Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

British pop star Peter Gabriel has invested in blockchain startup Provenance, according to a press release July 18.

Such was the end result of my first experience with Etheremon, a game inspired by Pokemon and built on the world's second-largest blockchain, ethereum.

Augur, a decentralized platform for creating predictions markets, just hit a major milestone.

The blockchain can make prediction markets more secure and transparent.

Cryptocurrency miners and holders in Russia will be regulated under the Internal Revenue Code, local news outlet Izvestiya reported July 18.

Another billionaire investor has made bullish comments on bitcoin.

Canadian messaging application Kik has launched its first beta product called Kinit, which is related to the company's Kin token, TechCrunch reported July 18.

The U.S. Congressional Subcommittee on Monetary Policy and Trade discussed major questions around digital currencies in a hearing today, July 18.

Legendary musician Peter Gabriel is backing UK-based blockchain startup Provenance, though the full amount of Gabriel's investment has yet to be disclosed.

Barry Silbert, founder and chief executive officer of venture capital Digital Currency Group, said he is bullish on Bitcoin as an investment vehicle, CNBC reported July 18.

Shark Tank star Kevin O'Leary, AKA "Mr. Wonderful," said on CNBC's Fast Money that he firmly believes not a dime from institutional investors will come into the crypto market, at least in the short-term.

Nervos Network, a Chinese blockchain startup founded by a former researcher and developer of the Ethereum Foundation, has announced today July 18, that it has raised $28 million to develop its enterprise blockchain solutions.

With Tuesday's dramatic $600 bitcoin rally came a sharp rise in trading volume, more specifically a 100 percent increase from its 7-month volume low set just four days ago.

A U.S. lawmaker has called for a blanket ban on cryptocurrency buying.

The burgeoning cryptocurrency sector gave rise to scores of unauthorized cryptocurrency mining malware infiltrating millions of computers worldwide.

At the same time, there are millions of computers and servers throughout the world that waste energy and money, idle and underemployed.

Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, had some harsh words for cryptocurrencies during an appearance before the U.S. Congress.

Payment titan Mastercard was awarded a patent for developing a method of linking cryptographic forms of money to fiat currency accounts.

Witnesses before the U.S. House of Agriculture Committee at a public hearing July 18 were unanimous in their view that digital assets complicate the hard and fast distinctions of existing regulatory frameworks.

Ken Griffin, the CEO and founder of the Citadel hedge fund, has reiterated his negative stance on Bitcoin in an interview with CNBC Wednesday, July 18.

It is a decisive date for the local crypto industry that has been significantly suppressed in the past month by the Reserve Bank of India's ban on all banks' dealings with crypto-related businesses.

The director of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's fintech initiative cautioned against what he called "Hasty regulatory pronouncements" during a Congressional hearing on Wednesday.

For the first time in their inception, Ethereum's average transaction fees outstripped Bitcoin's.

Initial Coin Offerings "Failed" to provide protection against insider trading or stick to their whitepaper promises, a new report from the University of Pennsylvania Law School released July 17 reveals.

Illicit cryptocurrency mining, or "Cryptojacking," has become more popular among cybercriminals than ransomware, according to a report by Skybox Security.

Wednesday, July 18: crypto markets are continuing to climb fast, with 98 out of the 100 top cryptocurrencies by market cap in the green over the past 24 hours, according to data from Coinmarketcap.

Parity, the ethereum software client, has announced some major changes, including the stripping away of its graphical user interface.

China will lead an international research group on the standardization of the Internet of Things and blockchain technology, local news outlet Science and Technology Daily reports July 18.

Imitating the infamous trend of adding "Internet" to a company's name during the dot-com bubble of 1999, China is experiencing a surge in companies registering their businesses with "Blockchain" in their names.

The company believes this has enabled a small group of traders to dominate the market and even manipulate it at will - resulting in extreme fluctuations in cryptocurrencies.