Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

With over twenty blockchain startups emerging locally, Seattle has become home to many companies at the forefront of disruptive technology and entrepreneurship.

Global auto giant BMW is piloting a blockchain platform to track mileage in leased vehicles through its startup innovation program.

Cryptocurrencies have always had an antagonistic relationship with governments, central banks, and regulators.

The obsession with Bitcoin's price, driven by irrationally exuberant speculators, is distracting people from adhering to the core values of Bitcoin.

These developments were followed in early 2018 by a cascade of SEC subpoenas and enforcement actions targeting similar token offerings - many of which smacked of fraud.

Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of digital currency trading platform Binance, said in a blog post May 7 that initial coin offerings perform far better than venture capital funds, even with a high risk of failure.

Hackers have injected hundreds of websites running the Drupal content management system with malicious software used to mine the cryptocurrency monero.

ETH/USDOur proposed buy on Ethereum was triggered on May 06 when it declined close to the breakout levels.

Quarterly cross-border transaction growth for Mastercard declined by 2% over the last year partly due to the lack of customers using the service to purchase cryptocurrencies, according to Mastercard's CFO. During the May earnings call, Mastercard's CFO Martina Hund-Mejean revealed that quarterly cross-border transaction growth for the company is down by 2% from the first quarter.

He Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco released an Economic Letter May 7, suggesting that Bitcoin's decline following its $20,000 peak was the result of the launch of Bitcoin futures trading.

Oracle Corp., the world's second largest software company, is launching blockchain products over the next two months, Bloomberg reports May 7.President of software development Thomas Kurian announced today at Oracle headquarters that the company will unveil a platform-as-a-service product this month, and decentralized ledger-based applications next month.

Researchers from the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank's San Francisco division believe that the launch of bitcoin futures on several marketplaces in the U.S. last December played a role in a subsequent slump in the cryptocurrency's price.

Zhao Changpeng, the CEO of popular crypto exchange Binance, said that the initial coin offering model is preferred to venture capital - even with the risk of fraud.

Charlie Munger's uniquely imaginative vision of Bitcoin was given yet a further twist today, as the Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman compared cryptocurrency trading to dealing in "Freshly harvested baby brains." During an interview with Yahoo Finance May 7, Munger was asked if there were anything he could recognize of value in the crypto phenomenon.

As of autumn 2017, assets under management by the hedge fund industry were estimated at $2.5 tln.

Blockchain startup Circle is adding the privacy-focused cryptocurrency monero to its Invest application, the company announced Monday.

A pair of Congressional subcommittees will continue their fact-finding mission on blockchain during a hearing tomorrow.

Microsoft announced the Azure Blockchain Workbench Monday, releasing a new set of tools for developers that work with distributed ledger tech.

Thailand's national stock exchange has launched a new blockchain-powered component for startups.

Two blockchain companies have partnered to launch a $190 mln Bitcoin mining operation in a disused coal plant in Australia.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates issued critical comments about Bitcoin May 7, telling CNBC it was a "Greater fool" investment and he "Would short it if he could."

This week, we will use technical analysis to look into the current price action of Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, and Ripple.

May 7: more than $35 bln dollars were wiped off the crypto markets this weekend, as Bitcoin tantalizingly tested the $10,000 resistance, only to retrace Sunday, May 6.

Michael J. Casey is chairman of CoinDesk's advisory board and a senior advisor of blockchain research at MIT's Digital Currency Initiative.

The new head of a South Korean financial watchdog has taken a softer tone on cryptocurrencies and hinted that his agency may consider easing rules for exchanges, The Korea Times reports.

As of writing, bitcoin is changing hands at $9,400, representing a 2.67 percent drop from the previous day's close of $9,658.

The billionaire chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett, has again hit out at bitcoin, comparing it with rat poison.

The missing machines from an unsolved Bitcoin mining hardware theft in Iceland earlier this year may be in China, Icelandic media outlet RUV reported May 5.

European cryptocurrency exchanges renewed calls for suitable regulations as the international legal landscape continues to vary, Bloomberg reports May 7.

Learning Machine, the blockchain startup co-developed a system for putting digital diplomas on the blockchain with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has raised $3 million.