Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

One of the most important narratives of 2019 has been the financialization of bitcoin and the emergence of a robust market for derivative products.

Chinese internet giant Alibaba Group has won two U.S. patents designed to make its blockchain network safer and faster.

Eight members of the United States Congress sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service urging the agency to provide additional clarity on cryptocurrency tax laws.

Through a radical policy of "Quantitative easing" introduced to counter the "Zero lower bound" problem in interest rates, the central banks of the U.S., the euro zone, and Japan have added almost $10 trillion in assets to their balance sheets since the end of 2009.Given that massive surfeit, nothing else mattered much to financial markets.

Blockchain security firm CipherTrace has partnered with the Anti-Human Trafficking Intelligence Initiative to track cryptocurrency transactions from suspected traffickers.

The failure of the buyers to sustain the price above the 20-day EMA indicates a lack of demand at higher levels.

In an interview with Modern Consensus, Craig Wright showed a document explaining the origin of his alleged alias Satoshi Nakamoto.

The U.S. taxman's most recent crypto guidance is sowing confusion, according to a letter from eight congressmen published Friday.

In the eyes of mainstream users, these new innovations initially look and perform worse than existing offerings.

Paul Gosar, an Arizona Congressman, has introduced a draft bill, aimed at finally bringing regulatory clarity to the cryptocurrency industry in the United States, according to a Forbes article published on Dec. 19.

Alexander Vinnik, the alleged former operator of now-defunct crypto exchange BTC-e, will be extradited to France, according to a new decision from Greece.

With bitcoin seemingly back to 'normal', Iran and Myanmar are talking about a sanction busting 'Muslim' cryptocurrency.

Bill Pulte, the heir to the Detroit real estate giant PulteGroup, has set his sights on sending Bitcoin to those in need living in Africa.

Bitcoin gained fresh rare support from mainstream media on Dec. 20 after CNBC entertained the idea of a $250,000 in the coming years.

The creators of Maze Ransomware have added a new wrinkle to the typical hacker's MO. Instead of quietly infecting and requesting ransom from victims, the so-called Maze team is publicly exposing victims by displaying real files exfiltrated from their hacked servers.

While bitcoin fans have long noted how fiat is devalued over time, bitcoin often appeared like a solution in search of a problem in this regard.

The IOTA Foundation is launching a new web wallet for users to manage low amounts of funds without compromising their data.

The new president of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, has expressed concern that Facebook may use its digital platform to promote Libra and lock-out rival stablecoin operators.

Hong Kong-headquartered cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex now enables its users to purchase cryptocurrencies with both credit and debit cards.

Bitcoin is trading around $7,200 on Friday, the level that was found following a large swing to the upside on Wednesday.

Although different from a central bank-issued digital currency, Libra, if launched as originally conceived, is positioned to become a major alternative payment mechanism to traditional fiat, perhaps more so than cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin.

Alleged BTC-e exchange operator and money launderer Alexander Vinnik is being extradited to France.

France's Financial Markets Authority announced Thursday it had approved an initial coin offering for the first time.

Ripple announced a massive funding round that is set to push the development and adoption of its decentralized cryptographic ledger technology.

Charlie Shrem is the former founder of BitInstant and co-founder of cryptocurrency intelligence service CryptoIQ.This post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world.

In the countdown to the new year, private equity and hedge fund manager Fortress Investment Group is redoubling its efforts to buy up Bitcoin claims from Mt. Gox creditors.

Ripple, the blockchain payments firm behind XRP, the third biggest altcoin by market cap, has raised $200 million in a new funding round.

Bitcoin has beaten gold in terms of returns by such a large amount this decade that investors have firmly dismissed recent price declines.

Blockchain-based payments firm Ripple has raised $200 million in a Series-C funding round led by alternative asset investment firm Tetragon.

Japanese financial services giant SBI has partnered with Germany's second-largest stock exchange Boerse Stuttgart Group to promote the adoption of digital assets.