Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin bears have been emboldened by repeated rejection from a key moving average hurdle, but they may take a breather over the next 24 hours as the price heads for another key trendline of support.

Retail brokerage firm TD Ameritrade has announced that it is backing new crypto exchange ErisX, according to a press release published on the company's website Wednesday, October 3.TD Ameritrade, which currently provides investment services to up to 11 million clients, did not reveal the details of the deal.

Brokerage firm TD Ameritrade is investing in a brand new cryptocurrency exchange, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.

On Monday, Oct. 1, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced the official launch of the country's official cryptocurrency, called Petro, alongside the release of the Spanish-language white paper for the coin.

The question of crypto asset adoption was certainly on many of the attendees' minds, especially since Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse announced the previous day that xRapid, the company's product the leverages the XRP cryptocurrency for "On-demand liquidity" in cross-border payments, is now being used in commercial payments by three companies.

Anastasios A. Antoniou, a member of the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum, thinks that blockchain has to find its place within a regulatory framework rather than evade it, according to his post published in the Oxford Business Law Blog Wednesday, October 3.The expert thinks that it is imperative to bridge the divide between code and law in blockchain, calling this "a radical rethink" of current regulation.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has recently awarded a patent for a blockchain-based secure system to U.S. tech conglomerate IBM, according to a patent filing published on USPTO's website Tuesday, October 2.As IMB explains in a document first filed in September 2017, the technology enables the detection of security breaches within a network by connecting all the monitors to a chain configuration, which registers all events in the network.

A bipartisan bill recently introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives proposes creating a "Consensus-based definition of blockchain."

Proof-of-work, the consensus mechanism that secures bitcoin and numerous other cryptocurrency blockchains, has given the technology a reputation for hogging energy.

The Wall Street Journal created and then destroyed its own cryptocurrency in a bid to "Understand" the industry, the publication revealed in a mini documentary Wednesday, October 3.

TEMCO Labs, a supply chain management product for small to medium-sized businesses powered by the RSK Blockchain, recently closed a seed round of an undisclosed size.

With transaction fees "Volatile and unpredictable," sending cryptocurrencies can sometimes be frustrating.

Bitcoin stemmed losses compared to many major altcoins Wednesday, October 3, as news hit of crypto exchange Coinbase's reported $8 billion valuation.

Still, venture capital firms and large investment companies are placing big long-term bets on the crypto market by financing cryptocurrency exchanges.

Gaming giant Ubisoft has taken another step into the blockchain space by becoming an inaugural member of the newly formed Blockchain Game Alliance consortium.

Coinbase Pro topped the ratings of a new report from ICORating into cryptocurrency exchange security Wednesday, October 3, while researchers flag multiple shortcomings that continue to plague the sector.

A prominent pro-blockchain politician has been appointed as Minister of Science, Technology, and IT as part of the fourth reshuffle Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe's cabinet, Cointelegraph Japan reported October 2.

Major crypto trading platform BitMEX has appointed a veteran Hong Kong regulator as its chief operating officer, Hong Kong English-language newspaper the South China Morning Post reports October 2.

Last week, Austria became the latest government to successfully trial blockchain platforms to issue government bonds.

A new patent awarded to tech giant IBM highlights how blockchain tech might play a role in monitoring security breaches within computer networks.

An apparently bogus Vitalik Buterin Instagram account with more than 24,000 followers has captured 37 Ether and counting in what appears to be a textbook example of one of the Ethereum co-founder's bemoaned "Giveaway" scams.

Last week, CoinDesk was first to give its readers a glimpse at the application documents of the much-anticipated initial public offering of Bitmain, a mining chip manufacturer and one of the cryptocurrency sector's largest companies in terms of revenue.

Security tokens are not cryptocurrencies or part of unregulated ICOs.Security tokens are essentially digitized traditional securities.

San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange and wallet service Coinbase is finishing negotiations that would value the company at $8 billion, technology news site Recode reports Oct. 2.Citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter, Recode states that Coinbase is in talks with Tiger Global and its shareholders regarding a possible $500 million investment.

Ripple announced the much-anticipated launch of its xRapid product for international payments on Monday, as the status of its currency XRP remains a question.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton didn't have to say much when he delivered the keynote at Ripple's Swell conference in San Francisco.

Brendan Eich, the CEO of decentralized browser Brave, has urged members of the U.S. senate to consider the General Data Protection Regulation as a regulatory model, according to a statement published Oct. 2.In an open letter dated Sept. 29, Eich called on members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, to look to the GDPR as a model for American data privacy regulations.

Automated trading programs, or bots, are manipulating digital currency prices on cryptocurrency exchanges, according to a Wall Street Journal report October 2.Automated trading software is a program that allows traders to set specific rules for both trade entries and exits, submit orders to a market center or exchange, and then automatically executes them by means of a computer at speeds greater than any human is able.

The "Lone" Bitcoin investment trust in the U.S., Grayscale Bitcoin Investment Trust, has seen its net asset value hit the lowest point since the BTC price surge of 2017, Bloomberg reported October 2.Grayscale Investments Inc., the company behind GBTC, reportedly has $1.5 billion in assets under management, and is one of the largest cryptocurrency asset managers in the world.

Chris Dodds, who serves on the board of directors of the Charles Schwab Corporation, has joined cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase's board of directors, according to an announcement published October 2.The Charles Schwab Corporation is a brokerage, banking and financial advisory services firm based in San Francisco.