Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Overstock.com's venture capital subsidiary Medici Ventures has invested in Israeli-based technology company VinX to develop a blockchain-powered wine futures platform, according to a press release published October 4.

The U.K.'s national land registry is moving into the second phase of its ongoing blockchain research effort.

Chinese e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba has filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a blockchain-based system that allows a third-party administrator to intervene in a smart contract in case of illegal activities.

As part of its pivot into security and computing, software company and former smartphone manufacturer BlackBerry has released a blockchain-powered platform.

One such investor is Chen Min, CEO and founder of Linzhi, a Shenzhen-based, startup that has spent $4 million in pursuit of designing the fastest specialized mining chip, or ASIC, for ethereum.

The European Securities and Markets Authority has budgeted over 1 million euro for monitoring fintech and crypto assets, according to a document published Oct. 4.Founded in 2011 in Paris, the ESMA has an objective to develop a uniform rulebook for European Union financial markets, as well as provide market supervision.

The mayor of Seoul Park Won-soon has introduced a five-year plan for developing the blockchain industry in the city, Korean news agency Yonhap News reports Thursday, October 4.The project entitled "Blockchain City of Seoul" contains a number of measures for promoting and developing blockchain-related initiatives and education in the city from 2018-2022, Park revealed in a speech in the city Zug, Switzerland on Thursday.

Institutions appear to be more bullish on Bitcoin than the members of the crypto community on Twitter, according to a recent survey by Fundstrat Global Advisors.

According to a press release on the Poloniex website, the Circle-owned cryptoasset exchange will be removing margin and lending products for US-based customers.

BlackBerry, the software company and former maker of an eponymous line of mobile phones, announced Thursday its plans for a new blockchain platform aimed at storing and sharing medical data.

One of Spain's busiest ports based in the city of Valencia has announced the creation of a "Smart port" which will use blockchain and big data technologies.

For all the ruminations of regulators, the Big Apple's real estate market has taken its another step onto the bandwagon of tokenization.

Goldman Sachs-funded Circle Internet Financial Ltd. has launched a new feature for its crypto investment app Circle Invest dubbed "Collections." The company has made the announcement in an official blog post published Oct. 4.The feature gives customers the option to invest in one or more collections of crypto assets, each divided according to a particular theme: "Platforms, Payments, and Privacy." The company presents the tool as a simplified way for investors to focus their portfolio on multiple coins, according to a specific functionality of their choice.

The EU's financial markets watchdog has revealed that it is setting aside over €1 million in order to monitor cryptocurrencies and other fintech activities during 2019.

Venezuelan state-owned cryptocurrency Petro has apparently plagiarized parts of its white paper from the GitHub repository of Dash.

South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb, currently the world's sixth largest by daily traded volume, will open a global decentralized crypto exchange, Business Korea reports Oct. 4.Bithumb has partnered with blockchain firm One Root Network, which has developed an Ethereum-based decentralized token transaction protocol dubbed "R1" and already operates a decentralized exchange.

Ethereum core developers announced a delay in plans to launch Constantinople, Ethereum's upcoming system-wide upgrade, on the test network Ropsten on Thursday.

Cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes has found that scammers are using malware that targets the Bitcoin wallet addresses of Fortnite gamers, according to a post published October 2.Fortnite is currently one of the most popular video games in the world, with reports suggesting that 125 million people are active players.

Chinese energy company Risen Energy has partnered with a Spanish cryptocurrency mining farm will to develop capacity of up to 300 megawatts of photovoltaic power.

In his presentation, Dogecoin creator Jackson Palmer even went so far as to lambaste the Bitcoin Core team for the "Centralized way" in which they fixed the recently discovered bug in bitcoin's code, which involved coordinating with bitcoin miners behind closed doors.

Agriculture and food supply chains will get investment worth over $400 million over the next five years directly from blockchain, according to a new report.

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Vice President Jim Cunha discussed his views on cryptocurrency adoption and limitations at Forbes' Annual 30 under 30 Summit on Oct. 2, highlighting asset security remains a significant concern for institutions.

A newly-published indictment by the U.S. Department of Justice charges seven alleged Russian intelligence agents with using cryptocurrencies as part of a broad "Influence and disinformation" scheme.

Even if you ignore that Wolverine - the toughest of all the X-Men - is Canadian, you should revise this worn-out cliché, considering how this realm of the Commonwealth seems to march to a faster pace than the United States in the race for cryptocurrency adoption.

Ether, the world's second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, has staved off an attempt by the bears to break a two-week uptrend.

European airline holding company Air France-KLM has partnered with blockchain travel ecosystem Winding Tree.

Bitcoin is up by 1.2 percent on the day, trading around $6,573 as of press time.

Ric Edelman, a top Wall Street advisor and the chairman of Edelman Financial Services, LLC, said in an interview with CNBC's Fast Money that every financial advisor and investment firm should consider allocating capital to Bitcoin.

Announced today, Reto Trinkler has opened the new DEX, dubbed Agora Trade, in Malta - a nation that has become increasingly crypto-friendly with the passing of several pieces of legislation around the tech.

Medici Ventures, the blockchain accelerator and subsidiary of Overstock.com, has made a seven-figure investment in blockchain startup VinX. Israel-based VinX is developing a supply chain platform for trading wine futures, which allow connoisseurs and collectors to purchase a vintage while it's still in the barrel, a year or two before it's bottled and released on the market.