Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

The bitcoin market has come alive in the last 36 hours, with the bears gaining the upper hand and now aiming for fresh 2018 lows below $6,000.

Based in Tbilisi, Georgia, Spotcoin was founded in 2016 as an early cryptocurrency OTC marketplace as a key player in the developing blockchain industry of the Black Sea region.

Lithuania's Ministry of Finance has issued guidelines on initial coin offerings, outlining when cryptographic tokens would be viewed as securities and how each aspect of a token sale should be regulated by different laws in the country.

The former Chair of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said that she thinks the Federal Reserve needs to seriously consider issuing a central bank-issued digital currency in a June 8 op-ed published on Yahoo! Finance.

Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, Wala is now facilitating roughly 6,300 daily dala transactions for more than 57,000 wallet accounts across Uganda, Zimbabwe and South Africa.

Coinrail, a crypto exchange based out of South Korea, said on Sunday its platform was hacked with cryptocurrencies that appeared to worth $40 million at the time of the event.

DAOs, the formal and informal arrangements keeping organizations afloat are replaced by smart contracts.

The Federal Reserve should seriously consider its own crypto, the former head of the U.S. government's deposit insurance corporation wrote in an op-ed last week.

The Nobel Prize-winning economist, author of the classic 1952 article "Portfolio Selection," devised modern portfolio theory, which stresses that diversifying assets is crucial.

A county government website for Khabarovsk, Russia was recently hacked in order to mine cryptocurrency using the processing power of those visiting.

The price of bitcoin dropped $500 in a single hour Sunday to hit a two-month low below $6,700.

Bitcoin plummetted below $7,000 USD for the first time since April 2018.

Over the last six months, the amount of women considering an investment in cryptocurrencies has gone from 6% to 13%, reports City A.M. June 9.

Sunday, June 10: crypto markets have seen a sharp drop today, in the wake of the news that the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has launched a probe into four major crypto exchanges.

Whether it be the landlocked Liberland or the seaborne Floating Island Project, they've taken cryptocurrencies and blockchains as the basis for a new way of organising how people live, interact and work.

Major US crypto exchange and wallet Coinbase has begun the process to become an SEC-regulated broker dealer by acquiring securities dealer Keystone Capital Corp. in addition to Venovate Marketplace, Inc., and Digital Wealth LLC. If approved, these acquisitions will enable Coinbase to expand to other non-crypto financial products, as well as offer blockchain-based securities.

The Canadian government has released an official draft of new regulations on crypto exchanges and payment processors, Canada Gazette reports June 9.According to the draft, the new regulations seek to address a "Number of deficiencies" that the Financial Action Task Force outlined after their evaluation in 2015-16, namely in strengthening Canada's Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorist Financing Regime.

The details include a list of seven approved cryptocurrencies, fees, and licensing requirements.

Like MelissaSweet1, several other sex workers recently interviewed by CoinDesk described similar shifts in their crypto usage.

From the mists of ideation, a first wave of ethereum dapps is starting to emerge.

Seattle Bitcoin, an organization dedicated to cryptocurrency education, gathered a diverse group of cryptocurrency enthusiasts to share knowledge and increase blockchain awareness.

Disrupting industries worldwide, blockchain integration is finally making its way into the mainstream - attracting even the most established companies as a solution to structural inefficiencies.

The Chief Digital Officer of Volkswagen has announced a collaborative effort between the IoT-focused IOTA blockchain project and vehicle manufacturer, promising the cryptocurrency community a proof of concept that demonstrates the future of distributed ledger technology in the automotive industry.

Academia-driven blockchain project Cardano announced earlier this week a major redesign of its brand and roadmap, incorporating a new aesthetic drawn from organic structures inspired by the creative efforts of the Cardano community.

The Swiss city of Zug will conduct a blockchain-powered trial municipal vote this summer, local media outlet Swissinfo.

Colombian banks closed all the accounts of South American crypto exchange Buda.com, local news outlet Diario Bitcoin reported June 8, citing an email the company sent to its clients.

The EOS blockchain is set to launch today, June 9, according to the results of a live-streamed vote that took place yesterday, June 8.Candidates to become the EOS blockchain's so-called "Block Producers" - the equivalent of miners on the Bitcoin blockchain - voted "Go" in their latest voting session to make the EOS mainnet go live at 1:00pm UTC today.

There has been much debate about the potential benefits of blockchain technology to improve the world of payments - particularly international payments.

"From a blockchain perspective we always say privacy but it's more like data security," said Can Kisagun, co-founder of Enigma, a startup building privacy-enhancing technology for the ethereum network.

Peter Davies is the Founder & CEO of Verv, a team of machine learning experts in the energy sector who have created a blockchain based peer-to-peer renewable energy trading platform that allows those with renewable technologies to sell excess energy to their neighbors at an affordable cost.