Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

The South Korean branch of the Tezos Foundation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Yonsei University to collaboratively work on the development of blockchain talents, says a Tezos official press release published Nov. 21.The new agreement between the Tezos Korea Foundation and Digital Society Research Center at Yonsei University in Seoul aims to provide "Blockchain education cooperation, training of OCaml and smart contract experts." The MoU is primarily focused on human resources and education in the blockchain technology industry.

Circle Internet Financial had just under $127.5 million backing the dollar-pegged USD Coin at the end of last month, enough to redeem every token at the time, according to a major auditing firm.

A hybrid community-owned digital asset exchange is hoping to simplify trades and investments while driving down the cost of transactions.

The pace of bitcoin's ongoing sell-off is setting new records with every passing day, the latest being its test of a key long-term moving average for the first time in three years.

Major U.S. crypto mining and blockchain firm Giga Watt has filed for bankruptcy on Monday, Nov. 19, Washington daily newspaper Wenatchee World reported yesterday, Nov. 20.The top-five crypto mining firms entrant has reportedly filed for Chapter 11 protection in the Eastern District of Washington bankruptcy court, claiming that the firm is "Insolvent and unable to pay its debts when due."

Spencer Bogart, a partner at the venture capital firm Blockchain Capital, believes that crypto opportunities are "Still gigantic" despite the current bear market, the expert claimed in an interview with Bloomberg on Monday, Nov. 19.The expert at the crypto and blockchain-focused venture capital startup has maintained his pro-Bitcoin stance, pointing out the critical role of "Programmable money," which is supposed to gain even more popularity over time.

Authorities in the U.S. state of California have arrested a 21-year old New Yorker for the alleged theft of $1 million in crypto using "SIM-swapping," U.S. broadsheet the New York Post reported Nov. 20.SIM-swapping - also known as a "Port-out scam" - involves the theft of a cell phone number in order to hijack online financial and social media accounts, enabled by the fact that many firms use automated messages or phone calls to handle customer authentication.

The Colorado Division of Securities has issued another batch of cease-and-desist orders against allegedly fraudulent initial coin offerings.

The University of Tokyo will launch a blockchain course following a donation of nearly $800,000 from several companies, including Japanese banking giant Sumitomo Mitsui and the Ethereum Foundation, Cointelegraph Japan reports Nov. 21.In a Nov. 20 press release, SMBC lists five more contributors, apart from itself and the Ethereum Foundation, who contributed to the donation: Good Luck 3, JSS, Zipper, Hotto link, and Money Forward.

U.S.-based bitcoin mining firm Giga Watt has declared bankruptcy with millions still owed to creditors.

The South Korean government will use blockchain technology for tracing beef and providing consumers with information from the food supply chain, Yonhap News Agency, the largest news agency in South Korea, reported yesterday, Nov. 20.

Blockchain technology firm Bitfury has added an investment banker to its board of directors, and a former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission member to its advisory board, according to an official company blog post Nov 21.

While insurance is an opaque market, estimates of the total amount of coverage the industry is willing to provide to crypto custodians and exchanges top out at $6 billion - a drop in the bucket, considering that the top three exchanges each handle more than $1 billion of trades a day, to say nothing of the total market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies of $140 billion, even after this week's brutal sell-off.

Kakao Corp, a major South Korean Internet conglomerate, has established a subsidiary of the company in Singapore to attract foreign investments with cryptocurrencies, Seoul-based media outlet News1 reported Nov. 21.

Amazon Web Services, the company's cloud computing arm, has contributed to blockchain adoption.

Bitcoin could be in for a stronger recovery rally in the next few days, having found a temporary bottom near $4,000.

Bart Smith, digital asset head at U.S.-based global trading and technology firm Susquehanna, has said he is still a long-term Bitcoin believer amidst the market crash during an episode of CNBC's "Fast Money" Nov. 20.

MV Index Solutions, a subsidiary of New York-based investment management firm VanEck, has launched a new bitcoin index.

Crypto exchange Quoine and major liquidity provider B2C2 are the opposing parties in Singapore's first court case involving Bitcoin, which began Nov. 21, Singapore-based English-language daily The Straits Times reports.

Optherium, a global fintech company, believes that its ecosystem could be the silver bullet to eliminate the main issues facing the crypto world - as well as the old-fashioned economy.

The cryptocurrency market crash has eased pressure on the U.K.'s financial regulator to introduce hasty new rules for the sector, Reuters reported Nov. 20.

The Bitfury Group, a crypto mining and software company, has recruited two veterans of the traditional financial world to guide its strategy and growth.

What's more, cryptocurrency exchanges that froze holdings of bitcoin cash in lead-up to Thursday's contentious hard fork activation are beginning to warm up to idea that bitcoin cash may forever remain two cryptocurrencies.

SWIFT India has partnered with fintech firm MonetaGo to pilot a distributed ledger network designed to improve the efficiency and security of financial products, according to a press release published Nov. 20.SWIFT India is a joint venture established by SWIFT SCRL and a number of major Indian and international banks, including HDFC Bank and the Bank of India.

The Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa has ordered three crypto-related companies providing unauthorized investment services to cease and desist, an official release states Monday, Nov. 19.The first company, a trading platform called Richmond Investing, has purportedly violated the Consolidated Law on Finance - a fundamental law governing Italian financial markets - by failing to register as a financial intermediary in the country.

Hackers have infected the website of global non-profit organization the Make-A-Wish Foundation with cryptojacking malware, according to a report by cybersecurity firm Trustwave posted Nov. 19.According to Trustwave researchers, crypto jackers managed to incorporate a JavaScript miner CoinImp into the domain worldwish.org in order to illicitly mine privacy-focused cryptocurrency Monero.

Investment management firm VanEck subsidiary MV Index Solutions has launched its own Bitcoin index based on three major over-the-counter desks, according to a press release published Nov. 20.MV Index Solutions is a firm that develops, monitors and licenses the MVIS Indices, which cover several asset classes, including equity, fixed income markets and digital assets.

Bitcoin Cash "Satoshi's Vision" - otherwise called Bitcoin SV - suffered a block reorganization Monday by which transactions on two different blocks were overwritten.

Despite the present market crash, major Wall Street crypto bull Tom Lee has reiterated his recently reduced year-end price prediction for Bitcoin at $15,000 in an interview with CNBC's Squawk Box on Tuesday, Nov. 20.In the recent statement, the head of research at Fundstrat Global Advisors pointed out two major types of crypto players - those who are "Using it and have wallets in crypto," and those who belong to a speculative side of the market.

"ICE Futures U.S., Inc. will list the new Bakkt Bitcoin Daily Futures Contract for trading on trade date Thursday, January 24, 2019, subject to regulatory approval. The new listing timeframe will provide additional time for customer and clearing member onboarding prior to the start of trading and warehousing of the new contract."