Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

More than two dozen ethereum improvement proposals have been submitted for review and inclusion in ethereum's next system-wide upgrade or hard fork, dubbed Istanbul.

The bear market of 2018 triggered the closure of many crypto funds, and a report released last week by PwC and Elwood Asset Management showed that there are far fewer active funds in existence than we had been led to believe.

The primary financial regulator of the United Kingdom, the Financial Conduct Authority, warned that ICAP Crypto is a clone firm in a public announcement on May 24.According to the report, ICAP Crypto is a clone firm of ICAP Europe Limited.

Two miners have reportedly executed a 51% attack on the bitcoin cash blockchain, according to tweets by Cryptoconomy Podcast host Guy Swann on May 24.A 51% attack occurs when someone controls the majority of mining power on a Proof-of-Work blockchain network.

Bitcoin Cash reportedly suffered a 51% attack following its May 15 scheduled hardfork upgrade.

Privacy-focused encrypted instant messaging service Telegram has created a new programming language for its Telegram Open Network, according to a post on the project's Telegram channel published on May 23.The post introduces a new language called Fift that is specifically designed for developing and managing TON blockchain smart contracts, and interacting with the TON Virtual Machine.

Swiss luxury watch and clock manufacturer Vacheron Constantin will start using blockchain technology to track its timepieces, lifestyle magazine Robb Report reported on May 24.Founded in 1755, Vacheron Constantin is recognized as the world's oldest watch manufacturer.

Two bitcoin cash mining pools recently carried out what is known as a 51 percent attack on the blockchain in an apparent effort to reverse another miner's transactions.

The former headquarters of CrunchFund, a venture capital firm founded by Michael Arrington, was sold via Propy, a blockchain-powered real estate platform.

Telecommunications giant Swisscom has unveiled a new approach to using non-fungible tokens.

Opposition party members in the Luxembourg parliament are demanding specifics from the prime minister on a proposed e-government plan, according to a report by the Luxembourg Times on May 24.The plan reportedly centers on the implementation of blockchain technology, as well as artificial intelligence in government administration.

The United States State of Montana has recognized utility tokens and exempted them from state securities by passing a new bill this month.

Blockchain browser Brave is testing a new tipping function for social media platform Twitter on its Nightly version, it announced in a tweet on May 23.The post reads that users of Brave Nightly - the testing and development version of blockchain-based browser that blocks ads and website trackers - will have access to the browser's new feature for tipping tweets with the Brave Rewards program.

The bulls will now try to push the ETH/USD pair to the overhead resistance of $268.24.

While explanations for sudden market shifts are often hard to come by in the cryptocurrency industry, some within the media pinned BSV's abrupt climb on the news that nChain founder Craig Wright had filed a copyright registration for the original bitcoin white paper with the United States Copyright Office.

Brave browser is currently testing a new feature that will allow its users to tip tweets with Brave Rewards.

A Twitter app for tipping by way of bitcoin's experimental lightning network is now easier to use thanks to a new update.

A crypto futures exchange says its features mean it is well-positioned to solve current problems that exist among rivals.

Social media giant Facebook has reportedly held talks with major United States-based crypto exchanges about the issuance of its own crypto, the Financial Times reports on May 24.Citing two people familiar with Facebook's "Globalcoin" project, the FT wrote that Facebook has discussed the initiative with major crypto exchange and wallet Coinbase.

Russian state-owned holding conglomerate Rostec proposed a roadmap on applying blockchain in all the governmental data systems, local financial newspaper Kommersant reports on May 24.An institution under Rostec has reportedly developed a blockchain roadmap worth of up to 85 billion rubles that claims to provide an economic impact of up to 1.6 trillion rubles in five years.

Michael Novogratz, founder and CEO of cryptocurrency merchant bank Galaxy Digital, has suggested that one of the crypto assets created by social media giants will succeed.

Bitcoin is doing what it's done best over the last decade and continuing to climb, despite skeptics, antics, and rhetoric.

"Big Sky Country" has gone crypto friendly, with new legislation addressing the use of utility tokens.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed creating an on-chain smart contract-based ether mixer in a note on collaborative development platform HackMD on May 24.In his note, Buterin argues that the Ethereum ecosystem needs more privacy, and points out that the default behavior is to do everything through a single account, allowing for all of the user's activities to be linked to each other.

Binance has confirmed it will be launching a margin trading service, after the cryptocurrency exchange accidentally tweeted images suggesting the service was in development.

Major peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchange LocalBitcoins.com has banned users living in Iran, according to their website as of today, May 24.Screenshot of LocalBitcoin Iranian page as of press time.

An ardent critic of the hype surrounding crypto token sales is set to do the unlikely: launching a token.

Capital markets platform iSTOX has joined Singapore's regulatory sandbox to launch digitized securities trading in late 2019, the firm announced in a tweet on May 24.

Friday, May 24 - most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are reporting moderate gains on the day by press time, as bitcoin crosses the $8,000 mark again.

View Bitcoin has risen back to $8,000 with the widely tracked 200-day moving average beginning to curl upwards in favor of the bulls for the first time since May 2018.