Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

A New York Stock Exchange trader told to Yahoo Finance in an interview Aug. 3, that at the moment Bitcoin is "Very iffy" following the launch of a new regulated BTC exchange Bakkt by the Intercontinental Exhange, the parent company of NYSE. Alan Valdes, a senior partner at international advisory firm Silverbear Capital and NYSE trader, raised concerns about BTC, when asked if the launch of Bakkt may be a sign that Wall Street is serious about crypto.

Turkey has established the country's first university-level blockchain center, aiming to close the blockchain expertise gap and ensure wide deployment of the technology, local news outlet Daily Sabah reported August 3.

Ethereum has entered into an agreement with a provider of end-to-end domain services Minds + Machines Group Limited that will let Ethereum Name Service get a top-level domain name, according to an Aug. 3 press release.

Bitcoin and "Unsteady cryptocurrency mania" are the one of six factors that threaten Goldman Sachs 2018 market outlook, according to a July 2018 report by the Goldman Sachs Investment Strategy Group.

Since inception, many industries have adopted cryptocurrency because of its versatile functionality and exposure to global investment.

San Francisco-based exchange and wallet service Coinbase announced today, Aug. 3 that it is exploring the addition of 40 new assets to its custodial service, Coinbase Custody.

OKEx, the second biggest crypto exchange by daily trading volume, officially announced the decision to engage in a forced liquidation to settle a massive long contract.

A crypto mining company has raised £25 million through an IPO on the London Stock Exchange.

The bulls have defended the support at $7,250 and have not allowed the price to dip below the downtrend line of the descending triangle, which is a positive sign.

A CoinMarketCap "Data issue" caused significant artificial inflation of several coins listed on the platform on Friday, with some prices inflated by nearly 1000 percent.

Initially revealed on August 2, 2018, several Venezuelan Coinbase users abruptly lost the ability to withdraw or send cryptocurrency, prompting speculation that the exchange may have its hands tied by US-Venezuela sanctions.

There have been many reasons for the cryptocurrency markets being battered by bearish sentiments across the board.

Japanese electronics giant Sony has filed two patents for boosting blockchain-based ecosystems, according to filings 20180218027 and 20180219686 published by the U.S. Patent and Trademarks Office Aug. 2.

A new partnership will soon enable ethereum users to attach their addresses to a top-level internet domain name, making it easier to remember the identifiers associated with their assets, wallets and services.

BitFi, John McAfee's purportedly unhackable wallet, was heavily criticized by Trezor CTO Pavol Rusnak, after it threatened to challenge the solutions invented by the Czech Republic-based company with its patents.

Crypto exchange OKEx has issued an official statement today, August 3, in response to its forced liquidation of a colossal misfired Bitcoin futures trade worth a notional $416 million that was initiated by an unidentified problem trader earlier this week.

The chief of New York's financial regulatory body said Tuesday that the agency is "Fiercely opposed" to the U.S. Treasury Department's recent endorsement of regulatory "Sandboxes" for fintech firms.

Global investment firms and cryptocurrency exchanges are rushing to develop new digital asset markets in preparation for impending regulations.

Intercontinental Exchange, the operator of 23 leading global exchanges including the New York Stock Exchange, has announced plans to create a Microsoft cloud-powered "Open and regulated, global ecosystem for digital assets," according to a press release published August 3.

Lawyers representing a group of creditors of the now-defunct Japanese Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox have recently updated their civil rehabilitation plan, according to a statement on the Mt. Gox creditors' website Aug. 2.

Intercontinental Exchange, the Atlanta-based firm that owns the New York Stock Exchange, announced Friday that it plans to launch a digital assets platform and a bitcoin futures product.

U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase has announced a new service aimed at improving access to cryptocurrency payment options for e-commerce businesses.

Bitcoin dropped around 2 percent Friday, August 3, failing to find support to stay above the $7,500 barrier for the first time this week.

In Q2 2018, Square Cash app reported a 100% increase in profit from its Bitcoin trading transactions over the last quarter.

On July 27, the foreign exchange trading market settlement powerhouse CLS reported it was in the final stages of testing its blockchain payment service for banks.

An executive at the Dutch Central Bank has said that while cryptocurrencies are not "Real money," the bank has no plans to ban them, local news outlet Dutch News reported August 3.

Trading volume at one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges has plummeted by 40 percent in three days after it temporarily stopped opening new user accounts.

Canaan Creative, the world's second largest Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer, has launched what it claims is the "First ever" BTC mining television set, the South China Morning Post reported August 2.

2.Several charities have been exploring this concept with some success.

Swiss-based investment bank and financial services company the Union Bank of Switzerland said that Bitcoin's scalability and volatility are still too high for the cryptocurrency to be used as "Money," CNBC reported August 2.