Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

A new smart banking ecosystem based on blockchain technology is offering an all-in-one platform for managing cryptocurrencies, fiat money and stocks - and hopes to make crypto payments practical and widespread.Platio believes that, eventually, all financial assets are going to be tokenized and run on blockchains - completely transforming the international financial system.

IBM is taking its long-in-the-works blockchain-based payment system out of beta, with the launch of a new product called Blockchain World Wire.

The Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece has ruled to extradite alleged BTC-e owner Alexander Vinnik to Russia to face several cyber fraud charges, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reports Tuesday, September 4.

Those thirsting for the first glimpse of IOTA's Qubic may have their fill by the end of the year, with the project's latest "Promised" monthly status update reiterating that a proof-of-concept should be unveiled "Around the end" of 2018.Qubic monthly status update - September 3rd 2018https://t.

On Aug. 31, Line, Japan's most widely utilized messaging app with more than 200 million active users, revealed the launch of its own cryptocurrency called LINK. Upon its announcement, Line immediately listed LINK on its digital asset exchange BitBox, which it launched back in July of this year.

Regulators in the Philippines plan to reveal draft cryptocurrency regulation by the middle of this month, local media outlet The Manila Times reported Monday, September 3.

Germany's joint stock company Deutsche Börse has established a dedicated unit for blockchain and crypto assets, Finextra reported September 3.

The list of indicators signaling a long-term bullish reversal in bitcoin continues to grow with each passing week.

Despite Bitcoin's 80 percent decline in the market dominance it held in January 2017, it is still the most recognizable name in cryptocurrency, and The Bitcoin Foundation is taking advantage of this with new initiatives to educate lawmakers, regulators, the general public, the media and more through training programs and seminars.

The South Korean government is literally doubling down on its efforts to trial blockchain in the public sector, adding more projects and increasing available funds for 2019.

In order to onboard users to an EOS dapp, developers generally have to make sure they've secured sufficient amounts of three separate resources: RAM, which amounts to state storage on the blockchain; CPU, which measures average consumption of computing resources in microseconds; and network bandwidth, or NET, which measures average consumption in bytes.

It's no secret that a cryptocurrency wallet can be accessed by a private key-a string of letters and numbers that, if revealed, allows all those who hold it access to the cryptocurrency held within.

Crypto wallet and exchange startup Abra is opening up a new channel for deposits: European bank accounts.

The Australian Securities Exchange has pushed back the expected launch time of a blockchain network to Q2 in 2021 that is set to replace the country's decades-old CHESS clearing and settlement system.

The Chairman of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China has said that the bank will focus on blockchain technology development, BiaNews reported September 1.Founded in 1984, the ICBC is reportedly the largest bank in China with over 5,000 corporate and 530 million personal customers.

At least, that's the contention of a new paper, shared with CoinDesk on Monday, written by ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin, Microsoft researcher Glen Weyl and Ph.D. of economics at Harvard, Zoë Hitzig.

Major insurance firm the People's Insurance Company of China will apply blockchain technology to its operations via a new partnership, according to a September 1 press release.

Despite its reluctance toward crypto finance and ICO advertisements, Google is not shying away from the technical prowess of blockchain networks.

A former Deutsche Bank trader has joined Japanese crypto exchange-startup FXcoin Ltd., Bloomberg reports September 3.According to the announcement, Yasuo Matsuda, an institutional trader from Deutsche Bank, will join FXcoin as a senior crypto strategist starting in September 2018.

Singapore-based investment company Temasek has officially denied involvement in the cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain's Initial Public Offering, according to an official statement August 30.Last month, media reported that Temasek was one of the key investors in the Bitmain pre-IPO funding round.

Japan's Financial Services Agency has pulled the reins in on aspiring and existing cryptocurrency exchanges by implementing a more rigorous screening process for risk-management procedures, according to Japan Times.

The blockchain-based startup Fishcoin plans to apply decentralized ledger technology to seafood supply chains, linking fishermen and fish farmers at the point of harvest to global seafood supply chain actors, ranging from distributors, processors, wholesalers and retailers.

South Korea has begun a six-month training course to turn forty-two applicants into "Blockchain specialists," local media report Monday, September 3.

Naples' mayor, Luigi de Magistris, has posted an impassioned pledge to launch an autonomous municipal cryptocurrency that, he says, would unshackle the city from "Anti-southern discrimination" and "Unfair" debt, on his Facebook public profile September 2.

Thailand's Anti-Money Laundering Office is considering creating its own digital wallet to investigate crypto-related cybercrime, local news outlet The Nation wrote Monday, September 3.

China's largest insurance conglomerate by total assets handled, the People's Insurance Company of China, has partnered with VeChain, blockchain-based information tracking and governance systems company, with the goal of digitally transforming the insurance industry, according to a press release.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India organized tours to other countries for its officials to study cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings, according to its 2017-18 annual report.

Bitcoin is trading at around $7,255 at press time, down a fraction of a percent on the day to consolidate its freshly won gains, according to Cointelegraph's Bitcoin Price Index.

South Korea's SBI Savings Bank has signed an MoU with DAYLI Intelligence, a specialist in AI and blockchain technology, to bolster its fintech business, Money Today reports September 3.

As a handful of states scramble for the first draw in a pro-blockchain regulatory arms race, the CEO of Malta-based, "Regulation-ready" cryptocurrency exchange ZBX has claimed the Maltese government's plans may be forging a crypto-utopia like no other.