Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Tether briefly lost its peg to the U.S. dollar as the traders sold it and lapped up other cryptocurrencies, providing a temporary boost in the total crypto market capitalization to about $220 billion.

The Bank of Japan's deputy governor Masayoshi Amamiya has recently reiterated his negative stance towards central bank-issued digital currencies, the New York Times reports Oct. 20.

The city of Ephrata, Washington, will halt new crypto mining developments in the city for the next 12 months, Eastern Washington and North Idaho daily newspaper The Spokesman Review reports Friday, Oct. 19.

Throughout its history, the faucet paid out over 12.795 bitcoins to its users.

Saturday, Oct. 20: Crypto markets are seeing little momentum, with virtually all of the major cryptocurrencies seeing slight growth and losses between a 1-2 percent range, as Coin360 data shows.

According to Genesis Global Trading, a major cryptocurrency investment firm that targets institutional investors, short interest towards Ethereum has declined substantially in the third quarter of 2018.

On October 8, Hong-Kong-based exchange Bitfinex has announced that it is not under the immediate threat of insolvency and the related rumors are unsubstantiated, as well as false.

Cobo, a Beijing-based cryptoasset wallet startup, recently closed a $13 million Series A round with participants including Wu Capital, DHVC, and the NEO Foundation.

Ethereum core developers have reached a consensus to delay a planned hard fork of the protocol until January 2019, in a meeting Friday, Oct. 19.

A new report published Oct. 19 by Big Four auditor Ernst and Young has found that initial coin offerings that raised capital in 2017 have done "Little to inspire confidence" one year on.

To the average American, China's system seems no different from Venmo or Paypal, just more pervasive.

Despite the cryptocurrency market slowdown and regulatory uncertainty in 2018, cryptocurrency- and blockchain- related job and roles have increased significantly, indicating clear interest and considerable demand in the sector.

One of bitcoin's earliest entrepreneurs, Charlie Shrem is the former founder of BitInstant and co-founder of cryptocurrency intelligence service CryptoIQ. This exclusive opinion piece is part of CoinDesk's "Bitcoin at 10: The Satoshi White Paper" opinion series.

If the blockchain industry had been knocking at the iron-clad gates of the Securities and Exchange Commission, it appears access was just granted.

Joint efforts with former partner and billionaire Bitcoin bull Mike Novogratz, Goldman Sachs has thrown its weight behind BitGo in a bid to support the custodian's lofty plan to build a "One trillion-dollar crypto wallet" for Wall Street.

World-renowned boxing champion Floyd Mayweather and famed record producer DJ Khaled are dealing with the fallout of a class action lawsuit due to their involvement with Centra Tech's CTR token, a crypto asset the suit claims is a scam that cost investors millions of dollars.

The Government of Gibraltar in collaboration with the University of Gibraltar have created an advisory group focused on the development of blockchain-related educational courses, national news outlet the Gibraltar Chronicle reported Oct. 19.

Russian deputies have removed the definition of crypto mining from a draft bill on digital currency regulation ahead of its next reading in the State Duma, major local news agency Interfax reports Oct. 19.

The Financial Action Task Force has adopted changes to its standards regarding digital currencies and firms involved into cryptocurrency-related activities, according to an announcement published Oct. 19.

Hacker group "Lazarus," reportedly funded by North Korea, has stolen a staggering $571 million in cryptocurrencies since early 2017, a study conducted by cybercrime company Group-IB reveals.

Currently, the price is at the moving averages, which might act as a support.

Tether tokens are flooding into a wallet address controlled by the Kraken exchange, one of the few places where the troubled stablecoin can be converted into U.S. dollars.

Friday, Oct. 19: crypto markets are seeing minor losses across the board, as low volatility continues.

Ethereum's next hard fork, dubbed Constantinople, will be postponed until early 2019, developers confirmed in a meeting Friday.

Herman Gref, CEO of state-owned Sberbank - Russia's largest banking conglomerate - believes that global governments won't "Let go" of centralized models to "Allow" decentralized cryptocurrencies to flourish within the next 10 years, local news agency RIA Novosti reports Oct. 18.

Cryptocurrency advocate and billionaire investor Mike Novogratz says Tether's recent troubles are its own fault, and that a lack of transparency is mainly to blame for investors losing faith in the stablecoin.

In what has been dubbed a "Deal frenzy," crypto and blockchain-related merger and acquisition activity has surged by over 200 percent in 2018, CNBC reported Oct. 18.

CEN says this centralization has the danger of monopolizing AI - leaving most of us out of the loop.

The opening ceremony of a new mining farm touting itself as one of the "World's largest" was held in the Armenian capital Oct. 18, according to a report by local platform News Armenia.

A global money-laundering watchdog has said it will begin publishing rules for international cryptocurrency regulation by next summer.