Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

With Hong Kong facing a shortage of cash due to defunct ATMs and the crash of PMC Bank in India leaving almost a million people without access to their accounts, Bitcoin could emerge as the savior of those facing financial crises.

Decentralized applications' transaction volume and user activity have slumped in the third quarter of 2019, a new study shows.

Bitcoin closed the week with a selloff, pushing price below the $8k handle and printing a close down 2.5% for the week as a whole.

Mobile payments app CHAI is launching mobile blockchain-based payments at 13,500 CU convenience stores in South Korea.

The Sacramento Kings NBA basketball team is launching a blockchain-powered rewards program within its gaming app.

Bitcoin remains on the cusp of surging to $9,800 or dropping to $6,500 as one technical index turns bullish.

The World Federation of Exchanges, a global trade association of publicly-regulated exchanges, has appealed to the United Kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority to not restrict cryptocurrency derivatives for retail investors.

The NBA's Sacramento Kings are the first U.S. professional sports team to develop a crypto token for fan rewards.

A New York-based legal firm has filed a lawsuit against Tether and Bitfinex, accusing them of cryptocurrency market manipulation.

A new lawsuit claims crypto exchange Bitfinex and its sister company Tether manipulated the crypto market, harming traders and benefiting themselves.

On Oct. 3 and 4, Ripple hosted a gathering of 200 developers, researchers and graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley campus for its first annual University Blockchain Research Initiative conference.

Second layer blockchain scaling platform Celer Network has partnered with customer relationship management startup Cere Network to launch a decentralized CRM solution.

Cryptocurrency exchange CoinField has launched an XRP validator which is already included in Ripple's Unique Node List.According to a press release published on Oct. 2, "UNLs are the lists of transaction validators a given participant believes will not conspire to defraud them."

Monday, Oct. 7 - Crypto markets are seeing notable upward movement, with Bitcoin breaking back above $8,000.

Germany's federal finance minister has come out in support of digitizing the euro, but is against private currency projects like Facebook's Libra.

The Financial Conduct Authority, the United Kingdom's primary financial regulator, has seen a 74% rise in crypto-related investigations in 2019 so far.

NuCypher, an encryption startup, has raised $10.7 million in a simple agreement for future tokens led by Polychain Capital.

Ex-federal prosecutor and now Andreessen Horowitz partner Katie Haun has argued that the United States blocking Facebook's Libra digital currency will have national security implications.

Crypto futures exchange CoinFLEX is issuing derivatives linked to the launch of the Facebook-led Libra cryptocurrency project.

View Bitcoin has again bounced up from the 100-week moving average - a level which has acted as strong support in the previous two weeks and during the early stages of the previous bull market.

The chief strategy officer at Bitcoin technology firm Blockstream has said that the current block size capacity may not even be needed in the future.

The number of investigations into cryptocurrency firms by the U.K.'s financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, have seen a sharp rise in the last year.

Norilsk Nickel, a Russia-based metal company, is launching a palladium-backed token and an exchange for tokenized commodities.

The now-former chief technical officer of Algo Capital, the investment arm of blockchain firm Algorand, has published a statement in the wake of a major security breach of an Algo hot wallet under his personal management.

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is said to be in talks to acquire the human assets of Omni, a Ripple-backed rental and storage firm.

A crypto derivatives exchange is launching physically-delivered futures contracts that will be settled based on whether Facebook's Libra does or does not launch in 2020.

The Hyperledger blockchain consortium's technical steering committee is discussing potential changes to its elections in hopes of boosting voter turnout.

The largest shareholder in Overstock-funded blockchain wealth management startup Bankorus has claimed that the firm has no money left.

Two of the industry's most hotly anticipated PoS networks are scheduled tolaunch in Q1 - namely ethereum and Cardano.

American entrepreneur and vocal crypto advocate John McAfee has launched a decentralized exchange running on the Ethereum blockchain.