Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

The board of directors of Ledger Holdings, Inc., parent company to LedgerX, announced that co-founders Paul and Juthica Chou have been placed on administrative leave, effective immediately.

It has been almost a year since the Republic of the Marshall Islands unveiled the development of its national digital currency dubbed Sovereign.

Japan-based startup Nayuta has released what it says is the first lightning network wallet with a built-in bitcoin "Full node."

Telegram told investors it was using Wall Street megabanks BNY Mellon and Credit Suisse to move and store fiat currency raised in last year's blockchain token sale, court filings show.

The adoption rate of blockchain technology in China continues to impress as the People's Bank of China has reportedly issued 20 billion yuan in blockchain-based special financial bonds for small and micro enterprises.

Multi-asset investment platform and social network eToro is allegedly planning to launch a debit card in the second quarter of 2020.On Dec. 9, Business Insider reported that the United Kingdom-based digital asset trading platform's 12 million users will be able to spend their earnings via a debit card, planned for launch in Q2 of next year.

Bitcoin closed the week slightly above $7,500 up 1.56%, which marks the first positive week since the close of the first week of August.

BTSE, a Dubai-based cryptocurrency exchange, is looking to raise $50 million in one of the first token offerings on the Liquid Network, the parallel system to bitcoin created by startup Blockstream.

So-called "Fileless" malware is infecting Mac OS machines by hiding in memory and never touching files or drives.

Israeli-based fintech and cryptocurrency firm Simplex now supports two new fiat currencies - the Japanese yen and the Canadian dollar.

LedgerX CEO and COO Paul and Juthica Chou are no longer running the company they founded.

The much-awaited Bitcoin cash-settled monthly futures from Bakkt launched on Dec. 9, recording a volume of 1250 BTC at press time.

Choosing the right cryptocurrency exchange may be one of the most important initial tasks an interested trader or investor must complete.

HEX, a new cryptocurrency that claims to be the first high-interest blockchain certificate of deposit, is facing significant backlash after different analysts argue that the project was launched mainly to enrich its founder.

Binance, the second-biggest cryptocurrency exchange by daily trading volume at press time, now supports Bitcoin futures trading on its new iOS app.

We expect another attempt by the buyers to push the price above the 20-day EMA and the overhead resistance of $7,856.

The move comes right after Huobi Global announced that it would freeze all U.S. customers' accounts by mid-November.

Two members of the prolific Romanian hacker gang Bayrob Group were sentenced to two decades in U.S. prison apiece after their malware mined crypto on 400,000 infected computers.

Trade volumes on LocalBitcoins have hit a new all-time-high in Argentina, having spiked days after President Trump's announcement that the U.S. intends to place tariffs on Argentinian metal imports.

With today's markets mostly down, we're talking bitcoin's first golden cross in more than three years, "Central Bank Digital Currencies" and a behind-the-scenes look at internal Telegram communications exposed by the SEC.Tune in as CoinDesk podcasts editor Adam B. Levine and senior markets reporter Brad Keoun run down recent action in the markets, interesting longer-term trends and some of the most important crypto industry developments of the day.

Chip making giant Nvidia has been making its case for why a court should throw out a lawsuit alleging it misled investors over cryptocurrency mining demand for its graphics cards.

To help shed light on the intricate workings of the technology and the role that it is playing in the international trade industry, Trade Finance Global partnered up with the World Trade Organization earlier this month to produce a 56-page report titled "Blockchain & DLT in Trade: A Reality Check," endorsed by the International Chamber of Commerce.

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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has filed to reopen a case against Bitcoin fraudster Renwick Haddow as he has not resolved the regulator's claims for monetary relief against him.

Photo of U.S.-based HBUS team in San Francisco courtesy of Huobi.

The Intercontinental Exchange's digital asset platform Bakkt has launched the first regulated Bitcoin options and cash-settled futures in the United States.

Micah Zoltu, an independent software developer who is also one of the co-authors of the original white paper for the decentralized prediction market Augur, published a blog post on Monday describing an attack on MakerDAO that, he argued, could empty all the ETH from the system.

The Bank of Lithuania announced that it will release a digital, blockchain-based collector coin in the spring of 2020, according to a press release on Dec. 9.The coin is dedicated to the Act of Independence of Lithuania on Feb. 16, 1918, and its 20 signatories.

Bakkt COO Adam White at CoinDesk's Invest NYC 2019.Barely three months after launching its long-anticipated physically settled bitcoin futures product, the Intercontinental Exchange's Bakkt has gone live with its bitcoin options and cash-settled futures contracts.

Over the weekend, Ethereum went through a significant software upgrade, dubbed Istanbul.