Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Crypto loans startup Salt Lending and former board member Erik Voorhees are said to be under investigation by the U.S. securities regulator, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The Central Bank of Azerbaijan does not plan to issue a state-backed cryptocurrency because of the "Great risks," English-language Azerbaijani news outlet AzerNews reported Nov. 15.

If past events are a guide, bitcoin could in for a recovery rally in the short-term.

Crypto loans company Salt Lending Holdings Inc., once associated with high-profile crypto industry stalwart Erik Voorhees, is facing a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission probe over its 2017 $50 million token sale, the Wall Street Journal reported Nov. 15.

After grabbing attention last month for his public critique of the New York Federal Reserve, artist and ex-hedge fund manager Nelson Saiers will now make a new home for his art on the streets of Washington, DC. Like last time, Saiers has put a lot of thought into the design and location of the piece.

International charity Oxfam officially launched its BlocRice blockchain supply chain solution for Cambodian rice Nov. 15, Cambodian daily media outlet Khmer Times reports.

European Central Bank executive board member Benoît Cœuré said this week that blockchain is promising - but that bitcoin is "The evil spawn of the financial crisis."

The suspect at the center of the U.S.' first Initial Coin Offering fraud case has pleaded guilty in court, in part settling a case seen as a bellwether for the country's securities laws, Bloomberg reported Nov. 15.

iFinex, the parent company of controversial cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex, appears to have hired a new offshore corporate services provider.

Despite 2018's prolonged and notorious bear market across all cryptocurrencies, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao remains optimistic about the future of the volatile asset class; proclaiming a bull run can be expected "Sooner or later."

Two upgrades to the underlying software of Bitcoin Cash threaten to split the coin in two, and both factions are determined to fight all-or-nothing to determine the fate of Bitcoin Cash's next upgrade.

Nvidia released its earnings report for the third quarter of 2018 today, Nov. 15, revealing that demand for Nvidia's graphics processing units among crypto miners has dried up.

Ethereum-based payment platform OmiseGo and blockchain protocol Mass Vehicle Ledger have partnered to research blockchain technology, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph Nov. 14.

Cryptocurrency mining equipment producer Canaan's Initial Public Offering application has lapsed, Reuters reported Nov. 15.

The Bitcoin Cash network update, which many predicted would lead to a hard fork, began as scheduled today, Nov. 15.At press time, Bitcoin ABC and Bitcoin Unlimited are currently leading Bitcoin SV in terms of both hash rate and number of nodes, according to Coin.Dance.

At 18:02 UTC, the bitcoin cash blockchain officially split in two.

The president and chief architect of FanWide, for one, seems to think for the "World's largest fan club network", blockchain is a no-brainer.

American software corporation Microsoft has released a serverless blockchain-powered Azure development kit, according to an announcement published Nov. 15.The new product dubbed the "Azure Blockchain Development Kit" purportedly improves the capabilities of Microsoft's Azure Blockchain Workbench.

Binance is advising its remaining users in Iran to withdraw their money as the cryptocurrency exchange seeks to comply with international sanctions.

Blockchain Cuties, a decentralized crypto collectible game operating on the Ethereum blockchain, has announced that it is now available on EOS. The developer company says the new step makes Blockchain Cuties "The first game which officially supports two blockchains simultaneously." This is supposed to make transactions faster and the players can now breed both ETH and EOS-based cuties.

Cryptocurrency hedge funds remain optimistic about the prospects of making massive gains in the digital asset markets, despite falling prices and negative investor sentiment over the asset class.

Thursday, Nov. 15: yesterday's fall in crypto markets continues today, with Bitcoin dipping below the $5,400 mark, and total market capitalization dropping as low as $174 billion, according to data from CoinMarketCap.

Efforts to improve the scalability of Bitcoin appear to be bearing fruit as the Lightning Network, a second layer off-chain scalability solution on the network designed to handle vast transaction throughputs without resulting in high prices has recorded an important milestone.

The code for Bitcoin cash's hard fork has been activated.

Executive Board member of the European Central Bank Benoit Coeure considers Bitcoin to be the "Evil spawn of the financial crisis," Bloomberg reports Nov. 15.

The head of major state-owned Russian bank Sberbank has forecast that blockchain adoption will happen on an industrial scale in one to two years, local news agency TASS reported Nov. 13.

Economist Steve Hanke often scoffs that bitcoin isn't "a real currency." The Johns Hopkins University professor has also compared the cryptocurrency market to the Dutch tulip bubble, and even went so far once as to claim crypto exchange hacks prove these assets are "Unstable and unsafe."

Lt will take "Weeks, if not months" to repair the "Technical damage" caused by the recent collapse of Bitcoin, according to a Fundstrat Global Advisors analyst, Bloomberg reports today, Nov. 15.

The blockchain-based card game Gods Unchained is giving would-be players a glimpse of what it will actually look like in action.

Police in Tokyo have arrested eight men alleged to have run a cryptocurrency pyramid scheme that collected 7.8 billion yen from thousands of victims across the country.