Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Turkish police have arrested 24 people allegedly involved in a 13 million Turkish lira hack from an unnamed crypto firm in Istanbul, local government-backed media Daily Sabah reported on Feb. 12.

Nasdaq will launch two new indices tracking cryptocurrency prices on Feb. 25, the company announced in an update to its website on Feb. 12.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed a new smart contract creation function dubbed "Create2." This function reportedly introduces a new attack vector to the platform, according to a post on the Ethereum developers forum Ethereum Magicians published on Feb. 8.

South Korea's largest foreign exchange bank - Korea Exchange Bank - has announced that it has filed 46 patent applications for business models related to blockchain, business technology news website ZDNet reports on Feb. 13.

The Italian Banking Association is now testing a blockchain interbank solution based on blockchain consortium R3's open-source distributed ledger platform Corda, fintech news outlet FinExtra reports on Wednesday, Feb. 13.

Stock exchange operator Nasdaq is adding indices for bitcoin and ethereum to its global data service later this month.

The New Zealand Police have reported that recently hacked crypto exchange Cryptopia is ready to be relaunched and resume operations, Auckland-based news agency The New Zealand Herald reports on Feb. 13.

With a few notable exceptions, most of the top 20 coins by market cap are fluctuating 2 percent in either direction on the day, as data from Coin360 shows.

Former JPMorgan Chase executive Etienne Amic has been appointed as new CEO at Vakt, a blockchain-based commodity post-trade platform, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph on Feb. 13.

Mike Novogratz, a former Goldman Sachs partner and founder of crypto merchant bank Galaxy Digital, has argued that Bitcoin occupies a unique place in the cryptocurrency landscape.

The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance is boarding the tokenization train.

Chinese alleged Bitcoin billionaire Zhao Dong believes that the crypto spring will only come in 2020.

Crypto investors are pushing each other to actively participate in the networks they fund.

View Bitcoin is struggling to cross the 50-day moving average hurdle for the fifth straight day.

Prestigious United States public school University of California, Berkeley has launched a 12-week accelerator program for early stage blockchain startups.

The South Korean city of Busan has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with blockchain company Hyundai Pay, according to a press release published on Feb. 12.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group - Japan's largest financial group and the world's fifth largest bank by assets - is launching a blockchain-based payments network next year.

Crypto investors and miners are turning to derivatives such as options in an attempt to survive the protracted market downturn, a Bloomberg piece argues on Feb. 13.

Embattled Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX has become the subject of a bidding war as lawyers meet to win creditor representation, Bloomberg reported on Feb. 12.

A Germany-based pharmaceutical multinational is set to trial IBM blockchain in Canada in a bid to raise the quality of clinical trials.

Swedish Bitcoin exchange-traded note operator XBT Provider has shelved plans to offer altcoin products due to market volatility, Bloomberg reported on Feb. 13.

Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has officially announced it will launch a new blockchain-based payment system, according to a press release published on Feb. 12.

Japanese IT giant GMO Internet has just reported an operating loss of 1.36 billion yen, or about $11.75 million, for its cryptocurrency business last year.

Users of Coinbase Wallet can now back up their private keys on Google Drive or iCloud, according to an official announcement on Feb. 12.In the statement, Coinbase states that allowing users to upload their keys to a cloud provides a safeguard against lost keys, will will help them avoid losing funds should the keys be misplaced.

Major Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX accidentally transferred nearly $500,000 in Bitcoin to its cold wallets earlier this month, according to a report published by Ernst & Young on Feb. 12.The founder of QuadrigaCX, 30-year-old Gerald Cotten, died in December 2018.

The founder and CEO of retail giant Overstock.com Patrick Byrne says that blockchain can make government "Superefficient and incapable of being bribed," in an interview with MarketWatch published on Feb. 12.Byrne reportedly said that government services have reached a turning point for a fundamental change of their structure, and blockchain technology, in his opinion, will be the optimal solution.

Finance platform SDK.finance has partnered with Oracle to use the Oracle Blockchain Platform to improve payments processes and remove intermediaries.

The Central Bank of Chile believes that cryptocurrencies are unable to substitute traditional money, according to an in-depth report on crypto issued Feb. 7.The document, signed by the central bank's president Mario Marcel, was prepared upon request of the Tribunal de Defensa de la Libre Competencia.

Bytom describes itself as the "Infrastructure of the asset internet." The company's vision is to create diverse assets and a programmable economy and ensure that byte assets and atomic assets - like securities, dividends, bonds and information existing in the physical world - can interact and circulate more easily.

The Canadian unit of American tech giant IBM has partnered with pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim to deploy blockchain in clinical recordkeeping, according to a press release published on Feb. 12.The cooperation between the two companies aims to test whether the integration of blockchain technology with clinical recordkeeping provides the proper level of data integrity, transparency, and patient safety, in addition to reducing costs and automating processes.