Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

The U.K. is sponsoring research into organizing and managing phone numbers by the national telecom regulator.

U.S. tech giant IBM has officially launched its blockchain-based food tracking network, Food Trust, after 18 months of testing, the company revealed in a press-release Monday, October 8.In the same announcement, the corporation revealed that another major food retailer Carrefour is joining their ecosystem.

According to a recently published Diar report, venture capital investments in crypto and blockchain companies have nearly tripled in the first three quarters of 2018 from that of 2017.

Blockchain startup Oasis Labs has teamed up with some notable venture capital firms and hedge funds to launch a new technology startup incubator.

The United Arab Emirates has announced plans to introduce new rules that would permit initial coin offerings as a fundraising method for domestic companies.

"Decentralized internet" protocol TRON's TRX token surged almost 8 percent Monday, October 8, after CEO Justin Sun claimed its forthcoming update would see it beat Ethereum on speed and EOS on cost.

A man in China has been been sentenced to three and a half years in jail for stealing power from a train station to fuel his Bitcoin mining operations, local media outlet The Paper reports October 8.According to court documents released today, the sentencing was served September 13 at the Datong Railway Transport Court in China's northern Shanxi province.

Diving into the cryptocurrency market a bit deeper displays shortcomings beyond those mentioned above; which include usability issues, compliance roadblocks, and scalability fallacies, as Forbes highlights.

American Economist Nouriel Roubini has stated that cryptocurrency is more centralized than North Korea in a tweet October 7.

Venezuelans are now being forced to pay for passports with the country's controversial petro cryptocurrency, a report indicates.

A new platform for smart crypto payments offers users the ability to hold or send cryptocurrency by using an email address.

PwC blockchain head Steve Davies explained that a large number of conglomerates and startups are exploring ways to integrate the blockchain at a commercial level.

IBM is taking its food-tracking blockchain into production, making it one of the largest enterprise projects to achieve that milestone, and has signed European supermarket giant Carrefour to use it.

Bitcoin price volatility continues to drop, with one measure having reached a 15-month low.

The CEO of world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance said he "Hoped others would follow" his decision to donate all listing fees to charity after a sudden announcement Monday, October 8.

Binance Labs, the incubator wing of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange, has invested in a smart contract and blockchain audit startup, the company announced Monday.

Major crypto exchange Bitfinex has responded to a recent swathe of online rumors, denying that the firm is "Insolvent" or facing banking issues, in an official blog post published October 7.

Binance, currently the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has announced that it will now disclose all cryptocurrency listing fees and donate the funds to charity.

In the past several days, the daily trading volume of Bitcoin has declined by more than 23 percent to its lowest point in 2018.

Hong Kong-based crypto exchange Bitfinex has hit back against claims it is insolvent and disclosed wallet addresses appearing to show it holds over $1.5 billion in crypto assets.

In a stunning move, Binance, the world's leading cryptocurrency exchange by daily volume, has announced it will be publicizing all listing fees and donating the entirety of proceeds to charity with immediate effect.

South Korea mobile messaging giant Kakao Corp. unveiled the testnet version of its new blockchain platform Monday, October 8, ahead of a formal launch in Q1 2019, local media outlet Korea Herald reports.

Ground X, the blockchain development arm of the South Korean messaging giant Kakao, has launched a test network of its proprietary blockchain network dubbed Klaytn.

Following the announcement of BlackBerry Spark, an Enterprise of Things platform for ultra-secure hyperconnectivity, BlackBerry Limited announced new partnerships and projects with the shared goal of transforming the global delivery of healthcare and patient care.

Ensuring data security and integrity is blockchain's natural and widely recognized forte.

Park Won-soon, the mayor of Seoul, has revealed a five-year plan that will invest $108 million to make the South Korean capital a smart city powered by blockchain.

Investor documents obtained by CoinDesk reveal what Good Money is really banking on, the idea millennials trust internet personalities more than media or financial institutions.

It is highly unlikely for the SEC to approve the first Bitcoin ETF in US markets within the next two months.

Venezuelans can only use the state-backed cryptocurrency, the Petro, to pay for passport fees starting next week, the country's vice president Delcy Rodriguez said in a press conference Friday, Oct. 5.Ahead of Petro's official "Launch" in November, Rodriguez confirmed that as of Monday, Oct. 8, fees for all passport applications will only be payable in Petro, and will cost an increased amount: 2 petros for a new passport and 1 petro for an extension.

Bitcoin remained stable Sunday, October 7, capping a week of sideways trading as overall exchange volumes reached their lowest level for thirteen months.