Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Saturday, August 18: crypto markets have seen another slump today, with some coins wavering following weekly gains, according to data from Coinmarketcap.

An official from SoftBank has denied their involvement in the investment deal with Bitcoin mining behemoth Bitmain that was reported last week by both crypto and mainstream media sources.

Porn website Tube8 has revealed plans to create a blockchain-based platform for users to earn crypto tokens as they watch and interact with Tube8 videos, according to Hard Fork, August 17.

Digital asset exchange Coinbase continues to make strides in streamlining user access to cryptocurrency payments and trading, following an application for a direct bitcoin payments system patent, filed Aug. 14.Making Bitcoin Payments More Convenient and Secure.

As the Los Angeles Times reported on Aug. 14, Playboy - one of the pioneers in global erotica - is suing the Canadian firm Global Blockchain Technologies, claiming that it failed to integrate blockchain technology into Playboy's online media channels.

Amid a cryptocurrency market downturn, institutional investor interest continues to take rise.

Axoni, a New York-based enterprise provider of blockchain technology, has completed a $32 million Series B funding round.

The Bitcoin ETF has been one of the biggest stories of 2018 in the crypto space.

"Security tokens will save crypto."

The first project to use ethereum's ERC-721 standard, CryptoKitties has since been rolled out into a standalone company with backing from some of the industry's top investors, while NFTs themselves have become one of tech's hottest buzzwords.

The regulatory scrutiny over ICOs has led to the arrival of token "Airdrops," or free tokens in exchange for a few marketing efforts.

On Aug. 15, American investor Michael Terpin filed a $224 million lawsuit against AT&T. He believes that the telecoms giant had provided hackers with access to his phone number, which led to a major crypto heist.

Despite showing reluctance toward cryptocurrencies, the South Korean government revealed its intention to "Nurture" eight growing sectors of the domestic economy-including blockchain technology.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin launched a "Tweet storm," Aug. 16, presumably to succinctly explain the Casper protocol to crypto-enthusiasts while dismissing rumors and misconceptions.

In another example of blockchain technology's prowess, the Union of European Football Associations revealed that it distributed 100 percent of the tickets for a recent football match solely using blockchain.

Tech giant IBM has applied for a blockchain patent for the development of transaction data identifiers based on nodes, according to a patent document published by the U.S. Patent and Trademarks Office Aug. 16.

Cryptocurrency- and blockchain-focused investment fund Pantera Capital is aggressively pursuing its belief in the burgeoning asset class as it seeks a mammoth $175 million in investments from institutional investors for its third crypto venture.

Thomas Zeeb, CEO of securities services at Switzerland's top stock exchange SIX, revealed that the firm is unlikely to launch crypto trading, Business Insider reported August 17.

SFOX, a San Francisco-based cryptocurrency prime broker, has successfully closed a $22.7 million funding round to build an institutional-grade asset management platform for the industry's largest investors.

American bank holding corporation Capital One has filed a patent application for the implementation of blockchain technology in user authentication, according to a filing published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office August 16.

Friday, Aug. 17: all top ten cryptocurrencies by market cap have seen green today, with Ripple and EOS up over 15 percent over the past 24 hours, according to Coinmarketcap.

Tube8, an adult video service and subsidiary of Pornhub, has partnered up with with the Vice Industry Token to pay viewers for interacting with its services.

Binance will add another stamp to its passport book, having joined forces with Liechtenstein Cryptoassets Exchange to build a new fiat-to-cryptocurrency exchange in the European nation.

Food safety firm ZEGO is using blockchain to test products for residue of a deadly chemical tied to a recent $289 million Monsanto lawsuit, according to a press release published August 16.

Above the range, the virtual currency can again face resistance at the 20-day EMA, at the downtrend line of the descending triangle and at the 50-day SMA. For the past seven days, the bears have repeatedly pushed prices down from the $6,617.

Ripple has signed on three new exchange partners-Bittrex, Bitso and Coins.

A Russian independent electoral watchdog is trialing a blockchain-based electronic voting system, local news platform Tass reports August 17.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection plans to trial blockchain technology to verify North American Free Trade Agreement and Central American Free Trade Agreement certificates.

Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has partnered on a new art project that utilizes a pair of newly-minted ethereum-based tokens.

The cryptocurrency situation in Venezuela received a push on Tuesday, Aug. 14, after President Nicolás Maduro announced that the state-issued Petro token is legally a unit-of-account in the crisis-stricken country, ABC International reports.