Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Decentralized browser Brave is now the default browser on a phone from major smartphone manufacturer HTC, technology news outlet CNET reported Dec. 10.Founded in 1997, HTC is a Taiwanese consumer electronics manufacturer, which was the leading smartphone vendor in the U.S. at the end of 2010, according to TechCrunch.

South Korea's representative body, the National Assembly, has held a crypto regulation debate arranged by major local cryptocurrency exchanges, IT media oulet ZdNet Korea reports Monday, Dec. 10.According to local business outlet Financial Leaders, the topics of the debate were proposed by seven crypto exchanges - Bithumb, CobitCoin, Coinone, Upbit, Gopax, Coinplug and Hanbitco.

According to analysis by research firm Diar published Dec. 10, the adoption of stablecoins is growing based on the increasing number of on-chain transactions.

U.S.-based insurance company State Farm is testing a blockchain-based solution to speed up the subrogation process for auto claims, according to an announcement published Dec. 10.State Farm is a large group of insurance and financial services firms that provides auto insurance in the U.S. The organization was ranked 38th on the 2018 Fortune 500 list of companies.

The UNICEF Innovation Fund is investing $100,000 in six companies for developing blockchain projects, according to an announcement published Dec. 10.The UNICEF Innovation Fund was launched specifically to finance early stage and open-source technology that can benefit children.

November has seen the overall trade volume of retail-focused crypto exchanges drop, while the trade volume of exchanges preferred by larger players has increased instead. After an extended decline, when retail activity drops and institutional activity picks up, a market bottom usually approaches.

Monday, Dec. 10: Crypto markets have failed to hold another recovery attempt, with nearly all top 20 coins by market capitalization in the red as of press time.

A new stablecoin, StableUSD, was recently added to Bittrex.

The United Nations' charity arm for children, UNICEF, is funding research into blockchain tech.

U.S. insurance group State Farm is testing blockchain tech as part of a new platform for insurance subrogation.

Decentralized apps based on the EOS blockchain have lost up to $1 million to hacks since July, Chinese crypto media Blockchain Truth reports Tuesday, Dec. 4.The report cites data by PeckShield, a blockchain security company that monitors different ecosystems.

New crypto exchange ErisX has announced the appointment of veteran exchange founder Matt Trudeau as its chief strategy officer, according to a press release published Dec. 10.As reported this October, ErisX is a reboot of traditional futures market Eris Exchange, and is expected to offer spot trading in Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin, alongside futures contracts in 2019 Q2, pending United States regulators' approval.

United States Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton has said that Initial Coin Offerings "Can be effective" but that "Securities law must be followed." Clayton spoke on the subject during a speech about the SEC's activity this year at the BLANK.In regards distributed ledger technology, digital assets and ICOs, Clayton stated that this is an "Area where the Commission and staff have spent a significant amount of time." He then further added that he expects "That this trend will continue in 2019.".

Digital banking platform Good Money just raised $30 million in a Series A funding round to continue developing its app.

Bitcoin's share of the cryptocurrency market hit an 11-week high on Thursday, market data shows.

South Korea's government will spend 4 billion Korean won to set up a blockchain-enabled virtual power plant in the city of Busan.

A conservative member of the United Kingdom's Parliament has said that making payments to local authorities and utility providers with Bitcoin should be possible.

Jay Clayton, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, has spoken of the advantages of initial coin offerings as a way to raise capital - with a significant caveat.

The Financial Action Task Force, an intergovernmental financial security body, has demanded the United Kingdom step up its cryptocurrency monitoring.

Major global online payments system PayPal has launched a blockchain-based reward system for its employees.

ErisX is beefing up its leadership ahead of the launch of cryptocurrency spot and futures trading early next year.

Facebook has listed five new blockchain-related jobs on its careers page within the past three weeks, two of which were first listed Dec. 5 and 6.The positions currently open for applicants are two software engineer roles, a data scientist post and a data engineer - all full-time roles at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California.

An Indian government panel has reportedly suggested a new legal framework within the Reserve Bank of India that completely bans cryptocurrencies in the country.

Cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain is closing down its Israel-based research and development arm.

With all eyes on the crypto market mayhem and Bitcoin's new year-to-date lows, the cryptocurrency's soaring volatility levels remain underreported.

The social media giant now has five job openings for blockchain talent at its Menlo Park, California, headquarters in the areas of data science, software engineering and marketing.

Chinese crypto mining giant Bitmain is closing its development center in Israel and firing local employees, Israeli business news outlet Globes has learned Monday, Dec. 10.

Bitcoin still has the potential to drop towards $3,000, despite a minor bounce from 15-month lows seen on Friday.

Satoshi Nakamoto summarized proof-of-work as "One-CPU-one-vote." Since then, the cryptocurrency mining industry has advanced beyond CPU mining, which could compute the Bitcoin algorithm thousands of times per second, to application-specific integrated circuits which can perform billions of computations.

You may not have heard of Vertcoin, a crypto project designed to curtail concentration in mining power in the interests of broad-based participation.