Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

The IT arm of South Korean tech giant Samsung announced it had developed technology to speed up blockchain transactions, the company confirmed in a press release on Feb 14.

The indicator carved out a higher low in December, even though bitcoin's price slipped to $3,100, signaling waning bearish pressures 17 months before the mining reward halving.

Brian Quintenz, a Commissioner at the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has argued against the Securities and Exchange Commission's grounds for not approving a Bitcoin exchange traded fund.

Ethereum is being affected by what is popularly known as the "Difficulty bomb" embedded in the code - and this month's upcoming hard fork is expected to once again push its effects further into the future.

An internet analyst has claimed to have delineated four Bitcoin addresses that belonged to defunct Canadian exchange QuadrigaCX, publishing their findings on Reddit on Feb. 13.

San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange desk Coinbase has just forked out a $30,000 bounty to the finder of a critical bug in its systems.

United States regulator the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has announced cryptocurrency will form a priority for its internal examinations this year, according to a press release published on Feb. 12.

Cryptocurrency traders are unhappy with regulators in Indonesia after it emerged Bitcoin brokers now needed over $70 million to launch futures trading.

Law firms jockeying to represent somewhere between 90,000 and 115,000 users of QuadrigaCX will appear before the Nova Scotia Supreme Court Thursday to see which firms will be appointed representative counsel.

The number of Bitcoin ATMs have grown by 720 percent since 2016, adding a total of 3600 machines worldwide.

Barry Silbert, CEO and founder of Digital Currency Group and Grayscale Investments, said that the majority of digital tokens will not have value in the long run, CNBC reports on Feb. 13.In a purported phone interview with CNBC, Silbert said "I'm not a believer in the vast majority of digital tokens and I believe most will go to zero." He added that, "Almost every ICO was just an attempt to raise money but there was no use for the underlying token."

The Institute of Decentralized Economics has opened in London, the United Kingdom on Feb. 14, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph.

The government of the Spanish city of Aragon has allocated over 12 million euros for the development of "Industry 4.0," which includes blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, and other emerging technologies.

Blockchain watchers have identified a group of bitcoin addresses that likely belong to one of the so-called cold wallets of failed crypto exchange QuadrigaCX. The discovery is notable in light of QuadrigaCX's claim that it has been unable to access these wallets - which held the lion's share of the $190 million owed to customers - since the death in December of CEO Gerald Cotten.

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has requested the withdrawal of a proposed exchange-traded-fund submitted by Reality Shares ETF Trust, according to a letter published by the SEC on Feb. 12.In the document, the SEC specifies that the withdrawal was "At the request of the Staff of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. No securities have been sold in connection with the offering of the Fund.".

The governor of California Gavin Newsom supported the development of blockchain and artificial intelligence-based products in his "State of the State" speech, local news outlet CALmatters reported on Feb. 12.In his speech delivered on Tuesday, Feb. 12, Newsom said that "California needs a comprehensive statewide strategy to uplift and upskill our workers, to ensure technological advancements in AI, blockchain, big data, are creating jobs, not destroying them, and to reform our institutions so that more workers have an ownership stake in their sweat equity."

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, the customs organization of the United Kingdom, has said it will be postponing its work on a blockchain pilot program- instituted September of last year-until after the United Kingdom severs ties with the European Union.

Major United States crypto exchange and wallet service Coinbase has given a $30,000 reward for reporting a critical bug on its system, according to data from Coinbase's vulnerability disclosure program on HackerOne.

Niall Ferguson, British economic and financial historian, believes that Bitcoin is "An option an digital gold," as he said in a interview with a blockchain magazine Breaker Mag on Feb. 13.

Reality Shares ETF Trusts, a division of Blockforce Capital, is withdrawing an exchange-traded fund proposal that, if approved, would have included exposure to bitcoin futures.

The shake-up continues at financial blockchain company Digital Asset following the departure in December of CEO Blythe Masters.

Privacy coin Beam has announced that it plans to introduce a Mimblewimble-compatible lightning network, according to an paper published by Beam on Feb. 12.

While the initial coin offerings market is currently smaller than it was in 2018, it is still larger than it was at the beginning of 2017, data on crypto analytics website CoinShedule reveals as of Feb. 13.Total Funds Raised per Month Since Feb. 13, 2017-Feb. 13, 2019 - CoinSchedule.

We shall wait for the price to sustain above the downtrend line before recommending any long positions.

A crypto wallet has relaunched its product and signed a partnership with a well-known exchange - delivering new features to its users in the process.

Status, the ethereum messaging app and mobile browser startup, has relaunched their cryptocurrency hardware wallet under a new name: the Keycard.

In his inaugural speech, Ali Divandari - the director of the Monetary and Banking Research Institution - stressed that "The realities of blockchain technology should be accepted." Also, many contributions from Iranian and foreign experts focused on the opportunities that fintech and blockchain could potentially open for the Iranian financial and banking industry.

Intel has launched a commercial blockchain package based on the Hyperledger ecosystem, according to marketing materials published on Feb. 12.

According to the affidavit filed by Cotten's wife, Jennifer Robertson, she learned from Alex Hanin, the chief website architect of QuadrigaCX's website, and Aaron Mathews, the director of operations at the exchange, that her husband "Took sole responsibility for the handling the funds and coins and the banking and accounting side of the business."

Coinbase Wallet users will soon be able to back up their private keys on personal cloud storage platforms Google Drive and Apple's iCloud.