Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

A chargeback is the return of funds to the consumer, by the bank, to settle a debt.

Bitcoin has wound up as 2019's top-performing commodity despite its exclusion from the majority of commodities market wrap-up reports.

Just what are privacy coins used for? How has crypto criminality changed in 2019? And what's in store for the future?

In 2018, long liquidations reached $11 billion by the year's end while short liquidations hovered at $5 billion.

This year, blockchain adoption reached new highs as it continued to find new use cases.

Facebook still plans to launch Libra, regulators express concernFacebook still has plans to launch Libra, and continues to develop the stablecoin's network today.

As the crypto community enters 2020, the CEO of the ZenGo wallet Ouriel Ohayon tweeted his new year predictions, one of which was that the price of Bitcoin will crash below $1,000.

76 will be a bullish sign as it would push the price above the falling wedge pattern that has been in place for the past six months.

A CBDC is a new type of legal tender which will expand the public's digital access to central bank accounts, which is limited to commercial banks today.

China has formally implemented a law governing cryptographic password management as part of its pre-release plans for its central bank digital currency.

Ripple, the blockchain payment network notionally tied to altcoin XRP, has begun 2020 by releasing funds from its escrow worth $192 million.

Bitcoin easily succeeds over other cryptocurrencies in multiple key areas, which all but guarantee its future as the standard, noted academic Konrad S. Graf has concluded.

Bitcoin traded broadly sideways on the first day of the 2020s as consensus swirled ever stronger around a Q1 breakout.

Once when everyone predicted that Bitcoin would die, its price nearly hit $20,000.

Wells Fargo analyst Mike Mayo announced during a Dec. 30 CNBC news segment that "This is the golden decade of banks and technology."

Bitcoin's $132 billion market cap might be a far cry from its 2017 all-time high, but it doesn't mean it's not playing in the big leagues.

An Ethereum wallet known as "Shitcoin Wallet" is reportedly injecting malicious javascript code from open browser windows to steal data from its users.

Bitcoin could be living out its final hours today if you were to believe Craig Wright.

Tom Shaughnessy is a co-founder of Delphi Digital as well as the host of the Chain Reaction podcast.

A French tech entrepreneur has been nabbed for allegedly stealing over 1 million euros in Bitcoin from his former colleagues in what is purported to have been an "Act of revenge."

The Japanese yen, seen as a threat to the dollar in the 1980s, now accounts for just 5.4 percent of central bank reserves.

Held June 28-29, 2019 in parallel to the G20 Leaders' Summit in Osaka, Japan, the V20 Summit was a chance for the industry to respond to a highly controversial new set of recommendations handed down by the FATF.Some saw it as an opportunity to legitimize crypto and bring virtual assets into the mainstream financial system; others feared an assault against our community's most fundamental values of privacy and decentralization.

Presently, not just Bitcoin but blockchain technology as a whole is expected to generate an increase in business value of more than $176 billion by the year 2025 and exceed $3.1 trillion by 2030.

Bitcoin price has seen a significant increase in 2019, while altcoins are actually down significantly from the beginning of the year.

The Ethereum network was apparently the target of a coordinated attack, according to several analysts.

Turkey's Istanbul Clearing, Settlement and Custody Bank announced that its blockchain-based, physical gold-backed transfer system is now live.

Libra's Calibra wallet will only allow users who provide government ID to obtain Libra account numbers wallets, which appears to be how the project will satisfy AML/KYC requirements.

The BitMEX Insurance Fund has added nearly 13,000 BTC in 2019, reaching a total of just over 33,491 BTC as of Dec. 30.

Funding of blockchain companies in 2017-20182017 was the year when ICOs really began to take off.

On Dec. 18 Cointelegraph reported that Tron founder Justin Sun publicly pledged to donate $1 million to Swedish activist Great Thunberg to raise global awareness of the climate crisis.