Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Merck, the world's oldest operating pharmaceutical firm, has won a blockchain patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Cointelegraph auf Deutsch reported Jan. 30.

Canadian-based social media startup Kik is gearing up to challenge a proposed enforcement action from the United States Securities Exchange Commission over a fundraising initiative in 2017.The American securities regulator believes that Kik's Token Distribution Event two years ago violated securities laws.

A highly anticipated upgrade to ethereum is gearing up for its first dry run, and the test network of choice will be an unfamiliar name to many.

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Blockchain investment firm Pantera Capital is leading a $4.5 million seed round in Staked, a startup that provides institutional investors with the technical infrastructure for non-custodial staking services.

Japanese online broker Monex Group - owner of previously hacked cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck - released its financial report on Q3 for the 2019 fiscal year on Jan. 31.

The world's second-largest stock exchange Nasdaq has revealed that seven crypto exchanges are already using its market monitoring technology, Forbes reported Jan. 30.

Venture capital firm Blockchain Capital has led a $1.7 million seed round for San Francisco-based crypto compliance startup TRM Labs.

Leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance is adding support for credit card crypto purchases through its partnership with payment processor Simplex, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph Jan. 31.

Blockchain tech firm and Bitcoin mining manufacturer Bitfury plans to launch several mining facilities in Paraguay, according to a press release published Thursday, Jan. 31.

Blockchain asset management platform NEM announced it had completely reformed its non-profit NEM Foundation amid financial difficulties in an announcement Jan. 31.

Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by adjusted trading volume, has just made it easier for users to buy cryptocurrencies.

South Korea will continue to ban initial coin offerings in the country, state financial regulator the Financial Services Commission confirmed in a press release Jan. 30.

A top member of the Germany-based Iota Foundation has said the majority of the ~$11 million alleged to have been stolen in a major Iota token heist last year has been found, Reuters reported Jan. 30.

View The probability of bitcoin ending its four-year February winning streak in 2019 is high, as the primary trend is bearish for the first time in the last three years.

Upcoming Ethereum hardware hackathon ETHDenver is partnering with UNICEF on a blockchain bounty token system, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph Jan. 31.

South Korea's top financial regulator has said it will not lift the ban on domestic initial coin offerings after finding that some projects have been violating rules.

Danish state-owned energy company Energinet has expanded its partnership with distributed ledger network Iota to investigate use of its technology in new areas, Iota revealed in blog post Jan. 30.

Almost all of roughly $11 million-worth of iota tokens alleged to have been stolen by an individual from Oxford, UK, have been found.

Blockchain payments network Ripple announced it had hired a former HSBC general counsel to oversee its legal services and compliance, in a press release Jan. 30.

Cheddar, a popular live-streaming financial news network, announced a partnership with Brave Software-the privacy browser behind Basic Attention Token.

The NEM Foundation, a community-funded nonprofit established to promote the NEM blockchain, is planning layoffs across its entire 150-person staff in the wake of severe budget cuts and ahead of an imminent restructuring, CoinDesk has learned.

Wrapped Bitcoin, an Ethereum-based token backed by Bitcoin, has launched today, Jan. 31, according to a press release on the network's website.

Fidelity Investments, the world's fifth largest asset managers with $2.5 trillion under management, is launching a Bitcoin custodial product aimed at institutional investors to expand its "Digital Asset" service.

The Italian postal service provider, Poste Italiane, has joined the Hyperledger blockchain community, Cointelegraph Italia reported on Jan. 29.Hyperledger is a collaborative project led by the Linux Foundation which aims to create open-source standards for blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology.

A new token backed one-to-one with bitcoin is now live on the ethereum blockchain.

Bob Summerwill, a developer at blockchain tech company ConsenSys, has joined the Ethereum Classic Cooperative as its executive director, according to an official announcement on Jan. 29.The Ethereum Classic Cooperative manages the development and growth of the Ethereum Classic cryptocurrency's protocol.

79 percent of attendees at crypto events are male, according to a report by events-oriented software firm Bizzabo on Jan. 28.After analyzing the registration information of 100 different cryptocurrency-related events in 15 countries, Bizzabo found that the overwhelming majority of attendees were male.

Boost committed to investing in 100 crypto companies back in 2014 and successfully reached that goal last year.

South Korea-based fintech firm BxB Inc. has launched the first supposed stablecoin backed by the Korean won, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph on Jan 29.There was an initial beta soft launch of the coin on Airswap, a decentralized exchange platform, before the tokens were released on the global and Korean exchange, according to a Medium blog post by the co-Founder of BxB Inc, Alex Friedberg, earlier this month.