Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

New regulations for crypto-related companies, which Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission earlier announced, might prevent crypto entrepreneurs from entering the market.

Timothy C. May, cypherpunk legend and author of the "Crypto Anarchist Manifesto," has passed away at the age 67.

The central bank of Egypt wants to introduce a digital version of the Egyptian pound to reduce costs, local English language news outlet Amwal Al Ghad reported Dec. 16.

An official at the Iranian government's vice presidency for science and technology has said blockchain can help improve the country's national economy.

Gary Gensler is a former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission under President Barack Obama, a Senior advisor to the MIT Media Lab Digital Currency Initiative and Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he currently teaches several classes on blockchain technology and crypto finance.

It says the team has been constantly enhancing security, tuning the user interface, and building localized and professional customer support teams.

Bitcoin is still struggling to find the bottom of a bear market on the anniversary of its $20,000 all-time record price high.

A state-owned bank in Brazil is about to issue a crypto token designed to maintain parity with the national currency.

Hong Kong is tightening its regulatory grip on cryptocurrency exchanges and related businesses by bringing them under the purview of the Securities and Futures Commission, as reported by Asia Nikkei Review on Dec. 17.Crypto-Financial Center.

The government of Switzerland wants to accommodate the blockchain sector within its existing financial laws.

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange is reluctant to approve the initial public offering applications of Chinese bitcoin mining equipment manufacturers, according to a person involved in the talks.

Cypherpunks co-founder Timothy C. May has reportedly died of natural causes, a Facebook eulogy posted by cypherpunk Lucky Green stated Dec. 15.

In an innovative move, Coinbase's U.S. customers can now instantly withdraw balances to PayPal, making panic selling easier than ever.

Hu Liang is co-founder and CEO at Omniex, an institutional trading platform for crypto assets, and a former senior vice president of State Street.

Sunday, Dec. 16: the top 20 cryptocurrencies are all in the green, seeing a mix of slight to solid gains, with Bitcoin hovering over $3,200.

Prosecutors in a Tokyo court this week have claimed that Karpeles had stolen around $3 million worth of funds from the exchange, in a case not connected to the hack.

The downside risk from the current levels is limited while the upside potential is attractive.

Individual US states seem to be in competition for the title of the most crypto-friendly in the Union - Ohio's recent announcement of imminent crypto tax payments being the latest example.

Fintech is believed to be a "Systemic risk" to the broader economy, according to a survey conducted by the United States Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation, Dec. 11.

Created in November when the blockchain underwent a controversial system-wide upgrade, there remains a segment of the bitcoin cash community that follows a new software protocol called Bitcoin Satoshi's Vision, or BSV. With the remaining community following a competing implementation of bitcoin cash called Bitcoin Adjustable Blocksize Cap, or ABC, the expectation shortly after the split was that one blockchain would quickly overtake the other.

Many expressed shock that Coinbase would degrade its brand by supporting what some deem low-quality assets; others celebrated that a broader range of options would soon be on offer; some liked the general plan but disapproved of the details.

The Swiss State Secretariat for International Finance announced the Federal Council's adoption of a recent report-Legal Framework for Distributed Ledger Technology and Blockchain in Switzerland-and expressed their intent to assist in developing laws for new technologies, specifically distributed ledger technology and blockchain innovation.

A Intrapreneur from financial services giant Barclays has expressed the idea that blockchains should be built with regulatory compliance in mind, tech news website The Next Web reported Dec. 14.

The CEO of crypto merchant platform BitPay Stephen Pair stated that speculation on future adoption drives Bitcoin's price more than "Actual utility," in an interview on CNBC Dec. 13.

Charles Hoskinson describes Cardano's 1.4 as the "Most significant update to the Cardano ecosystem to date," with the update featuring a host of high-caliber performance and functionality upgrades to the software.

Saturday, Dec. 15: the top 20 cryptocurrencies report a mix of moderate gains and losses, with Bitcoin briefly dipping under $3,200 before climbing back above the price mark by press time.

From tracking the quality of food to facilitating international trades in grain, blockchain technology has been turning up repeatedly in recent months; and while many deployments of such tech have been conducted on a trial basis, a growing number have been implemented permanently.

In order to curb the use of cryptocurrencies for malicious activities such as money laundering and the funding of terrorism, the central bank of Netherlands, De Nederlandsche Bank, has decided that it would be issuing licenses to cryptocurrency service providers.

Cryptojacking, the unauthorized use of another's hardware to mine cryptocurrency, has become the biggest cyber threat in many parts of the world, Bloomberg reported Dec. 14.According to research from cyber security research firm Kaspersky Lab, cryptojacking overtook ransomware as the biggest cybersecurity threat particularly in the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa.

One month has officially passed since the bitcoin cash blockchain underwent a hard fork on November 15, resulting in the creation of two distinct networks.