Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

On Jan. 25, United States President Donald Trump ended the partial government shutdown, albeit temporarily.

Japanese financial services giant SBI Holdings and blockchain consortium startup R3 have formed a joint venture to boost the adoption of R3's Corda platform in Japan and beyond.

Major global securities marketplace Deutsche Börse has reported it is "Making significant progress" on its blockchain-based securities lending platform, according to an official press release on Jan. 29.

The United Arab Emirates' central bank and the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority have announced that the interbank digital currency they are co-developing will be called "Aber." The news was reported by the national Saudi Press Agency on Jan. 29.

The central banks of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have jointly launched a digital currency trial.

Hong Kong-based money transfer platform Bitspark has launched what is reportedly the first stablecoin pegged to the Hong Kong dollar, local tech and finance news outlet Fintech Hong Kong reports Jan. 29.

South Korea's central bank, the Bank of Korea, says it won't be issuing a central bank digital currency in the near term, local English-language newspaper the Korea Herald reports Jan. 29.

View Bitcoin is again closing on the 200-week moving average, which served as strong support in December.

Decentralized databases maintain many of the benefits of a blockchain while potentially addressing scalability.

Two groups alone are responsible for a majority of hacks at cryptocurrency exchanges to date, new research suggests.

French cryptocurrency hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger has released a dedicated mobile app for some of its products, the company confirmed in a blog post Jan. 28.

Bob Summerwill, a former ethereum core developer, is taking over as executive director for the Ethereum Classic Cooperative.

Banks in India are collaborating on a new blockchain platform to remove financing hurdles for micro, small and medium size businesses, local daily news outlet Economic Times reported Jan. 28.

Blockchain-based internet browser Brave has partnered with news website Cheddar to offer free access to its premium content for a limited period.

Since Maduro first took office in 2013, Venezuela has faced several brutal riots, including the "Mother of All Marches" in 2017 and the Caracas helicopter attack in the same year, and the current crisis is very likely to be the last for the regime.

Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX is down for maintenance, according to an announcement on its webpage on Jan. 28.

Tangem, a Switzerland-based 'smart card' wallet manufacturer will reportedly issue physical banknotes for the Sovereign, the state digital currency of the Marshall Islands, according to an announcement on Jan. 28.Per the announcement, physical representations of the digital currency will purportedly ensure that citizens have "Fair and equal access to their digital currency, whether or not they have internet connection." The firm states that a physical SOV will be a "Controllable mechanism" for issuing the currency by the Marshallese government.

The Central Bank of Iran appears set to prohibit "Unapproved" cryptocurrencies from being used for payments in the country, according to a draft report obtained by CoinDesk.

Troubled crypto exchange QuadrigaCX, whose customers have been unable to withdraw funds for months, has been inaccessible for several hours.

The BitTorrent token sale on the Binance Launchpad platform concluded today Jan. 28, netting $7.1 million dollars with the sale of 50 billion tokens in under 15 minutes.

Eleven Indian banks have joined an initiative that may change the way small businesses obtain loans, via blockchain.

Francesco Firano, the owner and founder of hacked Italian cryptocurrency exchange BitGrail, has been sentenced to return as much of the assets to his customers as possible.

A similar effect will hopefully be the outcome of allowing energy giants to trade with each other using blockchains, since increases in efficiency and security can hopefully be passed on to consumers in the form of lower energy prices - although there's always the risk that energy companies will simply take bigger profits for themselves.

Nvidia had more disappointing news for investors Monday, but for once the cryptocurrency mining slump was not directly to blame.

Taiwan-based computer hardware producer Nvidia updated its financial estimates for Q4 for the fiscal year of 2019, according to a press release on Jan. 28.

Multicoin Capital announced Monday that it has led a $2.5 million seed round in a company that makes it easier to gather data from public blockchains.

A crypto company has signed a memorandum of understanding with a university in the United States with the aim of building the cryptocurrency model envisaged by Satoshi Nakamoto when the Bitcoin network was launched 10 years ago.

The price is below both the moving averages and the RSI is close to the oversold level, which suggests that the bears are in command.

The Eurasian Economic Commission, which serves as an executive body of the Eurasian Economic Union, has prepared a report on cryptocurrencies to promote regulation in the area.

The Austrian capital, Vienna, is currently developing a blockchain-based token as a part of an incentive program, digital innovation news outlet Trending Topics writes on Monday, Jan. 28.