Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Kyrgyzstan's acting President and Prime Minister Sadyr Japarov has proposed introducing a blockchain-based system to ensure fair elections in the near future and restore public faith in the democratic process.

Crypto seems to be nearly as popular as gold among Russian investors.

During the course of the recent decentralized finance bull run, SushiSwap was one of the favored platforms amongst investors and farmers, as users could buy Sushi tokens and farm massive yields while also trading on a Uniswap-forked DEX. The platform took a major hit towards the end of the DeFi hype cycle and Sushi prices plummeted after the creator - who went by the pseudonym Chef Nomi - sold his entire stake in the project in one go.

The cryptocurrency market has suddenly shifted back to Bitcoin after several months of a decentralized finance frenzy.

The platform would aid central banks in Asia with developing a central bank digital currency.

The launch garnered much attention in the DeFi space as the project recently received investments from some top venture funds and innovators within the space.

At least 20 crypto executives and customers of an Israeli telecommunications company were targeted in a sophisticated SS7 attack last month.

A corporate global registry like the SEC's EDGAR would be exactly what the crypto industry needs in order to fast-track growth and adoption and move crypto assets quicker down the path towards institutionalization.

Uniswap's first governance proposal has ended in defeat, with votes in favor falling a whisker short of the required threshold.

An Ethereum 2.0 developer predicts the protocol's deposit contract will be released in a matter of days, and that ETH 2.0 staking will go live this year.

The development of Central Bank Digital Currencies has blossomed in the past few years, with countries like China in the advanced stages of its digital Yuan and Japan, Korea, and the US in their research phase for their respective fiat currencies.

Juan Benet, the creator of blockchain-based data storage platform Filecoin, has called allegations that miners of its token have been on strike since last week "Nonsense."

Fees on the Ethereum blockchain network are consistently surpassing Bitcoin and industry executives say it could spark a "New paradigm."

Bitcoin trading around $11,689 as of 20:00 UTC. Gaining 2.2% over the previous 24 hours.

If the bulls can push and close the price above $395, it will complete an ascending triangle pattern.

The results could be a good sign for the proliferation of distributed technology.

He stated that he does not "Question the reliability and traceability of all blockchain technology," but denounced crypto.

According to CME, the amount of Bitcoin long contracts held by institutions are at an all-time high.

As part of DC Fintech Week, a digital conference on the governmental side of the financial technology sector, several international leaders gathered for an Oct. 19 panel called: Central Banks, CBDCs and Cryptoeconomics.

KuCoin suffered a major hack on Sept. 26; two United States regulatory bodies went after BitMEX on Oct. 1; the United Kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority, or FCA, banned crypto derivatives on Oct. 6; and news came to light that U.S. stimulus payment talks had stalled around Oct 9.

Author David Birch says a number of digital assets will arise to challenge the dollar as the dominant world currency.

Oct 19, 2020 at 18:42 UTCUpdated Oct 19, 2020 at 20:16 UTC.While regulators are trying to restrict privacy in crypto, their efforts may be futile, according to privacy-centric protocol Monero's maintainer, Riccardo "Fluffypony" Spagni.

FinCEN has fined the operator of early crypto mixers Helix and Coin Ninja for Bank Secrecy Act violations.

"We ought to understand that regulators are just starting to figure cryptocurrencies out. Many of them have just begun their exploration and they hear about this in the worst possible ways, especially in Africa. Because nine out of 10 people you talk to in Africa have been scammed in a cryptocurrency-involved scam or know someone who has been scammed. That's a huge number, but then you consider the proliferation of multi-level marketing scams that operate upon Africa like OneCoin, this infamous Ponzi plus the crypto mining scams. Everyone in Africa has been scammed."

Just recently, top Ethereum decentralized finance project Aave began transitioning its native token LEND to a new token called AAVE. LEND had become outdated as it was named after the project's predecessor, ETHLend, and lacked certain technical and economic functionalities.

Wallets once again appear to be accumulating cryptocurrency at an increasing rate.

Old hands are selling their Bitcoin holdings, according to Glassnode's Coin Dormancy metric.

Mina aspires to be the world's tiniest blockchain, with claims that its protocol maintains a constant size of around 22 KBs. This is ostensibly achieved by using recursive zk-SNARKs - the same technology that is used by the privacy-centric cryptocurrency, Zcash.

Ethereum has long been the leading smart contract blockchain after its launch in 2015.

The U.S. already has a "Safe and active dynamic domestic payment system," Powell argued.