Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin lacks the characteristics of a currency and is purely speculative, according to the European Central Bank's former president Jean-Claude Trichet.

Bitcoin CME gap Bitcoin price took a dive from $9,265 and closed at $8,804.

Hodler's Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week.

IDEX, the decentralized exchange responsible for over 40% of all DEX transactions, claims to have created an "Infinite scaling solution" for the Ethereum network.

Do the technicals of the top performers of the past week suggest the start of a new uptrend? Let's find out.

With each passing day, the financial nitty-gritty associated with the cryptocurrency-related OneCoin Ponzi scheme continues to become of increasing interest to members of the global crypto community.

The EOS blockchain is congested by the EIDOS token airdrop, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase reports on Nov. 9.

Whether you call it the "Halving" or the "Halvening," one of the few things we can be sure of in crypto is that the conversation around bitcoin's upcoming reduction in mining reward will intensify over the next six months.

Ethereum co-founder and founder of Consensys, Joseph Lubin, said that he hopes China's Central Bank Digital Currency will allow for interoperability with public permissionless blockchains, including Ethereum.

Bitcoin will surpass the market cap of gold and could ultimately be worth $1 million, well-known industry figure Bobby Lee has said.

Here is the past week of cryptocurrency and blockchain news in review, as originally reported by Cointelegraph Japan.

Malta Enterprise partnered with Deutsche Telekom's IT service subsidiary to offer its blockchain-as-a-service marketplace, French IT company Atos and Austrian startup Smart Digital proposed industrial plant inspections using blockchain, and the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority launched a market survey on crypto assets derivatives.

Digital lira to be internalized next yearThe Presidential Program published by Turkey's official national publication Resmi Gazete on Nov. 4 established that the government should complete the test phase of the nation's CBDC by the end of 2020.The government plans to develop a platform capable of instant payments employing the currency.

Tunisia has become the first country to start moving its national currency to a blockchain platform.

Only a few weeks after the United States Internal Revenue Service published new guidance for crypto taxation, the United Kingdom's tax, payments and customs authority, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, has updated its cryptocurrency taxation policy paper for businesses and individuals.

Saturday, Nov. 9 - most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are reporting minor gains on the day at press time, as Bitcoin hovers under the $8,800 mark again.

On Nov. 8, Bitcoin corrected from $9,200 to $8,650, causing the market sentiment to shift from greed to fear once more.

Leading stablecoin operator Tether has announced it will support crypto podcaster Peter McCormack in a lawsuit against self-proclaimed Bitcoin creator Craig Wright.

The recent U.N. General Assembly on Climate Change broached these topics in detail, looking at how politics, economy and human activity need to change in order to limit the damage being done to the environment.

Bitcoin's lightning network might have a use case beyond faster and more scalable payments.

Bitcoin futures daily volumes on digital asset platform Bakkt have hit a new all-time high, with 1,741 futures traded on Nov. 9.

"Yes, potentially. Digital technologies have been transforming warfare since the 1990's so emerging technologies such as blockchain have the potential to define the war industry over the coming decades. Data and data sharing will be critical for warfare in the future, particularly with the development of artificial intelligence."

An estimate by the World Bank pegged 2016's global remittance market at $573 billion, and a whopping $422 billion of that went to developing countries.

Chinese internet giant Tencent is set to open a blockchain-based virtual bank after the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission approved a new license.

Bitcoin fell 4.4 percent Friday, slipping below $9,000 for the first time in two weeks.

Electric Coin Company has donated the Zcash trademark to the Zcash Foundation.

Bitcoin price fell 5% today to a new weekly low at $8,660, a point which is also below the 200-day moving average which has been acting as support since reclaiming it in the final week of October.

Bitcoin just moved below $9,000 and is bringing the rest of the market down with it.

Traders can keep the stop loss on the long position at $0.24.Contrary to our assumption, if the price rebounds off the 50-day EMA, the bulls will again attempt to break out of $0.31491.

Malaysia is planning to impose a $6,000 limit on cash transactions in 2020, according to a deputy governor at the country's central bank.