Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin is just a fraction of a percent down on the day to trade at $6,484 to press time.

Nouriel Roubini, a well-recognized economist and a professor at Stern School, believes a financial crash worse than the 2008 recession will hit US markets by 2020, which may lead institutional investors to commit to crypto as an alternative store of value and asset class.

Zimbabwe's new finance minister said the country should embrace Bitcoin at state level in a manner similar to Switzerland, local media outlet IT Web Africa reports Monday, September 17.

The corrective rally in bitcoin could gather momentum if key resistance above $6,500 is crossed on the back of high volumes, according to technical charts.

Official government websites have become a prime target for cryptojacking in India, The Economic Times reports today, September 17.

The price of XTZ, the native token of the Tezos crypto project, rose 30 percent over the weekend in anticipation of the network's official launch Monday.

LG Uplus - a South Korean cellular carrier owned by the nation's fourth largest conglomerate, LG Corporation - is launching a blockchain-based overseas payment service.

Payment services giant Mastercard is looking at the use of blockchain for keeping track of consumer payments, newly published patent filings suggest.

The virtuous circle that saw buyers of ethereum-based ERC-20 tokens drive ether's price above $1,400 mid-January has morphed into its diametric opposite.

Sunday, September 16: crypto markets have seen a mix of red and green today, with some small fluctuations and total market cap holding position.

Binance, the largest global crypto exchange, will soon start private beta testing a crypto-fiat exchange in Singapore, as Binance co-founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao tweeted on September 15.

The implementation of the recently launched Gemini dollar stablecoin can be completely changed by a Gemini custodian every 48 hours, according to a study authored by blockchain researcher Alex Lebed and crypto consultant Alexey Akhunov, published on Medium on September 11.

In an apparent first, a New York federal judge has ruled that U.S. securities laws are applicable for prosecuting crypto fraud allegations.

Ben Horowitz, the co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, said that the company has not seen the level of developer activity the cryptocurrency sector has demonstrated in recent years since the rise of the Internet in the nineties.

South Korea's LG UPlus, a mobile carrier owned by the country's fourth largest conglomerate LG Corp., is launching a blockchain-based cross-carrier overseas payment service, Korea Times reports today, September 16.

Billionaire venture capitalist and early Bitcoin proponent Tim Draper has cooked up his most extravagant forecast for the cryptocurrency market yet, predicting it will skyrocket to a whopping $80 trillion valuation within 15 years-approximately the value of all global currency in existence.

As Gili Gershonok, a crypto nomad who deliberately chooses not to have a bank account, told Cointelegraph, ignoring fiat money while travelling becomes more difficult, as all of the crypto prepaid cards she heavily relied on were canceled in early 2018.

The original idea, funding a new decentralized platform by pre-selling crypto tokens to anyone who wanted to buy them, is being looked at more skeptically in many circles, especially as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulators debate what rules need to be put in place to protect investors.

Stored across tens of thousands of nodes that make up the platform, the ethereum virtual machine, or EVM, is responsible for executing the countless tokens, dapps, DAOs and digital kittens of which the blockchain is comprised of.

A series of smart contract exploits have seen hackers abscond with over $600,000 worth of EOS over the last week, raising questions regarding the security of the $4 billion "Ethereum killer" EOS blockchain.

ETH, the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum blockchain network, has surged by more than 33 percent in the past 4 days, despite the expectations of investors for ETH to continue its downtrend below the $200 support level.

Bubble has indeed become a shibboleth for crypto sceptics, especially after the market soared at the end of 2017, and the widening gap between valuation and intrinsic value of digital currencies and tokens became ostensible to many.

The World Economic Forum foundation has outlined more than 65 blockchain use cases for solving the "Most pressing" environmental challenges, in a report published September 14.

Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank, said that the authority does not see a "Concrete need" for a digital token alternative to the euro, according to Reuters.

Saturday, September 15: crypto markets are undergoing a slight recovery after yesterday's decline, with 17 of the 20 top cryptocurrencies by market cap in the green, according to CoinMarketCap data.

First, here's a dose of sobering perspective: Back when people talked to each other for entertainment, given the lack of iPhone chargers in the mid-1800s, people would look into the distance and say something to the effect of "There's gold in them there hills," and they actually dug gold out of the dirt all day long.

For businesses seeking decentralized enterprise solutions, the number of emerging blockchain projects is almost too overwhelming.

As been reported on September 2, the president of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, ordered the establishment of a state blockchain development fund called the "Digital Trust." Earlier in September, a decree legalizing crypto trading - also making it tax-free - and mining in the country came into force, making Uzbekistan a crypto-friendly state.

When it was authorized as the first established bank in Saudi Arabia, the National Commercial Bank was slated to become the largest financial institution in the Middle East.

The crypto industry unicorn Coinbase has aggressive growth plans for its newly opened New York office, which caters to institutional clients.