has confirmed five ICOs are ready to raise funds via the country's new fundraising regulations, local media Bangkok Post reported June 13.

Not content with disrupting U.S. politics, Steve Bannon now wants to disrupt the financial system with a move into the crypto space, according to a new interview.

A new investigation conducted by University of Texas researchers reveals compelling evidence that the meteoric rise of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in late 2017 is linked to price manipulation executed by individuals using Tether to create artificial market demand.

Star Trek legend William Shatner has become the latest celebrity to beam into the crypto space.

William Shatner, the former fictional Captain Kirk from Star Trek, is the spokesperson for a new solar-powered cryptocurrency mining facility, according to a press release published yesterday, June 13.

Cryptocurrency exchange itBit says it has received approval from the New York State Department of Financial Services to add four major cryptocurrencies to its trading and custody services.