Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority has issued the country's first cryptocurrency asset management license to a crypto investment fund, Swiss-centered media outlet Swissinfo reports today, Oct. 9.

Bitcoin saw a low-volume bullish breakout Monday, but the long-awaited move is sending mixed signals to investors.

IBM announced the launch of its blockchain-based tracking program Food Trust yesterday, partnering with grocers the world over.

Consumers in Dubai will soon be able to use digital currency to pay for goods, services, and utilities following a new government partnership, a press release confirms Tuesday, Oct. 9.

"Big four" audit giant PricewaterhouseCoopers has partnered with decentralized lending platform Cred to provide tech expertise in the launch of their USD-backed stablecoin, the company announced on Monday, October 8.

As anger has grown over the power wielded by internet gatekeepers such as Facebook and Twitter, many blockchain advocates argue we could fix social media if it were built on decentralized, consensus-based networks instead of corporate-centralized platforms.

Japanese IT giant GMO Internet is jumping on the stablecoin bandwagon, planning the launch of a yen-pegged cryptocurrency in 2019.

Dubai's credit agency announced an official partnership with cryptocurrency-payments provider Pundi X on Oct. 8, according to an official release.

The United Arab Emirates's national securities regulator plans to introduce Initial Coin Offerings for capital markets in 2019, Reuters reported Oct. 8.

China's Hainan Province became the host of the country's "First" officially licensed "'blockchain pilot zone" Monday, Oct. 8, China's official state-run press agency Xinhua reports.

Japanese internet conglomerate GMO Internet Co. Ltd confirmed plans to release a cryptographic stablecoin, Cointelegraph Japan reports Tuesday, Oct. 9, pegged to the Japanese yen.

The Australian federal government is exploring the use of blockchain-based "Smart money" for use in its National Disability Insurance Scheme, according to an Oct. 9 press release.

Blockchain startup Bitwala is aiming to launch Germany's first "Blockchain bank account" - and it's struck a strategic partnership with Berlin-based fintech company solarisBank in order to pull it off.

Binance Labs, the incubation and investment arm of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by daily volume, Binance, has divulged its position as lead investor in blockchain and smart contract verification startup CertiK-months after revealing the project as one of its premiere investments.

Australia's federal science agency is working with one of the "Big Four" commercial banks in the country to test a blockchain application aimed to make it easier for citizens with disabilities to settle insurance payments.

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder and ubiquitous mouthpiece of Ethereum, hinted the start of his detachment from the operational side of his creation and dropped a series of bombshell announcements about the progress of the smart contract platform's much-anticipated scalability enhancements, including Casper and Plasma.

With that as the tagline for the fifth edition of bitcoin engineering conference Scaling Bitcoin, it became a perfect way to summarize what's happening today among the cryptocurrency's developer ecosystem.

British cryptocurrency exchange Coinfloor is laying off the majority of its staff, news outlet Financial News reported Oct. 8.Coinfloor is a London-based digital currency trading platform founded in 2013.

In the third quarter of 2018, San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase's U.S. dollar volumes hit a 1-year low, according to a recent analysis of Diar published October 8.According to the diagram below, in the third quarter of 2018 the U.S. dollar volumes on Coinbase dropped to the lowest level during the past year.

The European Securities and Markets Authority has announced it is examining Initial Coin Offerings to determine how they should be regulated, Reuters reported Oct. 8.The ESMA was established in 2011 in Paris, France, with an objective to develop a common rulebook for European Union financial markets and supervise them.

The United Kingdom Office of Communications has received a £700,000 grant from the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to explore blockchain technology, according to an announcement published Oct. 8.The grant will purportedly help the U.K. telecoms regulator examine how blockchain can improve the management of landline telephone numbers.

A proposed bill in the Australia parliament is stifling the citizens' right to privacy.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Finance is creating a working group to discuss and develop a legal framework for crypto taxation, according to an Oct. 8 announcement on the ministry's official website.

BTC/USDThere is hardly any activity in Bitcoin as it continues to trade in a tight range on low volumes.

On Oct. 6, Ethereum transactions reached a daily average of 600,000 as network fees and ETH prices decreased.

Blockchain cloud computing platform Oasis Labs announced a partnership with major names in crypto and venture capital to launch a blockchain tech hub called the Oasis Startup Hub, the firm announced at San Francisco Blockchain Week October 8.According to the company's press release, the Oasis Startup Hub aims to create an ecosystem for blockchain developers, investors, technologists, and industry key-players to collaborate, as well as technical support from Oasis Labs engineers, and "Early access" to Oasis latest technology disruptions.

European regulators are determining whether to regulate initial coin offerings as securities sales on a case-by-case basis, Reuters reported Monday.

Bitcoin has seen a relatively strong boost, by press time growing almost 2 percent on the day to trade solidly above the $6,600 mark at $6,664.

Crypto analyst and host of CNBC's show Cryptotrader Ran Neuner has claimed that the price of Bitcoin is "About to explode" in a recent tweet October 7.Neuner expressed his utmost confidence in an upcoming surge in Bitcoin's price by noting "I just bought Bitcoin for my parents" in the same tweet.

According to a recent news release by the Israel Securities Authority, the regulator has started utilizing blockchain technology to improve cybersecurity and more effectively address challenges regarding information security.