Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Germany's second largest stock exchange, the Stuttgart Börse, has revealed plans to develop a new platform for Initial Coin Offerings as well as a multilateral crypto trading venue, Finextra reported August 2.

Unfazed by Bitcoin's extended correction, the most devout crypto faithful maintain that Satoshi's peer-to-peer digital currency may one day replace the dollar.

Bitcoin's price pullback from the recent highs above $8,500 is increasingly looking like a short-term bear market on the technical charts.

After a user made an "Enormous" gamble on bitcoin futures, and lost, Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange OKEx said it is having to claw back millions from counterparties.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin put forward a series of open questions to the cryptocurrency community in a recent discussion with Mars Finance International WeChat group, postulating seven issues present within the blockchain ecosystem.

Jonathan M. Padilla is a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University where he wrote the dissertation "New Regulations for the New Economy: A Proposal for the G20 on the Regulation of Cryptocurrency," from which this article was adapted.

As cryptocurrency becomes more widely adopted, tech companies race to integrate secure crypto storage functionality into the most prolific devices used today - smartphones.

A group of creditors of the defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox have started preparing to claim for bitcoin repayments following a court's decision in June.

US SEC Commissioner Heston Peirce - one of the four SEC commissioners currently considering the future of a potential Bitcoin ETF - publicly announced that there is "No reason" why the regulatory body would not allow the product to be approved.

A deep dive by CoinDesk has found methodological flaws in widely-cited bitcoin exchange data that appear to overstate the importance of the Japanese yen as a trading pair.

Cannabis culture media organization High Times Holding Corp. will accept cryptocurrencies in its Initial Public Offering, High Times reports Aug. 2.

U.S. retail giant Walmart has applied for another patent, which describes the management of smart appliances using blockchain technology, according to an application published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office August 2.

Australia's Queensland state government has awarded a $100,000 grant to a crypto travel experience startup, a government official announced on Wednesday.

Cryptocurrency exchange BitBay has partnered with a Berlin-based blockchain-powered equity fundraising platform Neufund, according to an August 2 press release.

Zurich-based investment bank and financial services company Union Bank of Switzerland has said that the Bitcoin price must hit nearly $213,000 to replace U.S. money supply, Bloomberg reported August 2.

Leading cryptocurrency brokerage Coinbase announced the launch of GBP trading for UK-based customers, leveraging the platform's freshly-minted e-money license issued by the UK Financial Conduct Authority.

The Research Institute of Information Technology of Tsinghua University has partnered with a subsidiary of China's institutional financial firm to establish a blockchain research center, according to an Aug. 1 press release.

Germany's second-largest stock exchange is developing an ICO platform, it announced on Thursday.

Investment bank UBS thinks bitcoin is neither money nor a viable asset class - not yet at least.

Thursday, August 2: Bitcoin and Ethereum are trading around yesterday's levels, while other top 20 coins are seeing notable losses, according to data from Coinmarketcap.

South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service has advised local regulatory agencies and companies to work towards developing an integrated blockchain system for stock transactions, according to an official report published August 2.

Japanese technology giant Sony wants to patent two hardware approaches for hosting and maintaining blockchains, newly published documents show.

The Philippines Securities and Exchange Commission has published a set of draft rules for regulating Initial Coin Offerings for public review, according to an official statement August 2.

A possible ICO scam is under investigation in South Korea after a much-publicized shipwreck attracted the suspicions of local authorities.

Cryptocurrency hardware wallet manufacturer Bitfi called claims their wallet had in fact been hacked a "Disgrace" in comments to Cointelegraph August 2, as controversy around the company's security prowess builds.

Tickets for the first music festival set to be powered by blockchain technology are now on sale.

In a report to President Trump entitled "A Financial System That Creates Economic Opportunities Nonbank Financials, Fintech, and Innovation", the US Treasury described blockchain and distributed ledger technology as "Promising innovations".

South Korea's financial watchdog is advocating for a blockchain-based stock trading system.

A high-profile UK Conservative Member of Parliament has resigned from two blockchain-related positions after media investigations into an allegedly undisclosed pay deal for his advisory role in a blockchain startup, FT Alphaville reported yesterday, August 1.

An 8-K form submitted by Long Blockchain to the SEC on July 26 and revealed on Wednesday shows that the firm received the subpoena on July 10, with the SEC "Seeking the production of certain documents." Long Blockchain said it is "Fully cooperating with the SEC's investigation."