Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

NEO upgraded its consensus mechanism ahead of the scheduled move to NEO 3.0 in 2020.

Medici Ventures, the blockchain-based subsidiary of Overstock.com, has led a $7 million funding round for a blockchain-based voting platform, according to a press release on June 6.

Hackers have reportedly compromised nearly 100 XRP Ledger wallets on cryptocurrency wallet service GateHub.

Crypto exchange Poloniex revealed in a post Thursday that lenders in its bitcoin margin lending pool suffered a loss of 1800 BTC - roughly $13.5 million at current market prices - due to a flash crash in the Clams market on May 26.

United States Congressman Ted Budd testified to the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee on purported issues with current tax laws on cryptocurrencies, as per a video of the testimony released on June 4.

More names are being linked to Facebook's secretive cryptocurrency project.

There are signs that Bitcoin mining is beginning to gain a foothold in the United States-a win for the decentralization of the cryptocurrency ecosystem.

The University of Notre Dame and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory released a study on the speed and scale of cryptocurrency discussions on Reddit on May 13.

Portugal's most popular football club has become the first of its kind to accept cryptocurrency payments after announcing its partnership with the UTRUST payment platform.

A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology says that blockchains are not as secure as they are purported to be in an editorial in the Wall Street Journal on June 6.

Binance, the top crypto exchange by adjusted trading volume, has confirmed it will soon issue its own stablecoins.

Thursday, June 6 - Bitcoin and ether are trending down slightly following the slump from the recent rally.

North Carolina Congressperson Ted Budd highlighted two bills he hopes will receive bipartisan support, The Cryptocurrency Tax Fairness Act and the Virtual Value Tax Fix of 2018, while speaking at the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee on June 4.

United States Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton said that the regulator needs to feel comfortable with cryptocurrency custody and ensure no market manipulation can take place before approving a crypto exchange-traded fund.

Global tech giant IBM has entered a partnership a Russian metal producer to launch an educational program in blockchain, local news agency TASS reports June 6.

Cryptocurrencies quickly became popular among the citizens, partially due to the unstable financial situation in the country.

Bitcoin is again feeling the pull of gravity amid a rally in gold - a classic safe haven asset.

One, the company that built the EOS blockchain, is in the middle of another equity buyback in order to bring on more strategic investors, a source familiar with the matter told CoinDesk.

The current outlook for the cryptocurrency market has been downgraded from mildly bullish to uncertain, SFOX's latest volatility report concluded on June 6.While the report acknowledged that crypto prices recovered substantially last month, the authors described overall sentiment is at a tipping point - and warned it was unclear how much of the growth is due to FOMO.SFOX echoed recent comments made by Digital Currency Group founder, Barry Silbert, and said bitcoin's rally on Monday, May 13 may have been linked to developments in the trade war between the United States and China.

Jason Leung, global head of Cumberland, the cryptocurrency-focused unit of Chicago-based trading giant DRW, is leaving the firm.

Fintech startup SoFi - known for its online lending services - has seen three of its top executives depart from the company, the Wall Street Journal reports on June 4.

Azarus, a blockchain game developer, raised $1.8 million from several crypto VC funds including Galaxy Digital, Kleiner Perkins.

Microsoft has registered a suite of applications in Brazil that are designed to improve efficiency in the agriculture sector, according to an exclusive report by Cointelegraph Brazil on June 6.The technology, known as FarmBeats, uses blockchain, drones, IoT, artificial intelligence and big data to improve productivity.

The CFTC tapped Heath Tarbert as incoming chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, replacing current chairman and "Crypto Dad" J. Christopher Giancarlo.

ConsenSys Capital co-founder Andrew Keys will be the newest managing partner at DARMA Capital, a registered crypto-focused investment fund.

The Reserve Bank of India has denied having any knowledge or involvement in a draft government bill that would ban cryptocurrencies, an official document released on June 4 shows.

Network, a non-profit aiming to "Rebuild an internet that puts users first" through broadening the use of blockchain, announced a new virtual machine built on top of the popular Java Virtual Machine.

Blockchain-based mobile voting platform Voatz has raised $7 million in a Series A round led by Overstock's Medici Ventures and Techstars.

"Pact 3.0 generally makes available the features that makes hybrid blockchains a reality. We now have the smart contract language for hybrid blockchains."

Major cryptocurrency exchange and blockchain platform Binance has hired a former strategic executive at Dell and the National Basketball Association as Binance's global strategy officer, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph on June 5.