Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Adam B. Levine: It's December 19, 2019, and you're listening to Markets Daily, I'm Adam B. Levine, editor of Podcasts here At Coindesk, along with our senior markets reporter, Brad Keoun, to give you a concise daily briefing on crypto markets and some of the most important news developments in the sector over the past 24 hours.

Ticketmaster, one of the largest event ticket distributors in the world, announced in October 2018 that it had acquired Upgraded, a blockchain technology company specializing in live event ticketing.

I want to focus on perhaps the largest problem facing our world: the privacy crisis.

Growing up, CEO of Immutable James Ferguson's favorite game was Runescape.

Thailand, one of the most-visited countries in the world, will soon apply blockchain to its Electronic Visa On Arrival.

After hitting a low of $116.70, Ether quickly recovered surging over 15 percent.

Dr. Alex Cahana is head of healthcare and blockchain consulting at Genesis Block.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has been granted a U.S. patent for an invention that makes sending bitcoin as easy as email, literally.

Bitcoin passed $7,200 a second time on Dec. 19 as previous bearish moves gave way to a return to higher levels.

Researchers have published a new report on what they deem to be a "Relentless" crypto mining botnet that lurks behind seemingly innocuous content such as JPEG images of Taylor Swift.

The Maker Foundation, the group behind the decentralized crypto platform MakerDAO, announced today that venture capital funds Dragonfly Capital Partners and Paradigm have acquired $27.5 million worth of MKR. This is approximately 5.5% of the total MKR supply.

While the crypto industry aims to be as decentralized as possible, it still succumbs to the influence of just a handful of big names in the industry.

Christine Sandler at an American Banker conference in 2018, photo by Marc Hochstein for CoinDesk.

British auditing giant EY has released a new iteration of its zero-knowledge proof blockchain, intending to cut transaction costs by 90%. A ZKP is a digital protocol that enables data to be distributed between the two participants without using a password or any associated information in the transaction.

Enterprise-focused cryptocurrency transaction platform Fireblocks has passed an EY audit confirming it complies with industry data security standards.

The results showed that Bitcoin's wealth distribution has improved versus 2018, but among the top altcoins by market cap, whales are controlling more and more of the supply.

Accounting multinational EY has released blockchain technology that it claims greatly reduces the cost of private transactions.

The hashpower rental marketplace NiceHash, which was hacked in Dec. 2017, says it may not be able to fulfill its pledge to fully reimburse affected users.

A massive drop in open interest on the CME and Bakkt Bitcoin futures contracts indicates short-covering has fueled BTC's latest rally, likely egged on by the expiry of Bakkt's December contract.

When it comes to crypto, narrative shifts represent shifts in mindshare.

Bitcoin logged double-digit gains on Wednesday, neutralizing the short-term bearish view.

The world's largest diamond mining firm, Russia's Alrosa, has partnered with Tencent, the operator of Chinese social media app WeChat, on a new blockchain-based e-commerce project.

Ether price faced fresh selling pressure on Dec. 19 as a giant transaction associated with the PlusToken ponzi scheme worried traders.

According to the latest DappRadar report, the Ethereum dapp ecosystem has been flourishing in the second half of 2019, with user numbers across almost all categories seeing a huge rise since June.

A major code update for the cryptocurrency bitcoin SV will render some features of BitGo's wallets useless, the crypto custodian says.

To solve this, Woosley created a Bluetooth-based network, Snowball, to make it easier to make private bitcoin transactions, and based his technology on the concept of CoinJoins.

A 19-year old man has been indicted for identity theft as part of an alleged $1+ million cryptocurrency heist affecting at least 75 victims in the United States.

In the latest a secret memo between the Dutch Central Bank and the Minister of Finance indicates that crypto companies in Holland may face additional rules that go beyond what is outlined in the AMLD5.

Internet startup Blockchain of Things Inc. agreed to pay $250,000 to settle with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for launching an initial coin offering without registering with the regulator.

A governor of the U.S. Federal Reserve has warned that the Facebook-led Libra project has a "Core set of legal and regulatory challenges" ahead.In a prepared speech for an event in Germany on Wednesday, Lael Brainard said more clarity is needed about the basket of currencies underlying the stablecoin and that its model is still unproven.