Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Decentralized finance has seen parabolic growth since the start of 2020, with the total value locked in these contracts, largely based on Ethereum, rising from $1 billion to $12 billion now.

A new Monero update brings improvements in performance, speed, and security amid increased scrutiny from law enforcement and developments from competitors.

Bitcoin options aggregate open interest has increased to $2 billion, which is 13% below the all-time high.

After two days of wild volatility for FIL, Filecoin's Liftoff Week conference aims to chart a path forward.

By analyzing the correlation, such momentum and conclusion can also be drawn with Bitcoin and the USD.Bitcoin has gained in 2020 as the U.S. Dollar Currency Index has been having a tough year.

Neo3 promises to provide file storage and digital identity, though the demand is questionable.

On Oct. 8, right on cue, mobile payments giant Square, which boasts a market cap of $86.6 billion, announced that it had invested $50 million in Bitcoin.

These views overestimate the ability of cryptocurrency to address financial exclusion caused by structural problems as well as technical ones.

Bitcoin's sell-side pressure began growing earlier today after news broke of the OKEx not being able to process withdraws due to the founder being arrested by Chinese authorities.

Despite this year's uncertainty that has plagued the global economy, 2020 will go down as the year of the stablecoins due to the digital sector's tremendous growth, with new developments emerging across the board.

The price of Bitcoin has been consolidating within a tight range for several months.

Eons later, in 2009 A.D., came the Bitcoin Genesis Block - the first chapter of a new bible in the making: the Bitcoin white paper.

Earlier this week Bitcoin price entered a bullish breakout to $11,725 following the previous week's news that Square purchased $4,709 BTC but since then the price has slumped back into a sideways range.

Legendary venture capitalist investor Naval Ravikant recently took to The Tim Ferris Show, an extremely popular podcast about business and self-betterment.

It seems the review was already in process before the attack ever occured.

Data from Arcane Research shows Bakkt Bitcoin exchange saw another record-high month from Sept. 20 to Oct. 20.

Oct 16, 2020 at 20:34 UTC.Bitcoin rebounded from an OKEx-related drop; ether options traders may be beacon chain bearish.

Ethereum users have faced extreme transaction fees over recent weeks and months.

Oct 16, 2020 at 19:35 UTC.Ripple, the U.S.-based currency exchange and remittance network, is donating $10 million to Mercy Corps, a humanitarian aid non-profit, to "Expand financial inclusion and increase economic empowerment globally."

Some central banks had already begun work on their own digital currencies, but over the next year the U.S., EU, China, Japan and Great Britain - which issue the five leading currencies in the world - would all have active research into the subject of a CBDC. But while governments are trying to keep up in the race to upgrade their own currency, they remain suspicious of private entities like Facebook challenging them.

This is huge news, not only because of the anticipation following Filecoin's large token offering in 2017, but because creating a vibrant ecosystem of decentralized cloud offerings is an important step in the maturation of the cloud.

In a separate attempt to determine the valuation of Bitcoin, several experts from JPMorgan Chase opined that Bitcoin's price is overvalued compared to its intrinsic value and the analysts suggested that BTC could face selling in the short-term.

Oct 16, 2020 at 19:03 UTC.The Huobi cryptocurrency exchange assured users its trading platform is "Currently operating normally" after one of its biggest competitors, OKEx, announced it suspended all cryptocurrency withdrawals indefinitely.

Oct 16, 2020 at 19:00 UTC.Grammy-winning recording artist RAC explores the business of music and how crypto experiments could shift the balance of power.

Oct 16, 2020 at 18:50 UTC.A first-of-its kind service wants to play matchmaker between big-scale mining facilities and individual miners looking for a hosting setup.

Oct 16, 2020 at 18:26 UTCUpdated Oct 16, 2020 at 19:39 UTC.Spain's central bank is fast-tracking research on digital currency 's design and the economic implications of central bank digital currency introduction as per a four-year strategic plan released Friday.

Germany in particular is interested in using DERs to drive its digital energy economy while also complying with the European Green Deal.

Oct 16, 2020 at 17:52 UTCUpdated Oct 16, 2020 at 18:01 UTC.Atomyze, a tokenization startup by Russian mining and smelting giant Nornickel, is setting up shop in Greenwich, Conn., to sell tokenized metals in the U.S.The company, whose legal name is Atomyze LLC, will become the second foothold for Nornickel's tokenization ambitions.

If you are a venue for emerging credit, the risks that come to your platform are subject to adverse selection and the lemons problem.

The Isle of Man Financial Services Authority has published guidance setting out its position regarding the applicability of financial regulatory requirements to cryptocurrencies and tokens issued using blockchain technology, as per a release shared with CryptoSlate.