Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

It's a contrarian view, but it's the central idea behind one of last year's largest initial coin offerings, which raised $98 million selling ethereum-based tokens created specifically for the messaging app company Kik.

Sirin Labs, a Swiss-based smartphone developer, will release a blockchain-based phone in November this year, the company told Cointelegraph on July 11.

The whole concept of this is so that the European Union can control monetary policy amount the Member States that use the official currency of the Union.

The Litecoin Foundation has acquired a 9.9 percent stake in Germany's WEG Bank AG. The deal is a result of a new strategic partnership with crypto-fiat payments firm TokenPay.

South Korea's Lotte Global Logistics, a major Seoul-headquartered logistics and shipping firm, has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance, FreightWaves reported Monday, July 9.

One Augur user was so eager, they didn't even wait for the user interface.

The barriers hindering mass adoption of cryptocurrencies can certainly be dissolved.

Bitcoin price could create a major bullish technical pattern in the next few days, technical charts indicate.

CryptoKitties, the virtual cat breeding game that became so popular it clogged the ethereum network, is to roll out a version for mobile devices through a partnership with Taiwanese phone maker HTC. CryptoKitties announced the partnership in a release on Tuesday, indicating that the mobile app will first be available on HTC's flagship phone, the U12+, which was rolled out to market last month.

Litecoin Foundation, the non-profit that supports the popular cryptocurrency, has acquired a near 10 percent stake in a German bank.

A hedge fund trader and Bitcoin researcher known for his online alias "Spook" recently released a simple Bitcoin prediction chart, making a solid case for $50,000 by the end of 2018.This is what 50k looks like by the end of 2018 pic.

Still, that's what's happening now in the U.K. where the London Stock Exchange Group and U.K. financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, are working with distributed ledger technology startup Nivaura and 20|30, a UK company building a blockchain platform for corporate equity issuance.

In a first for the company, Opera is launching new browser software that has a built-in cryptocurrency wallet.

The Opera web browser for Android is launching a private beta version that will include a built-in crypto wallet, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph Wednesday, July 11.

A government authority that governs the Philippines Cagayan Special Economic Zone and Freeport is aiming to earn $67 million just by issuing cryptocurrency exchange licenses.

Various regulatory authorities around the world are opening up to the idea that, when tokens have a clearly functional role within a blockchain network, it's better to manage them with existing consumer protection and anti-money-laundering laws than with burdensome securities regulation.

San-Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase's download rate has fallen to its lowest level among U.S. finance apps following the general decline in digital currency markets, Quartz reported July 10.

The Cagayan Economic Zone Authority of the Philippines has issued provisional licenses to three cryptocurrency exchanges in the economic zone, the Manila Times reported July 10.

Ledger, one of the leading security-focused hardware wallet suppliers, has sold more than one million hardware crypto wallets in 2017, earning a profit of $29 million, the firm said in an interview with Forbes July 9.

France-based hardware manufacturer Ledger announced the release of a new app that functions as a companion to the Ledger hardware wallet range, providing ledger hardware wallet users with an alternative to legacy Chrome browser-based wallet management tools.

American venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners has raised $1.8 billion, which it plans to invest in startups in various fields, including digital currency, Reuters reported July 10.

Measures within the directive will set a new legal framework for European financial watchdogs to regulate digital currencies in order to protect against money laundering and terrorist financing.

On July 9, the decentralized crypto platform Bancor was compromised.

Latest developments - classification of crypto exchanges The latest move from South Korea has seen them essentially reclassify cryptocurrency exchanges as legal entities.

Billionaire entrepreneur and engineer Elon Musk has recently called attention to scam bots that impersonate famous people on Twitter to steal Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies from their victims.

Using digital currencies synonymously with the term cryptocurrencies, a paper published by the Bank of Finland and written by one of its advisors argues that cryptocurrencies aren't real forms of money.

1.They allow exchanging one cryptocurrency for another, the buying and selling of coins, and the exchange of fiat money into crypto.

Austrian startup Qravity has developed a payment method that aims to help digital entertainment producers and creatives receive royalties for their work, and improve creative collaboration and content distribution.

The London School of Economics will be offering an online course on cryptocurrency investing, starting in August 2018, Financial Times reports Monday, July 9.

Google's co-founder Sergey Brin made the surprise revelation that he is an Ethereum miner at the Blockchain Summit in Morocco Sunday, July 8.