Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

North Korea has been using a Hong Kong-based blockchain company to launder money, according to a quarterly report from the UN Security Council's Sanctions Committee on North Korea.

Bitcoin price highs in 2017 were not the result of a single trader on an exchange, the CEO of payment company Circle claims.

"We are at the forefront of the deplatforming war and developing tools and techniques that other websites can use when they too get deplatformed," Ron Watkins, an 8chan admin, told CoinDesk.

The European Union is doubling down on its commitment to block the launch of Facebook's Libra should it deem the project to present "Unmanageable or excessive risks."

Bitcoin mining will not face a state crackdown in China, authorities have confirmed in new official documents.

A year after the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission published initial regulations for funds investing in crypto, only one firm has successfully passed that gauntlet.

Hong Kong's financial regulator - the Securities and Futures Commission - will publish a new set of regulations for Bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchanges today.

According to Dovey Wan, founder at Primitive Ventures, the Hong Kong Securities and Exchange Commission is set to release a crypto exchange application guideline.

Ford, Volkswagon, LG and Volvo plan to take a pilot project tracking cobalt during its refining process live in production next year.

More than six months after the China National Development and Reform Commission proposed to categorize bitcoin mining as an industry to be phased out from the country, it appears the agency has now scrapped that plan.

Tradewind Markets has launched a new system on its platform to track the provenance of its physical gold and other precious metals.

The core development team of blockchain platform Æternity announced the release of the software of its latest hard fork, namely Lima.Æternity announced in a press release published on Nov. 5 that the introduction of Lima improves the network's virtual machines, governance and naming system.

Xpring, Ripple's investment arm and tech incubator has completed a strategic investment into smart contract platform Flare Networks.

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has led a $5 million funding round for Arweave, a blockchain-startup focused on permanent online data storage.

The U.S. Congress will soon vote on a bill providing new information about the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's authority over the cryptocurrency derivatives markets.

Delphi Digital Co-Founder Yan Liberman joined CoinDesk's Brad Keoun on Monday, Nov. 4, to talk about last week's flash crash on Deribit, a Netherlands-based cryptocurrency exchange, and the outlook for bitcoin.

Tuesday Nov. 5 - Crypto prices continue to show upward momentum across markets, while Bitcoin hovers around the $9,300 price mark and Stellar takes a shot at the moon with gains of more than 20%.Cryptocurrency market daily overview.

United States pro-crypto Congressman Warren Davidson has once again called for clear regulations of blockchain industry to maintain U.S. economic dominance.

A startup drawing on ancient history for modern-day inspiration has raised $5 million to decentralize the permanent storage of the world's information.

Stellar Lumens' total supply got cut in half, triggering a nearly 30 percent price increase.

End-to-end encrypted, onion-routed, censorship-resistant, peer-to-peer chat messages have been built on top of the Lightning Network.

The United Kingdom-based charity organization Oxfam International announced the success of its blockchain-based delivery system of microinsurance to paddy field farmers in Sri Lanka.

Coinbase's legal chief, Brian Brooks, feels that the United States government should take a step back and allow the private sector to create the U.S. digital dollar.

American blockchain security firm CipherTrace will provide Anti-Money Laundering controls for Binance Chain and its native asset Binance Coin.CipherTrace to increase AML checks on Binance Chain.

Libra will take years - if not decades to catch on says a Calibra executive.

In order to conclude that this XLM is moving out of its downtrend the altcoin first has to break the 23-month downtrend to the upside and start creating higher highs and higher lows on higher time frames.

Ethereum developers are using the Lightning payments network to build bridges into the bitcoin ecosystem.

Coinbase's legal chief is calling for private sector leadership in developing America's digital currency.

A draft document issued by the European Union suggests that the union should consider issuing its own digital currency.

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