Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

The European Parliament has backed a move to bring closer regulation to cryptocurrencies.

Bitcoin saw small gains last night, but the weak move did little to further the bull case.

Xunlei, the NASDAQ-listed cloud network provider, has launched its proprietary blockchain platform, despite ongoing class actions over an alleged initial coin offering.

According to a report by Reuters, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority prohibited Arthur Breitman from association with broker-dealers for two years and handed him a $20,000 fine over allegations that he made false statements about the project while employed at investment bank Morgan Stanley.

As per research conducted by Morgan Stanley's crypto-analysis team, Bitcoin miners will most likely find their efforts to be fruitless unless the currency stays above the $8,600 value point.

Progress reports on blockchain projects in the banking and insurance sectors offered an illuminating comparison at the Blockchain Expo in London Thursday.

Two suspects from South Korea have allegedly used a pyramid scheme that involves bitcoin to swindle some 20 billion Korean won, or $20 million from investors in the country.

Armed with a photo ID, scammers are successfully duping Twitter into giving them a "Blue check mark" of authenticity so they can impersonate real individuals and entities, all in an effort to bilk users out of money.

Bithumb, South Korea's leading cryptocurrency exchange, has recently revealed plans to issue its own token, Bithumb Coin, in an Initial Coin Offering, local news outlet TokenPost reports Thursday, April 19.

The number of new jobs listed within the cryptocurrency and blockchain sector has increased dramatically over the last three months, proving that while crypto values may be slow to recover, the blockchain employment industry is powering ahead. While the early days of $100 BTC are over, with most instant crypto-millionaires already minted, the crypto job market explosion is only beginning.

The Crimean government is considering the possibility of creating a cryptocurrency fund for foreign investors in order to avoid sanctions, local meda TASS reported April 18.

The European nation of Belgium has contributed €2 million to support the United Nation's World Food Programme and its technology projects, including its blockchain-based payments pilot for refugees.

Alternative solutions to centralized exchanges are available and are called decentralized exchanges.

Top cryptocurrency investors Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures urged the US Securities and Exchange Commission to consider a cryptocurrency exemption at a private meeting, the Wall Street Journal reports April 19.

CEO of major over-the-counter crypto exchange OTCBTC and Facebook hackathon winner Yi-Ting Cheng has announced that she is running for mayor of the Taiwanese capital city Taipei this year, according to Cheng's Facebook post on April 14.

Just a month after LitePay's untimely collapse, Litecoin has teamed up with a well-known wallet platform and a large South Korean cryptocurrency exchange.

Nebulas is a Blockchain 3.0 project from the founder and developers of NEO. Promising smart contracts without scaling worries, the second layer of blockchain protocols that incorporate a massive range of tools and options, and search engine functionality, Nebulas is a highly innovative project.

The Chief Scientist of Quebec Rémi Quirion says public concern that Bitcoin is being used for illicit activities like tax evasion and money laundering is largely overblown, Forbes reports April 18.

The stock for cryptocurrency investment firm Ether Capital has begun trading on a Canadian stock exchange.

Earlier this week, a group of cryptocurrency exchanges in Chile applied to the courts to fight the decision of banks to shut down their bank accounts.

Speaking at the Synchronize 2018 conference in New York City on Thursday, Nick Szabo, a pioneering cryptographer who first developed the concept of smart contracts in 1996, urged the audience not to lose sight of blockchains' original promise.

Technology consultant Bhume Bhumiratana, along with members of the local crypto community, have urged financial authorities to reconsider the country's cryptocurrency tax framework, local news outlet Bangkok Post reported Tuesday, April 17.

While market cap dominators Bitcoin and Ethereum had demonstrated strong chart actions, alts such as Stellar, Cardano, NEO, and EOS are all expressing positive movement that hints toward a potential repeat of 2017's epic Q4 run up.

Major Danish bank Saxo Bank continued its optimism regarding cryptocurrency growth in 2018 in its latest Quarterly Outlook, published April 18.

British Conservative Member of Parliament Matt Hancock has delivered a speech about the "Monumental impact" he believes Blockchain will have on people's lives, speaking at a conference today, April 19.

Telegram has been called the "Cryptocurrency world's preferred messaging app" by many media outlets including Forbes, and more than 84 percent of Blockchain-based projects have an active Telegram community.

Newly published patent filings from retail giant Walmart hint at a plan to store payments data using blockchain tech.

Alongside the likes of Visa, Mastercard have maintained this skeptical approach to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies from as early as 2014.

As part of a recent forward-leaning development strategy, Alibaba has formed The IoT Connectivity Alliance, which now includes logistics-based blockchain project Waltonchain.

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