Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

The Indian government is approaching cryptocurrency regulation with caution, tech magazine Quartz reported Dec. 31, quoting Pon Radhakrishnan, the Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Shipping.

Digital assets platform Bakkt - created by the operator of the New York Stock Exchange - has announced the completion of its first funding round in a blog post today, Dec. 31.The institutional investor-focused cryptocurrency platform from the Intercontinental Exchange has officially raised $182.5 million from 12 partners and investors, according to the post.

"He has this unique combination of skill sets bridging all these areas and real experience in bringing emerging technologies to market," said Jill Carlson, a blockchain consultant and fellow Wall Street veteran who worked with Jessop at the startup Chain in 2017.

If others at the SEC see crypto as a market that needs to be kept at arm's length, Peirce's concern is that regulators risk taking over the narrative around crypto innovation.

Asked if crypto market conditions had affected Circle's business, he gestured to his co-founder and Circle's president, Sean Neville.

No, because someday, when the history book is written, McCaleb might come to be best known for Stellar, a project that, while launched four years ago, arguably became the quiet comeback story of 2018.

In the process, Roubini has arguably become the embodiment of an incumbent intellectual class that sees cryptocurrency as responsible for not just a massive price bubble but a flurry of frauds and scams that have bilked consumers out of billions with the promise that their token of choice could eradicate everything from poverty to disease.

A few big names will quickly become familiar - XRP Trump, Hodor, Tiffany Hayen, Bank XRP. Seemingly nothing happens in the world of XRP without these accounts knowing about it, and if they happen to miss an update, there are dozens of other accounts standing ready to flag it.

After years of quiet building at her startup, Lightning Labs, 2018 has been a breakout year for both Stark and her company.

Equal parts adult star and crypto evangelist, she's not the kind of Las Vegas denizen who never hits the strip.

Dr. Glen Weyl speaks with the calm of a man who has history on the mind.

As of the end of 2018, Binance has eight lines of business - Binance Exchange; Binance Labs; Binance Charity; Binance Academy, Binance Research; Binance Info, Binance Launchpad and Trust Wallet, as well as a ninth, a decentralized exchange, set for launch in January.

Bakkt has raised $182.5 million to build out its global digital assets platform and bitcoin futures product.

This year Bitcoin's average daily price change was the lowest value reported in the past nine years, self-proclaimed professional cypherpunk Jameson Lopp tweeted Dec. 30.This year, the average daily value change for Bitcoin was -0.33 percent, according to Lopp's tweet.

Regardless of bitcoin's price volatility, 2018 saw an explosion of activity among African users.

Bitcoin underwent what is referred to as the "Halving," where the yearly bitcoin inflation was algorithmically reduced by 50 percent.

Transcendence describes its blockchain as open source and decentralized, and says it offers full compatibility with existing systems such as AmiCloud, an internet-based file storage and file sharing facility, and the indieGO app store.

The United Kingdom's finance watchdog the Financial Conduct Authority has revealed that it is investigating 18 companies over cryptocurrency use, local daily news outlet the Telegraph reported Dec. 29.Responding to a Freedom of Information Act request from the publication, the FCA said it had closed the vast majority of its investigations into cryptocurrency-related businesses since May of this year.

Losses among the larger cryptos are tempered, with most losing 2-3 percent, and losses capped at 6 percent.

These figures indicate that factors such as scaling improvements to the Bitcoin protocol, and the relatively modest price of bitcoin, have made transactions in the cryptocurrency extremely affordable.

As the global markets deflate, that will also bring down the price of bitcoin and keep them low because the deflation will cause investors to move out of perceived risky investments into more stable investments, and bitcoin is currently still considered a very risky investment.

Roger Ver offered $1.25 million to OpenNode, a lightning network software company, to build on top of Bitcoin Cash.

Since the launch of CryptoKitties - a digital cat-breeding game built on ethereum - roughly a year ago, games have provided a digitally native playground for early adopters to experiment with the unique benefits of open protocols.

Sunday, Dec. 30 - most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are seeing discreet losses while a few report discreet gains.

The development team for altcoin Bitcoin Private has confirmed this week that 2.04 million units of BTCP were created that were never intended to exist on the altcoin's blockchain.

While everyone is eager to see this market crash finally stop and recover, I would argue this just cannot happen until the industry, as a priority, has taken on the importance of delivering a better user experience.

A Chinese survey of 4,200 respondents has shown that 40 percent are willing to invest in crypto in the future, local Chinese crypto news outlet 8btc reports on Dec. 26.PANews, whose Twitter describes the outlet a news source for sharing blockchain news across Asia, conducted the survey.

White hat hackers have been awarded $878,000 in bug bounties this year, technology news website TheNextWeb reports on Dec. 30.Bug bounties are a type of competition in which companies that develop software invite hackers to break their software and responsibly disclose the vulnerabilities, so they are able to fix them before they are exploited.

Massimo Morini is a veteran in investment banks and financial institutions including the World Bank.

While 2017 was a raging bull market in cryptocurrencies, 2018 turned out to be a massive bear market that wiped out more than $720 billion in total crypto market capitalization.