Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

International central banks and financial officials think that cryptocurrencies pose no significant risks to global economic stability, according to a report published by the Financial Stability Board Wednesday, Oct.10.

The Liquid Network sidechain for the Bitcoin blockchain went live on Sept. 27, according to an Oct. 10 post from Blockstream.

The U.S. securities agency has filed a subpoena enforcement action against the perpetrators of an alleged "Pump-and-dump" scheme involving claims of a $100 million Initial Coin Offering, according to an Oct. 9 filing.

The Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative has launched a development "Tournament" to explore how vehicles will communicate, co-operate and transact in the smart cities of the near-future.

The paper begins its conjecture by calling out the dominance of Chinese businesses mining Bitcoin, making the protocol "Heavily centralized." Researchers allege that six mining pools control mining-with five located in China-and together, they make up 80 percent of the Bitcoin's hashing power.

Former COO of major U.S. stock exchange NASDAQ subsidiary Jeanine Hightower-Sellitto has joined crypto exchange Gemini, the company revealed in a Medium post on Wednesday, Oct. 10.

Blockstream, one of the industry's most heavily sponsored development powerhouses, unveiled a Lightning Network-style solution permitting the largest stakeholders in the game to transfer wholesale quantities of Bitcoin in a "Near-instant".

Three years in the making, bitcoin's first sidechain "Liquid" is now live.

Blockchain has one new supporter: the UK finance minister Philip Hammond.

The Chinese government should consider launching its own yuan-backed stablecoin despite the current ban on cryptocurrencies, an op-ed in Chinese financial journal CN Finance reports Tuesday, Oct. 9.

Cryptocurrencies and digital assets are not currently a threat to global financial stability, the Financial Stability Board states in a report published Wednesday.

Google entered the cryptocurrency-as-money debate on Tuesday, Oct. 9, arguing over its validity during an introductory video for a new feature from its Google Assistant tool.

Civil, the company hoping to take journalism on the blockchain, announced a partnership with industry giant Forbes on Oct. 9 via a post on Civil's Medium account.

Despite the bear market in cryptocurrencies this year so far, crypto hedge fund launches are spiking to all-time highs.

Losses caused by cryptocurrency exchange hacks hit $927 million in the first nine months of 2018, already 250 percent higher than throughout all of 2017, Reuters India reports October 10.

The Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday that it has asked a U.S. district court to enforce a subpoena as part of a probe into alleged pump-and-dump tactics that involved claims of a $100 million initial coin offering.

Hacked Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Zaif has announced an official plan to provide financial support for affected customers' assets, in an official notice posted today, October 10.

According to a recent TABB Group research report titled "Crypto Trading: Platforms Target Institutional Market", the Bitcoin over-the-counter market is approximately three times larger than the exchange market.

One of crypto's most feared attacks may have an elegant solution.

Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini has hired another Wall street executive as part of its bid to attract more institutional clients.

Bitcoin is having a tough time scaling a key moving average hurdle that has kept the bulls in check for four weeks straight.

The highest number of recorded incidents of Coinhive cryptojacking software have taken place in Brazil, Iran's country's cybersecurity authority revealed in a report Monday, October 8.

Its main purpose is to establish a common definition of 'blockchain' technology along with a blockchain working group that would potentially overview studies for federal adoption of the technology.

A Twitter user by the handle GeoCold posted a tweet on Oct. 7 announcing their intention to wage a 51 percent attack against altcoin Einsteinium and live-stream the entire event on Twitch.

Blockchain startup Citizens Reserve is partnering with enterprise software startup Blockdaemon to more rapidly deploy nodes.

Blockchain finance firm Clearmatics Technologies has raised over $12 million in a Series A funding round led by venture capital firm Route 66 Ventures.

As it awaits its Japanese operating license, an executive from leading U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase has made positive remarks about the country's toughened stance towards the crypto industry.

The head of Singapore's financial regulator and de facto central bank said he wants to "Bring together" banks and crypto businesses after complaints about banking support, Bloomberg reports Wednesday, Oct. 10.

Mastercard has been awarded a patent for a method to partition a blockchain, making it capable of storing multiple transaction types and formats.

A senior executive of the U.S.-based crypto exchange Coinbase has said he is confident the firm will receive an operating license in Japan next year, even while regulators in the country are stepping up scrutiny of crypto exchanges.