Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Just after regional authorities reportedly urged Bitcoin miners to reduce electricity consumption in Sichuan - a province that could account for up to 50 percent of global hash power - BTC's hash rate rocketed to a new all-time high.

In a stunning turn of events, Bitcoin price swiftly reversed course and rallied 6.4%, reclaiming ground lost over the last 24-hours and briefly topping $7,288 before pulling back to $7,200.

Known as "ElectraPay," the product functions as a financial management system that will let merchants adopt a cryptocurrency payment method that doesn't require third-party service providers, banks, or credit card companies to complete transactions.

Ethereum went through a network update that delays the difficulty bomb.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong published a Medium post on Jan. 2 sharing his thoughts on how the crypto space has progressed over the last ten years.

Nikolai Mushegian, the former technical partner at blockchain project MakerDAO, donated 3,200 MKR to his alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University.

Cryptocurrency and taxation laws are creating a great deal of confusion in South Korea.

2019 may not go down as a year of breathtaking highs for cryptocurrency markets, but major strides have been made for mass adoption of digital payments and blockchain technology.

Cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain reportedly has plans to reduce its workforce by another fifty percent.

Today, Bitcoin price abruptly dropped below the $7,100 support, declining 3.35% to rest near $6,900.

Evan Schwartz, senior software developer at major crypto firm Ripple announced that he is leaving the cryptocurrency company after six and a half years.

The Guangdong government launched a blockchain-based financing platform Thursday that will help small companies in the region receive loans faster from commercial banks.

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It's already well-theorized that it's not cryptocurrency or decentralized finance apps, but gaming that will actually drive blockchain use cases in the real world.

A former MakerDAO contributor and Carnegie Mellon alumnus has committed 10,000 MKR - valued at just under $4.3 million at press time - to his alma mater to develop a research program for decentralized applications.

With 2019 vanishing in the rear view mirror, Markets Daily is back for an insightful look into Central Bank Digital Currencies and the US Dollar's ongoing reserve status.

A trio of analysts have predicted big gains for the number two cryptocurrency by market cap, Ethereum, in the next few months.

In late 2017, Bitcoin piqued the interest of millions of people hoping to capitalize on the ongoing frenzy and, as a result, drew the attention of various traditional media outlets.

In recent weeks, various central banks have indicated that they are exploring the possibility of issuing their own central bank digital currency, or CBDC. From Tunisia, which was at the center of false reports about the imminent launch of its own "e-Dinar" but confirmed it was studying the issue, to China, whose central bank appears to be on the verge of becoming the first to issue its own, called Digital Currency Electronic Payment system - central banks are starting to take digital currencies seriously.

Ethereum has completed its second hard fork in less than 30 days.

Twitter user and software architect WizardofAus has warned cryptocurrency holders against a Chrome extension for Ledger crypto wallets that allegedly contains malware.

Mark Hipperson, who was head of technology for the Barclays group for over a decade as well as co-founder and former CTO at U.K. challenger bank, Starling, is planning a Q1 2020 launch for his latest digital banking venture, Ziglu.

Researchers at Ireland's Economic and Social Research Institute have proposed that using a blockchain-based "Forward trading system" can provide a more effective incentive for the smart management of renewable energy consumption.

The development has officially begun on Litecoin's implementation of Mimblewimble extension blocks, a feature that will bring confidentiality to the sixth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.

Looking ahead to what we can expect by the new decade's end, VC firm Andreessen Horowitz predicts that Bitcoin is likely to be central to the monetization mechanisms that future online influencers will use.

The Ethereum blockchain survived what appeared to be an intentional attack on December 31, which reportedly came very close to bringing down the entire network.

The International Monetary Fund has encouraged the Philippines' central bank to explore the possibility of starting to collect data on cross-border flows of crypto assets.

The Ethereum network has just completed its Muir Glacier hard fork, with the sole improvement proposal being to delay the difficulty bomb for another 4,000,000 blocks.

Major Ethereum browser extension and wallet service Metamask has something to celebrate as 2020 kicks off, notifying its users that Google has now reversed its short-lived ban on the browser add-on.

Bitcoin has already hit a new record in 2020 as the cryptocurrency's network hash rate once again topped previous all-time highs.