Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

In the week leading up to the launch of the EOS mainnet, an ethical hacker has confirmed eight vulnerabilities in the blockchain's code.

Bitcoin has been squeezed into an increasingly narrow range for more than two weeks and is now experiencing volatility not seen for eight months.

Bitmain, one of the earliest manufacturers to bring Bitcoin mining chips to market is now in competition with some of the world's largest chipmakers.

Users of Parity Ethereum were warned to update after a "Critical" consensus issue was discovered - one that could potentially corrupt up to 30% of the world's second most successful blockchain.

Chinese search giant Baidu revealed on Friday that it is launching a blockchain gaming app, just days after it revealed a proprietary platform called SuperChain.

Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, Republic, a crowdequity platform that can help ICO issuers manage token sales that was spun out of AngelList, has raised $12 million in commitments for a token presale.

Quebec has issued a moratorium on new cryptocurrency mining operations in a bid to give officials time to develop new restrictions and potentially increase energy costs, Reuters reported Thursday.

Ant Financial, the payment affiliate of Chinese internet giant Alibaba, announced on Friday it has raised $14 billion in a Series C round funding, which will be used to further develop new technologies such as blockchain.

At least five cryptocurrencies have recently been hit with an attack that used to be more theoretical than actual, all in the last month.

"Decentralized cloud" company Dfinity announced its token distribution plans last week, and revealed in a statement that it will give away 35 million Swiss francs worth of its DFN tokens to "Hundreds of thousands" of community members.

PotCoin is reportedly in discussions with representatives of Dennis Rodman to sponsor his trip to the US-North Korea summit in Singapore next week, the Washington Post reported June 7.

German insurance group Allianz and Deutsche Bank have partnered with Berlin-based car exchange Auto1 to offer auto financing using blockchain technology, Cointelegraph auf Deutsch reported today, June 7.

Major Canadian electricity provider Hydro-Québec will temporarily stop processing requests from cryptocurrency miners in order for the company to fulfil its obligations to supply energy to the entire province, according to a press release published June 7.Hydro-Québec is experiencing "Unprecedented" demand from blockchain companies, which reportedly exceeds the electric utility's short and medium-term capacity.

Based in Vancouver, Canada, Stably is a venture-capital backed startup that is on a mission to bring stability to the volatile cryptocurrency market.

The Bank of Thailand is considering issuing its own cryptocurrency, the bank's governor revealed in a speech June 5.In his keynote on Thai economic development at Nomura Investment Forum Asia in Singapore, BoT governor Veerathai Santiprabhob spoke of a new project in which the central bank and other Thai banks join forces to develop a "New way of conducting interbank settlement" using a central bank-issued digital currency.

Blockchain technology incubator Binance Labs gave an "Ask me Anything" session on Reddit June 6, devoted to investments in crypto and blockchain projects.

The Colombian Senate held a debate on cryptocurrencies and blockchain "As mechanisms to modernize the digital economy" on Wednesday, according to a Senate press release published today, June 7.The Third Committee of the Senate was convened by the senator of Colombia's Green Alliance party, Antonio Navarro Wolff, with participants including the Colombian central bank, the Ministry of Finance, the ICT Ministry, and Colombia's Financial Superintendent.

Asked if Russia will have its own cryptocurrency one day, Putin said he doesn't see such an outcome as possible because cryptocurrencies "By definition are beyond the national borders."

The financial watchdog of Poland has recently affirmed that cryptocurrency trading is completely legal in the country, according to an official announcement published on its website June 6.In its recent move, the Polish Financial Oversight Commission sought to clarify the status of cryptocurrencies and crypto trading, "Recognizing the emerging legal doubts related to the functioning of exchanges and exchange offices."

Having emerged in September 2017, 3Commas, an international crypto trading startup, has introduced a series of automatic trading bots for Binance.

Blockchain technology is not yet ready for implementation in financial markets, according to a report by De Nederlandsche Bank on June 7.

New York Department of Financial Services superintendent Maria Vullo defended her office's approach to regulating cryptocurrencies on Thursday.

The ARCHANGEL project is considering using blockchain tech to create immutable entries for digital records in the National Archives of the UK, according to a blog post from the National Archives published June 6.

Retired basketball star Dennis Rodman might be headed to Singapore for the upcoming summit between U.S. president Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un - and he might have PotCoin's help to dit.

Although crypto markets are still down over the past month, most of the top ten coins are in the green today, June 7.Market visualization from Coin360.

That's Jamie Dimon, CEO of Wall Street investment bank J.P Morgan Chase, who spoke Thursday to CNBC during a segment alongside billionaire investor Warren Buffett.

Video game publisher Trendy Entertainment is partnering with startup Signal Zero to integrate a blockchain-based rewards system with its flagship Dungeon Defenders franchise.

The CEO of crypto mining hardware giant Bitmain, Jihan Wu, has confirmed he is "Open" to conducting an overseas initial public offering, Bloomberg reports today, June 7.

Russian President Vladimir Putin issued ambiguous, but mostly negative, commentary on the question of Russian issuing its own cryptocurrency during his annual live question and answer session with the Russian public today, June 7.

Japan has issued its first official rejection of a cryptocurrency exchange application.