Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Blockchain platform MultiVAC has claimed it has reached a "Breakthrough" in the blockchain scaling technology sharding, according to a press-release Nov. 5.According to the company's release, MultiVAC reported achieving 30,784 transactions per second using 64 shards.

Developers are eyeing January 16th as the date on which Constantinople, ethereum's upcoming network hard fork, could launch.

Scathing reports by regulators have accused traditional banks of inadvertently helping "Drug kingpins and rogue nations" - enabling them to commit money laundering, make questionable transfers and evade economic sanctions and taxes.

U.S. crypto investor law firm Silver Miller has filed arbitration claims against telecoms giants AT&T and T-Mobile for "SIM-swap"-related thefts, according to a press release published Nov. 8.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.

"It hasn't evolved in the direction of high-volume payments, which is something we thought about in the very early days: getting merchants to accept Bitcoins. But on the store-of-value side it's unquestionably a success."

The U.S. dollar-pegged crypto token CarbonUSD has just launched as the first stablecoin on the EOS platform.

Square's mobile payments application, Cash App, posts impressive growth for Bitcoin transactions despite the bearish cryptocurrency market.

Ongoing drama surrounding the upcoming Bitcoin Cash hard fork struck a personal note with the coin's best-known figures Nov. 8, as Craig Wright evidently called Roger Ver his "Enemy."

Malaysia's education ministry has formed a new consortium of universities to harness blockchain tech in tackling the massive industry in fake certificates.

A cryptocurrency-focused law firm based in the U.S., says it has filed arbitration claims against AT&T and T-Mobile on behalf of victims of "SIM swapping" cellphone hacks.

Thailand's securities regulator will clear "At least one" Initial Coin Offering "Portal" to operate legally in November, local daily news outlet Bangkok Post reported Nov. 8.

Throughout the past 24 hours, several publications and public figures have misreported that China has put an end to its blanket ban on bitcoin and the cryptocurrency exchange market.

Bitcoin's reversal of the recent uptrend in prices is gathering pace and a drop into a bearish territory below $6,200 is now a possibility, technical charts indicate.

ConsenSys' blockchain startup Kaleido and Amazon Web Services have launched a full-stack platform that helps enterprises implement blockchain solutions, according to a press release published Nov. 8.

Venezuela is hoping the world's oil markets will start using its controversial national cryptocurrency, the petro.

A subsidiary of Canadian financial institution VersaBank confirmed it had finished beta testing of a "Digital vault" for storing cryptocurrency in a press release Nov. 8.

A Canadian bank says its digital safety deposit box is ready for prime time.

Judge Jed Rakoff has ruled to end the freeze on Charlie Shrem's assets in a lawsuit brought against him by the Winklevoss brothers, Bloomberg reports Nov. 8.In a case unsealed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York earlier this month, the Winklevoss twins allege that Shrem took part of their $250,000 investment in his exchange BitInstant to buy 5,000 bitcoins.

Canadian blockchain and cryptocurrency company DMG Blockchain Solutions Inc. has energized its new crypto mining facility, according to an announcement published Nov. 8.

Early bitcoin supporter and entrepreneur Charlie Shrem has won his first battle in an ongoing lawsuit filed against him by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss and their firm, Winklevoss Capital Fund.

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced in a press release that it has settled charges against EtherDelta founder Zachary Coburn.

The largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, has launched an analysis division to conduct "Institutional-grade" research reports, according to an announcement published Nov. 8.Binance's new analysis division, Binance Research, is set to prepare institutional-grade research reports with the objective of increasing transparency and improve the quality of information within the cryptocurrency space.

China's central bank the People's Bank of China encouraged the government to increase supervision of blockchain-related ventures in a working paper.

The Securities and Exchange Commission's settlement with the founder of EtherDelta is likely the first of many enforcement actions to come against crypto token exchanges.

American cryptocurrency exchange and wallet provider Coinbase has announced the rollout of full trading of the Basic Attention Token at Coinbase.com and in the Coinbase Android and iOS apps, per a blog post published Nov. 8.According to the announcement, Coinbase's customers can now buy, sell, send, receive, or store BAT along with other digital currencies supported on the platform.

Canadian Bitcoin mining company Hut 8 has reported record revenue in the third quarter of 2018, according to the company's quarterly financial report published Nov. 8.Hut 8, which claims to be "The largest" public crypto mining company by operating capacity and market capitalization, has revealed its financial results for Q3 of this year, stating that its revenue reached a record high $13.5 million for Q3, and $27.7 million for the nine months ending on Sep.

Investment bank and financial services firm J.P. Morgan Chase has identified three public companies whose stock it believes will benefit from their applications of blockchain technology, CNBC reported Nov. 8.In a note to clients, J.P. Morgan reportedly forecast that IT companies will deploy blockchain in the same way that many firms claim to benefit from machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Its entire computer network for four days due to an attempted mining attack.

Crypto exchange Coinbase is adding web browser Brave's Basic Attention Token to its retail trading platform, less than a week after listing it on Coinbase Pro.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Zachary Coburn, the founder of crypto token trading platform EtherDelta, with operating an unregistered securities exchange, a press release by the SEC reveals Thursday, Nov. 8.