Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Former Goldman Sachs partner, Mike Novogratz distinctively poised himself as an early cryptocurrency bull with an institutional investment background.

The EOS blockchain launch has been confirmed for launch at 1PM UTC time today, with a unanimous decision amongst voters.

China is a major player in the Bitcoin market, hosting a substantial share of Bitcoin miners and Bitcoin trading volume, although both factors used to be more impressive before a wave of regulatory suppression.

US Commodity Futures Trading Commission Commissioner Rostin Behnam labeled cryptocurrencies as a "Modern miracle" at a recent summit, sharing a bullish stance on virtual currencies and predicting that blockchain technology will remake economic, social and political structures.

The launch of the EOS blockchain has been a giant experiment in remote self-organization.

Regulators from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission reportedly demanded extensive trading data from several cryptocurrency exchanges, people familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal June 8.

Sweden, which usually serves as a textbook example for getting crypto-based investment funds right, had introduced bitcoin traded products as early as in 2015.As pockets of crypto securities emerge in Europe and Asia, one major jurisdiction is conspicuously absent from this map - the United States.

Connecticut governor Dannel Malloy signed SB 443 into law, which establishes a blockchain working group to study the technology, according to public documents June 6.

The Moscow Exchange is preparing infrastructure that will allow companies to conduct initial coin offerings, which it expects to launch this year, Reuters reported June 8.

Financial services provider Mastercard has filed a patent for a blockchain system to provide faster and more secure payments on their cards, according to US Patent and Trademark Office USPTO patent filing released June 7.

Fabio Panetta, deputy governor of the Bank of Italy, gave a keynote address focused on central bank digital currencies at the SUERF/BAFFI CAREFIN Centre Conference in Milan Thursday, June 7.

The first signs of recovery will be when the BTC/USD pair breaks out and sustains above the 20-day EMA. Confirmation of a change in the short-term trend will be on a breakout and close above $7,941.

Fortune reported Thursday that R3 is facing a cash crunch, coming just over a year after the company announced a $107 million funding round to "Bring blockchain services to the financial sector".

Central banks aren't ready - at least in the short-term - to handle the implications of launching wholly digital currencies, the deputy governor of the Bank of Italy said Thursday.

The first vote was deemed invalid, but it had enough votes for a "Go." The second was deemed valid, but it failed to meet the agreed upon threshold for launch.

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All of the top ten coins by market cap are showing minor losses today, June 8, within a range of 1 to 4 percent over the 24 hour period to press time, as Coinmarketcap data shows.

After a three-month long investigation, the South Korean government finds no evidence of wrongdoing at the Bithumb crypto exchange, local media report June 8.

Distributed ledger startup Ripple has been named in yet another lawsuit tied to the XRp cryptocurrency, court records show.

The Moscow Exchange is planning to share information about initial coin offerings, CEO Alexander Afanasiev told Reuters Friday.

South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has been found not guilty of tax evasion, but now faces a massive tax bill, according to reports.

Data from Chainalysis shows that the amount of Bitcoin owned by long-term investors is now almost equalled by short-term speculators, according to Financial Times report June 8.

Robert Sluymer of Fundstrat Global Advisors spoke to CNBC Thursday, June 7, about his view that Bitcoin is set up for a price breakout in the near future.

One of the industry's leading voices, Jamie Dimon, once famously described Bitcoin as a "Fraud," and other institutions acted like it was.

The blockchain lead at Mizuho Financial Group has revealed he is leaving the firm, according to an internal email obtained by CoinDesk.

Chinese search engine Baidu has created a blockchain-based game called "Du Yuzhou" where users will receive "Elements" to build their own planets while using blockchain features, Coindesk reports Friday, June 8.

While last year R3 had implied that the company had a larger goal of raising $200 mln in funding, R3 told Fortune that the figure came from a now-cancelled plan to sell a stake in a research subsidiary.

Payments giant Mastercard is exploring the use of public blockchains in securely verifying payment cards at the point of sale, public documents show.

A report from Russian Analytic Credit Rating Agency released Thursday, June 7, states that cryptocurrency is not yet usable as a means of payment.

Alipay's operator Ant International has entered into "Definitive agreements" with investors to secure $14 bln in a Series C equity financing round.