Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Financial intermediaries will be "Facing the chop" thanks to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, Malta's finance minister told Cointelegraph in an interview Friday, October 5.

Satoshi Nakamoto was most likely not a Russian money launderer, but that theory was briefly proposed during a meeting hosted by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Friday.

Decentralized market intelligence platform Numerai announced the launch of Erasure, a crypto-based data gathering, and stock price prediction marketplace.

Those tokens could be staked for using network resources either for personal use or leased out for developers use - as per the project's whitepaper, dApp developers can build their product on the top of the EOS.io protocol and make use of the servers, bandwidth and computational power of EOS itself, as those resources are distributed equally among EOS cryptocurrency holders.

Friday, Oct. 5: cryptocurrencies are seeing little volatility over the past 24 hours to press time, with the majority of losses and gains of top coins capped within a 1 percent range on the day, as data from Coin360 shows.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is asking for further comment on nine different bitcoin exchange-traded fund rule change proposals that are currently under review after initially being rejected.

Forever the cause of feverous speculation, the institutional opinion of Bitcoin seems to stand as the yardstick for price projection.

American journal Time Magazine has included a blockchain startup in its recent top 50 "Genius Companies 2018" list, published Thursday, October 4.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has outlined a time frame for reviewing proposed rule changes related to a series of applications to list and trade various Bitcoin exchange-traded funds.

A major Chinese university is proposing blockchain technology as a better way to manage web domain names.

Two Chilean deputies have presented a resolution on blockchain adoption to the lower house of the country's parliament on Thursday, October 4, local news website Fortin Mapocho reported.

The growth of freelancing and the gig economy is changing the workforce.

Crypto company Circle is reportedly moving to acquire SeedInvest, a crowdfunding platform for startups.

A supposed cheat for the massively popular video game Fortnite turns out to be malware designed to steal bitcoin wallet login details.

Ivy League U.S. university Yale is said to be one of the investors that helped to raise $400 million for a major new cryptocurrency-focused fund, Bloomberg reports October 5.

Crypto investing app Circle Invest announced the addition of three additional collections.

The U.S. Department of Justice has charged seven officers from Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate with cryptocurrency-funded global hacking and related disinformation operations.

Celsius, a cryptocurrency lending startup, says it's paying thousands of users interest for depositing bitcoin and ether with its wallet app.

Update: CNBC is also reporting that Yale's chief investment officer, David Swensen, has also invested for the university in Andreessen Horowitz's $300 million crypto fund, which closed in June.

Russia's largest majority state-owned bank Sberbank has signed a partnership agreement with state-owned power giant Rosseti to propagate new technologies, a press release confirms Friday, October 5.

Bitmain, the world market leader for mining equipment, on the eve of an epic IPO - which could become the largest in the entire history of the IT market - is experiencing an equally epic publicity and information attack.

Argentina's first Bitcoin ATM machine was installed last month and, according to a Reuters report, more could be coming.

Timing an expected bitcoin price breakout after a prolonged period of consolidation is challenging, but a technical tool called the "Choppiness index" may offer some insight.

Leading U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase has announced that veteran employee Adam White, head of its institutional platform group, is leaving the firm, Bloomberg reported October 4.

Adam White, one of U.S.-based crypto exchange Coinbase's most senior executives and fifth-ever employee, is leaving the company.

The makers of mobile-based cryptocurrency Electroneum announced today that theirs will be the first fully Know Your Customer compliant cryptocurrency.

The second largest bank in Italy, Intesa Sanpaolo, and 13 other banks have successfully completed the first phase of an interbank reconciliation blockchain trial.

A blockchain project called Education Ecosystem is developing a decentralized online learning platform called LiveEdu, where people can learn how to build complete products in categories like programming, cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence, and other technology fields.

Pointing out the government's delay in regulating initial coin offerings since a year, South Korean lawmakers called for swift regulatory action in a parliamentary forum on Oct. 2, reported Business Korea.

As a venture-capital investor said in a recent interview, Augur's "Biggest pain point is user experience." This has meant that, following a brief honeymoon in which Augur attracted a flood of users, the platform's daily active user count is now solidly below 100.