Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Vitalik Buterin has claimed that Ethereum will support 3,000 transactions per second after the upcoming Istanbul fork.

Since publishing the last trading journal two weeks ago, I have made a number of altcoin trades but not a single Bitcoin trade other than closing my long from $6,900 in segments between $7,550 and $7,700.

As of press time, Ethereum has passed block #9068000, putting it within 1000 blocks of the scheduled Istanbul hard fork, which should take place at around 23:30 UTC. The much-anticipated shift to Istanbul will be the Ethereum network's first hard fork since February's Constantinople.

Craig Wright kicked off the Bitcoin SV road trip at Tsinghua University in China, where he signed a printout of the Bitcoin whitepaper.

Binance, the world's biggest crypto exchange, is taking steps to expand into Turkey, an up-and-coming cryptocurrency market.

The Italian Society of Authors and Publishers has teamed up with Algorand to develop a new ecosystem for copyright management, based on Algorand's recently launched blockchain platform.

The price temporarily found a bottom at $6,500-$6,800.

Voice, the social media platform first unveiled by EOS creator Block.

Saturday, Dec. 7 - most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are reporting moderate gains on the day by press time, as Bitcoin hovers just under the $7,550 mark again.

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission asked the High Court of England and Wales to force Telegram's former chief investment advisor John Hyman to testify in the case over the firm's Grams tokens offering.

Bitcoin's price volatility has been a source of doubt about its narrative both as digital cash and as digital gold.

Ghana is maintaining a cautious approach to cryptocurrencies despite its central bank's plans to launch a digital currency in the new year.

During the Code4Future conference, the first event in Italy dedicated to the concept of open innovation held at the Talent Garden in Rome, the former Minister of Economy and Finance Giulio Tremonti - currently president of Aspen Institute Italia - expressed his thoughts regarding the future of digital payments and the advent of cryptocurrencies.

Istanbul will host its first-ever Turkey blockchain week.

Forkast Insights, the research arm of Asia-based Forkast, took an in-depth, comprehensive look at how blockchain technology is integrated in China.

The Ukranian government has approved the final version of a money laundering law that will handle virtual assets and virtual asset service providers per FATF guidelines.

The SEC considers grams unregistered securities - an allegation Telegram has repeatedly denied.

Brazil's tax agency, the Department of Federal Revenue, published a new tax code that specifies fines for taxpayers who fail to declare their Bitcoin and cryptocurrency transactions.

A combination of blockchain and 3D printing for aircraft parts may launch the technology into the stratosphere.

Space-as-a-service-focused blockchain startup SpaceChain has sent its hardware wallet technology to the International Space Station.

If the price can sustain above $157.50, it will signal that the markets have rejected the lower levels.

According to the company's announcement, the explorer will allow users to view the Sapphire Testnet, a public network developed by Prystmatic Labs that implements the Ethereum 2.0 Phase 0 protocol.

Friday, Dec. 6 - crypto markets have continued to rebound after a sharp sell-off on Dec. 4, with Bitcoin briefly reclaiming $7,500.

This week Bitcoin continued to trade within a tightly defined range and at the time of writing the price is flat.

The majority of asset managers that bank with State Street are interested in digital assets such as bitcoin, but none have asked the global custodian to store them yet.

Bank of China, one of the four major commercial banks in China, has issued 20 billion yuan in blockchain-based bonds for small and micro-sized enterprises with their own blockchain platforms.

An alleged cryptocurrency pyramid scheme in Uganda has fled after defrauding dozens of victims that invested in and worked for the scheme.

Despite the recent downturn, Bitcoin has a year-to-date return of 111 percent showing that "HODLing" could be a lucrative strategy.

Following the start of trading platform for selected investors in September, Börse Stuttgart Stock Exchange has now opened to all interested users with residence in Germany.

General manager at the Bank for International Settlements Agustin Carstens seems to have changed his negative stance towards central bank digital currencies, now stating that such currencies could open up new possibilities.