Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

The American Association of Insurance Services is turning to the IBM Blockchain platform to support a new automated insurance reporting tool, the organization announced Wednesday.

California-based asset manager Reality Shares has become the latest competitor in the Bitcoin hedge fund space, an anonymous source told Business Insider August 15.

On Aug. 15, venture capital firm Pithia confirmed an investment deal with blockchain startup Lucidity.

Japanese social messaging app LINE announced the creation of a $10 million blockchain venture fund Wednesday, August 15, as part of its expansion into the cryptocurrency market.

Almost a third of U.K. businesses said they had been hit by cryptocurrency mining malware within the previous month, according to new research.

Several blockchain associations in South Korea are pushing back against a government plan they fear will stifle industry innovation.

Unveiled Aug. 10, the KuCoin ambassador program will allow crypto-industry experts to suggest new blockchain and cryptocurrency projects for listing on the exchange.

Bitcoin looks to have fought off a recent bear market breakdown that saw prices landing just above the yearly low of $5,755.

Y Combinator has just announced a new China division and its chief believes blockchain will bring long-term advantages to startups, according to a report.

The European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs has called for the creation of strict regulations pertaining to initial coin offerings.

Prime Trust, a small U.S. financial institution that's played a behind-the-scenes role in several dollar-backed cryptocurrencies, is entering the hotly competitive crypto custody business.

West Indian fintech startup Bitt has entered a Memorandum of Understanding with Sint Maarten and the Central Bank of Curaçao to explore the possibilities and advantages of introducing a state-backed digital currency.

Japanese messaging giant LINE has launched a token venture fund with a capital commitment of $10 million via its recently established subsidiary called Unblock Ventures.

One of bitcoin's most famous developers, Greg Maxwell, even aroused quite a bit of interest when he proposed something called Taproot back in January.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has announced that the national oil-backed cryptocurrency, the Petro, will be used as a unit of account within the country, news outlet ABC International reported August 14.

The Jamaica Stock Exchange has selected Canadian fintech company Blockstation to facilitate the trading of digital currencies and tokens on the JSE, according to an August 14 press release.

Spearheading development to establish Jeju Island as a blockchain and cryptocurrency hub, Governor Won Hee-ryong issued a formal request to the Korean government, Aug. 14, to designate the island as a special economic zone for the burgeoning digital asset sector.

Cybercriminals earned more than $2.3 million from cryptocurrency scams during the second quarter of 2018, according to a new report from Kaspersky Lab.

Beverly Hills-based Playboy Enterprises is suing Canadian firm Global Blockchain Technologies, claiming that it failed to integrate blockchain technology into Playboy's online media channels, the Los Angeles Times reported August 14.

Ethereum co-founder and ConsenSys Inc. CEO Joseph Lubin said in an interview with Bloomberg Aug. 14, that he does not see the recent cryptocurrency price collapse as a constraint to further growth.

One of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Binance, has unveiled a new educational platform that will provide free resources for the burgeoning cryptocurrency and blockchain industries.

Venezuela is set to begin using its "Petro" cryptocurrency as an official accounting unit, according to the country's president.

Marijuana culture media group High Times Holding Corp. has decided not to accept Bitcoin in its initial public offering, according to an August 13 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

The state-owned China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation Ltd. is turning to blockchain technology to innovate its unwieldy electronic invoice system, according to an announcement republished on a government site August 13.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced in an order Wednesday, August 14, that it has barred and fined the creator of Tomahawkcoin over a fraudulent Initial Coin Offering.

In yet another effort to supplement a thorough understanding and adoption of distributed ledger system, the Communist Party of China released a "Primer" on blockchain technology on Aug. 13, 2018.Blockchain Education for Officials.

Mobile payment company Square's Cash App has recently rolled out Bitcoin trading in all 50 states, the firm confirmed in a Tweet August 13.

Adult entertainment publisher Playboy is suing a Canadian blockchain startup for fraud and breaching a contract the two companies signed earlier this year.

That's according to Dr. Ayo Akinyele, a computer scientist who has focused his efforts on building a zcash implementation of anonymous off-chain payment architecture called BOLT. And today that work was published on Github.

One, the company behind EOS, announced the highly-anticipated location for part four of its first-of-a-kind global blockchain hackathon.