Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

U.S. stock brokerage firm EF Hutton plans to issue $60 million in various cryptocurrency instruments from January 2019, Bloomberg reported September 13.

South Korea's customs authority is looking to adopt Samsung's blockchain tech as the backbone of a decentralized customs clearance system.

Local cryptocurrency exchange operators in Mexico will now be required to secure a permit from the Bank of Mexico, according to the Diario Oficial de la Federación.

Having dropped back from eight-day highs hit this morning, bitcoin price could be in for a bout of consolidation before further upside unfolds.

IBM has teamed up with enterprise blockchain firm Hacera to launch a yellow pages-like directory aimed to make it easier for interested companies to participate in blockchain projects across the globe.

The South Dakota Division of Banking has approved BitGo Trust Company to serve as a public trust company in the state and qualified custodian for digital assets, according to a press release.

The annual London gathering hosted by R3 to celebrate everything happening on the Corda platform and its developer community, appeared to be in rude health this year with standing room only in many of the presentations.

A leading Hong Kong jeweler will utilize blockchain technology to sell diamonds and other precious gems to customers, according to the South China Morning Post.Hong Kong Businesses Deploy Blockchain.

Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings is soon to launch a payments application for iOS and Android devices powered by Ripple's distributed ledger technology.

Ethereum might just be one step closer to sharding its blockchain.

Amid a multi-month downtrend, the price of altcoins and Bitcoin have fallen to yearly lows, pushing market sentiment to near bottom.

Homero Joshua Garza, the CEO of the now-defunct U.S. crypto firm GAW Miners, has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for defrauding investors, local news agency Hartford Business reports Thursday, September 13.Garza received the verdict in the Hartford federal court, following his guilty plea to a wire fraud charge related to creating and selling a scamcoin dubbed PayCoin.

IBM has joined a decentralized cross-blockchain registry initiative which it states is a Yellow Pages analogue for blockchain projects, according to an announcement September 13.The initiative called Unbounded Registry will be led by blockchain startup HACERA, and is designed to provide "a decentralized means to register, look up, join and transact across a variety of blockchain solutions, built to interoperate with all of today's distributed ledger technologies."

A new study suggests that the stability of digital currencies is threatened by software updates, known as "Hard forks,"according to a September 12 press release.

In the past 10 days, Initial Coin Offering projects have sold three times more Ethereum than they did in August, according to research by TrustNodes published September 13.The 160,000 Ethereum tokens sold over the past few days amount to $33 million, according to the price index at press time.

Remittance payments are part of many foreign workers' daily lives; however, traditional systems can be slow and costly.

Mike Novogratz, founder and CEO of crypto investment firm Galaxy Digital Capital Management, said that cryptocurrency prices have hit a bottom in a tweet today, September 13.Novogratz also pointed out that the Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index, which is designed to measure the performance of the largest cryptocurrencies traded in U.S. dollars, "Retouched the highs of late last year and the point of acceleration that led to the massive rally/bubble."

As energy-intensive as Bitcoin mining is, a question still remains: Is there a seasonal variation in the cryptocurrency's energy consumption? Even if consumption is rising on the whole, does something different happen during the summer months?

Following a multi-month downtrend, the price of Ethereum is recovering from yearly lows due to a boost in trading volume in the past 24 hours.

Brave browser, developed by Mozilla co-founder Brendan Eich, has filed privacy complaints in Ireland and Britain against Google, Reuters reported September 13.Brave is an open-source blockchain-powered browser, which blocks ads and website trackers.

While predicting that Bitcoin "Will rebound next year," Singh was mostly bearish on altcoins.

The city of Dublin, Ohio, has been quietly pursuing a blockchain experiment focused on personal identity.

As client demand increases, another major Wall Street firm is making plans to offer a new array of digital asset trading services.

Brazilian retail giant Via Varejo has partnered with blockchain payment service Airfox, according to a September 12 press release.

The Reserve Bank of India argued Wednesday that bitcoin cannot be recognized in the country before the nation's Supreme Court.

On Sept. 12, Bain Capital Ventures invested $15 million in Seed CX, a licensed institutional digital asset exchange, during a Series B funding round.

Several top 20 cryptocurrencies are seeing double digit gains, with Ethereum leading the pack, up over 18 percent on the day, as data from Coin360 shows.

The cryptocurrency market has been making history for all the wrong reasons as of late, most notably by recently surpassing the plunge of the infamous Dot-Com bubble.

Although the blockchain and crypto communities remain united around the ideology of blockchain and its world-changing potential, there is still one issue which proves to be as divisive as a hard fork - consensus protocols.

Josh Garza, the CEO of the now-defunct cryptocurrency mining company GAW Miners, has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to a wire fraud charge.