Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

China expects to have its national blockchain standardization committee in place before the end of this year, according to an official from the country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

Monday, May 28: crypto markets are experiencing a significant decline with all top ten cryptocurrencies listed on Coinmarketcap in the red.

While the odds are still stacked in favor of bitcoin's bears, a level of indecision looks to be creeping in, according to the technical charts.

BlockShow Europe 2018 kicked off this morning in Berlin, bringing together over 3,000 attendees and 150 projects from the blockchain space for a major conference that will run over the next two days, May 28-29.

Software giant Intel is looking to protect a novel way to verify transactions on a distributed ledger.

Users of cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex were making complaints about account "Freezes" May 27 after completing mandatory new identity verification procedures.

An established company that is listed on the stock exchange in Frankfurt is creating a decentralized, social virtual reality world which gives users the chance to rub shoulders with some of the world's biggest celebrities.

Chinese cryptocurrency media companies are boycotting an ongoing blockchain conference after the organizer used a Chairman Mao impersonator to promote the event.

Japan's GMO Internet Group officially announced the June 7th release of its new Bitcoin mining card- "GMO Miner B2", marking a new era of powerful, energy-efficient processing units as the world's first 7nm consumer mining card.

Ethereum classic is set to fork in the coming days as part of a bid to diffuse a so-called 'bomb' in its code.

Over the past 24 hours, altcoins such as Stellar Lumens, Cardano NEO and IOTA have remained steady while EOS is beginning to trend upward.

That may soon change as IHS Markit, the market infrastructure giant, is developing a new blockchain-based system to handle the payments leg of syndicated loan trading - and eventually, a wider range of financial transactions.

As announced in its press release, the OAG sent information requests to thirteen cryptocurrency trading platforms, including some with no nexus to New York, as exchanges such as Kraken and Bitfinex purport to block New York users.

You may think that you have never heard of Laszlo Hanyecz, a Florida-based programmer working for online retail company GoRuck, but you'd probably be wrong - Hanyecz was behind the inspirational purchase of two pizzas from Papa John's for 10,000 Bitcoin back on May 22, 2010, making this week a celebration of Pizza Day's eight year anniversary.

The cryptocurrency market recently experienced a bearish run driven by a range of factors including Mt Gox "Tokyo Whale" sell-offs, delayed institutional investor participation, and regulatory pressure.

The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into possible crypto market manipulation, specifically looking at Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Bitcoin remains a strong buy despite recent losses, blockchain venture capitalist Spencer Bogart told CNBC yesterday, May 26.

To commit an action to the ethereum blockchain, users need to expend gas, a unit of value that's priced in ether, the network's cryptocurrency, and that fluctuates based on how much other people are using the network at any given time.

The General Data Protection Regulation, a sweeping and stringent European Union wide legal framework for personal data privacy, became effective on May 25.

An anonymous monero user called "Luigi1111" now handles the monero website and graphical user interface, while rotating volunteers routinely host the weekly IRC chats for monero developers.

Revolut, a trading platform that has captured the title of the fastest-growing "Unicorn" fintech company, has recently announced the launch of Bitcoin Cash and Ripple support for the Revolut trading app.

The NEO Foundation and Ontology Foundation have joined forces to improve the development of API standardization, a sharing ecosystem of smart contracts, building open standards for smart contracts, and cross-chain technology innovation.

According to CoinSchedule, ICOs raised almost $7.8 billion during the first few months of 2018.

The development of the IOTA network has taken a significant step forward with the launch of several new testnets that will replace the current "Mainnet Lite" test Tangle.

The Ethereum blockchain has recently become the center of heated discussion due to its rapidly growing size, with many industry observers noting that increasing bloat may cause issues such as difficulties in archiving or synchronizing.

Cryptocurrency trading app Taylor suffered a catastrophic hack on May 22 that resulted in the loss of over 2,500 ETH, valued at $1.5 million.

There are currently a number of federal regulators involved in crypto, and all of those bodies view cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin differently - defining it as a security, money, property or a commodity.

South African Police are pursuing an alleged major cryptocurrency investment fraud, according to a police statement released yesterday, May 25.

First Deputy Governor of the Russian Central Bank Olga Skorobogatova has said that blockchain technology is not yet "Mature" enough for industrial-scale use, local media outlet Prime reports today, May 26.During a discussion at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Skorobogatova suggested that the emerging technology still requires improvements.

UK authorities have opened 24 investigations into cryptocurrency businesses over financial regulatory compliance, local media outlet CityWire reported May 25.