Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Blockchain startup Civic has hired Apple veteran Phillip Shoemaker as executive director of Identity.com.

U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin Paxos Standard has exceeded $5 billion worth of transaction volumes, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph Dec. 13.

French political deputies want to spend €500 million on state-level blockchain deployments over the next three years, local daily news outlet Les Echos reported Dec. 12.

Ali said the startup has an extended runway because Blockstack held roughly 70 percent of its capital in fiat.

Venezuela has automatically converted pensioners' most recent monthly bonus into its national oil-backed cryptocurrency, the Petro, according to a report from English-language politics blog Caracas Chronicles Dec. 12.

A fresh wave of hacks targeting Ethereum holdings continues, despite the altcoin's price trailing at 18-month lows, tech magazine ZDNet reported Dec. 10.

One of the largest remittance firms in the United Arab Emirates, UAE Exchange, is working with Ripple to launch blockchain-based payments to Asia by the first quarter of next year.

As discussed yesterday, the leading cryptocurrency could soon see a corrective rally if prices manage to clear the crucial resistance at $3,633 by Friday's UTC close.

Years before the launch of Ethereum, a faction of its principal founders banded together with seasoned policy professionals, energy sector executives, and PhD-holders to explore meaningful usage cases for blockchain.

That's how Jonathan Johnson, president of Overstock.com's Medici Ventures, describes the blockchain-focused venture fund's goals for 2019.

Germany's second-largest stock exchange, Boerse Stuttgart Group, is set to launch a cryptocurrency trading platform in the first half of 2019.

Opera has announced the public release of its "Web 3-ready" Android web browser, which notably sports a built-in cryptocurrency wallet.

The downturn of the crypto market has forced Beijing-based Bitcoin mining giant Bitmain to close its blockchain development center in Israel and lay off all of its employees, Israeli business news outlet Globes reported on December 10, 2018.Shutting Down All Operations in Israel.

If you're going to sell, you need to slink quietly out the back door.

Major United States-based stablecoin project Basis will shut down operations and return most of its funds to investors, crypto news outlet The Block reports today, Dec. 12.Citing "Multiple people with direct knowledge of the situation," the reports states that the algorithmic stablecoin project is set to return the majority of the $133 million in funding it raised in a private placement in April.

Hyperledger has onboarded 12 new members, including such major firms as Alibaba Cloud, Citi, and Deutsche Telekom, according to an announcement published on Dec. 11.Launched in 2016, Hyperledger is an open source project created by the Linux Foundation and created to support the development of blockchain-based distributed ledgers.

A Dec. 12 Business Law Blog post from the University of Oxford Faculty of Law notes possible repercussions for lost and stolen crypto claims following a case in a Canadian trial court earlier this year.

Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, is launching its own blockchain that will support the forthcoming decentralized exchange Binance DEX and host its native Binance Coin, the company announced in a Medium post on December 5, 2018.

A United States federal court has ordered two executives from crypto firm AriseBank to pay nearly $2.7 million in fines, according to a U.S. Securities Exchange Commission announcement Dec. 12.

The Ethereum Constantinople upgrade appears to be proceeding as planned, as a widely used Ethereum software client has published new code that includes a Constantinople activation time on GitHub Dec. 11.The post reads that Geth, which stands for Go Ethereum, v1.8.20 is a special release that will "Finally" enable the Constantinople hard fork on the Ethereum mainnet at block 7,080,000.

Venezuela has reportedly begun converting pensioners' monthly payments into its controversial cryptocurrency, the petro.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has settled charges with two former executives of AriseBank, which was hit with a token sale fraud lawsuit in early 2018.

Wednesday, Dec. 12: Cryptocurrency markets have seen moderate gains on the day, with all top 20 coins by market capitalization in the green, according to Cointelegraph's Coin360.

Blockchain consortium Hyperledger is continuing its rapid expansion by adding 16 new members.

XRP/USDSince breaking down of the support at $0.33108, the bulls have been attempting to keep Ripple above the Dec. 7 low of $0.28600.

Maxim Akimov, the deputy prime minister of Russia, announced that the authors of Russia's draft cryptocurrency legislation were not planning on making any changes to the bill.

Cryptocurrency service providers will soon be required to obtain a license from the central bank of the Netherlands, major Dutch news outlet DeTelegraaf reports Dec. 11.

A group of Russian members of parliament has introduced a draft bill on blocking suspicious financial websites on Tuesday, Dec. 11.

IBM Research has teamed up with United States-based agriculture tech firm Hello Tractor to boost the African agriculture industry with blockchain.

The most-used ethereum software client has published code that includes an activation time for Constantinople, a proposed upgrade that, if enacted by users, would bring additional features and enhancements to the network.