Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

China's Ping An Insurance, one of the world's largest insurance company groups, has released a "White Paper on Smart Cities," advocating for blockchain tech, AI, big data, and cloud computing, People's Daily reports August 22.

Ink Protocol, a decentralized platform for peer-to-peer payments, announced Tuesday that its decentralized application, Ink Pay, is now available on Coinbase's Wallet app.

Venezuela's national oil-backed cryptocurrency, the Petro, has been scathingly denounced as an opaque "Stunt" backed by a centralized and debt-saddled entity, the Wired reports today, August 22.

The largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase faces tough competition from Asian competitors Binance and OKEx, data revealed Monday, August 20, as its volumes drop almost 85 percent.

Shopping malls, hotels, restaurants, and office buildings in downtown Beijing have been ordered not to provide venues for activities that promote cryptocurrencies.

With growing adoption, blockchain integration continues to proliferate across nations worldwide.

5.Failing to definitively address blockchain's scaling issues could have far-reaching ramifications.

In the world of nerdy trading card games, the Black Lotus is still on top.

The Bank of Thailand has revealed plans to develop a wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency that will use R3's Corda platform, in a press release published August 21.

Venezuela has become the second biggest market for Dash, with almost one hundred merchants accepting the cryptocurrency each week, a spokesman told mainstream media Wednesday, August 22.

Since the ICO fervor of 2017, software pioneer and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has been reluctant to join the blockchain sector.

Bitcoin's jump to a 15-day high is encouraging, but caution ahead of the US Securities Exchange Commission's decision on bitcoin exchange-traded funds could limit further gains in the cryptocurrency.

The National Research Council of Canada announced Monday that it has built an ethereum blockchain explorer.

Blockchain analysis and forensics firm Chainalysis recently produced a report on payments received by the world's top 17 cryptocurrency merchants, concluding the role of Bitcoin Cash has steadily decreased in most day-to-day transactions.

The Bank of Thailand has announced it expects to complete the first phase of a proof-of-concept trial for a central bank digital currency by March 2019.

The case of cryptocurrencies' global relevance remains a moot point given its wildly volatile nature, an aspect which has spurred a billion dollar crypto-exchange market.

"We try not to mention blockchain or DLT too much in case it complicates matters," he said.

Bitcoin has stormed out of its week-long consolidation in truly dramatic fashion, yet the timing of the monster $5 billion buy rally has prompted a torrent of accusations from BitMEX users - seeming to coincide perfectly with the exchange's scheduled downtime.

The biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S. just set up its core principles for its institutional financial products.

Shortly after adding IOTA to its platform, eToro has unveiled a flurry of partnerships with seven premier league teams.

Total market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies shot up over $12 million in just over an hour to peak at $222.8 million, before dropping slightly to $291.7 million by press time.

Roid's Google Play Store has recently become a spot for hosting another reported Ethereum scam application, The Next Web reports August 21.

It's an understatement to say the current price of the world's largest cryptocurrency pales when compared to its past glories - at $6,700, bitcoin is down roughly 60 percent from its all-time high.

Vague statements in Chinese mining giant Bitmain Technologies' investor deck ambiguously and potentially misleadingly list investors ahead of its rumored Initial Public Offering.

The U.S. Senate has held a hearing on the energy efficiency of blockchain and similar technologies, according to an announcement published August 21.

PayPal's Venmo is losing favor to Square's cryptocurrency-integrated payments application Cash, according to data collated by Japan's Nomura Instinet and research firm Sensor Tower.

Bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, has jumped 6.6 percent, pushing prices above $6,600 for the first time in weeks.

The second day of the BlockShow Americas 2018 kicked off with a robust debate on the usefulness of cryptocurrencies between Nouriel Roubini, CEO of Roubini Macro Associates and predictor of the global financial crisis in 2008, also known as 'Dr.Doom,' and Alex Mashinsky, founder of Celsius Network.

Today, August 21, at BlockShow Americas 2018, speakers at a blockchain-related panel debated the question of the Bitcoin blockchain's decentralization and the benefits of its applications to the global community.

In the face of the market capitalization's nine-month low, the CEO of multi-asset trading giant eToro has spoken positively about the mid-year correction and maintains that demand for Bitcoin has not declined.