Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Chief among concerns are the ongoing issues at British Virgin Islands-based digital currency exchange Bitfinex, as the market's dominant US dollar exchange saw banking problems appear seemingly out of nowhere earlier this month.

The future of central banks could be either on an open, permissionless blockchain or a closed, permissioned distributed ledger, according to a paper released today by bank consortium R3. That is, assuming anything changes at all.

A consensus algorithm, like bitcoin's proof of work, does two things: it ensures that the next block in a blockchain is the one and only version of the truth, and it keeps powerful adversaries from derailing the system and successfully forking the chain.

The value of these crypto tokens came, not so much for their use in the exchange of goods and services, but rather the use of the underlying service that required these tokens to operate.

In a recent talk at CoinDesk's developer-only conference Construct, developer Elaine Ou outlined how ethereum classic differs from ethereum, the blockchain that split from its original developers over an ideological disagreement last year.

Feb 14, 2017 at 15:53 UTC. Uganda's central bank is warning local residents about Onecoin, a digital currency scheme widely accused of being a scam.

Feb 10, 2017 at 13:20 UTCUpdated Feb 10, 2017 at 15:12 UTC. Following the lead of two of the market's more prominent exchanges, at least six other China-based bitcoin exchanges have announced updates to withdrawal policies as part of a bid to tighten AML oversight.

Following in the footsteps of China's 'Big Three' exchanges, smaller competitors BTC Trade, BTC100, CHBTC, Dahonghuo, Yuanbao and BitBays all moved to impose or increase trading fees yesterday in the wake of a meeting with the People's Bank of China, China's central bank.

The People's Bank of China issued a new statement today in which it laid out in writing the warning it issued to nine domestic startups in a meeting yesterday.

If monero was the top-performing cryptocurrency of 2016, don't tell that to the blockchain project's outspoken maintainer.

Jan 31, 2017 at 11:00 UTCUpdated Feb 1, 2017 at 12:55 UTC. The privacy-focused digital currency monero has captured the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which has expressed concerns over its use among criminals.

If you've been following ethereum at all, you're likely aware the blockchain project has a lot riding on something called 'proof of stake'.

Though hard forking can be a particularly contentious way of upgrading open blockchains, the developers behind the project are calling the effort a success thus far.

ICOs have two primary benefits: they provide funding to the team to see the project through, and incentivize a community to contribute.

When looking at the combined qualities of liquidity and price stability together as a Commerce Index, we could see other coins catching up with Bitcoin.

Can bitcoin make an impact as an intermediary for exotic currencies not often traded? Can it help deliver cash on the ground quicker and cheaper?

Markets Weekly is a weekly column analyzing price movements in the global blockchain token markets.

Dec 29, 2016 at 23:47 UTCUpdated Dec 30, 2016 at 14:17 UTC. The digital currency ether classic surged more than 30% on 29th December, reaching its highest price in over four months.

Dec 22, 2016 at 3:10 p.m. UTCUpdated Dec 22, 2016 at 3:11 p.m. UTC. The inaugural issue of academic journal Ledger has been published.

While bitcoin can be used without interacting with the traditional financial system, many people and businesses won't use it like that for various reasons and so must follow the rules of the traditional financial system.

That's the situation the developers behind ethereum classic face ahead of a hard fork expected to be enacted on its blockchain on 25th October.

Sep 6, 2016 at 21:31 UTCUpdated Sep 7, 2016 at 14:00 UTC. More than $5m worth of digital currency associated with the attack on The DAO is on the move.

A type of anonymous transaction that bitcoin enthusiasts have been awaiting for years has finally been tested successfully on the network.

User tokens are earned by providing value to these networks.

In the case of Steem Power, should a user want to convert back to the base currency of Steem, it will need to occur in 104 weekly conversions.

Cryptsy CEO Paul Vernon may have stolen as much as $3.3m from the now-defunct digital currency exchange and destroyed evidence of his illicit actions.

Once heralded as the "Silver to bitcoin's gold", the developers behind the long-running digital currency litecoin are seeking to reestablish the project's prior position as the world's second most popular cryptocurrency.

Ethereum Classic went from a protest vehicle to a more serious project this weekend following notable nods of support from major exchanges and community members.

The Ethereum hard fork executed last week as a means of reimbursing investors who lost funds in the collapse of a major project has resulted in the creation of a competing currency on a blockchain replicating the platform's original consensus rules prior to the fork.

Bitcoin advocates often distill trustlessness as meaning "You don't have to trust anyone", but this is an oversimplified perspective.