Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

California resident Seth Shapiro has filed a lawsuit against wireless service giant AT&T alleging that its employees helped to perpetrate a SIM-swap which resulted in the theft of over $1.8 million in total, including cryptocurrencies.

The University of Malta's Masters Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology began its inaugural semester this October, with around 35 students enrolled in the island nation's only DLT-specific masters program - one of the few such programs around the world.

The news of Bakkt Bitcoin futures trading volume increasing by 796% failed to positively impact Bitcoin price and Fidelity Investments' announcement that it has launched crypto custodial services also did little for the market.

Since achieving $13,920 at the yearly peak, the Bitcoin price is nearing a 50 percent drop and according to a technical analyst, it could mean a larger correction for Ethereum.

Former Google Russia chief technology officer Jennifer Trelewicz has joined blockchain platform Credits as its new chief business officer.

The German-speaking world has seen another week of events in the crypto industry, with a new survey revealing that 27% of Germans are interested in using Facebook's planned Libra stablecoin, which has been discussed all over the world since its announcement in June 2019.

While Bitcoin's drop below $8,000 caused a stir in the market, OKEx says the downfall will most likely be short-lived.

In a letter to investors, Telegram encouraged investors to view the United States Securities and Exchange Commission hearing recently rescheduled for February as "a positive step."

Taiwanese electronics giant HTC has launched its new smartphone Exodus 1s, enabling users to run a full Bitcoin node on mobile.

Bittrex International, Malta-based international unit of United States' crypto exchange Bittrex, will cease operations in Venezuela and 30 other countries.

Enterprise Ethereum Alliance created a token system to encourage the active contribution of member organizations and their employees to the consortium, as reported by Cointelegraph on Oct. 8.

Saturday, Oct. 19 - crypto markets are seeing a slight recovery after another downward movement as Bitcoin is back to trading above $8,000.

Tron founder and CEO Justin Sun has possibly refuted recent reports suggesting that he is leading an investment group behind the acquisition of cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex.

Even with a trading ban in place, there are whispers of a booming P2P trading arena, with authorities in Beijing seeming to adopt a "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" approach.

Taiwanese electronics manufacturer HTC has launched its latest blockchain phone, the Exodus 1s, which enables users to support the bitcoin network.

Nir Kshetri, a professor of management at the University of North Carolina, has suggested that before blockchain-based voting can be considered safe and trustworthy, some major issues must be resolved.

Telegram will have to wait to make its case to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that its "Gram" token is not a security.

Blockchain payments network Ripple has announced that it sold $66.24 million worth of XRP in Q3 2019 - down a staggering 73.66% compared to the record sale worth of $251.51 million in the previous quarter.

The following article originally appeared in Institutional Crypto by CoinDesk, a weekly newsletter focused on institutional investment in crypto assets.

The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has postponed the hearing regarding the Securities and Exchange Commission's injunction filing against Telegram Open Network and its Gram token to Feb. 18-19, 2020.

The G20 finance chiefs of the world agree that global stablecoins give rise to a set of public policy and regulatory risks.

Friday, Oct. 18 - Bitcoin is suffering from further downward selling pressure and continues to trade below the $8,000 price mark.

American financial services company Fidelity Investments has fully launched its cryptocurrency custody service.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has said that Facebook's not-yet-released Libra stablecoin is "a neat idea that will never happen."

Fidelity Digital Asset Services is "Now engaged in a full rollout" of its custody and trading services, expanding from the limited trial users in the platform's final test stage, according to a Financial Times interview.

MediaLab, a Santa Monica-based holding company, has finalized an agreement with Kik Interactive to acquire the Kik messaging platform.

In a matter of hours, the 18 millionth bitcoin will have been mined and the world's first cryptocurrency will draw one step closer to its hard-coded cap of 21 million coins.

Australian computer scientist and tech entrepreneur Craig Wright has asserted that Satoshi Nakamoto, the author of the Bitcoin white paper, plagiarized him.

US - the United States-focused wing of major cryptocurrency exchange Binance - announced that its customer's dollar deposits are eligible for Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation insurance coverage.

Crypto critic Nouriel Roubini faced off with some of the industry's biggest proponents during the CC Forum conference in London but surprisingly found common ground with one of the most controversial figures in the space-Craig Wright.