Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Clay Collins is CEO and co-founder at Nomics, an API-first cryptoasset data company delivering market data to institutional crypto investors and exchanges.

Y Cheung, head of operations at the global crypto exchange OKEx, told CoinDesk that over 30,000 Turkish users signed up for the platform since it expanded services to Turkey on March 26.

The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation released recommendations for policymakers on how to regulate blockchain technology on April 30.Founded in 2006, ITIF is an independent nonprofit institute that provides policymakers with information, analysis and recommendations for handling new technology.

Legal representatives for Bitfinex and Tether confirm the widely held suspicion that USDT is not one-to-one backed by US dollars.

Coinbase Custody announced immediate support for the mainnet iteration of the KIN token today, April 30, 2019.As Cointelegraph previously reported, KIN is a cryptocurrency created by Canadian organization Kik Interactive of Kik Messenger fame.

Truffle is integrating with AxCore, a proprietary blockchain jointly created by Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan-supported Axoni, Forbes reported on April 29.The ConsenSys spinoff, which makes tools that are widely used by Ethereum developers, has reportedly raised $3 million as it aims to expand into enterprise-grade solutions.

Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing platform subsidiary of retail giant Amazon, has made its Amazon Managed Blockchain generally available, according to an announcement on April 30.

For grocers, this means they can use blockchain as a way to convey reliable information to their customers and retailers.

The Southern District of New York Attorney has charged an Arizona man and Israeli woman for allegedly shadow banking cryptocurrency companies, according to an official announcement published on April 30.Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the arrest of Reginald Fowler for allegedly operating an unlicensed money transferring business and bank fraud.

A former executive of British investment bank Barclays, Chris Tyrer, has joined Fidelity Digital Assets, the crypto platform of American financial services corporation Fidelity Investments, Finance Magnates reported on April 30.

Mysteriously, 25 percent of mined Bitcoin Cash blocks are being tagged with "Satoshi Nakamoto." Given the May 15th hard fork as part of a scheduled protocol upgrade, it is rumored that the tagging is a miner signaling 51 percent attack.

Mixed cryptocurrency transactions now represent 4.09% of all bitcoin payments, according to data published by Longhash on April 29.So-called "CoinJoins" have risen by 300% in the space of nine months.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it has hit two individuals with bank fraud charges in connection to a system for depositing funds to cryptocurrency exchanges.

Digital currency mining hardware market is set to expand by 2023, according to a report from market research firm Reportlinker published on April 29.

Tuesday, April 30 - following another decline yesterday, crypto markets again reversed to gain momentum upwards, with all but one top 20 coins by market cap in the green.

Cryptocurrency payment services firm BitPay has partnered with tax-related financial products company Refundo to enable people to get a portion of their tax refund back in bitcoin.

Almost immediately after the release of Musk's tweet, the interest in Ethereum on major search engines including Google spiked, most likely as it drew interest from the mainstream.

The United Kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority has allowed three blockchain-based businesses to join the latest cohort of its regulatory sandbox, the organization announced on April 29.Diro Labs is one of the blockchain-driven companies accepted by the FCA for performing tests on a "Short-term and small-scale basis." According to the regulator, the startup uses a "Central blockchain-based store of information" to verify identities and documents online from original sources.

11% of the American population owns the major cryptocurrency bitcoin, according to a new survey published by Spencer Bogart of venture capital firm Blockchain Capital on April 30.

The company behind USD stablecoin Tether only has enough cash to back three-quarters of its increasing supply, its lawyers confirmed in documents released on April 30.

Stuart Hoegner, who is general counsel to both Tether and Bitfinex, the controversial companies at the heart of cover-up allegations by the New York Attorney General, wrote in an affidavit Tuesday that the company holds about $2.1 billion in cash and short-term securities.

Dave Ramsden, deputy governor of the United Kingdom's central bank, has said that crypto assets are too volatile to be a store of value.

Hackers who breached Microsoft Outlook have reportedly used the email service to steal cryptocurrency users' funds.

Blockchain-powered precious metals platform Tradewind has appointed an ex-JPMorgan Chase executive as its new CEO, the company confirmed in a press release on April 30.

Taiwanese consumer electronics firm HTC is doubling down on its mission to offer blockchain features to its cellphone customers.

Chicago-based crypto exchange ErisX has officially announced the public launch of its spot market, the firm tweeted on April 30.

Japanese startup Nayuta is releasing an in-progress lightning implementation with a compelling new focus: the internet of things.

A New York startup founded by a group of Facebook veterans has launched an ether-powered mobile social app that supports the creation and trading of unique digital collectibles.

Digital Assets Data - a crypto-focused fintech and data firm - has launched with a $6 million raise from industry backers such as Digital Currency Group, Morgan Creek Digital Assets and others.

The world's largest stock exchange, Nasdaq, announced that it has introduced XRP Liquid Index, a new XRP index, to its global data service.