Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

A website launched last year by the U.S. state of Ohio allowing businesses to pay a range of taxes with bitcoin has been taken offline.

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is opening a school specializing in startups aiming to develop cryptocurrency-related projects.

"Bug bounties are most useful and efficient as a supplement to proactive security activities focused on preventing and detecting vulnerabilities inside organizations first. Once organizations have established good security practices, bug bounties can help identify security bugs that organizations missed. Bug bounties on their own aren't enough."

MakerDAO has patched a "Critical" bug in its yet-to-be-launched Multi-Collateral Dai upgrade that could have put more than 10% of the system's total collateral at risk.

Japan's Financial Services Agency has issued draft guidelines for funds investing in crypto.

Around this time last week, the situation was looking increasingly dire for Bitcoin and murmurs of a drop to $6,000 and even $3,000 began to circulate amongst traders.

One of the most popular technical indexes among traders suggests that some of the top altcoins by market capitalization-including Ethereum, Litecoin, Binance Coin, Cardano, Monero, Dash, and Ontology-are on the cusp of high volatility.

Cryptocurrency exchange OKEx announced in a press release shared with Cointelegraph on Oct. 3 the creation of a Self-Regulated Organization aiming to standardize crypto exchange compliance practices and policies.

Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance has partnered with crypto analytics startup Coinfirm to improve its anti-money laundering compliance.

Oneiro, the company behind cryptocurrency ndau, announced that it has secured a $5 million investment from Cosimo Ventures.

Investment management company Stone Ridge is trying to register a new Bitcoin futures offering with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

Thursday, Oct. 3 - crypto markets have again failed to continue recovery trend as almost all the top 20 coins by market cap are seeing significant losses.

Algorand is gaining the ability to analyze the largest blockchains by adding the PARSIQ monitoring system to its platform, company executives told CoinDesk.

Crypto custodian BitGo has added staking to its services, beginning with cryptocurrencies dash and algorand, the company said.

An initiative led by crypto exchanges to categorize digital assets has drawn mixed reactions from leading legal experts and industry players.

Patrick Harker, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, is confident that central bank digital currencies are inevitable.

Cryptocurrency exchange HitBTC has denied allegations that it froze Brazillian investment startup Atlas Quantum's funds, claiming the evidence is forged.

Blockchain investigations firm Chainalysis has added support for five more ERC-20 tokens, expanding the reach of its anti-money laundering tracking service.

Australian tech firm Power Ledger will run another blockchain-enabled energy trading trial in Japan's Kanto region by December 2019.In order to launch its second trial in Japan, Power Ledger teamed up with Japanese solar provider Sharing Energy and electricity retailer eRex, the firm stated in a press release shared with Cointelegraph on Oct. 3.Main region of Japan's economyThe new Power Ledger's trial will track surplus solar energy levels and electricity trading, integrating blockchain-enabled P2P platform with household smart meter systems in the Kanto region.

Pantera Capital has led a $5 million strategic seed round of decentralized derivatives protocol Vega.

As if the financial establishment has not been vocal enough about its resistance against Libra, their displeasure was noted in an official complaint to the central bank.

Brian Brooks, the chief legal counsel at major United States digital wallet and exchange Coinbase, has responded to concerns that conflicts of interest could compromise the company's newly-created Crypto Ratings Council.

Another bitcoin futures product is booting up, according to a Stone Ridge Asset Management filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Nobuaki Kobayashi, trustee of the now-defunct Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, has contacted the United States Department of Justice in search of information about Alexander Vinnik, the alleged former operator of BTC-e. News of Kobayashi's pursuit of information from the DOJ were revealed in a statement from his office on Oct. 1.Kobayashi reaches out to DOJ. According to the statement from Kobayashi's office, as part of the ongoing bankruptcy proceedings for Mt. Gox, the trustee "Has been conducting investigations into whether any BTC or fiat money has disappeared" and "The background thereto if any has disappeared."

Fears of a U.S. recession have resurfaced over the last two days and the resulting risk aversion is bringing a boost to gold.

South Korean exchange Bithumb's international platform Bithumb Global is looking to establish a regulated cryptocurrency exchange in India.

IKEA Iceland has taken part in a commercial transaction on ethereum, using smart contracts and licensed e-money to facilitate the settlement of an order from local retailer Nordic Store.

Two Venezuelan companies have partnered to release a cryptocurrency debit card and point-of-sale system.

United Kingdom-based cryptocurrency data and wallet provider Blockchain.com has come under the spotlight after a string of exits by company employees.

The Missouri Secretary of State Securities Division has sent a cease-and-desist letter to an unregistered crypto firm.