Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Switzerland-based Cryptocurrency 'smart card' wallet manufacturer Tangem has secured $15 million in funding from Japanese finance giant SBI Group, the company confirmed in a press release Jan. 21.

Despite a significant uptick in the creation of decentralized crypto exchanges in 2018, their centralized counterparts continue to control the lion's share of global industry trade volumes.

U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has hired a new U.K. head of compliance with three decades of experience in the industry.

For the everyday consumer, cryptocurrencies and blockchain are still shrouded in mystery.

Japanese financial services giant SBI Group has invested $15 million in Swiss startup Tangem, maker of a slimline hardware wallet for cryptocurrencies.

Top ten coins have lost between 3 and 7 percent on the day, as data from Coin360 shows.

Bitcoin's weekly gains were wiped out at the weekend at a key moving average that previously offered support.

As cryptocurrencies went more mainstream, the core community's ideological purity has somewhat diluted - however, even in 2018, almost half of crypto users identified as either libertarian or conservative, another label that, in the context of the United States, captures a lot of the individual liberty and anti-big government sentiment.

That's how crypto YouTuber Ben Armstrong, known around the web as 'BitBoy,' described how he felt about Tron prior to its acquisition last summer of file-sharing platform BitTorrent.

An arm of Tokyo-listed internet group Digital Garage is working with bitcoin infrastructure startup Blockstream to test the issuance of a Japanese yen-pegged stablecoin.

Japanese blockchain development company Crypto Garage announced it had gained regulatory permission to trial its settlement system using Blockstream's Liquid Sidechain, Cointelegraph Japan reported Jan. 21.

The next cryptocurrency bull run will decide which public blockchains become the defining names of the industry, United Kingdom-based investor and entrepreneur Alistair Milne predicted in a Twitter thread Jan. 19.

Due to its linear nature, the larger a particular blockchain becomes, the longer it takes to validate transactions.

When third parties, such as those that are starting to provide "Staking as a service," do this on behalf of coin-holders who trust them to provide custody and exchange functions, it starts to look like banking.

As regulators are now seemingly dividing the markets geographically, are they perhaps even disturbing a possible level playing field of the markets? It warrants a closer look at regulators, and-perhaps more importantly-ascertain what sets them apart.

After an extended downtrend, the ADA/USD pair has been trading inside the range $0.062424-$0.027237 for the past nine weeks.

The security bug found would potentially let an attacker steal crypto from a smart contract on the network while requesting funds from it repeatedly while feeding it false data.

Ed Tilly, CEO, president and chairman at the Chicago Board Options Exchange, declared that there is a need for Bitcoin exchange-traded notes in order for Wall Street institutional investors to join the crypto space.

Chilean taxpayers must report their cryptocurrency profits to the Chilean Internal Revenue Service, Spanish crypto media Diario Bitcoin reports on Jan. 17.The SII reportedly decreed in 2018 that digital currencies weren't subject to Value Added Tax, but should still be considered when calculating annual income tax, as they fall into the definition of intangible assets.

Sunday, Jan. 20 - all the top 20 cryptocurrencies are seeing moderate to major losses in the 24 hours to press time.

Pete Hoekstra, the Netherlands' Minister of Finance, has received official advice that a licensing system should be introduced for crypto services, Dutch media outlet Nederlandse Omroep Stichting reports on Jan. 18.Hoekstra reportedly requested advice about cryptocurrencies from the Netherlands' Authority for the Financial Markets and the local central bank, De Nederlandsche Bank, at the beginning of last year.

On Jan. 17, Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange Huobi, one of the largest players on the market, relaunched as a fully licensed platform in Japan after merging with the BitTrade exchange.

Two leaders of the South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Komid were reportedly sentenced to serve jail time for faking exchange volumes, Korean crypto media outlet blockinpress reports on Jan. 18.

The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have announced an agreement to cooperate on the creation of a cryptocurrency, UAE official news agency Emirate News Agency reports on Jan. 19.

The following article originally appeared in Institutional Crypto by CoinDesk, a newsletter for the institutional market, with news and views on crypto infrastructure delivered every Tuesday.

History of ICON. ICON aims to design an "Interconnecting blockchain network." ICON is engineering a solution to connect independent blockchains without the use of third-party intermediaries.

Saturday, Jan. 19 - all the top 20 cryptocurrencies are seeing slight to moderate gains in the 24 hours to press time.

A bill meant to clarify the classification of cryptocurrencies has been introduced in the U.S. state of Wyoming Jan. 18, according to the official state legislature website.

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Seven people who allegedly managed a fraudulent crypto investment scheme have been indicted in Taiwan, according to a report by English-language local media FocusTaiwan on Jan. 18.According to the report, citing local prosecutors, the defendants were charged with the violation of Taiwan's Banking and Multi-Level Marketing Supervision acts.