Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Japan's third-largest bank by total assets, will launch blockchain-based trade finance services in the second half of this year.

Japan's Minister of Finance and deputy prime minister Taro Aso has urged reporters to stop using the term virtual currencies and switch to the newly-proposed legal name crypto assets.

The United States finance regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission, is hiring a dedicated staff member to provide expertise on cryptocurrency, a job application that originally appeared on April 5 confirms.

Payments services firm Bitspark is releasing a cryptocurrency pegged to the Philippine peso.

Blockchain payments startup Ripple has reported a 31 percent increase in sales of XRP over the first three months of the year.

France's new crypto law grants blockchain-related projects the right to a bank account, provided they opt in to being regulated.

Justin Sun, the CEO of TRON, recently announced a partnership with Liverpool FC. The announcement was met with great fanfare, but recent evidence calls into question whether the partnership is real.

Binance has launched a new cryptocurrency exchange in Singapore after months of anticipation, TechCrunch reported on April 23, albeit with limited features.

After a 2x upward movement in price, Ethereum, the world's biggest smart-contract blockchain, has formed its first bullish golden cross since Feb. 19, 2017.Understanding the Moving Averages.

Hardware cryptocurrency wallet manufacturer Ledger has secured 2.6 million euro from electronics giant Samsung, a company spokesperson told Cointelegraph on April 24.While the Ledger spokesperson confirmed the investment, no further details beyond the initial investment amount were provided.

South Korean technology giant Samsung has invested 2.6 million euros into crypto hardware startup Ledger.

French hardware crypto wallet producer Ledger has named its president, Pascal Gauthier, as the new chief executive officer of the company.

She's excited about the potential for bitcoin's lightning, a technology that advocates hope will bring bitcoin payments to the masses.

Web users can now get paid in Basic Attention Token for viewing ads as Brave Technologies has launched its long-awaited ad platform which compensates users for watching ads.

TrustToken will release four new stablecoins this year that are pegged to Australian dollars, euros, Canadian dollars, and Hong Kong dollars.

Decentralized browser Brave has launched Brave Ads, an option that enables its users to earn rewards for watching advertising.

Brazilian police have arrested a man for operating a clandestine drug laboratory and using the leading cryptocurrency bitcoin to launder the proceeds, Cointelegraph Brasil reported on April 24.

'Smart card' crypto wallet manufacturer Tangem has received a $15 million investment from major Japanese financial services firm SBI Group, Cointelegraph auf Deutsch reports on April 24.

Supermarket kiosk chain Coinstar is expanding the footprint of its bitcoin-buying service to more than 2,000 locations in 19 different states.

The price has broken down of the 20-day EMA and has re-entered the triangle, which is a bearish sign.

Last week, Forbes released its new list of "Blockchain's Billion Dollar Babies" - i.e., companies implementing blockchain technology that have minimum revenues or valuations of $1 billion.

In a February blog post, economists from the IMF proposed a policy that taxes bank deposits instead of allowing them to accumulate interest.

R/GA Ventures, the investment arm of international marketing company R/GA, is opening a blockchain investment studio in Oregon, the company announced in a press release published on April 24.

A former entrant of the top 20 coins by market capitalization, ontology is seeing the biggest losses over the past 24 hours at press time among the top 30, down more than 11%. Basic attention token, which has recently overtaken ontology to enter the top 20, has surged 6%, also up around 30% over the past 7 days.

Mike McMahon, chief technology officer at crypto merchant bank Galaxy Digital, has left the firm, CoinDesk has learned.

Brave's promise to compensate you for viewing online ads is finally coming to fruition.

The Tron Foundation, the firm behind the 11th biggest cryptocurrency Tron, will reportedly partner with British professional football club Liverpool, Tron CEO Justin Sun revealed in a tweet on April 24.

China's foreign exchange reserve regulator, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, is set to pilot a cross-border trade finance blockchain platform.

Thailand's largest commercial bank, Siam Commercial Bank, and state oil company PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Limited performed a successful test of blockchain use for cross-border business-to-business payments.

TrustToken has just launched a new stablecoin and says it has three more coming soon.