Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Tradewind, a blockchain-powered marketplace for precious metals, has hired a senior executive from JPMorgan to be the startup's first-ever CEO. Michael Albanese, most recently the global head of collateral management at the New York-based megabank, has over 20 years of experience at major financial institutions and will be helping the startup expand its product offering and client base, Tradewind said.

Breaker Magazine, an American online crypto publication, is reportedly shutting down, industry news outlet The Block reported on April 29.

Australia's tax agency, the Australian Tax Office, will seek to contact cryptocurrency traders personally about tax issues as part of a new data collection scheme, officials confirmed in a statement on April 30.

Japanese crypto trading platform Liquid has partnered with venture capital consortium Virtual Currency Partners to create a jointly-owned entity that will pave the way for Liquid's expansion to the United States.

View Bitcoin is set to end April with around 26 percent gains.

Aspiring crypto derivatives provider ErisX took one step closer to its ultimate goal Tuesday with the launch of a spot market.

Technology entrepreneur and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has sparked a conversation with ether co-founder Vitalik Buterin with his laconic one-word tweet "Ethereum" on April 29.

The United States, Japan and South Korea are the world's biggest fans of cryptocurrency exchanges, new research from software firm DataLight reported April 29.

Chinese internet giant Tencent will work with a local disruptor insurance company to develop new blockchain solutions, Bloomberg reported on April 30.

Crypto exchange Bitfinex is allegedly planning to issue a native exchange token, a post from Bitfinex shareholder Zhao Dong to Chinese social media platform Weibo revealed on April 30.

Aragon token holders have voted to restrict the project's development funds from being used to support work on the blockchain interoperability platform Polkadot.

Stock exchange operator Nasdaq is adding yet another cryptocurrency index - this time for the world's third-largest cryptocurrency, XRP. The company announced Monday that, through its partnership with New Zealand-based blockchain data and research firm Brave New Coin, it will offer "Real-time" index information for XRP starting May 1.

Vitalik Buterin asserted that finance is likely the first sector that will be disrupted by blockchain.

Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex may soon issue a proprietary exchange token, according to a shareholder of the platform claiming knowledge of the plan.

London-based West Ham United - a soccer team that plays in the English Premier League - is partnering with blockchain platform Socios.com to launch a fan token ecosystem.

While Bitfinex doesn't exactly rhyme with Mt. Gox, there are several parallels in the stories of these two exchanges.

In worsening news for users of Microsoft's email services like Outlook, Hotmail and MSN, several cryptocurrency holders affected by a recent hack allege that the hackers responsible stole their crypto, as reported by Vice's Motherboard on April 29.One victim claimed on a Dutch tech forum to have lost just over 1 bitcoin, or almost $5,400 at press time, when hackers used his email account to reset his password and gain access to his Kraken account on March 31st. Several Reddit users attested to similar experiences.

Rob Carter, the chief information officer of American delivery services company FedEx, has called for uniform standards in the blockchain industry, tech-focused media outlet Computerworld reported on April 25.Speaking at the Blockchain Global Revolution Conference, Carter argued that mandated standards would help create uniformity for blockchains used in supply chains.

Régie de l'énergie, the energy regulator of the Canadian province of Quebec, has released new rules for cryptocurrency miners.

NEO announced its roadmap for the 3.0 version of its blockchain, which will introduce improved scalability, performance, and stability for the network.

The number of infected Electrum bitcoin wallets has reached 152,000 following an ongoing Denial-of-Service attack on its servers.

Fundstrat Global Advisors founder Tom Lee has predicted that cryptocurrency prices will hit new historic highs by 2020.

Tether, the leading stablecoin, recently unpegged from the US Dollar after news that the New York State Attorney General is investigating iFinex Inc., which operates Bitfinex and owns Tether Ltd. USDT dropped as low as $0.975 against the US Dollar while the other top three stablecoins-USDC, TUSD, and PAX-enjoyed an approximately 6.5 percent premium.

Monday, April 29 - after seeing moderate gains yesterday, crypto markets have tumbled at press time, with most of the top 20 coins by market cap in the red.

Some of the important signs that Lee pointed out are the increase in trading volume buoyed by investors in Venezuela and Turkey, the breakout of Bitcoin above the 200-day moving average, and an increase in the number of OTC clients and the trading per client.

Galaxy Digital Holdings, the crypto merchant bank founded by former hedge fund manager Michael Novogratz, lost $97 million in the fourth quarter, according to financials disclosed Monday.

The news about Nike's "Cryptokicks" trademark was originally broken by Josh Gerben, a trademark attorney in the U.S. who first described the application via Twitter on April 24.

Singapore-based exchange conglomerate Huobi Group has a unique growth strategy for emerging markets: partner with local entities and then split the profits 50/50.

Bart Chilton, former executive at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and known crypto advocate, has died at age 58 after a reportedly sudden illness.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is temporarily suspending trading of shares in a little-known, self-described crypto exchange and mining firm called Bitcoin Generation.