Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

The South Korean Ministry of Science and ICT is going to run a follow-up study on blockchain regulations, according to a Yonhap News report on May 21.The study is called the "Blockchain Regulation Improvement Study Group" and is part of an initiative run by the government's science and tech arm to figure out how regulations could be improved so that blockchain tech could achieve widespread institutional adoption.

In a recent report, the Beijing News analyzed a case which involved more than 100 people who were scammed out of 7,000 BTC. Wei Xiao, a council member at the Bank of China Law Research Association, stated that owning bitcoin in China is legal.

Copyright registrations for the Bitcoin white paper and the bitcoin source code by the United States Copyright Office do not mean that Australian computer scientist Craig Wright is recognized as Satoshi Nakamoto by the government, the Financial Times reported on May 22.

A cryptocurrency trader at the New York Mercantile Exchange said that bitcoin will likely move back to $7,000 and consolidate soon in an interview with CNBC on May 21.

SIX, the Swiss national stock exchange group, is working on creating its own "Stablecoin" - a cryptocurrency pegged to the Swiss franc - to facilitate transactions on the SIX Digital Exchange, CoinDesk has learned.

Conversely, if the XRP/USD pair rebounds off the 20-day EMA, it can rise to $0.45 and if this level is crossed, a new uptrend is likely.

The official Consensus 2019 videos are now available for public viewing.

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and its affiliated stablecoin issuer Tether have been granted its stay of demands for which they applied yesterday May 21, according to a blog post published on May 22.

Even as bitoin SV enjoyed a Craig Wright/Satoshi bump Tuesday, the U.S. Copyright Office was hard at work dispelling notions that it officially "Recognized" anyone as the inventor of bitcoin.

The Dutch Financial Criminal Investigative Service has seized the website of a bitcoin transaction mixer in a crackdown involving Europol and other authorities.

Major United States-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced that its cryptocurrency payment processor Coinbase Commerce now supports Circle's stablecoin USD Coin in a blog post on May 20.

A multicurrency digital wallet that enables consumers to store crypto and spend their funds at more than 40 million outlets worldwide has fully integrated Apple Pay.Spend says the latest version of its Spend Wallet app unlocks instant access to the popular iPhone feature, meaning that more than 20 supported cryptocurrencies can be instantly converted to fiat and used to complete a mobile transaction on demand.

This is why breaches like that of Cryptopia are vital to pay attention to, as they also highlight the often-adversarial role that exchanges play with their customers.

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Dutch, Luxembourg authorities and Europol have shut down one of the three largest cryptocurrency tumblers, Europol reported on May 22.

A group of four banks have successfully issued a promissory note - a type of legally binding loan agreement - through a new blockchain platform, a news release on May 21 announced.

An upcoming supply cut could help bitcoin prices rise further in the coming months, crypto fund manager Brian Kelly told CNBC on May 21.

On May 16, 2019, Coin Metrics released a report detailing discrepancies in Ripple's escrow reporting system.

Coinbase Commerce, the cryptocurrency exchange's merchants payments offering, has added support for the dollar-pegged stablecoin USD Coin.

The central bank of Russia believes that the draft bill on crypto regulation is prepared enough to be adopted in the spring of 2019, local news agency TASS reports on May 22.

An Israeli judge has ruled that bitcoin is an asset and not a currency, local news site Globes reported on May 21.

Because there are, apparently, second acts in crypto, the creator of the defunct Cryptopia exchange is trying again with a new exchange product called Assetylene.

Wednesday, May 22 - most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are reporting moderate losses on the day by press time, as bitcoin falls under the $7,900 mark again.

View BTC has traded in a narrowing price range over the last 48 hours, aborting the immediate bullish view put forward by Sunday's double-digit gains.

A gaming platform built on crypto is teaming up with the creator of "Fortnite."

CME Group, the second global exchange to list bitcoin futures, is about to record the biggest trading month for BTC futures trading, industry news outlet The Block reports May 21.

Two Chinese over-the-counter traders have been accused of running an illicit bitcoin loan scheme and collecting bitcoin by promising interest on deposits, Chinese newspaper The Beijing News reports on May 22.

An Israeli court has ruled that bitcoin is an asset and not a currency, and thus subject to capital gains tax.

CULedger, a blockchain consortium and credit union service organization, has chosen enterprise software firm R3's Corda blockchain to underpin its forthcoming cross-border payments product.

Japanese cryptocurrency exchanges have seen new account openings increase up to 200% in the past two months, Cointelegraph Japan reported on May 22.