Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

View Bitcoin hit a fresh 10-month high of $8,335 on Bitstamp earlier today and is currently reporting its largest monthly gain since November 2017.

On May 7th, Microsoft announced the Azure Blockchain Service, a tool that helps developers and companies create, deploy, and manage blockchain networks.

Algorithmic cryptocurrency trading firm GSR announced the launch of a new bitcoin halo option derivative in a Medium post published on May 13.

New York-based global investments company, Bank of New York Mellon, has named Subhankar Sinha as the company's Head of Blockchain, according to a May 13 press release.

The team at Elk has had experience building open-source hardware for IoT. Now it's trying its hand at blockchain.

United States cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase confirmed it had rolled out XRP trading to New York users in a social media update on May 13.

CME Group reported record volume for its bitcoin futures on May 13 as the cryptocurrency's surprise bull market continued.

Prominent Brazlian bank, Banco Bradesco, has become the latest institution to join R3's Marco Polo blockchain network for trade finance, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph on May 14.

Major crypto exchange Binance plans to undertake a scheduled system upgrade tomorrow that will prevent deposits, withdrawals, and trading for roughly six to eight hours, according to an official announcement published on May 14.

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has launched trading support for XRP for New York state residents.

HTC's blockchain phone, the EXODUS 1, now allows users to directly swap between some cryptocurrencies within its native wallet, the Taiwanese electronics giant announced Tuesday.

Blockstack CEO Muneeb Ali criticized "Most" decentralized apps in the industry during a panel appearance Monday, drawing issue with how they are typically organized today.

A new website, Got Satoshi, claims to know the true identity of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto.

Cryptocurrency exchange BitOasis is on track to receive a license to operate in the Middle East after being granted in-principle approval from the U.A.E's financial regulator.

Can these actors interoperate? Can their users pull their data out and bring it into other applications? And given that the users are themselves economic actors, if this data represents something of monetary value, can the users be confident that their data wasn't modified during all this exporting and importing?

Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano and co-founder of Ethereum, is partnering with Polymath as the co-architect of "Polymesh"-a blockchain that aims to become "Layer one" for security tokens, as first reported by Forbes contributor Rachel Wolfson at Consensus 2019.

A new routing proposal is expected to be merged today into the official "Specifications" of lightning, the technology many advocates trumpet as the fix to bitcoin's long-standing payment problems.

French crypto hardware firm Ledger will provide its technology to American payments startup Uphold to improve security, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph on May 13.Formerly known as Bitreserve, Uphold will reportedly incorporate Ledger's institutional custody platform Ledger Vault to boost its anti-hack protection by adding an additional layer of security.

The recently reintroduced Token Taxonomy Act will create a de minimis tax exemption for crypto transactions under $600, according to the executive director of Coin Center, Jerry Brito, at Consensus 2019 on May 13.The de minimis tax exemption stipulates that if a crypto owner experiences a capital gain up to $600 of crypto, then that owner is not required to report the gain to the Internal Revenue Service, the United States' tax authority.

If the bulls succeed in pushing the price above $0.33108, it can rally to $0.37835.

Tether has asked a judge for more leeway to use its cash amid the New York Attorney General's investigation of the stablecoin issuer and affiliated crypto exchange Bitfinex.

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission's Advisor for Digital Assets and Innovation Valerie Szczepanik said that platforms seeking to list initial exchange offering tokens for a fee could find themselves in regulatory trouble.

Ground X, the blockchain arm of South Korean internet giant Kakao Corp, has announced the launch date of its own blockchain platform, a Cointelegraph correspondent learned at Consensus 2019 on May 13.Per the announcement, the Klaytn mainnet will launch on June 27, 2019, and will purportedly be a major driver of blockchain adoption in the country.

Blockchain entrepreneur Alex Tapscott is paying a $148,000 fine and will lead ethics seminars at three Canadian business schools per his settlement agreement with the Ontario Securities Commission, according to a report by The Globe and Mail on May 13.Tapscott, the CEO of blockchain firm NextBlock Global Limited initially filed for a public settlement hearing with the OSC on May 9.The OSC had previously accused NextBlock and Tapscott of misleading investors when he collected a reported $20 million from 113 investors.

Monday, May 13 - Following a solid to break above the $7,400 mark earlier today, bitcoin has broken $8,000, with all top-20 cryptocurrencies trading in the green.

Bitcoin's price has continued to extend its recent rally to a price level beyond $8,000.

Certain exchanges that facilitate initial exchange offerings may be breaking U.S. securities laws, a top Securities and Exchange Commission official has said.

A privacy-centric startup has turned to a private token sale to raise $2.5 million.

If ethereum is not able to breakout and instead falls in price, it could be held by the support trendline or by the 50-three-day MA that sits around $140.XRP. Since the beginning of the year, XRP has staggered within a trading range without any major price movement.

United Arab Emirates-based cryptocurrency exchange BitOasis has reportedly secured preliminary approval with financial regulators, Bloomberg reported on May 13.