Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

"A crypto winter for the price is a crypto summer for attorneys," said Jason Civalleri, adjunct professor at the University of New Hampshire Law School.

Chinese Bitcoin mining giant Bitmain's co-founders Jihan Wu and Micree Zhan Ketuan will quit their posts as co-CEOs but still steer the company's important decisions.

Thailand's Ministry of Finance has granted digital asset business licenses to four crypto firms, while rejecting two other applications.

Decentralization is a more important phenomenon than blockchain, a senior executive at South Korean tech giant Samsung said in an interview with computing magazine JAX Jan. 10.

Cryptocurrency mining malware is responsible for less of the supply of altcoin Monero in circulation than previously thought, new research published Jan. 3 claims.

At the time, the company established a dedicated cryptocurrency mining equipment development department to create its own 7-nanometer ASIC chips to run a large-scale mining facility.

Bitcoin is losing altitude as an unwinding of bullish bets is creating downward pressure on prices.

Cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain may be about to appoint an existing executive to lead the firm as its new CEO. A South China Morning Post report citing people with "Knowledge of the matter" said Thursday that the "Potential successor" of the firm's current co-CEOs Jihan Wu and Micree Zhan is Haichao Wang, currently Bitmain's director of product engineering.

London-based Parity Technologies has won a $5 million grant from the Ethereum Foundation to fund its work on improving the Ethereum blockchain, such as developments in Casper, sharding, light clients, developer tools, audits, and general infrastructure.

Early last year, he promised the trade finance blockchain platform would go live by mid-2018 - which it did, with a focus on trading between small and medium-size enterprises in various European countries.

Ronnie Moas is known as a finance guru with a 15-year track record of picking stocks.

Monero is by far the most popular cryptocurrency among criminals deploying mining malware, according to a new study.

The Twitter account of a Belgian non-profit was evidently hacked and made into a fake affiliate account of United States crypto exchange Coinbase.

Ethereum Classic, a fork of Ethereum, was hacked using a 51 percent attack on the coin's blockchain, with more than $1 million worth of ETH stolen so far.

The company is authorized to continue operations while the Ministry of Finance is considering the change.

Venezuela is pushing back against U.S. sanctions before the World Trade Organization, including ones imposed against its controversial cryptocurrency efforts.

Researchers from crypto exchange Gate.io report they have confirmed that a 51 percent attack successfully occurred on the Ethereum Classic blockchain.

The team behind Beam, a newly released privacy-oriented cryptocurrency, announced Wednesday that a "Critical vulnerability" has been discovered in its wallet software.

The Department of Energy of the United States has announced $4.8 million in funding for university research of technologies including blockchain, according to an announcement published Jan. 7.The funding has been announced by the department's office of fossil energy.

Hans-Ole Jochumsen, who retired the last fall as vice chairman of NASDAQ Europe, has joined the advisory board of Concordium Foundation, the Swiss non-profit developing a cryptocurrency with a built-in compliance function.

If Ethereum breaks down of the uptrend line and the 20-day EMA, it can dip to the 50-day SMA at $120.On the other hand, if the bulls break out of $167.32, the ETH/USD pair can rally to the next level of $225 and above it to $249.93.

United States financial research company FactSet has filed a lawsuit against a company affiliated with professional trading service Blockchain Terminal, according to documents published by the Supreme Court for the State of New York County, Jan. 3.

The ratio of long-to-short positions placed on bitcoin has reached its highest level in over five months on cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex.

By increasing the security and transparency of medical data, they could give patients greater assurance that their personal info is being protected, which in turn could increase trust in medical institutions and make people likelier to put their lives in the hands of health professionals.

China-based security firm SlowMist has claimed that it has enough evidence to locate the culprit behind recent chain attacks on ethereum classic.

Top cryptocurrency Bitcoin has been jaggedly trading sideways over the past three days, and is currently down a mild 1.4 percent on the day, trading at $4,048.

Blockchain platform TRON has hired a former United States Securities and Exchange Commission supervisory attorney as its first chief compliance officer.

In other words, the entrepreneurs building blockchain apps and services under the ConsenSys umbrella didn't need to worry about business models as long as Lubin approved of the technology they were building.

Blockchain platform Qtum is introducing Bitcoin atomic swaps to its mainnet infrastructure, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph Jan. 9.

The U.S. Department of Energy has announced federal funding of up to $4.8 million for universities working on R&D projects, including those related to blockchain.