Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency startup Nexo, which is backed by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, has launched a cash-based lending platform.

"Big four" professional services firm Ernst & Young suggests that blockchain technology could transform the firm's finance operations and redefine the role of chief financial officer in a report published last week.

William Mougayar, venture capitalist and author of "The Business Blockchain," is launching an investment firm for blockchain startups and cryptocurrencies.

Japanese regulators suggested preventing cryptocurrency exchanges from trading anonymity-oriented altcoins Dash and Monero this month, Forbes reports today, April 30.

The United Nations Children's Fund is seeking to harness supporters' computers to raise donations via cryptocurrency mining.

The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group has announced a blockchain solution aimed to improve efficiency in the insurance industry.

OmiseGo's impressive recovery has once again proven its worthiness amongst the coveted top 20 coins by market cap.

MasterCard has filed a patent for a system to speed up the activation of new nodes in a blockchain, in an application published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office April 26.

Japanese consumers filed over three times the number of enquiries about cryptocurrency trading and initial coin offerings in 2017 as compared to the previous year, according to data released by Japan's Consumer Affairs Agency.

It's no surprise that the application of distributed ledger technology in trade finance and supply chain management has for some time been a focus of financial institutions around the world.

The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, one of the country's four largest state-owned commercial banks, is exploring a way to authenticate digital certificates and store data in a sharable blockchain.

Payments giant Mastercard wants to patent a way to quickly add new nodes to a blockchain network, new filings reveal.

The upcoming EOS mainnet launch is currently one of the most anticipated events on the blockchain calendar.

ING is out to prove that startups aren't the only ones that can advance blockchain cryptography.

The Australian Securities Exchange is moving closer to replacing its CHESS clearing and settlement system with a distributed ledger-based alternative.

The COSS platform has taken one step closer to becoming a multifunctional crypto gateway, with this month's latest roadmap release is expected to mark the start of first cross-border fiat to crypto pairing with the support of USD, EUR, and SGD currencies.

High fees and slow transactions are plaguing the cryptocurrency world at the moment, and one project is looking to change that.

A team of Morgan Stanley researchers, led by analyst Sheena Shah, has conducted a study on the distribution of cryptocurrency exchanges and crypto trading volume across all countries, based on volume data from Coinmarketcap and company registration info listed on the websites of the respective exchanges.

Rising interest rates remain a concern globally as U.S. Treasury 10-year yields briefly nudged above 3.0% on Wednesday, a key level watched by many market participants, before ending the week at 2.96%. Meanwhile, inflation pressure remains with the U.S. Labor Department reporting that wages and salaries rose at their fastest pace in 11 years.

A recent study of University of Technology Sydney found that "Approximately one-quarter of Bitcoin users and one-half of Bitcoin transactions are associated with illegal activity".

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis recently likened Bitcoin to "Regular currency." Bitcoin's lack of intrinsic value, the limited supply of BTC, and the lack of a middleman are all highlighted by Christine Smith.

Expert Takes cover everything from Blockchain technology and ICO funding to taxation, regulation, and cryptocurrency adoption by different sectors of the economy.

Police in Dubai have arrested ten members of a gang who reportedly stole 7 mln AED in an armed Bitcoin heist in the Al Muraqqabat area of Dubai on Wednesday, Gulf News reports Sunday, April 29.

Nearly a year ago, at Consensus 2017, I bumped into blockchain lawyer Marco Santori, who made an interesting observation.

The top ten coins by market cap are mostly in the green today, as markets make a tentative recovery following their significant dip earlier this week, Coin360 data shows.

The founder and CEO of Telegram and its TON Initial Coin Offering Pavel Durov tweeted a warning on Saturday, Apr 28, telling his followers that the messaging app is experiencing downtime due to its server clusters overheating.

On Aug. 24 of last year the Canadian Securities Administrators published CSA Staff Notice 46-307 on cryptocurrency offerings, in which the authors posit that "[A] coin/token may still be a 'security' as defined in securities legislation of the jurisdictions of Canada.

Charlie Lee, former director of engineering at Coinbase crypto exchange and the creator of Litecoin has expressed his intention to make the altcoin a global decentralized cryptocurrency in an interview with TenX made Friday, April 27.

Market debuts are always ridden with an element of uncertainty and doubt but Ethereum-based cryptocurrency exchange, Airswap, managed to rope in more than $1 million in transactions on its very first day of operations.

Truth be told, it's now quite comical to see the people I actually advised as little as 12 months ago, now telling people they are "Cryptocurrency experts." The truth of the matter is 12 months ago they didn't know what ERC20 was, let alone how to run an ICO. You know who you are.