Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Oct 29, 2020 at 16:34 UTCUpdated Oct 29, 2020 at 17:16 UTC.The cost of doing transactions on bitcoin is surging while the network suffers its worst congestion in nearly three years.

Fractional offeringYou can now trade high-demand stocks like Tesla, Apple and Amazon, represented by tokens, on the FTX derivatives exchange.

On one team, cryptocurrency entrepreneurs are taking a first-principles approach, starting with completely new assets and new infrastructure in order to get "Programmable money." On another team, fintech builders are tackling the problem by building around the systems that already exist: Simple APIs will grant us "Autonomous finance." Both approaches promise a new day for the retail experience of finance, but they are taking very different paths to get there.

Oct 29, 2020 at 15:00 UTCUpdated Oct 29, 2020 at 16:02 UTC.Cryptocurrency custody platform Casa's users can now purchase bitcoin on the platform using their bank account.

Bitcoin price has had a tremendous month as the price rallied from $10,500 to $13,800.

DeFi is booming, and today the market is filled with all kinds of borrowing and lending protocols, many of which compete with one another on the basis of providing users with meteoric yields.

Oct 29, 2020 at 14:00 UTC.Alex Pack, a former managing partner at crypto investment firm Dragonfly Capital, has joined Huobi Group as a corporate investment advisor to help the firm behind the world's top centralized exchange by derivatives trading volumes to invest in decentralized finance, of DeFi."When I left DragonFly earlier this year, Huobi was also ramping up its internationalization efforts and its corporate investment practice," Pack told CoinDesk in an interview.

Oct 29, 2020 at 13:52 UTCUpdated Oct 29, 2020 at 14:57 UTC.Strapped for international currencies, Iran is turning to cryptocurrency to allow imports to continue to flow.

Whether it is a Democratic sweep led by Joe Biden or a Donald Trump reelection, Bitcoin would likely thrive.

Oct 29, 2020 at 13:30 UTC.New York state's financial regulator is urging firms to pay closer attention to financial risks associated with climate change.

Oct 29, 2020 at 13:06 UTCUpdated Oct 29, 2020 at 15:01 UTC.Canada-based blockchain infrastructure provider Figment has completed another multi-million dollar funding round.

Asian Bitcoin investors now have a new custody option.

Cryptocurrency analysts looked for solace in bitcoin's October-to-date return, still at an impressive 22%, during a month when the Standard & Poor's 500 Index of U.S. stocks has declined by 2.7%."The sell-off in equities and gold due to rising COVID infections and restrictive lockdowns had only a limited impact on the digital asset," Lennard Neo, head of research for the cryptocurrency-focused firm Stack Funds, wrote Thursday in a report.

Over 200 firms in Simplex's network can enable euro cashouts from Tether.

Harvest Finance collected as much as $1 billion in total value locked before an "Economic exploit" sent it tumbling down.

US-based Fidelity Investments, a trillion-dollar fund manager with a deep interest in the cryptocurrency market, is targeting rich Asian investors by way of a new partnership with a fund in Singapore, financial publication Bloomberg reported Thursday.

Oct 29, 2020 at 12:04 UTCUpdated Oct 29, 2020 at 15:52 UTC.The cryptocurrency-focused arm of financial services giant Fidelity Investments is teaming with Singapore-based Stack Funds to cater to the growing demand for cryptocurrencies in Asia.A new partnership will bring Stack's regional clients access to the secure custody services provided by Fidelity Digital Assets, according to a Bloomberg report Thursday.

TaxBit's tool will allow Gemini customers to increase their tax refund.

The latest in a series of ongoing antitrust charges and investigations on corporate giants is the one being considered by the U.S. Department of Justice against Visa.

Canada doesn't want any "Surprises" regarding central bank digital currencies.

Oct 29, 2020 at 10:55 UTCUpdated Oct 29, 2020 at 16:00 UTC.Publicly traded digital-asset brokerage Voyager Digital registered four-digit revenue growth in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020.In an announcement Thursday, the Canada-based firm said revenue rose to roughly $1.1 million, marking a 1,159% rise from the previous fiscal year's tally of $87,318.

Bitcoin hit seven ounces of gold for the first time in over a year this week as the precious metal comes off all-time highs.

Oct 29, 2020 at 10:13 UTCUpdated Oct 29, 2020 at 16:10 UTC.The chief of Canada's central bank has said its national digital currency initiative is progressing past the experimental phase.

Cred, a United States-based cryptocurrency lending service, has officially announced the temporary suspension of operations due to an ongoing investigation.

Oct 29, 2020 at 10:00 UTC.While bitcoin's rally over the past month has revived talks of its price reaching new record highs above $20,000 by the end of the year, the cryptocurrency's options market continues to assign a very low probability of that scenario playing out.

London-based Coinfirm will now utilize Chainlink's market-leading oracle service to provide anti-money laundering tools for DeFi projects, it said in a release Wednesday.

Oct 29, 2020 at 09:30 UTCUpdated Oct 29, 2020 at 16:17 UTC.Crypto derivatives exchange FTX has launched a novel way to trade the world's most popular stocks.

The innovative cryptocurrency futures exchange FTX has launched fractionalized trading in stock derivatives.

The CEO tweeted a screenshot of an apparent $100 purchase of Bitcoin using the service well ahead of its official rollout date.

Bitcoin could see further downward price pressure this week as network difficulty is set to drop the most in five months.