Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

The French stock markets regulator AMF has seen over a 14,000% surge in enquiries related to fraudulent crypto offers in 2018 as opposed to 2016, the agency wrote in a new annual report released May 7.

The developers behind the cryptocurrency project Grin have reportedly received an anonymous donation of 50 BTC - worth an estimated $300,000.

Average bitcoin transaction fees increased by nearly 200% in April compared to March, a report released by crypto research firm Diar on May 6.

Starbucks is moving to give consumers more information on its coffee products using a blockchain system that will track beans from "Farm to cup."

Blockchain consortium R3 and global IT leader Wipro Limited have developed a blockchain solution prototype to enable digital currency for interbank settlements in Thailand, according to a press release from May 7.

Chinese social media giant and payment service provider WeChat banned cryptocurrency transactions in its payments policy.

HBUS, the operator of United States-based crypto exchange Huobi.com, has announced the appointment of technology and financial services veteran Oren Blonstein as its vice president of product and technology.

Arbitrage bots are exploiting "Inefficiencies" in decentralized exchanges, according to a report.

WeChat, the dominant messaging application in China operated by technology giant Tencent, has updated its payments policy that will prevent merchants on the platform from engaging in cryptocurrency-related activities.

The Bank of Thailand, the country's central bank, has moved ahead with its digital currency project by building a blockchain-based prototype solution.

The Australian Securities Exchange is now allowing clients to test its in-development blockchain-based equities clearing and settlement system.

Tuesday, May 7 - following some moderate losses yesterday, the crypto markets have rallied to break new 2019 highs today, with bitcoin inching close to $6,000.

MakerDAO, the Decentralized Autonomous Organization behind the DAI stablecoin, announced a critical security update to its governance contract in a Reddit thread published on May 6.

View Bitcoin's quick recovery from levels below the former resistance-turned-support of $5,627 seen on Monday, coupled with a break above the stiff resistance at $5,780 seen today, indicate fairly strong bullish sentiment.

Those claims have finally been validated by Tether itself as a result of an ongoing legal battle involving cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex - which shares personnel and ownership structures with Tether - and the Office of the New York Attorney General.

The New York Attorney General cannot bring the full force of its court order against cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and stablecoin Tether, cryptocurrency news media outlet CoinDesk reported, quoting a judge on May 6.

Microsoft has released the new Azure Blockchain Development Kit for the Ethereum blockchain, according to an announcement from Microsoft Azure blog Build Azure on May 6.

The Australian Securities Exchange has released the first code for its replacement app development tool based on blockchain, the company confirmed in a press release on May 7.

Ant Financial, the financial affiliate of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, has participated in a $10 million Series A round for QEDIT, an Israeli blockchain privacy solutions firm that develops zero-knowledge proof technology.

Cryptocurrency exchange and mining startup Bcause LLC is a few weeks away from launching its spot market.

New York-based blockchain company ConsenSys is restructuring its various operations to shore up its market presence as it seeks $200 million in funding, a press release confirmed on May 6.

Among mobile web browsers downloads, Brave has pushed its way into third, narrowly behind Google Chrome by Play Store rankings.

Tech giant Microsoft has released a suite of tools allowing clients to build ethereum-based apps on its cloud computing platform Azure.

A high severity bug on the TRON network could have allowed an attacker with a single computer to crash the network, as first reported by TNW. The fault stems from a vulnerability related to spamming smart contracts.

QEDIT, a developer of privacy technology for enterprise blockchains, has closed a $10 million Series A round from investors including Ant Financial, the payments affiliate of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.

23, 2019, bitcoin reached a high of $5,650, which has been the highest valuation it has had since the low of Dec. 15, 2018, when it was trading at $3,129.

Bitcoin miners made the case for their industry as a driver of clean energy adoption, rather than the ecological disaster depicted by critics, at Fidelity's Mining Summit Friday.

Bitcoin developer Pieter Wuille has unveiled two proposals on GitHub for a Taproot soft fork in a message to the bitcoin-dev mailing list on May 6.Taproot is a solution that aims to combine the advantages of Merkelized Abstract Syntax Tree and the Schnorr signature scheme in order to reveal less information after a bitcoin transaction takes place.

Authorities of Moscow are planning to pilot blockchain-based electronic voting in university student council elections in late June 2019, establishing methods that the city's mayoral election may be next to apply, Russian news agency TASS reported on May 6.According to the report, the project is set to be tested with the support of the Moscow Department of Information Technology and the Moscow City Election Commission.

United States-based coffee chain Starbucks will implement tech giant Microsoft's Azure Blockchain Service to track coffee production, tech news site GeekWire reports on May 6.Starbucks first announced its "Bean to cup" initiative in 2018, stating that it would work with farmers in Costa Rica, Colombia, and Rwanda to pilot a blockchain-based coffee-tracking system.